Birthdays:
Zebulon Pike, Stephen Decatur, Alven Ailey, James Stuart Blackton (the first
American animator, born in Lincolnshire, England ), W.D. Snodgrass, Jack
Norworth -composer of " Take Me out to the Ballgame' , Konrad Adenauer,
Astrologist Jean Dixon, Umberto Ecco, Yves Tanguy, Walter Mondale, George
Reeves, Roger Spottiswoode, Hiyao
Miyazaki is 77, Robert Duval is 87, Dianne Keaton is 72, Spanish King Juan
Carlos, Marilyn Manson is 49, January Jones is 37, Bradley Cooper is 43.
1896- Josef
Pulitzers’ New York World began printing the Sunday Yellow Kid comic strip with
a yellow color on his shirt. The strip gave the name to the sensationalist
tabloid press 'Yellow Journalism".
1933- First day of
construction on San Francisco¹s Golden Gate Bridge.
1953- Samuel Beckett¹s
play Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot ) first premiered in Paris.
1959- Buddy Holly
released his last single, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore.
1959- The first
Bozo the Clown TV show premiered on TV. Larry Harmon played the famous
children’s clown.
1961- “Hello
Wilbur” Mr Ed the Talking Horse appeared on TV for the first time.
1962- After a
holiday break, shooting resumed on Cleopatra. This was the first time stars
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked together, and the first signs of
their love affair. Their tempestuous relationship was one of the great affairs
of 1960s Hollywood.
1970- Soap opera
“All My Children” premiered.
1979- EMI Records
ended their contracts with the punk band the Sex Pistols. They felt their
outrageous behavior had gone just too far.
1980- The first
Hewlett Packard Personal Computer, or PC, goes on the market.
1998-At the
Heavenly Valley Ski Resort, former pop singer turned Republican Congressman Sonny Bono died, when he skied
headlong into a tree.
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