Birthdays: Richard Pryor, Mary
Martin, Cyril Ritchard, Dick Shawn, , Lee Trevino, Charlene Tilton, Lou Rawls,
Marshal Gyorgi Zhukov, Admiral Stansfield Turner, Rex Stout the author of Nero
Wolfe, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, Treat Williams,
Woody Allen is 80, Bette Midler is 70, Sarah Silverman is 45
1835- Hans Christian Andersen
published his first book of fairy tales.
1879- Gilbert & Sullivan’s
comic opera HMS Pinafore opened. Sullivan conducted the orchestra while Gilbert
was a chorister. “So Stick to your desk and never go to sea, and you will be
the leader of the Queen’s Navy..”
1887- The first Sherlock Holmes
mystery by Arthur Conan-Doyle "A Study in Scarlet" first published in
Beatty’s Christmas Gazette.
1938- In Moscow legendary
filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein released his film of Russian patriotism ALEXANDER
NEVSKY, with soundtrack provided by Sergei Prokoviev.
1944- Bela Bartok’s Concerto for
Orchestra premiered by the Boston Symphony and Serge Kousevitsky.
1951- MIT scientists booted up
Project Whirlwind, the TX-0 Computer. Called the Tixo, it was as large as a bus
and was the first computer that could do more than one program at a time. It
also had the first computer screen and first light pen. It calculated
everything from synchronizing the gunfire of battleships to how much icing to
put in an Oreo cookie.
The TX-2 was used to write the
first animation program Sketchpad, and the first interactive game Spacewar,
both in 1962.
1953- Ex- Esquire magazine art
director and frustrated cartoonist Hugh Hefner published the first issue of
Playboy Magazine. It featured a nude centerfold of actress Marilyn Monroe. She
joked to the press “ I had nothing on but the radio!” Hefner assembled the
layout of the magazine on his kitchen table and borrowed money from his
mother-in-law to pay for the printing. The first Playboy had no number or date,
because Hef was certain he couldn’t afford to make an issue number two.
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