Birthdays: James Boswell, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Keats, Sir Edmund Halley, Louis Blanc, Fanny Brice, Joseph Goebbels, Zoot Sims, Winona Ryder, Jesse Barfield, Kate Jackson, Bill Mauldin, Akim Tamiroff, Rufus Sewell, Neal Hefti-composer of the theme song for TV shows like Batman and the Odd Couple. Richard Dreyfus is 73, Ralph Bakshi is 82, Dan Castellenata, the voice of Homer Simpson.
1796- The SS Otter out of Boston under Captain Ebeneezer Dorr entered Monterrey Bay, the first American visitor to Spanish Alta-California.
1923- The musical Running Wild opened on Broadway, introducing the dance craze the Charleston.
1957- Louis B. Mayer died. His last words were: "Nothing Matters..." The head of MGM Studios lorded over Hollywood like a monarch, made and broke moviestars, ordered Judy Garland fed a steady stream of narcotics and had his office redesigned all white to resemble Mussolini, whom he admired. Humphrey Bogart was at his funeral. When asked if he was close to Mayer, Bogie replied: Nah, I'm just here to make sure he's dead!
1959- Goscinny and Uderzo’s comic character Asterix first appeared in Pilote magazine.
1969- THE INTERNET- After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Defense Department asked the Rand Corporation to create a communication system that could survive Russian atomic bombs. They conceived of a “net” of computers all in communication with another around the world. Because there was no center, a bomb could not knock out the entire system. This day scientists in the basement of UCLA Boelter Hall relayed the first message to Stanford, 500 miles away.
They called it ARPANET- Advanced Research Projects Agency-NET, a few years later Internet. government made the Internet public and the gold rush was on.
1993- Tim Burton’s fantasy A Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick, opened across the US.
2012- Disney’s Wreck-it Ralph premiered.
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