Birthdays: Dizzy Gillespie, Whitey Ford, Alfred Nobel,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Blair, Carrie Fisher, Patty Davis (Reagan's
daughter), Benjamin Netanyahu, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Manfred Mann, Sir Georg
Solti, Angus McFadyen, Ken Watanabe is 58, Kim Kardasian is 37.
1879- Thomas Edison announced the invention of the Light
Bulb. After experimenting with dozens of different type filaments in a vacuum
Thomas Edison perfected the light bulb with carbonized cotton. He and his crew
stared at the glowing bulb for 40 hours to make sure it was really worked.
1932- The film Red Dust premiered. It made stars out of
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow.
1956- The last trolley cars in Flatbush Brooklyn shut down.
1959- Six months after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright his
last creation the Guggenheim Museum in New York City opened.
1969- Beat Generation author of On the Road- Jacques Kerouac died of
alcoholism and stomach bleeding, a pencil and pad on his lap. He grew bitter
about how his call for youth rebellion had been reinterpreted by the 60's
generation as hippies and flower power. When he came upon a gathering of kids
at an anti-war rally distributing American flags to burn, Kerouac collected
them all and folded them neatly.
1972- Curtis Mayfield’s soundtrack theme to the movie “Superfly” debuted at Number #1 in the
Billboard charts.
2015-
According to Robert Zemeckis 1989 film Back
to the Future II, all the events Marty McFly and Doc Brown experience in
the future occur on this date. Got your hoverboard, yet?
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