Birthdays: Gouverner Morris, Zane Grey, James G. Blaine,
Franz Schubert, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sir John Profumo, Phillip Glass, Johnny
Rotten, Ernie Banks, Norman Mailer, Nolan Ryan, Susanne Pleshette, Anthony
LaPaglia, Tallulah Bankhead, Jean Simmons, Justin Timberlake is 35, Portia
DiRossi, Minnie Driver is 46, Carol Channing is 95.
Happy National Dress up in a Gorilla Suit Day. First
advocated by Don Martin, cartoonist for MAD Magazine.
1839- Englishman William Fox Talbot says Frenchman Louis
Daguerre is full of pate' when he announces he had invented photography
(1/7/39). Talbot declares HE invented it first.
Actually a Belgian priest experimenting with capturing light on
chemically treated glass or paper as early as 1817, Thomas Wedgewood in 1770 and Louis Niepce, with whom both Daguerre and Talbot were
familiar. While the principles of
capturing a shadow had been known for some time, no one had worked out how to
fix the image so earlier attempts faded away in a few hours. Niepce' work predates both Talbot and
Daguerre by about 10 years and constitute the earliest "photographic"
images still extant. But Talbot and Daguerre are considered the fathers of
Photography, provided you like history Anglais or a’ Francais.
1925- Scotch brand invisible tape introduced by the 3-M
Company.
1954- Howard Armstrong, the inventor of FM Radio, driven to
despair by constant lawsuits with RCA Corporation over his patents, jumped to
his death out of a hotel window. He first put on his hat, overcoat and gloves
because he didn't want to be cold...(?) Armstrong loved heights and used to
climb hundreds of feet in the air to meditate on top of his radio antennas. By
1977 his family won all the lawsuits. Today, most radio, television and air
traffic communications are by FM band.
1978- Polish director Roman Polanski fled the U.S. for exile
after being charged for having sex with a thirteen year old girl in Jack
Nicholson’s house.
1999- The first episode of Seth
McFarlane’s show Family Guy premiered.
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