Birthdays: Niccolo Macchiavelli, Bing
Crosby, Golda Meir, Sir Richard D'Oly-Carte, Peter Gabriel, James Brown, Pete
Seeger, Betty Comden, Doug Henning, Beaulah Bondi, Mary Astor, Sugar Ray
Robinson, Alex Cord, 70’s singer Englebert Humperdinck, Dule Hill
1888- Poem "Casey at the
Bat" published.
1933- Fritz Lang’s movie M
released in the US. It made a star of Peter Lorre.
1948-THE PARAMOUNT DECISION- In
1938 the independent theater chains had brought suit in Federal court against
the major Hollywood Studios over their monopolistic practices. Ten years later
the Supreme Court ruled the Motion Picture Studios did constitute a monopoly
and under the Sherman AntiTrust Act ordered them to sell their theater chains.
One casualty of this rule was the short cartoon. Because theater managers no
longer were forced to run a cartoon, newsreel and short with a feature
(block-booking), they opted for the time to run more showings of the main
feature.
1969- Groundbreaking in Valencia
for the California Institute of the Arts.
1971- National Public Radio’s news
program "All Things Considered" goes on the air, the first national
news program with women news anchors like Susan Stanberg.
1978- THE FIRST SPAM E-MAIL- Gary
Thuerk, a marketing manager for Digital Equipment Corp wanted to invite all the
scientists and professors on the ARPANET system to an event. It was too much
work to do one e-mail at a time, so he devised a way to mail 600 people at
once. So thank Gary that you get endless messages like "Nigerian Bank
Trustee offers you $10 million."
1991- Steve Jobs agrees to the
deal between Walt Disney and Pixar to create the film Toy Story.
1997- The Chairman of Phillip
Morris Tobacco Company tells a congressional committee cigarettes are no more
addictive than Gummy Bears candy. -Uh-huh.
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