Birthdays: English King Edward VII, Confederate Gen. Ambrose
Powell Hill, Stanford White, Marie Dressler, Ed Wynn, Ann Sexton, Spiro Agnew,
Tommy Dorsey, Dr. Carl Sagan, Whitey Herzog, Dorothy Dandridge, Dr. Herbert
Kalmus the inventor of Technicolor film, Lou Ferrigno is 65, Sisqo
1911-The first Neon sign illuminated.
1964- First "Wizard of Id" comic strip published.
1965- "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE
LIGHTS WENT OUT?" The first Great East Coast Blackout. A transformer near
Rochester shorts out and the surge overloads station after station until the
entire eastern seaboard from Boston to Delaware is in darkness for 12 hours. Nine months later there was a notable rise in
the birthrate. I guess there was nothing
else to do.
1966- In London Beatle John Lennon went to an art exhibit
and first met a Japanese avant garde photographer named Yoko Ono.
1981- The Screen Actor's Guild under President Ed Asner
votes emergency moneys for striking PATCO air traffic controllers fired by the
former SAG president, now U.S. President, Ronald Reagan.
1979- National Public Radio goes on the air. The first US
national news show with women as anchor reporters. It was also the first news
program in stereo.
2004- The Jones Soda Pop Company
of Seattle announced its new creation – Mashed Potato Flavored Soda. This was
to follow up on their success last year of Roast Turkey and Gravy Soda.
2004- Mozilla-Firefox 1.0 started
up.
2012- Steven Spielberg’s’ film Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis premiered.
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