B-Dazes: Jean de LaFontaine, John
D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Kathe Kollwitz, Count Ferdinand Von
Zeppelin, Louis Jordan, Billy Eckstine, Steve Lawrence, Percy Grainger, Cynthia
Gregory, Phillip Johnson, Kim Darby, Marty Feldman, Roone Arledge, Kevin Bacon
is 59, Billy Crudup, Elizabeth
Kubler-Ross, Angelica Huston, Raffi , Jeffrey Tambor is 73
1881- Ed Berners of Wisconsin
invented the Ice Cream Sundae.
1907-The First Ziegfield Follies,
staged on the roof of the New York Theater, now called the New Amsterdam
Theater.
1911- Burbank incorporated as a
city.
1918- A young American ambulance
driver serving in Italy during the First World War gets badly wounded by
shrapnel fire. His name was Ernest Hemingway. His long recovery and love affair
with his nurse he later worked into his novel "A Farewell To Arms".
1922- Horn player Louis Armstrong
left his hometown of New Orleans to go to Chicago and play in King Oliver’s
Jazz band.
1932- Tod Brownings disturbing
movie "Freaks" about a family of circus sideshow performers,
premiered. One of Us, One of Us!
1982- Walt Disney's TRON- the
first film featuring computer graphics premiered. It only was about 20
minutes of actual CGI, and the computer images were still printed onto
traditional animation cells and painted, but it was still a significant
achievement. Remember
in 1981 there were no off the shelf graphics
software. The big deal at the time was that MAGI had just solved the
"hidden Line" problem.
1998- An original 1477 William
Caxton copy of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
became the world's most expensive
book when it was sold for £4,621,500 to
billionaire
oil heir Paul Getty.
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