Birthdays: Armelita
Galli-Curci, Karl Maria Von Weber, W.S. Gilbert, Johnny Mercer,
Astronaut Alan
Shepard, Louis Daguerre, Brenda Vaccarro, Eugene Ormandy, George Gallup, Warren
Moon, Pam Dawber, Rocket Ishmail, Delroy Lindo, Kevin Nealon, Owen Wilson is 47,
Chloe Servigny is 41
1718- Francois
Voltaire’s first play Oedipe, premiered in Paris.
1865
Mark Twain's first story "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' published.
1928- HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MICKEY MOUSE- At Universal’s Colony Theater in New York, Walt Disney’s cartoon
"Steamboat Willie" debuted before a movie called Gang War. The first
major sound cartoon success and the official birth of Mickey Mouse. Two earlier
silent Mickey's had been done, but when Walt saw Jolson talk in the Jazz Singer,
he held those two back so the sound experiment could go ahead.
1963-The first push
button telephones go into service. By 1980 they pretty much replaced the rotary
dial phones.
1970- At the
Lakeside School in Seattle, a young kid named Bill Gates was first shown
computer programming.
1985- Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin & Hobbs debuted.
1988- Disney’s Oliver & Company released.
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