Birthdays: Will Rogers, Art Carney, Disney animator Ben
Sharpsteen, Loretta Swit, Martin Balsam, Gig Young, Darla Hood, Joe Neikro,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Ralph Maccio, Andrea McArdle, Walter Cronkite, Matthew
McConnaughy is 46, Laura Bush, Kathy Griffin is 55
1913- William Mulholland's great aqueduct starts bringing
water 200 miles from Northern California to L.A. by the force of gravity alone.
Without the extra water L.A. would never have grown any larger than 180,000
people. ( L.A. Times estimate.)
1918- Wilfred Owen, one of the greatest English poets of the
age, was killed in combat in World War I, only six days before the final cease
fire.
1952- UNIVAC, the first all electronic business computer,
accurately predicted Dwight Eisenhower would win in a landslide. The first
computer projected results for an election.
1955- In Arizona, Willie Bioff, former IATSE union official,
who tried to hijack the Hollywood unions (Including the Disney cartoonists) for
Frank Nitti's gang, turns the key in his Ford pickup and explodes. He had
turned informer and was in the Witness Protection plan.
1963- The Beatles are part of the Queens Royal Command
performance in London. John Lennon tells the audience: " Will the people
in the cheap seats clap their hands?, and if the rest of you would just rattle
your jewelry.."
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