Birthdays: Euclid, Blaise Pascal, King James I Stuart, Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor, Moe Howard, Kathleen Turner, Lou Gehrig, Guy Lombardo, Mildred Natwick, Charles Coburn, Pat Butram, Louis Jourdan, Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Dame Mae Whitty, Lucie Sloane, Ang Sung Soo Chi, Paula Abdul is 59, Zoe Saldana is 43, Gena Rowlands
1619- THE OLD GLOBE THEATER FIRE. During a performance of William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, a prop cannon fired a salute that set afire the straw thatch on the roof. Soon the blaze consumed the old theater. Shakespeare, as a partner in the company that owned the Globe, paid to rebuild it. He soon retired home to Stratford. Fifty years later, during Cromwell’s Puritan rule, the Globe was pulled down because the Puritans frowned on theatrical entertainment as ungodly.
1865- HAPPY JUNETEETH- Although Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had declared all slaves free in 1863, and the Confederacy surrendered that April, it took this long for the entire country to admit it. Texas simply preferred not to tell any of their slaves about it. After the surrender, the Southern States were occupied and put under military rule. 12 weeks after Lee surrendered to Grant, Yankee Gen. Gordon Granger assumed command of the Dept. of Texas, and this day published GENERAL ORDER #3, that all slaves were finally, unconditionally, free. Black Texans celebrated this day every year as Juneteenth-Jubilee Day. White Texans refused to acknowledge the holiday until 1979. Juneteeth became a National Holiday just two days ago,
1889- Beginning of the Sherlock Holmes adventure, the Man with the Twisted Lip.
1921- Distributer Amadee van Beuren announced production of a new series of "Aesop’s Fables" cartoons to be done by former Bray director Paul Terry. Terrytoons studio is born.
1923 - "Moon Mullins," a Comic Strip, debuts.
1934-The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, created.
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invented. Originally called Cheery-Oats, it was changed to Cheerios in 1945.
1951- Devil May Hare, short by Bob McKimson, introduced the Tasmanian Devil.
1952 - "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.
1956- The comedy team of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis announce their breakup.
1960- Freedomland amusement park opened in the north Bronx, New York.
1963- The Ray Harryhausen fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts premiered.
1963- The Canadian Football Hall of Fame formed.
1973- The Rocky Horror Show stage show opened in London. The film version became a midnight cult classic. Writer Richard O’Brien himself played the bald doorman Riff-Raff. Let’s do the Time Warp Again.
1978 – Garfield the Cat, created by Jim Davis, 1st appeared as a comic strip.
1983- Don Bluth’s video arcade game Dragons Lair debuted.
1987 - Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce a new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. Jerry is gone, but Cherry Garcia rocks on.
1987 –David Geffen Records signed their 1st artist -Donna Summer.
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