Birthdays: Elvis Presley would
have been 79, Robert Schumann, Jose Ferrer, Shirley Bassey, cartoonist Peter Arno, Yvette
Mimieux, Larry Storch is 91, John Nierhardt, Bruce Sutter, Charles Osgood, publisher Frank Doubleday, Steven Hawkings is 72, Saheed
Jafray is 85, Soupy Sales, David Bowie is 67
1889- Herman Hollerith received a
patent for the electronic counting machine. The machine fed numbers onto punch
cards and was used in the U.S. census of 1890. In 1896 Hollerith founded the
Tabulating Machine Company, which later was renamed International Business
Machines or IBM.
1962- The Mona Lisa traveled to
America and went on display today at the National Gallery in Washington. It was
loaned in a deal brokered by Jackie Kennedy and French cultural minister Andre
Malreaux.
1965- NBC TV premiered Hullabaloo,
a Rock & Roll dance show with lots of mini-skirted go-go dancers. ABC
responded with Shindig.
1973- Carly Simon got a gold
record for "You’re So Vain". Supposedly it was about her agent, David
Geffen, one of the future creators of DreamWorks.
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