Birthdays: Elvis Presley would have been 86, Robert Schumann, Jose Ferrer, Shirley Bassey, Peter Arno, Yvette Mimieux, Larry Storch is 98, John Nierhardt, Bruce Sutter, Charles Osgood, Gen. James Longstreet, publisher Frank Doubleday, Saheed Jafray, Soupy Sales- born Milton Supman, David Bowie, Kim Jong Un, Steven Hawking.*
*In 1963, Doctors told 21 year old Steven Hawking he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and he had at most two years to live. He lived to be 77.
794AD- The great Christian monastery of Lindisfarne was sacked by Vikings.
1705- George Frederich Handel’s first opera Almira opened.
1889- Herman Hollerith received a patent for the electronic counting machine. The machine fed numbers onto punch cards and was used in the U.S. census of 1890. In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which later was renamed International Business Machines or IBM.
1904- Pope Pius X banned women wearing low cut dresses in front of clergy.
1962- The Mona Lisa traveled to America and went on display today at the National Gallery in Washington. It was loaned in a deal brokered by Jackie Kennedy and French cultural minister Andre Malreaux.
1973- Carly Simon got a gold record for "You’re So Vain".
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