On this day in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, William Clark Gable, ‘King of the Movies’, was born. Of course, he wasn’t born King of the Movies. That came later. Some thirty-three years later, to be more precise. Just as Hollywood was making the transition from silent movies to talkies, Clark Gable was making his first movie, Painted Desert. It was 1931 and he wasn’t anywhere near being King -- more like Ape -- of the Movies. Darryl Zanuck commented: “His ears are too big. He looks like an ape.”

The big ape obviously didn’t listen with those big ears. Within the next three years Clark Gable made twenty films with leading ladies like Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford; winning the coveted Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in It Happened One Night. The year was 1934, and a new, romantic, screen idol and King of the Movies was born. Men shed their undershirts to imitate Clark’s barechested look as revealed in the film. Women swooned and undershirt sales plummeted throughout the U.S.

The following year, Clark starred as Fletcher Christian in the Oscar-winning picture, Mutiny on the Bounty. Then in 1939, Clark became Rhett Butler in the movie for which he will always be remembered, another Oscar-winner, Gone with the Wind; and married Carole Lombard. Theirs was a storybook marriage that ended in tragedy three years later when Lombard was killed in a plane crash.

A stint in the Air Force and two decades of films followed; the last (just before he died) was The Misfits opposite Marilyn Monroe. After thirty years, Clark Gable was still the leading man ... King of the Movies.
 
 

On this day in 1921 Russian politician Boris Yeltsin was born in Butka, U.S.S.R. After rising through the government ranks of the U.S.S.R.,Yeltsin earned the reputation as a political maverick during the glasnost era of Gorbachev, who forced him from the Politburo in 1986. Elected to Parliament in 1987, he then became the first popularly-elected president of post-Soviet Russia, and has since withstood an attempted 1991 military coup and enormous political and economic turmoil within his country. 
oder nüchtern 1921?
 1931 - Boris Yeltsin
President of Russia [1991-1999], geboren
1931 Boris Jelzin Russischer Politiker, * 1.2.1931 Butka bei Swerdlowsk (heute Jekaterinburg).  
Als innenpolitischer Widersacher von KPdSU-Generalsekretär Michail Gorbatschow und erster frei gewählter Präsident der Russischen Föderation vereitelte Jelzin 1991 einen reaktionären Putsch. 1993 setzte er sich mit Hilfe des Militärs gegen einen Umsturzversuch des Parlaments durch.

 1937 - Ray Sawyer

 1942 - Wayne Rivers
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, SL Blues, NY Rangers, geboren
 

 1944 - Dick Snyder

1949 - RCA Victor countered Columbia Records’ 33-1/3 long play phonograph disk with not only a smaller, 7-inch record (with a big hole in the center), but an entire phonograph playing system as well. The newfangled product, the 45-rpm, which started a revolution (especially with the new rock and roll music), soon made the 78-rpm record a blast from the past.

1949, RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single, the invention made Jukeboxes possible.

 1954 - Mike Campbell

1971 - Evonne Goolagong scored her first major singles victory as she defeated Margaret Court in the finals of the Victorian Open, played in Melbourne, Australia.

1975, Pilot had their only UK No.1 single with the song 'January.'

1986, Diana Ross married Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Naess in Geneva, Stevie Wonder performed at the reception. They divorced in 2000.

Das «Göttinger Studentenmagazin» befasst sich mit «ewigen Studenten» an der Uni Göttingen. Den einsamen Rekord hält ein Physikstudent im 80. Semester. Er ist seit 1949 Student

1997. Boy George was beaten up by two bouncers after trying to jump the queue outside The Ministry Of Sound in London where he has been a guest DJ.

1997, the original soundtrack from the film 'Evita' went to No.1 on the UK album chart.

Ein Kamel, dem es zu nächtlicher Stunde in seinem Gehege zu langweilig geworden war, hat in Lübeck auf der Bundesstraße 75 zahlreiche Autofahrer zunächst an ihrem Verstand zweifeln lassen

2002, the father of S Club 7's Paul Cattermole was jailed for nearly 3 years for sex acts with two 14 year-old girl fans of the group. Gerald Cattermole, 50 had been warned by police not to get involved with fans who often visited his house.
2002 - Die ältesten Brautleute der Welt, Madeleine (94) und Francois, der im April 96 wird, werden in der südfranzösischen Stadt Clapiers getraut