Birthdays: Issac Bashevis Singer, Frederick Maytag, inventor of the electronic washing machine-1857, Emiline Pankhurst, Woody Guthrie, Gerald Ford, Ingmar Bergman, Jerry Rubin, Scott Rudin, Rosie Grier, Harry Dean Stanton, Polly Bergen, Gustav Klimt, Terry Thomas, Jimmy Hoffa, Dave Fleischer, Bill Hanna, Walt Stanchfield, Joel Silver, Vincent (Big Pussy) Pastore
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1908- The Adventures of Dollie premiered, the first movie of D.W. Griffith.
1917- Buster Keaton made his film debut in the Fatty Arbuckle comedy The Butcher Boy.
1933- Well Blow Me Down!- Max Fleischer's first "Popeye the Sailor" cartoon debuted. The character was first created by Elzie Segar for his Thimble Theater comic strip. Vaudvillian Red Pepper Sam provided his salty mumbles throughout the post-sync track. When Sam asked for more money than Max Fleischer thought he was worth, he replaced him with assistant animator Jack Mercer, who was the voice ever after.
1944- T.S. Elliott, then working for the London publisher Faber & Faber, wrote George Orwell a letter rejecting the manuscript of his book “Animal Farm” for publication. He said although the writing style was good and the most intriguing use of allegory since Swift’s Gulliver, its politics were too Trotskyite to be representative of their company. Orwell found another publisher.
1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
1951 - 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 –Triple Crown Winner Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races.\
1967 - The new band called The Who began a US tour as the opening act for Herman’s Hermits.
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1969- The movie Easy Rider premiered.
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