Birthdays: Earl Kitchener, the Sirdar of Omdurman, Roy O. Disney, E.I. Dupont, Ambrose Bierce, Jack Dempsey, John Ciardi, Mick Fleetwood, Phil Harris- singer and voice of Baloo in Disney’s Jungle Book, Billy Casper, Michelle Lee, Claude Chabrol, Chief Dan George, Pete Hamill, Peter Weller, Sherry Springfield
1901- The first exhibit in a Paris salon on the Rue Lafitte of a Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso.
1945- Meet the Press debuted on radio. Two years later it moved to television and it remains TV’s longest running program.
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes the1st network western on television-NBC.
1963 - 1st demonstration of a home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1970 – The Mike Nichols movie "Catch 22" opened in movie theaters.
1997- Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair, The Parent Trap), shot himself at 75. He was suffering from incurable emphysema and lung cancer and tired of fighting the disease.
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