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Marion Moses


 * Jan 1: #OTD 1964: Composer/musicologist Colin McPhee (studied Balinese/Javanese music) died in LA

Did 9/1-10/8.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%22los+angeles%22+prefix%3Aaugust+1&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1&searchToken=9n3eui4qxzert4gv8dryujwe0
 * Jan 11 1927 Thirty-six Hollywood celebrities gathered at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for the purpose of acknowledging cinematic excellence. The Academy's awards for motion picture industry would later be nicknamed "The Oscars".[20]
 * Jan 12: #OTD 1946: Cleveland Rams received permission to move to LA LA Rams
 * Jan 12: #OTD 2017: The relocation of the Chargers from San Diego to Los Angeles was announced
 * Jan 13: #OTD 1929: Old West icon Wyatt Earp died in LA
 * Jan 14: #OTD 1957: Actor Humphrey Bogart died in LA,
 * Jan 14 On this day in 1967: Green Bay @Packers defeat Kansas City @Chiefs 35-10 in Los Angeles at the first @SuperBowl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl#1960s:_Early_history …
 * Jan 15 1947 – The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
 * Jan 15: #OTD 1967: 1st Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles. Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
 * Jan 16: #OTD 1964: The Whisky a Go Go opened on the Sunset Strip.
 * Jan 17: #OTD 1994: Northridge Earthquake
 * Jan 20: #OTD 1963: Lowbrow/Pop Surrealist artist Mark Ryden was born in LA
 * Jan 22: #OTD 1984: the Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 to win Super Bowl XVIII.
 * Jan 23: #OTD 2005: Late-night TV icon Johnny Carson died in LA
 * Jan 25: #OTD 1949: The first Emmy Awards were presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club
 * Jan 27: #OTD 1935: Red Grange played his last professional game, a Bears vs. Giants exhibition in LA
 * Jan 28: #OTD 1985: We Are the World was recorded at A&M studio in LA
 * Jan 29: #OTD 1959: The animated classic Sleeping Beauty premiered in LA.
 * Jan 30: #OTD 1931: Charlie Chaplin's City Lights premiered in LA.
 * Feb 1: #OTD 1991: Two planes collide at LAX, killing 35 US Air Flight 1493
 * Feb 1: #OTD 2012: Soul Train founder Don Cornelius committed suicide in LA home
 * Feb 5: #OTD 1993: Witold Lutosławski's Symphony No. 4 premiered in LA. Symphony No. 4 (Lutosławski)
 * Feb 8: #OTD 1915: Controversial film The Birth of a Nation premiered in LA.
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 * Feb 18: #OTD 1954: The first Church of Scientology was established in LA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology#History …
 * Feb 24: #OTD 1942: a false alarm of an aerial attack led to rumors of a Battle Of Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
 * Jun 5 On this day in 1981: Los Angeles observes the first recognized cases of the AIDS virus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Discovery …
 * Jun 5 On this day in 1968: Robert Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, was shot in Los Angeles. He died the next day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy …
 * Jul 9 On this day in 1962: Andy Warhol's famous "Campbell's Soup Cans" painting debuted in Los Angeles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans …
 * Jul 12 On this day in 1923: The Hollywood Sign was dedicated in Los Angeles. (It originally read "Hollywoodland.") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sign …
 * Aug 2 1950 Born: Lance Ito, American judge best known for presiding over the 1995 murder trial of O. J. Simpson; in Los Angeles
 * Aug 5 1922 The drama film Blood and Sand starring Rudolph Valentino and Lila Lee premiered in Los Angeles.[11]
 * Aug 5 1925 - The Grand Olympic Auditorium opened in Los Angeles, California.
 * Aug 5 1965 Fifteen members of a film crew were injured in an accident in the filming of the movie Easy Come, Easy Go, including the lead actor, Jan Berry of the rock duo Jan and Dean, and the director, Barry Shear. Background scenes were being filmed aboard a flatcar at a railroad yard in the Chatsworth section of northwestern Los Angeles, when a train crashed into the car from behind. Berry (who would be killed in a car wreck less than a year later) sustained a compound fracture of his left leg, while Shear suffered internal injuries.[25] The project would be abandoned by Paramount Pictures, which would recycle the title two years later for an unrelated story starring rock singer Elvis Presley.
