Birthdays:
Elvis Presley would have been 80, Robert Schumann, Jose Ferrer, Shirley Bassey,
Peter Arno, Yvette Mimieux, Larry Storch is 92, John Nierhardt, Bruce Sutter,
Charles Osgood, Gen. James Longstreet, publisher Frank Doubleday, Steven
Hawkings is 73, Saheed Jafray is 86, Soupy Sales, David Bowie is 68
1889-
Herman Hollerith received a patent for the electronic counting machine. The
machine fed numbers onto punch cards and was used in the U.S. census of 1890.
In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which later was
renamed International Business Machines or IBM.
1962-
The Mona Lisa traveled to America and went on display today at the National
Gallery in Washington. It was loaned in a deal brokered by Jackie Kennedy and
French cultural minister Andre Malreaux
1973-
Carly Simon got a gold record for "You’re So Vain". Supposedly it was
about her agent, David Geffen.
1992- At
a state dinner in Tokyo, President George H.W. Bush Sr. vomited onto the lap of
Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone in front of press cameras. There is now a word
in Japanese- BUSHURU, meaning to throw up on the person next to you.
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