Animation Fun Facts for June 19, 2013

Birthdays: Euclid, Blaise Pascal, King James Ist Stuart, Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor, Moe Howard, Kathleen Turner, Lou Gehrig, Guy Lombardo, Gena Rowlands is 83, Mildred Natwick, Charles Coburn, Louis Jourdan, Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Dame Mae Whitty, Lucie Sloane, Ang Sung Soo Chi, Paula Abdul is 51, Zoe Saldana is 35 1889- Beginning of the Sherlock Holmes adventure, the Man with the Twisted Lip. 1921- Distributer AmadeeVan Beuren announced production of a new series of "Aesop’s Fables" cartoons to be done by former Bray director Paul Terry. Terrytoons studio is born. 1923 - "Moon Mullins," a Comic Strip, debuts. 1934-The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, created. 1941 - Cheerios Cereal invented. The name Cheerios comes from a town in Italy called Cheerigalia, where grain and cereals had been grown since Roman times. 1952 - "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host. 1956- The comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis announce their breakup. 1963- The Ray Harryhausen fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts premiered. 1973 The Rocky Horror Picture Show stage show opened in London. The film version became a midnight cult classic. Writer Richard O’Brien himself plays the bald doorman Riff-Raff. Let’s do the Time Warp Again. 1978 – Garfield the Cat, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip 1987 - Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. 1987 –David Geffen Records signed their 1st artist -Donna Summer. 1998 Disney’s Muhlan premiered.