Birthdays: William Shakespeare,
James Buchanan, Sergei Prokoviev, J.M.W. Turner, Vladimir Nabokov, Senator Stephen
Douglas the Little Giant, Shirley Temple, Roy Orbison, Halston, Sandra Dee, Valerie
Bertinelli, Lee Majors is 74, Judy Davis, Simone Simon, Michael Sporn, Tony
Esposito, Michael Moore is 61, Herve Villechaise
1867- William Lincoln patents the
zoetrope, an optical toy predating motion pictures..
1896-THE FIRST PROJECTED MOVIES IN
THE U.S.- The first projection of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope film by means of
Thomas Armat’s Vitascope at Koster & Bials Music Hall on 28th street and
Broadway in New York City. Edison had to be nagged into this by his engineer
W.K.L. Dickson. Edison thought projecting movies like the Lumiere Brothers were
doing in Europe would never catch on and the future of film was nickelodeon
machines. The movie show featured the
sultry Annabella the Dancer and a boxing match, but the real hit of the evening
was footage of Waves Hitting the Rocks on Shore, which made people
instinctively duck to keep from getting wet.
1951- Comedian Lenny Bruce was
arrested for a stunt where he dressed as a priest and solicited funds in a
leper colony.
1998- Microsoft chairman Bill
Gates introduced Windows 98 to a 4,000 industry leaders. When he ceremonially
opened the first window, the system crashed-.Doh!
2005- The first You-Tube video was
uploaded- Me At the Zoo.
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