Birthdays: Gouverner Morris, Zane Grey, James G. Blaine,
Franz Schubert, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sir John Profumo, Phillip Glass, Johnny
Rotten, Ernie Banks, Norman Mailer, Nolan Ryan, Susanne Pleshette, Anthony
LaPaglia, Tallulah Bankhead, Jean Simmons, Justin Timberlake is 37, Portia
DiRossi, Minnie Driver is 48, Carol Channing is 97!
Happy National Dress up in a Gorilla Suit Day. First
advocated by Don Martin, cartoonist for MAD Magazine.
1839- Englishman William Fox Talbot says Frenchman Louis
Daguerre is full of pate' when he announces he had invented photography
(1/7/39). Talbot declares HE invented it first.
Actually a Belgian priest experimenting with capturing light on chemically
treated glass or paper as early as 1817, Thomas Wedgewood in 1770 and Louis Niepce, with whom both Daguerre and Talbot were
familiar. While the principles of
capturing a shadow had been known for some time, no one had worked out how to
fix the image so earlier attempts faded away in a few hours. Niepce' work predates both Talbot and
Daguerre by about 10 years and constitute the earliest "photographic"
images still extant. But Talbot and Daguerre are considered the fathers of
Photography, provided you like history Anglais or a’ Francais.
1843-The first recorded minstrel show. The mode became so
popular that even black performers were made to wear burnt-cork blackface
makeup and white lips.
1876- The U.S. Congress ordered all remaining Indian tribes
to move into reservations or be declared hostile.
1925- Scotch brand invisible tape introduced by the 3-M
Company.
1978- Polish director Roman Polanski fled the U.S. for exile
after being charged for having sex with a thirteen year old girl in Jack
Nicholson’s house.
1989- Michael Jackson’s sister LaToya Jackson posed nude for
Playboy.
1999- The first episode of Seth
McFarlane’s show Family Guy
premiered.
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