Birthdays: Ulysses S. Grant, King
Edward IV, Samuel Morse, Mary Wollenstonecraft, Edward Gibbon, Anouk Aimee,
Sheena Easton, Sandy Dennis, Coretta Scott King, Kasey Kasem, Jack Klugman
1667- Blind poet John Milton sold
his masterpiece "Paradise Lost" to publisher Samuel Simmons for ten
pounds. Ten years earlier under Oliver Cromwell’s patronage Milton was getting
over a thousand pounds each for his poems
1970- THE FIRST ATM- Automatic
bank teller machine, opened at the Surety National Bank in downtown Los
Angeles.
1981- Ringo Starr married Barbera
Bach, his costar on the film 'Caveman'. UngaBunga!
1986- Reporter Geraldo Rivera
hosted a primetime TV special in an old Chicago Hotel that was once a
headquarters for gangster Al Capone. After wasting an hour speculating on
discovering buried treasure or mobster skeletons, they broke into a room sealed
since 1932. All they found were some old dusty bottles.
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