Birthdays:
Joseph Jacquard- of the Jacquard Loom 1752, Gustav Mahler, Satchel Page, Ringo
Starr is 74, Doc Severinsen, Robert Heinlein, William Kuntsler, Gian Carlo Menotti,
Ken Harris, Shelley Duval is 65, Ted Cassidy-Lurch in the Adams Family,
Michelle Kwan, David McCullough, Pierre Cardin, and according to Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle this is the birthday of Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick Dr. John Watson
1895-THE FIRST
SUNDAY COMICS - The first modern comic strip Hogan’s Alley featuring "The
Yellow Kid" by Richard Felton Outcault, debuts in the Sunday edition of
Pulitzer's New York World. The strip was so popular it gave the name
"Yellow Journalism" to the sensationalist tabloid press. Comic strips
at this time became the mass media of the day. For people who couldn’t afford a
theater ticket and couldn’t yet speak English, the little characters in the
penny papers were extremely popular and made celebrities out of cartoonists
like Outcault, Bud Selig George McManus and Winsor McCay. Richard Outcault
later inventing the backend deal when he asked for a percentage of all sales
from his new comic strip "Buster Brown and his dog Tige"
1960- First
demonstration of a practical laser beam. In Russia it had been theorized since
1951. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation or LASER.
1967- Vivien
Leigh, the actress who played Scarlet O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche
DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, died in a mental institution at age 53.
1967 - Beatles'
"All You Need is Love" is released. Queen Elizabeth II said it was
one of her favorite songs.
1967 – The
Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1.
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