Animation Fun Facts for Sept 2, 2020

History for 9/2/2020

Birthdays: Hawaiian Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, Yang Tsu Ching leader of the Taiping Rebellion, Cleveland Amory, Alfred Spaulding 1850, founder of Spaulding sports equipment, Martha Mitchell, Mark Harmon is 69, Marge Champion is 101, Terry Bradshaw, Chrysta McAuliffe, Jimmy Connors, Norm Ferguson, Selma Hayek is 53, Keanu Reeves is 56 

 

1897 – McCalls magazine first published. 

 

1924- Harold Lloyd’s comedy short "Why Worry?" released.

 

1931-Young new singer Bing Crosby sang for the first time on CBS radio.

 

1942- At the Changi POW Camp in Malaysia, Japanese authorities were having difficulty convincing their British prisoners to be slave labor to build the Bridge on the River Quai. At Selarang Barracks they herded 15,000 prisoners into a building only meant to house 1,000. In the morning the surviving prisoners agreed to work. Cartoonist Ronald Searle survived and was there to record the incident. 

 

1946- "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O’Neill premiered at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway.

 

1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes. CBS names a new reporter to star in their broadcast with the title "news anchor"- Walter Cronkite.

 

1973- J.R.R. Tolkein died at age 81. He once said of his trilogy The Lord of the Rings- “I should have written more.”

 

1985- A team of French and American oceanographers led by Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the final resting place of the HMS Titanic, which sank in 1912. 

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