Birthdays: Copernicus is 542, Luigi Boccherini, Smokey
Robinson, Andre Breton, Lee Marvin, Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Karen Silkwood, Paul
Terry, Paul Krause, Merl Oberon, Amy Tam, John Frankenheimer, Jeff Daniels,
Benicio Del Toro is 48, Hilary Duff is 29
1878- Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.
1920- THE MYSTERY OF ANASTASIA- This day came the first news
reports that a emotionally disturbed young woman who tried to jump into a
Berlin canal claimed to be the Archduchess Anastasia Romanov, youngest child of
the Czar and Czarina of Russia. She somehow escaped the 1918 murder of her
family and tried to prove it by recalling minute details about the Imperial
household. She was called Anna Anderson and was the toast of New York and
Parisian society for awhile. But unlike the Ingrid Bergman movie the Romanov
family in exile never took her seriously and Anna eventually married and
settled down. In 1991 extensive laboratory attempts to match her DNA with the
Romanovs proved she was not the little archduchess.
1960- Bill Keane's "Family
Circus" cartoon strip debuts.
1968- “ It’s a beautiful day in
the Neighborhood…” Mister Roger’s Neighborhood debuted on National Education
Television, later called PBS. Ordained Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers had
been doing children’s shows similar in Pittsburgh and Canada since the 50’s but
today was the start of his show that would run unchanged for thirty-five years.
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