Birthdays: Fred Astaire, Phil
Silvers, Nancy Walker, French royal minister Turgot, Marshal Jean Lannes,
Marshal Nicolas Davout, John Wilkes Booth (assassin of Lincoln) Mark David
Chapman (assassin of John Lennon), David O. Selznick, Mother Maybelle Carter, Ariel
Durant, Jim Abrahams, Nancy Walker, Donovan, Homer Simpson, Bono,
Paige O’Hara the voice of Belle in Beauty & the Beast.
1908- An article in the New York
Times advised women to wash their hair every two weeks. The norm for women then
was shampooing every three months!
1928- General Electric starts up
WG4 Schenectady, the first T.V. Station.
1929- Walt Disney’s animated short
Skeleton Dance premiered. Animated mostly by Mickey Mouse designer Ubb Iwerks,
it marked the beginning of tightly done musical sync animation.
1993- 188 young women died in a
fire in a toy making factory near Bangkok, Thailand. They were locked into the
building by their employer like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire victims in 1911.
They were making Bart Simpson dolls for America.
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