Birthdays: Earl Kitchener, the Sirdar of Omdurman, Roy O. Disney, E.I.Dupont, Ambrose Bierce, Jack Dempsey, John Ciardi, Mick Fleetwood, Phil Harris- singer and voice of Baloo in Disney’s Jungle Book, Billy Casper, Michelle Lee, Claude Chabrol, Chief Dan George, Pete Hamill, Peter Weller, Sherry Springfield
1901- The first exhibit in a Paris salon on the Rue Lafitte of a Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso.
1945- Meet the Press debuted on radio. Two years later it moved to television and it remains t.v.’s longest running program.
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes the1st network western on television-NBC.
1963 - 1st demonstration of a home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1970 – The movie "Catch 22" opened in movie theaters.
1997 - Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair, Dirty Dingus McGee), shot himself at 75. He was suffering from incurable cancer and tired of the pain fighting the disease.
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