Birthdays: Zebulon Pike, Stephen Decatur, Alven Ailey, James Stuart Blackton (the first American animator, born in Lincolnshire, England ), W.D. Snodgrass, Jack Norworth -composer of " Take Me out to the Ballgame' , Konrad Adenauer, Astrologist Jean Dixon, Umberto Ecco, Yves Tanguy, Walter Mondale, George Reeves, Roger Spottiswoode, Robert Duval is 91, Dianne Keaton is 76, Spanish King Juan Carlos, Marilyn Manson is 54, January Jones is 41, Bradley Cooper is 47, Hiyao Miyazaki is 81
1825- Writer Alexander Dumas fought a duel with the Chevalier Saint George, a black duelist from Martinique, who played violin so well he helped Beethoven write his only violin concerto. Neither man was seriously hurt and Dumas went on to write The Three Musketeers. Saint George also once fought a duel with Monsieur d¹Eon, a transgender who fought his duels in a woman’s ball gown.
1896- Josef Pulitzers’ New York World began printing the Sunday Yellow Kid comic strip with a yellow color on his shirt. The strip gave the name to the sensationalist tabloid press 'Yellow Journalism".
1914- The Ford Motor Company shocked the leaders of American Industry by raising it¹s wage rates for work shift from $2.40 a day to $5.00 a day and voluntarily adopting the new 8 hour work day. Henry Ford’s idea was “When workers have more money, they buy cars”. The idea worked, and sales of cars quadrupled, and the economic climate of Detroit boomed.
1933- First day of construction on San Francisco¹s Golden Gate Bridge.
1934- Both the American and National Baseball Leagues agreed upon a standard size for a baseball.
1953- Samuel Beckett¹s play Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot) first premiered in Paris.
1959- Buddy Holly released his last single, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore.
1959- The first Bozo the Clown TV show premiered on TV. Larry Harmon played the famous children’s clown.
1961- “Hello Wilbur” Mr Ed the Talking Horse appeared on TV for the first time.
1962- After a holiday break, shooting resumed on Cleopatra. This was the first time stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked together, and the first signs of their love affair. Their tempestuous relationship was one of the great affairs of 1960s Hollywood.
1970- Soap opera “All My Children” premiered.
1979- EMI Records ended their contracts with the punk band the Sex Pistols. They felt their outrageous behavior had gone just too far.
1980- The first Hewlett Packard Personal Computer, or PC, goes on the market.
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