Birthdays: Marcus Whitman the missionary who led US settlement of Oregon, Howard Morris, Darius Mihlaud, Anton Bruckner, Chateaubriand, Craig Claiborne, Dick York, Richard Wright, Mary Renault, Mitzi Gaynor, Computer AI pioneer John McCarthy, Damon Wayans is 60, Paul Harvey, Beyonce’ Knowles is 39
1888- George Eastman patents the roll film camera. The word "Kodak" is supposedly the sound the shutter made. Another story on the origin of the word was that George wanted a word pronounced the same in all known dialects. So after some research (Rochester lore has it that he did all of this himself) he concluded that only k and x qualified as sounds uttered the same way in all languages. Thus Eastman Kodak.
1893- Writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter sent a letter to a sick child: " I don't know what to write you, so I shall tell you the story of four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter." The Peter Cottontail stories born.
1918- Someone threw a bomb into the Adams St Entrance of the Chicago Federal building. At first it was thought the bomber was a radical anarchist or German agent. But it turned out to be a local gangster. The blast killed 4 people and 75 were injured. One person who just missed the explosion was a part time mail carrier named Walt Disney. Walt later said, “I missed the explosion by three minutes. “
1934- Young actress-filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was contracted by the German Propaganda Ministry to film the 1934 Nazis Party Congress to be held in Nuremburg. While they were expecting a routine documentary, Riefenstahl instead created the film The Triumph of the Will, who’s darkly hypnotic images made film history.
1936- The musical Swing Time opened. Considered by critics one of the best pairings of the dance team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
1940- The Columbia Broadcast Service or CBS network started up their first television station.
1982- the single “Valley Girl” by Frank Zappas daughter Moon Unit Zappa became a hit.
1985- Australian press baron Rupert Murdoch became a U.S. citizen so he could build the Fox television and movie networks. US regulations forbade foreign ownership of broadcasting stations so Rupert didn’t fuss about what country he was a citizen of.
1986- Aardman Animation studio founded.
1993- Herb Villechaise, the little person who began the show Fantasy Island with the announcement:” Da PLANE! Da PLANE!’ committed suicide with a shotgun.
2002- Kelly Clarkson won the first American Idol contest.
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