Birthdays: Daniel Defoe, William de Kooning, St. Vincent de
Paul, Morgan Earp, Jack E. Leonard, Dame Ethel Smyth, Jill Ireland, Eric
Bogosian, Sue Grafton, Robert Penn Warren, Barbera Streisand is 74, Cedric the
Entertainer is 53, Shirley McLaine is 82
1833- The Soda Fountain is patented.
1933- Ub Iwerk's "Fiddlesticks" the first Flip the
Frog cartoon, done in a simple two-color process. Iwerks was the first designer
and animator of Mickey Mouse, who had left Walt Disney to open his own studio.
1961- First day of shooting on the film King of Kings, the
Christ story starring Jeffrey Hunter. Called by one critic” I was a Teenage
Jesus” In 1966 Jeffrey Hunter turned down a TV series after doing the pilot
episode. His wife worried that he’d be typecast. The role of Star Trek’s
Captain Kirk, went instead went to William Shatner.
1981- Small companies like Apple and Commodore had dominated
the personal computer market while giants like IBM stuck with large business
systems. Now IBM weighed in with The IBM PC –personal computer, with basic
software language DOS provided by Microsoft. It soon came to dominate the
market.
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