Birthdays: Tomaso Albinioni,
Fighting Bob LaFollette, Margaret Bourke-White, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sam
Wanamaker, Cliff Edwards the voice of Jiminy Cricket, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives,
Gene Barry, Jerzy Kosinski, Diablo Cody is 38, Donald Trump is 70.
1816- Writers Shelley, Lord Byron
and Mary Shelley were spending the summer at the Villa Deodati on Lake Geneva.
This day among the revels, drinking, partner swapping and opium taking, Byron
suggested they all write a ghost story. They all tried but failed except for 19
year old Mary, who invented the tale of a Swiss scientist who created an
artificial man. She called it Frankenstein.
1822-
Charles Babbage presented a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society in London
proposing to build a "Difference Engine" a machine that could
calculate equations and print the results-i.e. a computer. His early machine
required 8,000 moving parts. After ten years and a small fortune it never quite
comes off, but today it is considered the ancestor of the computer.
1959- Three new rides are debuted
at Disneyland in Anaheim. The first monorail the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail
System, Matterhorn Mountain and the Submarine Voyage, today called the Finding
Nemo Submarine Voyage. Back then the submarines were named and painted to be the
US navy nuclear submarines Nautilus, Triton, Skipjack, Skate, Patrick Henry, Sea
Wolf, George Washington and Ethan Allen. The ride took visitors for an
adventure under the North Pole, an achievement which the real USN Nautilus had
just accomplished the previous year. The subs were repainted the more pacific
yellow color after the Vietnam era.
1989- Elderly actress Zsa Zsa
Gabor was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills policeman who was writing her a
traffic ticket.
1995, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MP3. The researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for
Integrated Circuits decided to use "mp3" as the file name extension
for their new audio coding technology. Development on this technology started
in 1987. By 1992 it was considered far ahead of its times. MP3 became the
generally accepted acronym as the popular standard for digital music on the on
the Internet.
2001- The Oxford English
Dictionary admitted the slang expletive of Homer Simpson "DOH!" into
its august pages.
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