Birthdays: Pilgrim leader John Winthrop, Charles Perrault (Mother Goose), John Hancock, Edmund Burke, John Singer Sargent, Jack London, James Farmer the founder of CORE, Herman Goering, Eddie Selzer, "Smokin' Joe" Frazier, Tex Ritter, Martin Agronsky, Howard Stern is 68, Rush Limbaugh, Oliver Platt is 63, Wayne Wang, Tiffany, Kirstie Alley, John Lasseter is 66
1669- Buccaneer Henry Morgan convened a meeting of the Captains of the Coast, a meeting of pirates on board his frigate the Oxford. In their meeting they resolved to attack Cartagena Columbia, a rich Spanish port and staging area for Spanish treasure galleons. During the drunken celebrations someone fired a gun off in the Oxford’s powder magazine and the ensuing explosion blew a dozen men to Davey Jones Locker. Arrr..!
1928- NY police raid Alfred Knopf publishing offices and seized 852 copies of the novel “The Well of Loneliness” by Radclyffe Hall, because reading it was thought to turn young girls into lesbians.
1960-” The Scent of Mystery”- the first film in Smell-O-Vision.
1965- NBC TV premiered Hullabaloo, a Rock & Roll dance show with lots of mini-skirted go-go dancers. ABC responded with Shindig.
1966- Holy Cult Classic! The TV show "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward, premiered.
1969- Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl, Broadway Joe Namath and the underdog NY Jets upset the Baltimore Colts led by the legendary Johnny Unitas 16-7.
1971- “ALL IN THE FAMILY” Norman Lear's TV sitcom debuted. Based on a popular British show Till Death Do Us Part, it broke new ground for American sitcoms by frankly discussing race working class prejudice, menopause, rape and other taboo subjects. The first show featured the sound of a toilet flushing. The networks were so worried about its explosive content ABC rejected the show twice, and CBS ran the first episodes with a long apologetic disclaimer. Carrol O’Connor, the actor who played Archie Bunker, was so convinced the show would flop, he demanded as part of his contract a round trip plane ticket home. The show ran for 13 years, a bushel of Emmy Awards and made the name Archie Bunker famous.
1987- No mystery, Agatha Christie died at 88 of natural causes.
1995- Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen announced the name of their new partnership would be 'Dreamworks SKG'. Someone in Florida immediately bought the domain name “Dreamworks.com” and waited for their buyout offer. I heard it was $5,000.
1997-According to Arthur C. Clarkes 1968 book "2001, a Space Odyssey", the HAL-9000 computer was booted up today.
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