birthdays: King John II “The good” of France (1319),
Elisabeth Vignee-Lebrun, Wilbur Wright, Charlie Chaplin, J.P. Morgan, Kingsley
Amis, Anatole France, Henry Mancini, Peter Ustinov, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bobby
Vinton, Spike Milligan, John Halas, Edie Adams, Hans Sloane*, Disney artist
Victor Haboush, Martin Lawrence is 49, John Cryer is 49, Ellen Barkin is 60,
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is 87.
1926- The Book-Of-The-Month-Club distributed it’s first
selection-Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
1933- Dick Heumer's first day at Walt Disney Studio.
1935- Fibber McGee and Molly debut on radio.
1947- The Zoom Lens patented.
1952- THE NUNIVAK INCIDENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPUTER –
American coastal air defenses had been neglected since the end of WWII. But by
1952 the Cold War raised tensions, and we knew the Soviets had nuclear bombers
capable of reaching the US mainland. This night, a radar station at Nunivak
Alaska and another at Presque Isle Maine both reported flights of unidentified
aircraft headed towards the U.S.. They
turned out to be false alarms, but the reports of the planes took four hours to
reach Washington! The resultant scandal in Strategic Air Command resulted in
the rapid building up of a new early warning system. This fostered the birth of
the SAGE computer systems, inventing the computer screen, keyboard and stylus.
1959- John McCarthy of MIT invented the computer language
LISP. Used in Symbolics imaging software.
1983- Disney Channel debuted.
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