Birthdays: Richard Pryor, Mary
Martin, Cyril Ritchard, Dick Shawn, Lee Trevino, Charlene Tilton, Lou Rawls,
Marshal Gyorgi Zhukov, Admiral Stansfield Turner, Rex Stout the author of Nero
Wolfe, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, Treat Williams,
Woody Allen is 81, Bette Midler is 71, Sarah Silverman is 46
1835- Hans Christian Andersen
published his first book of fairy tales.
1879- Gilbert & Sullivan’s
comic opera HMS Pinafore opened. Sullivan conducted the orchestra while Gilbert
was a chorister. “So Stick to your desk and never go to sea, and you will be
the leader of the Queen’s Navy..”
1887- The first Sherlock Holmes
mystery by Arthur Conan-Doyle "A Study in Scarlet" first published in
Beatty’s Christmas Gazette.
1938- In Moscow legendary
filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein released his film of Russian patriotism ALEXANDER
NEVSKY, with soundtrack provided by Sergei Prokoviev.
1944- Bela Bartok’s Concerto for
Orchestra premiered by the Boston Symphony and Serge Kousevitsky.
1951- MIT scientists booted up
Project Whirlwind, the TX-0 Computer. Called the Tixo, it was as large as a bus
and was the first computer that could do more than one program at a time. In
1952 it had the first computer screen and first light pen.
The TX-2 was used to write the
first animation program Sketchpad, and the first interactive game Spacewar,
both in 1962.
1953- Ex- Esquire magazine art director
and frustrated cartoonist Hugh Hefner published the first issue of Playboy
Magazine. It featured a nude centerfold of actress Marilyn Monroe. She joked to
the press “ I had nothing on but the radio!” Hefner's success allowed him to employ a lot of gret cartoonists like Alberto Vargas and Harvey Kurtzman.
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