William Hanna (1910–2001) was an American animator, director, producer,
and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters
entertained millions worldwide for much of the twentieth century. Hanna
joined the Harman and Ising animation studio in 1930 and steadily
gained skill and prominence while working on cartoons such as Captain
and the Kids. In 1937, while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),
Hanna met Joseph Barbera. The two men began a collaboration that was at
first best known for producing Tom and Jerry and live action films. In
1957, they co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful
television animation studio in the business, producing programs such as
The Flintstones, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo,
The Smurfs, and Yogi Bear. In 1967, Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft
Broadcasting for $12 million, but Hanna and Barbera remained head of
the company until 1991. At that time the studio was sold to Turner
Broadcasting System, which in turn was merged with Time Warner, owners
of Warner Bros., in 1996; Hanna and Barbera stayed on as advisors.
Hanna and Barbera won seven Academy Awards and eight Emmy Awards. Their
cartoons have become cultural icons, and Hanna-Barbera's shows have a
global audience of over 300 million people.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
French Revolution: Parisians stormed the Bastille , freeing its inmates
and taking the prison's large quantities of arms and ammunition.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille>
1791:
The Priestley Riots began, in which Joseph Priestley and other
religious Dissenters were driven out of Birmingham, England.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestley_Riots>
1950:
In an early battle of the Korean War, North Korean troops began
attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in
Taejon, South Korea.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taejon>
1965:
The NASA spacecraft Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first
close-up pictures of another planet.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_4>
1969:
Political conflicts between El Salvador and Honduras erupted into the
four-day Football War, so-named because it coincided with the inflamed
rioting during the second CONCACAF qualifying round for the 1970 FIFA
World Cup.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
libretto (n):
1. The text of a dramatic musical work, such as an opera.
2. A book containing such a text
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/libretto>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the Redwood Forest, to
the Gulf stream waters,
This land was made for you and me.
--Woody Guthrie
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