Birthdays: Frank Sinatra, Roman Emperor Alexander Severus,
Edvard Munch, Gustav Flaubert, Auguste Rodin, Cherokee Confederate General
Stand Watie, John Jay, Edward G. Robinson, Field Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt-the
Black Knight of Germany, NY Mayor Ed Koch, Zack Mosley –the cartoonist who drew
“Smilin' Jack", Connie Francis, Dionne Warwick, Cathy Rigby, Tracy Austin,
Bill Nighy is 66, Tom Wilkerson is 68, Jennifer Connelly is 46
1897-The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip by Rudolph Dirks
appears. The first comic where characters spoke in word balloons. The
adventures of Hans & Fritz was so popular a rival Hearst newspaper started
an imitation called the Captain & the Kids, leading to the first artistic
plagiarism lawsuit.
1901-First transatlantic wireless signal sent by Guglielmo
Marconi. This finally ended the frustrating hoopla over laying transatlantic
telegraph cables and have them break down almost constantly since the 1850s.
The pioneers of radio broadcasting like Armstrong, Lee Deforest and David
Sarnoff got their start working for the Marconi Wireless Company. Recent
scholarship puts forward that Nikola Tesla may have preceded Marconi with the
concept.
1952- The first Screen Actors Guild Strike. President Walter
Pidgeon -Dr. Morbius in Forbidden Planet- had the movie stars hit the bricks to
win television and commercial residuals. The final deals were settled by then
SAG president Ronald Reagan in 1960. Ronnie compromised with the studio heads
(many who later backed his bid for the governorship of California) that only
residuals for films released after 1955 would be paid.
Actors who made their big hits in the 30's and 40s like
Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and The Little Rascals were left out.
Mickey Rooney, who's Andy Hardy movies were the box office champs of the
mid-1940's put it mildly: "Reagan screwed me !!"
1980- The song “Whip It” by Devo won a gold record.
1991- Actor Richard Gere married supermodel Cindy Crawford.
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