Birthdays: Thomas Gainsborough,
George Lucas is 73, Thomas Wedgewood, Francesca Annis, David Byrne, Jack Bruce,
Bobby Darin, Tim Roth is 56, Robert Zemeckis is 66, Kate Blanchett is 48
1842 - 1st edition of London
Illustrated News
1942- Disney composer Frank
Churchill, who wrote "Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf", shot himself
at the piano. Another version of the story had him shooting himself in an onion
field in Valencia that would one day be the site of Cal Arts.
1944- In the comic strip Dick
Tracy, the longtime Tracy nemesis the gangster Flattop was killed.
1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV
Variety debut on NBC. Kovacs was a great pioneer in the video medium who loved
creating surreal images and pantomime blackout skits.
1955- Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park
Cal, today’s Silicon Valley, was founded by peace activist Roy Kepler. Keplers’
books was a hangout for Stanford computer scientists, Hippies, and creators of
the Whole Earth Catalog. The Grateful Dead and Joan Baez played there, Prof
Douglas Englebart the inventor of the computer mouse, would pop in for coffee,
and kids like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would ride their bikes over to check
out the new computer books.
1976- Keith Relf of the rock group
the Yardbirds, was electrocuted while playing his guitar in his bathtub.
1968 - Beatles announce formation
of Apple Records.
1998 -
Last episode of sitcom Seinfeld on NBC (commercial fees were $2M for 30
seconds) Elderly singer Frank Sinatra died shortly after watching it.
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