Birthdays: Pierre L’Enfant- the designer of Washington DC, Jack Warner, Myrna Loy, Sir Arthur Bliss, James Baldwin, Carrol O'Connor, Joanna Cassidy is 61, Pete Sampras, Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster), Bill Scott the voice of Bullwinkle, Bob Beamon, Wes Craven, Edward Furlong, Kevin Smith is 52, Peter O'Toole, Marie Louise Parker is 58
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day.
1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club.
1979- the song Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang released by a St. Louis radio station. While not the first song with rapping in it, it brought the idea mainstream. People who did not remember the songs name Rappers Delight would ask “What’s that song that goes “ Hip-hip, the hip-hop hopper to the hiphop..?” So the musical genre became known as HipHop.
1979- Yankee baseball star catcher Thurmon Munson died when he crashed his private plane near Akron Ohio. He was 32.
1985- John Hughes Weird Science opened, with Kelly LeBrock. Two nerdy boys create the perfect woman using this new thing called Computer Graphics.
1991- Hyperion’s “Rover Dangerfield” premiered. Directed by Jim George and Bob Seeley.
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