Birthdays: Thomas Gainsborough, George Lucas is 76, Thomas Wedgewood, Francesca Annis, David Byrne, Jack Bruce, Bobby Darin, Tim Roth is 59, Robert Zemeckis is 69, Kate Blanchett is 51
1842 - 1st edition of London Illustrated News.
1878- Vaseline petroleum jelly patented.
1942- Walt Disney composer Frank Churchill, who wrote "Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf", shot himself at his piano at home. He was 40.
1944- In the comic strip Dick Tracy, the longtime Tracy nemesis Flattop Jones was killed.
1951 - Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC. Kovacs was a great pioneer in the video medium who loved creating surreal images and pantomime blackout skits.
1955- Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park Cal, today’s Silicon Valley, was founded by peace activist Roy Kepler. Keplers’ books was a hangout for Stanford computer scientists, Hippies, and creators of the Whole Earth Catalog. The Grateful Dead and Joan Baez played there, Prof Douglas Englebart the inventor of the computer mouse, would pop in for coffee, and kids like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would ride their bikes over to check out the new computer books.
1976- Keith Relf of the rock group the Yardbirds, was electrocuted while playing his guitar in his bathtub.
1968 - Beatles announce formation of Apple Records.
1998 - Last episode of sitcom Seinfeld on NBC (commercial fees were $2M for 30 seconds) Elderly singer Frank Sinatra died shortly after watching it.
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