Birthdays:
Queen Isabella I of Castille, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, Immanuel Kant, Madame De
Stael, Alexander Kerensky, Aaron Spelling, Eddie Albert, Glen Cambell, Betty
Page, Marilyn Chambers, Charlie Mingus, Peter Frampton, John Waters is 71, Jack
Nicholson is 80
1741- Georg Frederich Handel
dipped his quill into ink and began to write the Messiah.
1940- Writer Ernest Hemingway
cabled his editor Max Perkins from Havana about a new novel he was writing.-" Title is "For Whom the Bell
Tolls" from passage John Donne Oxford Book of English bottom page seventy
one STOP Please register immediately."
1952- The first nuclear bomb test
shown on network TV -Tommy Turtle says duck and cover!
1964- The opening day of the New
York World’s Fair. It was in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens, built on the site
of the 1939 Worlds Fair.
1970- The first Earth Day. The
idea was started by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin "The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration
of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political
establishment out of its lethargy," Senator Nelson said, "and,
finally, force this issue permanently onto the national political agenda."
1972- Magnavox announced the
Magnavox Odyssey. Created by Ralph Baer in his spare time, it was the first
home videogame console.
1978- Comic actors Dan Ackroyd and
John Belushi debut two new characters on the Saturday Night Live TV show,
Joliet Jake and Ellwood Blues. The Blues Brothers are born.
1996- Christopher Robin Milne dies
at age 75. The young boy who’s fascination with a bear in the London Zoo called
Winnie inspired his father A.A. Milne to write the Winne the Pooh stories.
Christopher Robin wasn’t always appreciative of all the attention. He said of
his father: "Someday I’ll write some
verses about him and see how He likes it!"
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