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July 27, 1953 –The armistice that ended the Korean War was signed on this date. It was a war that began in June 1950 when North Korea invaded the south. Almost 35,000 Americans were killed in the conflict, more than 5,000 captured or went missing. A corporal in the 1st Marine Division named Anthony EbronContinue reading “The Korean War ends (sort of)”

July 27, 1984 –Warner Bros. gift to an unsuspecting world, Purple Rain, starring Prince, premiered on this date. A few days before the premiere, Prince had a nightmare that Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert despised the film, with Ebert ripping the film apart. He said, “I dreamed those two guys on the TV were reviewingContinue reading “Purple Rain premiered”

July 27, 1940 –Bugs Bunny made his debut in a cartoon called A Wild Hare, on this day. Warner Brothers’ writers and animators set out to make a rabbit who would be the epitome of cool. They modeled bugs on Groucho Marx with a carrot instead of a cigar. Mel Blanc gave him a BrooklynContinue reading “The first Bugs Bunny Cartoon”

July 27, 1922 –Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything. Norman Milton Lear, television writer and film and television producer was born on this date,Continue reading “Norman Lear’s Birthday”

July 26, 1980 –The Rolling Stones started a seven week run at No.1 (the group’s eighth US No.1,) on the US album chart with Emotional Rescue, on this date. Mick Jagger sang much of this in a falsetto, which was the thing to do with disco songs. The Bee Gees did the same thing, butContinue reading “Emotional Rescue hit the top of the charts”

July 26, 1956 –A little more than 11 hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the Italian liner Andrea Doria, carrying 1,134 passengers and 572 crew, sank off New England coast. 46 people on the Andrea Doria and 5 crew members of the Stockholm died as a result of the crash. The SS IleContinue reading “Andrea Doria sank”

July 26, 1951 –Walt Disney’s 13th animated feature, Alice in Wonderland, premiered in the UK and New York City on this date. Continuing the pattern of film versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland not being commercially successful, this movie was a huge box office failure. However, it did become something of a cult film duringContinue reading “Alice in Wonderland premiered”

July 26, 2006 –The directorial debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine, starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin, went into limited release on this date. All of the girls acting as participants in the “Little Miss Sunshine” beauty pageant, exceptContinue reading “Little Miss Sunshine premiered”

July 25, 1984 –Russian astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya performed a space walk while stationed on the Soviet space station Salyut 7, becoming the first woman who walking in space. She also was the second woman in space – the first was Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, 17 years earlier. And so it goes

July 25, 1865 –Dr. James Barry, British military medical officer and senior inspector general, died on this date. As the good doctor was being laid out, a charwoman, Sophia Bishop noticed that Barry was a ‘perfect female‘. She satisfied her curiosity and also noticed what appeared to be stretch marks on Barry’s stomach indicating theContinue reading “Hire more discreet domestic help”