Happy birthday to Tweety Bird (1942):
Tweety is a yellow canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. The name “Tweety” is a play on words, as it originally meant “sweetie”, along with “tweet” being an English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds.
- Tweety wasn’t originally yellow. …
- The first time Tweety was paired with Sylvester was in the 1947 short Tweety Pie.
- Tweety was featured in the 1996 film Space Jam.
- A baby version of Tweety is featured on the show Baby Looney Tunes.
Also… Goldie Hawn (1945), Bjork (1965) and Carly Rae Jepsen (1985)
Anniversary of:
• the premiere of Rocky (1976)
• the release of Pharrell Williams’ Happy single (2013)