Birthdays: Mary Harris a.k.a. Mother Jones, Marshal Vauban 1633, Benjamin Latrobe, Calamity Jane, Joseph Addison, Kate Smith, Jack Paar, Joseph Heller, Rita Coolidge, Steve Cauthen, Judy Collins, Glen Ford, Ray Parker Jr., Maurice Noble, Fyodor Khytruk, Louis Nye, John Woo, Wes Anderson is 49, Joanna Lumley is 72, Eric Goldberg is 63.
1902- Richard Outcault's comic strip Buster Brown and Tige first appeared. Outcault, the creator of the first hit cartoon the Yellow Kid was so famous that as part of his deal to do this strip he negotiated the first back-end deal for a percentage of the merchandise sales.
1939- Detective Comics # 27, the first Batman, created by Bob Kane, appeared on newsstands.
1941- Orson Welles film "Citizen Kane" debuted at the Paramount theater (the El Capitan) in Hollywood. At the last minute William Randolph Hearst's friend Louis B. Mayer tried to buy and destroy every print of the film and the Hearst press went crazy attacking it. Hearst spokesperson Louella Parsons threatened "A Beautiful Lawsuit" if the film was not pulled. Despite winning some Oscars the film didn't do well in it's initial release, but it remains one of the greatest films of all time. Welles said later:" The problem I've always had is my movies become classics ten years later."
1964- Scientist John Kemeny at Dartmouth created the computer language BASIC.
1967- Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas.
1989- Walt Disney Feature Animation in Orlando Florida opened. It closed in 2006.
1993- The Florida Animation Union Local 843 chartered.
1997- Frank Gifford, ABC television sportscaster and husband of morning show celebrity Kathy Lee Gifford, was caught on videotape doing the nasty with stewardess Suzie Johnson. She got paid by a tabloid and posed nude for Playboy.
1997- Bebe, the dolphin who played Flipper on the television show, died at age 40.
1999- Spongebob Squarepants premiered on Nickelodeon.
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