Birthdays: Emma Lazarus, Eduard Hopper, Gregor Mendel, Alexander Calder, James Whale, Oscar De La Renta, Rose Kennedy, Vaughn Bode, Stephen Vincent Benet, Jason Robards, Bob Dole, David Spade is 58, Terence Stamp is 84, Danny Glover is 76, Alex Trebek, Bobby Sherman, Don Henley, Alan Mencken, Irene Bedard, William Dafoe is 66, John Leguizamo, Selena Gomez, Albert Brooks is 75- real name Albert Einstein, a nice name, but already taken.
1598- William Shakespeare lists on the Stationers Register, a sort of copyright service, his new play The Merchant of Venice.
1893 –In Colorado, Katharine L. Bates wrote the song "America the Beautiful".
1921- Artist Man Ray arrived in Paris determined to go Dada!
1958- Plan 9 From Outer Space directed by Ed Wood, opened. It has the reputation as the worst movie ever made. Wood coaxed elderly moviestar Bela Lugosi to star in it, but half way though the film he died. Wood shot the remainder of Lugosi’s scenes with his dentist wrapped in a cape covering his face.
1965- Cary Grant married Dyan Cannon.
1967- Jimi Hendrix quit as the opening act for the Monkees.
1977- Walt Disney’s film "The Rescuers" featuring the last work of Disney
master animator Milt Kahl.
1989- Nintendo released in America the Gameboy. Designer Gunpei Yokoi designed it and the unique cross shaped directional fingerpad to replace a joystick control. Nintendo loaded Tetris on to it and it became a worldwide phenomenon. Gunpei Yokoi was killed in a car accident outside Kyoto in 1997.
1996- The Daily Show premiered on Comedy Central. John Stewart replaced Craig Kilborn in 1999 and made it famous.
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