Birthdays: Salmon P. Chase, Horatio Alger-1834, Sophie
Tucker, Gwen Verdon, Robert Stack, Charles Nelson Reilly, Rip Taylor, Brandon
Tartikoff, Julie Louise Dreyfus is 56, T. Bone Burnett is 69, Patrick Dempsey,
Orlando Bloom is 40
1906- The first ad for a radio appeared in an American
Science Magazine. It boasted an effective range of over one mile !
1910- Dr. Lee Deforest experimenting with his new radio
vacuum tubes broadcast singers from New York's Metropolitan Opera for the first
time. The regular Texaco 'Live from the Met' broadcasts wouldn't get going
until 1934.
1925- THE FIRST CALIFORNIA GURU- Indian spiritual teacher Parahamansa
Yogananda , then called “The Swami” settled in Los Angeles and gave his first
lecture to an audience in LA Philharmonic Hall. He founded the Malibu
Self-Realization Center in 1950. It featured one shovel-full of ashes from the
funeral pyre of Mahatma Gandhi.
1930- The Mickey Mouse comic strip first appeared in US
newspapers. Walt Disney himself wrote them, Ub Iwerks penciled and Winn Smith
inked.
1945- Sergei Prokoviev’s 5th Symphony (Classical)
premiered in Moscow.
1946- In his comic strip, Dick Tracy first uses his two-way
wrist radio.
1958- Actress Jayne Mansfield married weightlifter Mickey
Hargitay. Their daughter was Marisa Hargitay
1979- The Young Men’s Christian Association filed a lawsuit
against the rock group the Village People over their hit song “YMCA”.
1979- Russian animator Yuri Nortstein’s masterpiece Tale of
Tales premiered.
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