Birthdays: King Phillip V of Spain
(1683), Edith Piaf, Edwin Stanton, Thomas 'Tip' O'Neil, Cicely Tyson, Sir Ralph
Richardson, Robert Urich, Robert Sherman, Jennifer Beals is 54, David Susskind,
Fritz Reiner, Mel Shaw, Alyssa Milano is 45, Jake Gyllenhaal is 37
1914- Earl Hurd patented animation
'cels' (celluloids) and backgrounds. Before this cartoonists tried drawing the
background settings over and over again hundreds of times or slashed the paper
around the character and tried not to have it walk in front of anything. By the
late 1990’s, most cels & cel paint were replaced by digital imaging.
1918- Robert Ripley began his
"Believe It Or Not" column in the New York Globe.
1932- BBC Overseas Service Radio
broadcasts begin.
1957- The musical ‘The Music Man’
starring Robert Preston first debuted. "Seventy Six Trom-bones in the Big
Parade…"
1958- First airing of the
Disneyland TV holiday special “ From All of Us, to All of You.”
1971- Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A
Clockwork Orange’ premiered. Based on a novel by Anthony Burgess. In America
the film received an X Rating, more for the violence than the sexual situations.
The sensation over the film caused so many incidents of urban violence, that
with Kubrick’s permission, it was banned in England for three decades.
1974- The first personal computer
went on sale. The Altair 8800, named for the planet in the 1955 sci-fi movie
classic Forbidden Planet. The computer came in a kit that you had to build and
it cost $397. The next year, two kids at Harvard named Bill Gates and Paul Allen
created a programming language for it called BASIC.
1997- MTV dropped airing the rap
song Smack My Bitch Up, by Prodigy.
2001-
Peter Jackson’s film ‘The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring’ first
opened.
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