Birthdays: Sir Lawrence Olivier, Mary Cassatt, Richard Wagner, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, T. Bone Pickens, Judith Christ, Irene Pappas, Paul Winfield, Richard Benjamin, Susan Strassberg, George Baker, Paul Winchell, Tommy John, Naomi Cambell, Dr. Robert Moog –inventor of the first music synthesizer, Ginnifer Goodwin is 41
1915- The San Fernando Valley voted to become part of Los Angeles.
1925- First day of shooting on Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis.
1954- Bob Dylan’s Bar Mitzvah. Maseltov!
1955-The Golden Age of Radio ended when after 22 years the Jack Benny show was canceled. Once the top broadcast show in the nation, Benny went into television.
1966- Bill Cosby became the first African-American to win an Emmy Award for starring in a television series- I-Spy.
1967- T.V. children's show Mr. Roger's Neighborhood debuted.
1973- Scientist Bob Metcalfe of Xerox PARC patented the Ethernet.
1985- Top Disney animation director Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman, who directed the Jungle Book among other films, died in a car crash following lunch at the Smoke House in Burbank.
1992- The film Encino Man premiered, with Brendan Frazier and Pauly Shore.
2001- Ted Turner and Jane Fonda divorced.
2002-The Ayatollahs of Iran outlaw Barbie dolls. They denounce Barbie as "agents of subversive Zionist Western propaganda."
2004- The heir to the Spanish throne Prince Felipe of Asturias married a TV news anchorwoman. The first commoner in the Spanish Royal family.
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