Birthdays: Fred Astaire, Phil
Silvers, Nancy Walker, French royal minister Turgot, Marshal Jean Lannes,
Marshal Nicolas Davout, John Wilkes Booth (assassin of Lincoln) Mark David
Chapman (assassin of John Lennon), David O. Selznick, Mother Maybelle Carter, Ariel
Durant, Jim Abrahams, Nancy Walker, Donovan, Homer Simpson, Bono,
Paige O’Hara the voice of Belle in Beauty & the Beast.
1928- General Electric starts up
WG4 Schenectady, the first T.V. Station.
1929- Walt Disney’s animated short
Skeleton Dance premiered. Animated mostly by Mickey Mouse designer Ubb Iwerks,
it marked the beginning of tightly done musical sync animation.
1963- On the advice of George
Harrison and Little Richard, Decca Records signed a new teen band called the
Rolling Stones to a recording contract.
1993- 188 young women died in a
fire in a toy making factory near Bangkok, Thailand. They were locked into the
building by their employer like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire victims in 1911.
They were making Bart Simpson dolls for America.
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