Birthdays: Roman Emperor Augustus,
Josephine Bonaparte, Alan Turing, Bob Fosse, James Levine, Dan Ogilvy of Ogilvy
& Meyers, Joss Whedon, Dr Alfred Kinsey the sex researcher, Edward the Duke
of Windsor, Selma Blair, Justice Clarence Thomas, Frances MacDormand is 57
1868- Christopher Latham Scholes
patents the typewriter. In 1873 he sold his patent to the Remington Company. In 1874 Mark Twain secretly admitted to a
friend that he enjoyed writing on the newfangled technology.
1972- Title IX passed by the US
Government. It called for women’s collegiate sports to be funded equally as the
men’s sports.
1976- Toronto’s CN Tower opened.
Called the world’s tallest free-standing structure.
1979- The Knack released the
single My Sharona.
1989- Tim Burton’s film "
Batman" opened.
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