Birthdays: Jacques Montgolfier, Joseph Bonaparte- Napoleons older brother, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, Revolutionary War General Israel Putnam, Francois Poulenc, Butterfly McQueen, Adolph Zukor, Charles Adams, E.L. Doctorow, Jean Pierre Rampal, Millard Filmore, Katie Couric, William Peter Blatty the author of Jaws, David Caruso, Nicholas Cage- originally Nicolo Coppola, is 50
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1839- Frenchman Louis Daguerre
announces the invention of Photography (Just three weeks later on the 31st
William Fox Talbot will say HE invented it first ). Despite the controversy of
credit, the Daguerrotype photographic process becomes the popular system
worldwide in the nineteenth century. The image of Lincoln on the five dollar
bill is from a daguerreotype.
1894-" The Sneeze" The
first motion picture film to be copyrighted by Thomas Edison and his engineer
W.K.L. Dickson
1924- George Gershwin completed
his Rhapsody for Piano and Jazz Orchestra, popularly called the Rhapsody in
Blue. Ira Gershwin came up with the name after seeing a museum show of Whistler
paintings with names like "Composition in Grey, Nocturne in Green,"
etc.
1926- George Burns married Gracie
Allen.
1929-With the approval of Edgar
Rice Burroughs, artist Hal Foster began drawing the Tarzan comic strip.
1934 –The First Buck Rogers
adventures.
1935- Roger Sherwood’s play the
Petrified Forrest opened to smash revues at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway.
Leslie Howard got great notices, but the real find was an obscure hard drinking
actor with sad eyes playing the gangster Duke Mantee – Humphrey Bogart. In the
audience was Jack Warner of Warner Bros, who decided Mr. Bogart might just make
it in motion pictures.
1943- Nicholas Tesla died. The
inventor of AC current, rotary field motors and the Tesla coil, in his last
years he had been experimenting with telegraphy, and trying to develop a death
ray for the US Army.
1943- Walt Disney released the
propaganda short Spirit of ’43, commissioned by the Treasury Dept. Donald Duck
explains that the best way to win the war was to pay your taxes!
1966- A hippie group from what
would become Silicon Valley, called the Grateful Dead, got their first gig
playing a club called the Matrix. They would be one of the most successful rock
bands in history, only breaking up after the death of their leader, Jerry
Garcia in 1995.
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