Animation Fun Facts for Dec 9, 2020

Birthdays: Sappho, John Milton, Jean De Brunhoff, Emil Waldteufel the composer of the Skaters Waltz, Admiral Grace Hopper 1906 who wrote the earliest computer language, Hermoinie Gingold, Dalton Trumbo, John Cassavettes, Broderick Crawford, Dick Butkus, Red Foxx, Cesar Franck, John Malkovich is 67, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Buck Henry, Felicity Huffman, Mario Cantone, Judy Dench is 86, Kirk Douglas

 

1641- Famed Flemish portrait artist Sir Anthony van Dyck died of a fever at his home in Blackfriars, London. He was 42. 

 

1854- Albert Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" published.

 

1889- The Chicago Auditorium dedicated. The landmark building’s architect Louis 

Sullivan had hired a new assistant to help with the drawings-Frank Lloyd Wright.

 

1905- Richard Strauss’s opera Salome premiered in Dresden. e. 

 

1907- the first Christmas Seals go on sale to fight tuberculosis.

 

1931- Disney short Mickey’s Orphans debuted.

 

1936- The first cookery show appeared on British television.

 

1946- Damon Runyon died, the writer whose characters the musical "Guys and 

Dolls' are based. His philosophy:  "All life is six to five against."

 

1948- Actor Ossie Davis married actress Ruby Dee.

 

1960- Coronation Street premiered on British ITV.

 

1964- John Coltrane recorded his landmark jazz album “A Love Supreme”. Late on 

foggy nights Trane liked to take his saxophone out onto the middle of San Francisco’s 

Golden Gate Bridge in the night fog, and practice by himself.  

 

1965- Bill Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" the first half hour animated TV special featuring the music of Vince Guaraldi.  

 

1967- At a Doors concert lead singer Jim Morrison was sprayed with mace and arrested

by Miami police for “lewd behavior” on stage, but probably more for referring to

the cops as pigs.

 

1968- The MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS- In San Francisco, Dr Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the first computer workstation. He showed how people would use hot keys, a printer and scanner, cut and paste text. And he had a simple internet hookup to another station at Stanford U, 120 miles away.  

 

1994- Disney Animators in California move into their new Animation building designed

by Robert Stern.

 

2004- Mia Hamm and the stars of the Women’s National Soccer Team played their last

game, defeating Mexico 5-0. 

 

2340- Mr Worf, the Klingon officer of Star Trek Next Generation was born.