Birthdays: James Madison, Conrad Nagel, Dr. Josef Mengele the Nazi Angel of Death, Teresa Berganza, Christa Ludwig, Pat Nixon, Alice Bonheur, Harper Goff, Gore Verbinsky, Jerry Lewis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Eric Estrada, Kate Nelligan, Isabelle Huppert is 69, Lauren Graham is 55, Flava-Flav born William Drayton Jr.
1778- In Paris, Benjamin Franklin first met Voltaire.
1850- Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter published.
1906- The Rolls-Royce Motorcar Company incorporated. Mr. Charles Rolls and Sir William Royce quickly realized that they couldn’t hope to compete with the mass produced, low-cost motorcars made by Henry Ford, so they appealed to the high end buyer with elegant hand made craftsmanship.
1898- Artist Aubrey Beardsley died of tuberculosis at 25. Having a religious conversion at the end of his life, but still the stickler for detail, his last words were:" Destroy all my erotic drawings...all the bad ones too...." Luckily for history his friends did neither.
1934- Disney’s short The Three Little Pigs won an Oscar for best animated short.
1961- Walt Disney comedy The Absent Minded Professor with Fred MacMurray premiered.
2007- Author Michael Crichton was the author of classics like The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. He had been called the H.G. Wells of modern times. But today he shocked the scientific community by denouncing the theory of Global Warming.
2020- Los Angeles, including Hollywood, ordered all theaters closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2020- Agatha Christies play The Mousetrap, the longest running play in history, running continuously since 1952, was closed due to the Covid pandemic.
Answer: A) I Love Lucy. Began in 1951.
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