Birthdays: Sir Robert Peel founder
of London’s police force- the Bobbies, outlaw Belle Starr, John Carradine,
William Burroughs, Arthur Ochs Schulzburger, Hank Aaron is 85, Tim Holt,
Barbera Hershey, Charlotte Rampling, Roger Staubach, Michael Mann is 75, Bobby
Brown, H. R. Giger, Red Buttons, Christopher Guest, Jennifer Jason Leigh is 57,
Laura Linney is 54, Michael Sheen is 49
1887- Verdi’s opera
"Otello" debuted. Guiseppi Verdi had retired from composing after
1875, but was goaded by a new generation of composers like Arrigo Boito to take
up his pen once more.
1916- Enrico Caruso recorded O
Solo Mio for the Victor Talking Machine Co.
1919- Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford,
Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith form the United Artists Studio.
1921- The Loews State Theater in
Chicago opened.
1922- The Reader’s Digest began
publication.
1937- Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times opened in theaters. Chaplin
was inspired to lampoon modern technological madness when he was invited to
view the auto assembly production lines in Detroit and saw men moving like
machines.
1944- British scientists at
Bletchley Park booted up the Colossus Mark I, a huge early computer used to
decode Hitler’s secret messages. Eleven more Colossus computers were built.
After the war all but one were destroyed with sledgehammers, and the scientists
put under a vow of secrecy for thirty years.
1952- New York City is the first
to adopt the three light traffic lights-red, yellow, green.
1953- Walt Disney’s "Peter
Pan" opened in theaters.
1956- Darryl Zanuck resigned from
20th Century Fox, the studio he built into a powerhouse. He later won back the
chairmanship in 1962 only to be ousted finally in 1970 by a consortium led by
his own wife and son.
1957- Mel Lazarus’ comic strip
Miss Peach debuted.
1970- TWA began 747 nonstop services
between New York and Los Angeles.
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