Birthdays: French Admiral Bailly de Suffren, Cheech Marin,
Father Flannagan, Cameron Crowe, Woye Solenka, Dave Garroway, Chef Paul
Prudhomme, Michael Spinks, Film special effects artist Jim Danforth, Dr. Erno
Rubik inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, Patrick Stewart is 75, Harrison Ford is 73,
Tom Kenny the voice of Spongebob Squarepants is 54
1798- Poet William Wordsworth visited Tinturn Abbey and was
inspired to write his famous elegy on the ruins.
1865- P.T. Barnum’s American Museum in New York City burned
down in a spectacular fire. Barnum rebuilt but after that one burned as well,
he got the idea of getting into the circus business. In his American Museum ,
more a sitting menagerie and sideshow than a museum as we know it, Barnum invented the idea of advanced hype and
created kiddie matinees.
1898-Giusseppi Marconi patents wireless transmissions, the
Radio.
1925- Walt Disney and Lillian Bounds marry. Lillian was one
of the first female animation ink & paint artists.
1930 – David Sarnoff the head of
the NBC radio network said in the NY Times that " The new invention of
Television would be a theater in every home". Sounded crazy back then.
Critics said it would require one room of the house be darkened, and they
doubted people would just sit still that long.
1939- Frank Sinatra recorded his first album, this one with
the Harry James Orchestra.
1949- Hollywood Studio exec David O. Selznick left his first
wife Esther, the daughter of Louis B. Mayer, to marry actress Jennifer Jones.
1984- The film The
Last Starfighter with Robert Preston opened. The first movie where all the
spaceships and effects were done with computers instead of miniature models.
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