Birthdays: Jacques Montgolfier,
Joseph Bonaparte- Napoleons older brother, St. Bernadette of Lourdes,
Revolutionary War General Israel Putnam, Francois Poulenc, Butterfly McQueen,
Adolph Zukor, Charles Adams, E.L. Doctorow, Jean Pierre Rampal, Millard Filmore,
Katie Couric, William Peter Blatty the author of Jaws, David Caruso, Nicholas
Cage- originally Nicolo Coppola, is 52
1894-" The Sneeze" The
first motion picture film to be copyrighted by Thomas Edison and his engineer
W.K.L. Dickson
1924- George Gershwin completed
his Rhapsody for Piano and Jazz Orchestra, popularly called the Rhapsody in
Blue. Ira Gershwin came up with the name after seeing a museum show of Whistler
paintings with names like "Composition in Grey, Nocturne in Green,"
etc.
1926- George Burns married Gracie
Allen.
1929-With the approval of Edgar
Rice Burroughs, artist Hal Foster began drawing the Tarzan comic strip.
1934 –The First Buck Rogers
adventures.
1943- Walt Disney released the
propaganda short The Spirit of ’43, commissioned by the Treasury Dept. Donald
Duck explained that the best way to win the war was to pay your taxes!
1966- A hippie group from what
would become Silicon Valley, called the Grateful Dead, got their first gig
playing a club called the Matrix. They would be one of the most successful rock
bands in history, only breaking up after the death of their leader, Jerry
Garcia in 1995.
2015- CHARLIE HEBDO- In Paris,
Muslim extremists shot up the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
for making disrespectful cartoons of the prophet Mohammad. 12 people were
murdered, including the editor and four of France’s most loved cartoonists. Their editor in chief Stephane “Charb”
Charbonnier, when he saw the gun pointed at him, stood and defiantly gave his
killer the finger before being shot.
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