The first Super Bowl game, then called the AFL-NFL
World Championship Game, was played at the Los
Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967.
Broadcast on two television networks and played
before less than a sellout crowd, the game saw
the NFL’s Green Bay Packers defeat the AFL’s
Kansas City Chiefs, 35–10.
The name “Super Bowl” first appeared in 1969, as
did the use of Roman numerals.
TIM MAGUIRE
On February 8, 1943, Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal,
leaving the island in Allied possession after a prolonged
campaign.
The American victory paved the way for other Allied wins in
the Solomon Islands.
Guadalcanal is the largest of the Solomons, a group of 992
islands and atolls, 147 of which are inhabited, in the South
Pacific Ocean.
The Battle of Edson’s Ridge Guadalcanal.
An idea floated by a Hollywood business leader in 1953 came to
fruition on February 8, 1960, when construction began on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame—today one of the Los Angeles area’s
main tourist attractions.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame’s history goes back to 1953, when
E.M. Stuart, volunteer president of the Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce, proposed building the Walk as a means to “maintain
the glory of a community whose name means glamour and
excitement in the four corners of the world.
The first star to be laid in the new Walk was that of Stanley
Kramer on March 28, 1960, near the intersection of Hollywood
and Gower.
E.M. Stuart
Stanley Earl Kramer
(September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001)
In one of Hollywood’s zaniest movie premiere stunts, Mel Brooks’
1974 western spoof Blazing Saddles screens at the Pickwick Drive-
In Theater in Burbank, California. Guests attend not in cars—but
on horseback.
Mel Brooks will be 99 years old on the 28th of June.
