Birthdays: James 'Wild Bill' Hickock, Julia Ward Howe,
Aemelia Jenks-Bloomer, Dashell Hammett, Vincent Price, Henry Kissinger is 89,
Leopold Goldowsky (the inventor of Kodachrome film), Hubert H. Humphrey, Herman
Wouk, Harlan Ellison, Joseph Feinnes, Richard Schiff is 59, Peri Gilpin, Paul
Bettany is 43, Sir Christopher Lee is 92
1895 - British inventor Burt Acres
patented a film camera/projector
1930- HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTCH TAPE -Chemist Richard Drew of
Saint Paul Minnesota invented cellophane tape, marketed by the 3M Company under
the brand Scotch. It was called Scotch after the stereotype perception that
Scots people are frugal with money, so it’s a good value. Three years later
Drew invented Masking Tape as a way for car manufacturers to paint cars two
tone.
1933- Disney’s cartoon“The Three Little Pigs” premiered,
whose song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” became a national anthem of
recovery from the Depression.
Director of the short Burt Gillette left Disney afterwards
to run the Van Beuren Studio in New York.
1948- Walt Disney feature Melody Time released, featuring
Pecos Bill.
1969 – Construction on Walt Disney
World Florida began.
1977-The Sex Pistols release their
Punk hit God Save the Queen, the Fascist Regime, in time for the Queen’s
Jubilee year. Her Majesty preferred the Beatles All You Need is Love.
1995- Actor Christopher Reeve was
left paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in an equestrian
event in Charlottesville, Va. He became
a spokesman for stem-cel research, but his effort in the US was frustrated by
powerful religious lobbyists. Christopher Reeves died in 2004.
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