Birthdays: Mary Harris a.k.a. Mother Jones, Marshal Vauban 1633, Benjamin Latrobe, Calamity Jane, Joseph Addison, Kate Smith, Jack Paar, Joseph Heller, Rita Coolidge, Steve Cauthen, Judy Collins, Glen Ford, Ray Parker Jr., Maurice Noble, Fyodor Khytruk, Louis Nye, John Woo, Wes Anderson is 53, Joanna Lumley is 76, Animator-educator Eric Goldberg is 67.
1902- Richard Outcault's comic strip Buster Brown and Tige first appeared. Outcault, the creator of the first hit cartoon the Yellow Kid was so famous that as part of his deal to do this strip he negotiated the first back-end deal for a percentage of the merchandise sales.
1914-THE BIRTH OF THE BIG BLUE- Thomas Watson got a job at a little business machine company called CTR, the Calculating Typewriter and Regulating Company. He quickly rose to the top and renamed the company International Business Machine or IBM. When he retired in 1956 it employed 60,000 workers, and was one of largest companies in the world.
1926- Famed black baseball pitcher Satchel Page pitched his first game. His nickname came from Satchel-mouth.
1941- Orson Welles film "Citizen Kane" debuted at the Paramount theater (the El Capitan) in Hollywood. At the last minute William Randolph Hearst's friend Louis B. Mayer tried to buy and destroy every print of the film and the Hearst press went crazy attacking it. Hearst spokesperson Louella Parsons threatened "A Beautiful Lawsuit" if the film was not pulled. Despite winning some Oscars, the film didn't do well in its initial release, but it remains one of the greatest films of all time. Welles said later:" The problem I've always had is my movies become classics ten years later."
1964- Scientist John Kemeny at Dartmouth created the computer language BASIC.
1967- Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas.
1989- Walt Disney Feature Animation in Orlando Florida opened. It closed in 2006.
1993- The Florida Animation Union Local 843 chartered.
1997- Bebe, the dolphin who played Flipper on the television show, died at age 40.
1999- Spongebob Squarepants premiered on Nickelodeon.
3019TA- Aragorn II was crowned King of Gondor (according to Tolkien)
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