Birthdays: Roman Emperor Theodosius I, Alexander Hamilton, Gliere, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Harry Selfridge the London department store guy, Rod Taylor, David Wolper, Lyle Lovett, Ben Crenshaw, Naomi Judd, Joan Baez, Stanley Tucci, Disney animator Prez Romanillos, Amanda Peet
1892- French impressionist painter Paul Gaughin, aged 44, married a 13 year old Tahitian girl named Teha’amana who he called Tehura. His previous marriage to a Danish lady who gave him 5 children had broken up.
1949- The first recorded snowfall in Los Angeles.
1949- Cornerstone laid for Washington D.C.’s Islamic Center, the first major mosque in the US.
1963- A record was released in Britain called “Please, Please Me” recorded by a working class rock & roll band from Liverpool called The Beatles. It was their first hit.
1965- Whisky-A-Go-Go, the first Disco opened on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Discotecque is French for record library. An earlier Whisky had opened in Chicago. The LA Whisky a Go Go opened with a live band led by Johnny Rivers, featuring a mini-skirted female DJ spinning records between sets from a suspended cage at the right of the stage. That July, the DJ danced during Rivers' set. The audience thought it was part of the act and the concept of Go-Go dancers was born. Groovy!
1995- After the Feds de-regulation of media ownership and the seeing the success of the Fox Network, Warner Bros collected six independent television stations around the US and this day started them off as the WB Network, today called the CW.
1999- John Stewart became the anchor of the Daily Show on Comedy Central.
2004- Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, registered the domain name Facebook.com. It originally was a way for their classmates to rate female students they knew to be, “hot or not”.
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