Birthdays: Robert the Bruce, John Quincy Adams, Sir Thomas
Bowdler, E.B. White, Yul Brynner- born Tadjhe Khan, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leon
Spinks, Tab Hunter, Giorgio Armani, Sela Ward, Kimberly “Little Kim’ Jones,
Stephen Lang is 65
1906- Nordisk Films in Copenhagen founded.
1937- George Gershwin died of a malignant brain tumor at age
38.
1938- The radio show The Mercury Theater of the Air with
Orson Welles and John Houseman premiered.
1952- LA’s Randy’s Donuts, with its iconic huge donut sign
on its roof, opened.
1962-The Tellstar I satellite transmitted the first
television images from France to USA.
1969 - Rolling Stones release
"Honky Tonk Woman".
1970- “Mama Told Me Not to Come” by Three Dog Night hits #1 in the pop
charts. The song was written by young composer Randy Newman.
1991- Disney announced it would enter into a deal with a Bay
area digital offshoot of Lucasfilm named PIXAR. Hit films including Toy Story, Monsters Inc. Finding Nemo, The
Incredibles, and Cars were the
result.
1997- A lunatic named Jonathan
Norman was arrested for trying to break into Steven Spielberg’s home. He
believed Spielberg “wanted to be raped”, and had on him chloroform, duct tape
and S&M paraphernalia.
2016- Nintendo released the
Pokemon Go app for smart phones and it causes a sensation.
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