August 5

August 5th

In 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater
in a sealed tank before escaping.


In 1957 – American Bandstand debuts on the ABC.

In 1966 - The Beatles released "Revolver"


In 1973 – Mars 6 is launched.


In 1981 – Now dead piece of shit, Ronald Reagan fired 11,359 striking air-traffic
controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. Not only were they fired
but they faced a strict lifetime ban on working for the Federal Aviation Administration.

In 1983 - Crack the Sky released "World in Motion I"


- Elvis Costello and the Attractions released "Punch the Clock"


Birthdays:

Jonathan Silverman

Matthew Caws


James Gunn

Jennifer Finch


Adam Yauch


Pat Smear


Maureen McCormick

as Officer Tyler in "Return to Horror High"


Jerry Ciccorotti

Eddie Ojeda


David Hungate


Barbara Flynn
as Private Nurse in "Britannia Hospital"


Greg Leskiw


Rick Derringer


Bob Clark


Rick Huxley


Damita Jo DeBlanc


Jeri Southern


Terry Becker

Tom Drake
as Inspector Greville in "Deadly Inheritance"

as Dick Ridelander in "Cycle Psycho"

as Dr. Adam Forrest in "The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe"


Parley Baer

John Huston


Joan Hickson
as Grace in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg"

as Mrs. Sprout in "Theatre of Blood"


Naum Gabo
"Revolving Torsion"


Conrad Aiken
Collected Novels of Conrad Aiken

Reginald Owen
as Major General Sir Brian Teagler in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"


Anne Acheson


Tom Thomson
"Wildflowers"

"Moonlight, Fall"

"Moonlight, Winter"


Joseph Merrick


Louis Wain
"Poem on Owls"

Cats in various styles from Wain's later years in unknown chronological order


Ilya Repin
"Tolstoy Reading Under a Tree in the Forest"

Painter Elizaveta Zvantseva

"Gogol burning the manuscript to the second part of 'Dead Souls'"


James Scott Skinner


Ambroise Thomas
Leonardo Leo


Antonio Cesti


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