Birthdays: The Great Elector
Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia, Henry Adams, Charles Taze Russell
founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Edgar Bergen, James Baskett, Sonny Bono,
John MacEnroe, Frank Welker, John Schlesinger, Faith Hubley, Katherine Cornell,
John Corligiano, Kim Jong Il, Levar Burton is 60, Ice-T is 59
1848- Frederic’ Chopin played his
last concert in Paris. Slowly dying from tuberculosis, the 48 year old retired
to the isle of Majorca, and died a year later.
1923- Bessie Smith made her first recording-"Downhearted
Blues".
1978- The first computer bulletin
board goes on live. Two guys from Chicago named Ward Christensen and Randy
Seuss built a Computerized Bulletin Board System that was an S-100 motherboard
and CP/M, and a Hayes 300 baud modem. It still runs to this day, but the
Internet has taken the place that BBS's used to have.
1987-"Family Dog"
episode on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories show. The first direction by Brad
Bird.
1994-
Apple announced the introduction of the digital camera, the first camera that
needed no film but could load images directly into a computer. Within ten years
Polaroid and Kodak were filing for bankruptcy.
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