Birthdays: Armelita
Galli-Curci, Karl Maria Von Weber, W.S. Gilbert, Johnny Mercer,
Astronaut Alan
Shepard, Louis Daguerre, Brenda Vaccarro, Eugene Ormandy, George Gallup, Warren
Moon, Pam Dawber, Rocket Ishmail, Delroy Lindo, Kevin Nealon, Owen Wilson is 50,
Chloe Servigny is 44
1718- Francois
Voltaire’s first play Oedipe, premiered in Paris.
1865 Mark Twain's
first story "The Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County' published.
1902-
THE TEDDY BEAR BORN-The Washington Evening Star published a story of how
President Teddy Roosevelt while hunting couldn't bring himself to shoot a
grizzly bear cub. Cartoonist Cliff Berryman illustrated the incident with one
of his signature “dingbat” bear cubs in a gesture of “oh no!” Brooklyn toymaker Morris Mitchcom
sewed a doll from the illustration in the newspaper and sent the first one to
the White House.
1928- HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MICKEY MOUSE- At Universal’s Colony Theater in New York, Walt Disney’s cartoon
"Steamboat Willie" debuted
before a movie called Gang War. The
first major sound cartoon success and the official birth of Mickey Mouse. Two
earlier silent Mickey's had been done, but when Walt saw Jolson speak in the
Jazz Singer, he held those two back so the sound experiment could go ahead.
1970- At the
Lakeside School in Seattle, a young kid named Bill Gates was first shown computer
programming.
1985- Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin
& Hobbs debuted.
1988- Disney’s Oliver &
Company released.
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