Birthdays: Armelita Galli-Curci, Karl Maria Von Weber, W.S. Gilbert, Johnny Mercer,
Astronaut Alan Shepard, Louis Daguerre, Brenda Vaccarro, Eugene Ormandy, George Gallup, Warren Moon, Pam Dawber, Rocket Ishmail, Delroy Lindo, Kevin Nealon, Owen Wilson is 56, Chloe Servigny is 50
It’s hand drawn animation day! See below- 1928.
1602- In Transylvania, 22 year old English soldier of fortune John Smith killed three Turkish warriors in single combat. Such single bouts were normal before large armies clashed. The Duke of Transylvania, Sigmund Bathory, granted the commoner Smith his own coat of arms, three Turkish heads. This is the same John Smith who will go to Virginia and meet Pocahontas in 1607.
1718- Francois Voltaire’s first play Oedipe, premiered in Paris.
1865 Mark Twain's first story "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' published.
1889- Richard Strauss completed his orchestral tone poem Tod und Verklarung, Death and Transfiguration. The 29 year old created a musical illustration of what it felt like to die and the soul ascend to glory. Fifty-nine years later in 1949, as elderly Richard Strauss was dying, he said to his wife, “Yes! It is exactly the way I saw it…”
1902- THE TEDDY BEAR BORN-The Washington Evening Star published a story of how President Teddy Roosevelt while hunting couldn't bring himself to shoot a grizzly bear cub. Cartoonist Cliff Berryman illustrated the incident with one of his signature “dingbat” bear cubs in a gesture of “oh no!” Brooklyn toymaker Morris Mitchcolm sewed a doll from the illustration in the newspaper and sent the first one to the White House. Mitchcolm did so well with the sale of Teddy Bears he founded the Ideal Toy Company.
1928- HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICKEY MOUSE- At Universal’s Colony Theater in New York, Walt Disney’s cartoon "Steamboat Willie" debuted before a movie called Gang War. The first major sound cartoon success and the official birth of Mickey Mouse. Two earlier silent Mickey's were being completed, but when Walt saw Al Jolson speak in The Jazz Singer, he held those two shorts back so the sound experiment could go ahead. At this The Disney Brothers Company had just 11 employees.
1963-The first push button telephones go into service. By 1980 they pretty much replaced the rotary dial phones.
1968- Mattel introduced Hot Wheels toy cars in stores.
1970- At the Lakeside School in Seattle, a young kid named Bill Gates was first shown computer programming.
1985- Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin & Hobbs debuted.
1988- Disney’s Oliver & Company released.
1988- Don Bluth’s The Land Before Time was released.
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