Birthdays: Lorenzo De Medici” the Magnificent”, Pope
Alexander VI Borgia, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross, Mad Anthony Wayne, E.M.
Forrester, J. Edgar Hoover, Alfred Steiglitz, Xavier Cugat, Frank Langella is 75,
Barry Goldwater, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Dana Andrews, Idi Amin, Kliban, Verne
Troyer (Mini-Me)
1939- Vladimir Zworkin patented the
Iconoscope ( the eye of a TV camera ) and Kinescope. The television process evolved
over so many years -there were experimental t.v. stations in 1923 and the
Berlin Olympics of 1936 were televised. So you can't really point to one Tom
Edison type inventor, although Zworkin, Englishman James Logie Baird in 1924,
Philo Farnsworth, and Dr. Lee DeForest all at one time tried to take the full
credit .
1943- Walt Disney's Donald Duck cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face
premiered.
1959- The Chipmunk Song by David Seville (aka Ross
Bagdassarian) tops the pop charts..
1960- The Radio and Television Director's Guild merge with
the Screen Directors Guild to form the DGA.
1963- Tetsuwan Atomu or Atom Boy, an animated television
show by Osamu Tezuka premiered on Japanese TV. As Astro Boy it became the first
Japanese anime show to break into the mainstream American market.
1966- An ailing Walt Disney served as Grand Marshal for the
Tournament of Roses Parade. Standing in the crowd on the curb with his mother
was young John Lasseter.
1976- Potheads sneak up to the Hollywood Sign and change the
two “O’s to “E’s so the sign read HOLLYWEED.
1984- By court order, the phone system AT&T also called
the Bell System which had dominated telephone communication exclusively since
Alexander Graham Bell, was ordered broken up into 22 regional companies, the
Baby Bells. The explosion of telecommunications, portable phones, Blackberries
and bigger phone bills result. One result was Bell Labs of Murray Hill became Lucent Technologies, but scaled back their development of computer graphic filmmaking.
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