Birthdays: Roman Emperor Theodosius I, Alexander Hamilton,
Gliere, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Harry Selfridge the London department store guy,
Rod Taylor, David Wolper, Lyle Lovett, Ben Crenshaw, Naomi Judd, Joan Baez, Stanley
Tucci, Disney animator Prez Romanillos, Amanda Peet is 44
1892- French impressionist painter Paul Gaughin, aged 46,
married a 13 year old Tahitian girl named Tehura.
1964- U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry gave the first
warnings against smoking.
1965- Whisky-A-Go-Go, the first Disco opened on the Sunset
Strip in Los Angeles. Discotecque is French for record library. An earlier
Whisky had opened in Chicago. The LA Whisky a Go Go opened with a live band led
by Johnny Rivers, featuring a mini-skirted female DJ spinning records between
sets from a suspended cage at the right of the stage. That July the DJ danced
during Rivers' set, the audience thought it was part of the act and the concept
of Go-Go dancers in cages was born. Groovy!
1995- Warner Bros purchased a dozen metromedia television
stations around the US and this day started them off as the WB Network.
1999- John Stewart became the anchor of the Daily Show on
Comedy Central.
2004- Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg registered the domain
name Facebook.com.
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