Birthdays: King Ludwig II the Mad of Bavaria, Leonard Bernstein,
Walt Kelly, Bret Hart, Lola Montez (flamenco dancing mistress of Ludwig I, King
of Bavaria), Alan Pinkerton, Elvis Costello is 61, Clara Bow, Ruby Keeler,
Monty Hall, Van Johnson, Willis Reed, Frederick Forsythe, Wayne Shorter, Billy
Ray Cyrus, Dr. Bruno Bettleheim, Rolly Fingers, Gene Simmons, Anne Archer, Tim
Burton is 57, Sean Connery is 85, Claudia Schiffer is 44
1830- This is the day of the
legendary race between the locomotive the Tom Thumb and a horse and buggy
outside of Baltimore. The Tom Thumb weighing in at about a ton and developing a
whopping one-horse power. The boiler driven fan broke down near the end, so the
horse won. Still, the train’s performance was so impressive that the first U.S.
railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio, shifted from horse drawn to steam railroad.
1970- A young British singer named
Elton John did his first US tour, opening at the Troubadour in LA.
1980- The premiere of the Broadway
musical version of the classic movie 42nd Street. In a moment of Broadway
melodrama producer David Merrick came out on stage and startled the cast and
audience by announcing that the director of the play Gower Champion had died
that very day. 42nd Street went on to be a smash hit. The play itself is about
a Broadway director who works himself to death creating a hit musical.
1989- The Voyager 2 probe left
Neptune and shot off into deep space after completing it reconnaissance of the
outer planets of our solar system. It discovered the rings of Jupiter and
Neptune, the additional moons of these planets, and the volcanoes of the Jovian
moon Io, and the ice of Europa. Today you have ten times more computing power
in your laptop than in the Voyager spacecraft, yet all these years later it
continues to transmit signals back to Earth. Voyager is currently in the
Heliosheath, outer border of our solar system.
1991- At the Emmy ceremony, comic
Gilbert Gottfried (AFLACK duck) upset the audience by a flood of masturbation
jokes about Pee Wee Herman. Fox Network apologized the next day.
2001-Beautiful 22 year old R&B
singer Alleiya was killed, when her overloaded charter plane crashed on the
island of Abaco in the Bahamas.
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