Birthdays: Salvador Dali', Jean
Jerome, Chang and Eng Bunker-the original Siamese Twins-1811, Baron Munchausen,
Irving Berlin, King Oliver, Martha Graham, Dr Richard Fenyman, Mort Sahl,
Foster Brooks, Denver Pyle, Henry Morgenthau, Doug McClure, Randy Quaid,
Natasha Richardson, Rev Louis Farrakhan, Albert Hurter, Margaret Kerry the
model for Walt Disney’s Tinkerbell
1956 - Pinky Lee Show last airs on
NBC-TV
1968 - actor Richard Harris
attempted a singing career, releasing the song "MacArthur Park".
1972 -On the Dick Cavett talk show
Beatle and peace activist John Lennon said his phone had been tapped by FBI. It
turns out it he was, but at the time we all thought he was just paranoid from
too many drugs.
1981- The musical play CATS opened
in London.
1981- Bob Marley died of brain
cancer at age 36. Jamaican Marley and his group the Wailers, made Reggae
mainstream in pop music around the world. Ja –Mahn!
1992 - Carlos Herrera, bartender
inventor of the Margarita, died at age 90- Margherita was supposedly named for
Hollywood actress Margaret Sullivan who wanted to drink tequila and lime but
couldn’t tolerate the strong taste. Herrera mixed the tequila and lime juice
into an iced cocktail and put the salt along the rim. He mixed a batch whenever
he heard the actress was in Tijuana, writing on the bottle- For Little
Margaret- Por Margherita.
1997-
Deep Blue, a computer developed at IBM, defeated top world chess champion
Gennady Kasparov.
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