Birthdays: Antonio Frescobaldi,
Captain William Bligh, Jimmy the Greek Snyder, Joe Theismann, Cliff Robertson,
Angela Cartwright, Alf Landon, Dee Dee Sharpe who sang the 60's R&B hit the
Mashed Potato, Michael Keaton, Don Mattingly, Otis Redding, Anita Ekberg, Hugh
Grant is 55, Topol, Colonel Lyman Sanders the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, James Hilton-writer
who created the name for paradise- Shangri-La, in his novel Lost Horizons. Adam
Sandler is 49, Michelle Williams is 35
1926 – The National Broadcasting
Company or NBC created by Radio Corporation of
America RCA. Under the direction
of David Sarnoff it became the powerhouse network of broadcasting, recording
and later television.
1939- The first Andy Panda
cartoon.
1939- The first day of shooting on
Charlie Chaplin’s film the Great Dictator. The first day was the Ghetto street
scene. One of his distributors grumbled “ By the time Chaplin finishes his
movie, people won’t even remember who Hitler ever was.”
1945 - 1st bug in a computer
program discovered by Naval Commander Grace Hopper. A moth was removed with
tweezers from a relay & taped into the log. Since then any computer glitch
was nicknamed "a bug".
1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track
invented by Hank McCune.
1951 - 1st broadcast of the soap
opera" Love of Life " on CBS-TV
1956- Elvis Presley appeared on
nationwide television on the Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan himself had vowed never
to have the kid on his show but caved in to network pressure. He stayed home
that first time, and actor Charles Laughton was the substitute host. CBS
Network censors thought the gyrations of Elvis' pelvis so obscene that in many
markets they blacked out the lower portion of the screen so he was covered the
waist down.
1967- Jay Ward’s show George of
the Jungle premiered, with Super Chicken and Tom Slick sequences.
1982- Princess Grace of Monaco,
the former movie actress Grace Kelly, died in a car accident on the mountainous
hill roads of Monaco. Twenty years earlier in the film To Catch a Thief, Alfred
Hitchcock had her drive her car at dangerous speeds over the exact same hairpin
turns.
1985-THIRTY YEARS AGO She-Ra the Princess of Power
premiered on TV.
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