Birthdays: Georg Phillip Telemann, Johann Strauss Sr., Albert Einstein, Casey Jones, Quincy Jones is 88, astronaut Frank Borman, Les Brown, Hank Ketcham, Wolfgang Petersen, Diane Arbus, Chris Klein, Michael Cain born Maurice Mickelwhite is 89, Billy Crystal is 74
1883- Karl Marx died in London. Marx's last words were:" Get out of Here!
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough already!"
1885- Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Mikado premiered in London.
1903- President Teddy Roosevelt established Pelican Island as the first Federal Wildlife Preserve.
1932- Inventor GEORGE EASTMAN shot himself- The inventor of the Roll-film camera, who named his celluloid strips 'film' and founded Eastman/Kodak. He had been suffering from a long painful spinal illness and left the note: " To my friends: The End is near, why wait? " He was 77.
1941- Xavier Cugat and his orchestra recorded "Babalu".
1943- Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" premiered. George Szell conducting.
1991- Lyricist Howard Ashman (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) died of HIV/AIDS.
1992- The official Soviet newspaper Pravda- Truth, ceased publication.
1998- The epic disaster movie Titanic surpassed Star Wars and Jurassic Park as the greatest money earning film (until Avatar). It cost over $200 million to make but it earned at least $1 billion in box office alone. Quote director James Cameron: I’m King of the World!!
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