Birthdays: Euclid, Blaise Pascal, King James I Stuart, Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor, Moe Howard, Kathleen Turner, Lou Gehrig, Guy Lombardo, Mildred Natwick, Charles Coburn, Pat Butram, Louis Jourdan, Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Dame Mae Whitty, Lucie Sloane, Ang Sung Soo Chi, Paula Abdul is 58, Zoe Saldana is 42, Gena Rowlands
1865- Happy Juneteenth- Abe Lincoln’s emissaries finally reached Texas with news of the Emancipation of the slaves. Black Texans celebrate this day thereafter as Juneteenth-Independence Day, although white Texans refused to acknowledge the holiday until 1979.
1889- Beginning of the Sherlock Holmes adventure, the Man with the Twisted Lip.
1921- Distributer Amadee van Beuren announced production of a new series of "Aesop’s Fables" cartoons to be done by former Bray director Paul Terry. Terrytoons studio is born.
1923 - "Moon Mullins," a Comic Strip, debuts.
1934-The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, created.
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invented. Originally called Cheery-Oats, it was changed to Cheerios in 1945.
1952 - "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.
1956- The comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis announce their breakup.
1960- Freedomland amusement park opened in New York City.
1963- The Ray Harryhausen fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts premiered.
1973 The Rocky Horror Show stage show opened in London. The film version became a midnight cult classic. Writer Richard O’Brien himself played the bald doorman Riff-Raff. Let’s do the Time Warp Again.
1978 – Garfield the Cat, created by Jim Davis, 1st appeared as a comic strip.
1983- Don Bluth’s video arcade game Dragons Lair debuted.
1987 - Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce a new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia.
1987 –David Geffen Records signed their 1st artist -Donna Summer.
1998- Disney’s Mulan premiered.
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