Birthdays: John Paul Jones, Jefferson Davis, Josephine
Baker, King George V, Henry Shrapnel, Allen Ginsburg, Collen Dewhurst, Alain
Renais, Curtis Mayfield, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Evans, Jack Oakey, Jan
Peerce, Zoltan Korda, John Dykstra, Tom Arnold, Hale Irwin, Chuck Barris, Tony
Curtis
1888-The poem: "Casey at the Bat" by Edward
Lawrence Thayer published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1924- THE FIRST D.J.- Moses Biaritz, working for the BBC
affiliate in Manchester England, started a radio program where he spun records
and chatted in-between song cuts, inventing the Disc Jockey format.
1929- Movie stars Douglas
Fairbanks Jr married Joan Crawford.
1939- Movie director Alexander
Korda married movie star Merle Oberon.
1946- A consumer study finds there are only 10,000 television
sets in America.
A follow up study
five years later finds the number at 12 million.
1949 - Dragnet is 1st broadcast on
radio ( KFI in Los Angeles ). Creator Jack Webb wanted to capture the dry,
non-theatrical delivery he heard real cops use. He ordered his actors to “stop
acting, just read the lines”. Webb wrote
the scripts from real LAPD cases and starred as well.
1965- Edward White becomes the first American to walk in
space in Gemini VII.
1967 - Aretha Franklin's
"Respect" reaches #1. Sockittome, sockittome, sockittome.
1968- Artist Andy Warhol was shot
in the gut three times by Valerie Solanas, author of the "SCUM
Manifesto". Warhol barely lived. Solanas was institutionalized.
1976 –Galileo-Galileo
Fig-a-ro! Queen's single "Bohemian
Rhapsody" goes gold.
2001- Disney's Atlantis, the Lost Empire premiered.
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