Birthdays: Martha Washington, Alexander Pope, Berke
Breathed, Al Hirschfeld, Al Martinez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Judy Holliday, Benazir
Bhutto, Jane Russell, Mariette Hartley, Bernie Koppel, Rick Sutcliffe, Maureen
Stapleton, Joe Flagherty, Juliet Lewis, Tony Scott, Chris Pratt is 36, Prince
William the Duke of York is 33.
1948- At the University of Manchester, John McCauley started
up the first modern computer, the Manchester Mark I, that could store a program
in it’s memory and reopen it.
1948- Columbia Records introduced the 33 1/3-rpm long
playing record, the LP. Inventor Peter Goldmark was annoyed that he had to
change his 78 rpm records several times to hear just one Brahms Symphony. He
decided to invent a way to fit all of a symphony on one side of a record. His immediate supervisors told him to stop it
because people would not throw away all their 78 rpm records to replace them
with his. So Goldmark went over their heads to CBS chief William Paley and
Paley loved the idea. RCA and David Sarnoff tried to compete with the 45-rpm
record, but all it was good for was singles. The 33 1/3 dominated recording
until replaced by the Compact Disc in the 1980’s.
1965- the Byrds release record Hey
Mr. Tambourine Man.
1978 - Andrew Lloyd Webber &
Tim Rice's musical "Evita," premieres in London.
1988- Who Framed Roger Rabbit premiered at Radio City Music
Hall.
2002- Lilo & Stitch premiered.
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