Birthdays: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy, George
Villiers the Duke of Buckingham- minister of James I, O'Flagherty, Donald
O'Connor, Charles Boyer, Karl Boehm, Bruno Bettleheim, Ferdinand Horvath, Ben
Gazzara, Jack "King" Kirby, Janet Evans, Ron 'Louisiana Lightning'
Guidry, Jason Preistley, Daniel Stern, Shania Twain, Charles Solomon, Jack
Black is 45, Rita Coolidge is 53.
1922- The first broadcast commercial on radio. It was for a real estate firm Queensboro
Realty lasting ten minutes and cost $100 dollars. The firm selling suburban
homes in Queens NY immediately did $100,000 worth of business. The business world
took note of this new method of advertising.
1938- Northwestern University conferred an honorary degree
upon the ventriloquist puppet Charlie McCarthy- Edgar Bergen’s famed dummy. The
Dean of the School of Speech conferred a Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback
upon the wooden celebrity.
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