Birthdays: Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV-1642, Frederic Opper the
cartoonist of Happy Hooligan, Phillip Freneau, Roger Miller, Issac Asimov,
Julius LaRosa, Tito Schipa, Renata Tebaldi, Tex Ritter, Dick Huemer, Cuba
Gooding Jr, is 48, Tia Carrere, Kate Bosworth is 33
1937- Hollywood actor Ross Alexander had hit on tough times.
He had been in a few movies like Captain Blood and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
but his career seemed to be stalled and he was deeply in debt. This day the 29
year old went into the barn behind his Valley ranch home and shot himself. The
Warner Bros. Studio looked around for a replacement to refill their roster of
male leads. They replaced Alexander with an Illinois college sportscaster named
“Dutch”- Ronald Reagan.
1975- In a letter to MITS, college kids Bill Gates and Paul
Allen offered their computer language BASIC for their new Altair personal
computer. They called themselves Micro-Soft.
1984- The Zenith Corporation announced it would stop selling
video recorders in Betamax format and go over wholly to VHS. Other electronics
giants followed suit and VHS won out over the higher quality Beta system.
2000- Larry Saunders had a
conversation with his friend Jimmy Wales about writing data entries for
collaborative websites called wikis. Saunders conceived of an open on-line
encyclopedia encompassing all knowledge. He called it Wikipedia.
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