Birthdays: Salmon P. Chase, Horatio Alger-1834, Sophie
Tucker, Gwen Verdon, Robert Stack, Charles Nelson Reilly, Rip Taylor, Brandon
Tartikoff, Julie Louise Dreyfus is 55, T. Bone Burnett is 68, Patrick Dempsey,
Orlando Bloom is 39
1906- The first ad for a radio appeared in an American
Science Magazine. It boasted an effective range of over one mile !
1910- Dr. Lee Deforest experimenting with his new radio
vacuum tubes broadcast singers from New York's Metropolitan Opera for the first
time. The regular Texaco 'Live from the Met' broadcasts wouldn't get going
until 1934.
1925- THE FIRST CALIFORNIA GURU- Indian spiritual teacher
Abrahamansa Yogananda , then called “The Swami” settled in Los Angeles and gave
his first lecture to an audience in LA Philharmonic Hall. He founded the Malibu
Self-Realization Center in 1950. It featured one shovel-full of ashes from the
funeral pyre of Mahatma Gandhi.
1930- The Mickey Mouse comic strip first appeared in US
newspapers. Walt Disney himself wrote them, Ub Iwerks penciled and Winn Smith
inked.
1943- Movie starlet Frances Farmer was dragged screaming in
a straightjacket out of a Hollywood Hotel and committed. She screamed Rats!
Rats! and listed her occupation on her arrest record as “c**ksucker”. Her
career was ruined and she spent years in asylums. But it’s inconclusive whether
she had actually suffered mental illness or it was her mother overreacting to
her sullen, temperamental nature.
1945- Sergei Prokoviev’s 5th Symphony (
Classical) premiered in Moscow.
1946- In his comic strip, Dick Tracy first uses his two-way
wrist radio.
1958- Actress Jayne Mansfield married weightlifter Mickey
Hargitay. Their daughter was Marisa Hargitay
1979- Russian animator Yuri Nortstein’s masterpiece Tale of
Tales premiered.
1985- Carol Wayne, an actress who played bimbo blonde roles
on shows like Johnny Carson, drowned while swimming in Mexico. She was 41.
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