Birthdays: Caligula 12AD*, Commodus 161AD**, Amilcare
Ponchielli, Eldridge Cleaver, Buddy Hackett, James Coburn, Itshak Perleman is 70,
Van Morrison, Arthur Godfrey, Richard Baseheart, Rocky Marciano. Alan J.
Lerner, Hugh Harman,, Maria Montressori (of the Montressori Method of
education), William Saroyan, Richard Gere is 66, Chris Tucker is 43.
1887- Thomas Edison patented the plans for a Kinetoscope,
his original version of Motion Pictures using George Eastmans new celluloid
roll film. Most of the actual work was done by Canadian scientist W.K.L.
Dickson. He drove himself sick designing, building and improving the device as
well as the camera and studio, but Edison took all the credit. Edison wrote
Edweard Muybridge at the time that he doubted the Kinetoscope would have much
commercial value beyond the science lab.
1920 -Detroit radio station is 1st
to broadcast a news program on the air.
1935- Disney cartoon Plutos’ Judgement Day.
1938- Walt Disney puts ten thousand down to buy 51 acres on
Buena Vista Street in Burbank. He will build his modern studio there.
1941 –The Great Gildersleeve, a
spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC radio. The voice of Gildersleeve later narrated the
UPA cartoon Gerald McBoing Boing.
1946- Looney Toon short 'Walky Talky Hawky' the first
Foghorn Leghorn. The character was based on a Fred Allen radio character
Senator Clayton Langhorn, that mocked bombastic Southern conservative congressmen.
1948- Disney's 'Melody Time' premiered.
1948- Movie star Robert Mitchum was busted for smoking pot
with a blonde in the Hollywood Hills. This would have normally smoked his
career but the new postwar outlaw, noir attitude was in vogue. So bad-boy
Mitchum emerged from county jail more popular than ever. When asked what he thought
of being in jail, he said it's not much different than being free....but you
meet a better clientele of people IN jail.
2001- The NY Stock Exchange
tries to avoid a Recession and bolster growth, by getting Michael Jackson and
Jerry Lewis to ceremonially open trading sessions. Didn’t work.
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