Birthdays: Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV-1642, Frederic Opper the
cartoonist of Happy Hooligan, Phillip Freneau, Roger Miller, Issac Asimov,
Julius LaRosa, Tito Schipa, Renata Tebaldi, Tex Ritter, Disney story artist Dick Huemer, Cuba
Gooding Jr, is 47, Tia Carrere the voice of Nana in Lilo and Stitch, Kate Bosworth is 32
1843- Richard Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman premiered
in Dresden.
1897- Young writer Stephen Crane survived a shipwreck when
the good ship SS Commodore went down off the coast of Florida. He went on to
write The Open Boat and The Red Badge of Courage.
1937- Hollywood actor Ross Alexander had hit on tough times.
He had been in a few movies like Captain Blood and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
but his career seemed to be stalled and he was deeply in debt. This day the 29
year old went into the barn behind his Valley ranch home and shot himself. The
Warner Bros. Studio looked around for a replacement to refill their roster of
male leads. They replaced Alexander with an Illinois college sportscaster named
“Dutch”- Ronald Reagan.
1975- In a letter to MITS, the makers of the Altair personal
computer, Bill Gates and Paul Allen offer their computer language BASIC. They call
themselves and their new company Micro-Soft.
2000- Larry Saunders had a
conversation with his friend Jimmy Wales about writing data entries for
collaborative websites called wikis. Saunders conceived of an open on-line
encyclopedia encompassing all knowledge. He called it Wikipedia.
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