Birthdays: Richard the Lionhearted, Michel Caravaggio, Antonin Dvorak, Patsy Cline, Jimmy Rogers the Singing Brakeman, Peter Sellars, Sid Caesar, Freddy Mercury, Lyndon LaRouche, Ewell Gibbons- natural food advocate, Heather Thomas, David Arquette is 49, Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, Pink is 42, Alvy Ray Smith is 78
1921 - 1st Miss America crowned -Margaret Gorman of Washington DC.
1926- Screen actress Greta Garbo skipped her own wedding and left John Gilbert alone at the altar. They still stayed lovers and lived together.
1930 - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1930 - Richard Drew creates Scotch tape.
1935-A vocal group called "4 Joes from Hoboken" get their first break on Major Bo's radio show. One of the singers is a young man named Frank Sinatra.
1939 - FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war breaking out in Europe.
1939- British film director Alfred Hitchcock began shooting his first Hollywood picture- Rebecca, for David Selznick.
1946 - SF 49ers play their first AAFC game, losing to the NY Yankees 21-7.
1954- Akira Kurosawa’s film The Seven Samurai premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, beautiful black actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in
Hollywood of sleeping pills overdose.
1966- STAR TREK debuts. LA policeman turned screenwriter Gene Roddenberry pitched it to Desilu Productions as, “Wagon Train in Outer Space.” The first episode “ The Man Trap” aired tonight. That season it ranked 52nd in the Nielsen ratings, behind #1 "Iron Horse" starring Dale Robertson, and "Mr. Terrific". It was canceled after two seasons but a letter writing campaign won it a third season. Star Trek then found a new life in syndication.
The cult fan base called Trekkies kept the memory of the show alive for ten years until Paramount felt compelled to revive it to cash in on the Star Wars-Close Encounters craze. First as a Filmation animated series, and then from 1979 a series of feature films, then spin-offs.
Frank Sinatra once said: "The only good thing to come out of the 1960s was Star Trek."
1966 - "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell premieres on ABC-TV
1967 - Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon, Sept 10.
1971- Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center opened. It was planned in the early sixties by John and Jackie Kennedy, although then unaware that their name would be on it. The performance featured the debut of Leonard Bernstein’s choral work “Mass”.
1974- Daredevil Evil Knieval in his most famous stunt, jumped the Snake River Gorge in a rocket powered motorcycle.
1986- The Chicago based television talk show the Oprah Winfrey Show went national and became one of the most successful talk shows ever.
2008- The Rachael Maddow Show premiered on TV.
2009- A pair of Queen Victoria’s old underwear was recovered from a private collector and returned to the Royal Collection. Her waist size? 56 inches.
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