Birthdays: Christopher Marlowe, Eva Braun, Ronald Reagan, Francois Truffaut, Babe Ruth, Elias Disney-Walt’s dad, Bob Marley, Queen Anne I of England, Aaron Burr, Robert Townsend, Mike Farrell, Tom Brokaw, Mike Maltese, Haskel Wexler would be 100, Axel Rose, Patrick McKnee- Mr. Steed of the Avengers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kathy Naijimy is 65, Rip Torn, Marty Sklar
Happy Birthday Thurl Ravenscroft (1914-2005), basso voice who voiced Monstro the Whale, Kirby from Brave Little Toaster and sang " Youre a Mean One, Mister Grinch."
1847- The Treaty of Waitangi- Britain settled New Zealand from the Maoris. Hobbits to follow….
1929- Introduction to Photoplay, the first lecture of the first university film degree course ever in the USA, was given at The University of Southern California.
1935- The board game Monopoly is introduced by Parker Brothers. The prototype monopoly board was round oilcloth and had street names derived from Atlantic City NJ.
1937- John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” published. In a result Mr Steinbeck probably didn’t anticipate, was the stereotype image of a mildly autistic man as the big dumb sidekick Lenny, cartoonists used so often. “Duh, tell me about da rabbits, George.”
1938- The first automatic donut making machine invented in Dubuque, Iowa.
1956- Invasion of the Body Snatchers opened in theaters.
1974- John Boorman’s sci-fi cult classic Zardoz premiered. Sean Connery in his red jock-strap.
1985- Steve Wozniak, the young engineer who started Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in his garage, retired from running the company. He’d rather work as an engineer and teach children. He also returned to Berkeley to complete his undergraduate degree, under the name Rocky Clark. Rocky was the name of his dog.
2018- First launch of the Space X Falcon Heavy, the first privately owned reusable rocket, capable of taking people to the Moon or Mars. This rocket took into orbit entrepreneur Elon Musk’s personal red sports car with a dummy astronaut in the drivers seat, with the music playing David Bowie’s Space Oddity in an endless loop. Also the words from Hitchhiker’s Guide “Don’t Panic” in a panel in the dashboard.
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