Birthdays: Roman Emperor Theodosius I, Alexander Hamilton, Gliere, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Harry Selfridge the London department store guy, Rod Taylor, David Wolper, Lyle Lovett, Ben Crenshaw, Naomi Judd, Joan Baez, Stanley Tucci, Disney animator Prez Romanillos, Amanda Peet is 47
1892- French impressionist painter Paul Gaughin, aged 46, married a 13 year old Tahitian girl named Tehura.
1963- A record was released in Britain called “Please, Please Me” recorded by a working class rock & roll band from Liverpool called The Beatles. It was their first major hit.
1964- U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry gave the first warnings against smoking.
1965- Whisky-A-Go-Go, the first Disco opened on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Discotecque is French for record library.An earlier Whisky had opened in Chicago. The LA Whisky a Go Go opened with a live band led by Johnny Rivers, featuring a mini-skirted female DJ spinning records between sets from a suspended cage at the right of the stage. That July, the DJ danced during Rivers' set. The audience thought it was part of the act and the concept of Go-Go dancers was born. Groovy!
1995- Warner Bros purchased a dozen metromedia television stations around the US and this day started them off as the WB Network.
1999- John Stewart became the anchor of the Daily Show on Comedy Central.
2004- Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg registered the domain name Facebook.com.
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