Birthdays: Tamerlane, Lenin, Paul Robeson, Jean Paul
Belmondo, Ward Bond, Seve Balesteros,
Carl Perkins, Michael Learned, Tom Lehrer, Paula Poundstone, Cynthia Nixon,
Hugh Hefner is 91, Dennis Quaid is 63, Elle Fanning is 19
1914- The first all color film” The World, The Flesh and the
Devil” premiered in London.
1943- A U.S. Patents court concluded that Gulgielmo Marconi had
used several of Nichola Tesla’s patents to create Wireless Broadcasting. So in
effect, Tesla was the real inventor of radio broadcasting. Vindication came too
late. Marconi died a rich Nobel-Prize winner, and Tesla had died alone and
penniless.
1948- Variety columnist Ben Mortimer had been needling Frank
Sinatra for his advocacy of liberal causes. He accused Old Blue Eyes of
draft-dodging and hinted maybe he had pro-Communist sympathies. This day
Sinatra responded by meeting Mortimer in front of Ciro's restaurant on Sunset
Blvd and punched his lights out.
1953- The first issue of the T.V. Guide.
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