 * August 8, 1937 Born: Dustin Hoffman, actor and director, in Los Angeles
 * August 10, 1933 Midget car racing was inaugurated with the first professional race of the small cars with large engines, taking place at the stadium of Loyola High School in Los Angeles.[26]
 * Aug 11 1965 – The Watts Riots begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. (2017)
 * Aug 12 1924 - Ex-boxing champion Kid McCoy came home drunk to his Los Angeles apartment and violently murdered his live-in mistress after she told him what her friends thought of him
 * Aug 12 1925 Dole Air Race: British pilot Arthur V. Rogers was killed while practicing at Los Angeles for the race to Honolulu, in the third plane crash in as many days for participants. After the deaths of Covell and Waggener on Wednesday, the triplane "Pride of Los Angeles" crashed in San Francisco Bay on Thursday and its crew of three narrowly escaped drowning. The crews of the nine remaining planes postponed the start of the race from Saturday to Tuesday.[33]
 * Aug 12 1942 - Movie star Clark Gable entered a U.S. Army recruiting station in Los Angeles and enlisted as a private at the age of 41.[18]
 * Aug 13 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
 * August 14, 1932 (Sunday) The closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles were held.[27] T
 * Aug 15 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
 * Aug 16 1933 - Born Julie Newmar, American actress (Batman), as Julia Newmeyer in Los Angeles
 * Aug 20 1972 - Wattstax, a concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum, attracted 100,000 black citizens, each of whom paid $1 per ticket to watch the Bar-Kays, the Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes and other performers
 * August 22, 1965 San Francisco Giants batter Juan Marichal struck Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro repeatedly in the head after Roseboro removed his own helmet and mask during an argument.
 * August 24, 1972 Hot August Night, Neil Diamond's double platinum album, was recorded live at the Greek Theatre (Los Angeles).
 * August 26, 1929 The Graf Zeppelin sailed over Los Angeles at 1:16 a.m. as it completed the first non-stop flight ever made across the Pacific Ocean.[50]
 * August 27, 1965 The Beatles visited Elvis Presley at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It would be the only time the band and the singer met. At the request of the band, no recordings or photographs of the occasion were taken for publication.[145][146][147]
 * Aug 27 1942 "Captain" Daryl Dragon, keyboardist and one-half of the pop music duo Captain & Tennille, in Los Angeles, California
 * Aug 28 1901 Voters in Los Angeles approved a bond issue to purchase the privately-owned Los Angeles Water Company.[108] The final vote was 6,284 in favor, 1,267 against, well above the necessary two-thirds majority required to allow the city to borrow two million dollars for the purchase.[109] Control of the distribution of water would help the city of 103,000 people triple in size by 1910, and surpass one million residents by the end of the 1920s.[110]
 * Aug 30 1935 Born: Papa John Phillips, musician, in Los Angeles (d. 2001)
 * 9/4: #OTD 1781: Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula. (2017)
 * 9/5: #OTD 1912: Composer John Cage was born in Los Angeles.
 * 9/8: #OTD 1999: American Beauty premiered in Los Angeles.
 * 9/8: #OTD 1965: Sandy Koufax of the LA Dodgers pitched a perfect game.
 * 9/9: #OTD 1882: #UCLA predecessor (LA branch of State Normal School) was dedicated.
 * 9/9: California became a state
 * 9/11 STS-128
 * 9/12: Eastern Columbia Building opened
 * 9/16 #OTD 1926: 1st issue of La Opinión was published. (2017)
 * 9/21 #OTD 1839: George Alexander (LA mayor 1909-1913) was born in Glasgow. (2017)
 * 9/21 JetBlue Airways Flight 292
 * 9/23 #OTD 1952: Ricard Nixon made Checkers speech from LA's El Capitan Theatre.
 * 9/26 #OTD 1949: Writer Jane Smiley was born in LA. (2017)
 * 10/3 O. J. Simpson murder case verdict announced