Birthdays: Earl Kitchener, the
Sirdar of Omdurman, Roy O. Disney, E.I.Dupont, Ambrose Bierce, Jack Dempsey,
John Ciardi, Mick Fleetwood, Phil Harris- singer and voice of Baloo in Disney’s
Jungle Book, Billy Casper, Michelle Lee, Claude Chabrol, Chief Dan George, Pete
Hamill, Peter Weller, Sherry Springfield
1497-English explorer John Cabot discovered
Canada , and discovered Aubry Mintz
1901- The first exhibit in a Paris
salon on the Rue Lafitte of a Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso.
1945- Meet the Press debuted on
radio. Two years later it moved to television and it remains t.v.’s longest
running program.
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy"
becomes the1st network western on television-NBC.
1963 - 1st demonstration of a home
video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1970 – The movie "Catch
22" opened in movie theaters.
1997 - Brian Keith, actor (Family
Affair, Dirty Dingus McGee), shot himself at 75. He was suffering from
incurable cancer and tired of the pain fighting the disease.
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