Birthdays: Josef Pulitzer, Lew Wallace, George Arliss, Omar Sharif, Harry Morgan, Max Von Sydow, Ken Griffey Sr, Claire Booth Luce, Chuck Connors, John Madden, Dandy Don Meredith, Paul Theroux, David Halberstram, Steven Segal is 72, Orlando Jones, Mandy Moore is 39, Haley Joel Osment is 35, Daisy Ridley is 31
1868- Johannes Brahms A German Requiem debuted.
1906- O' Henry's story " The Gift of the Magi " first published.
100 Anniv 1923- Peeps invented. The sweet Easter marshmallow confection that is shaped like a yellow baby chic, and can stick to most surfaces. It was invented by Russian-Jewish immigrant Sam Born after his first idea, a lollipop machine called “Born Sucker” failed to succeed.
1925- F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" published by Scribners.
1948 Chuck Jones’ Bugs Bunny cartoon “ Rabbit Punch”.
1953- The Vincent Price film The House of Wax in 3d premiered.
1961- Singer Joan Baez entered the Greenwich Village club called Folk City and was accosted by a funny young man with a nasaly twang ;”Joan Baez! Here, I wrote a song for you!” His name was Bob Dylan. Baez and Dylan became friends and together changed the image of folk music.
1962- Stuart Sutcliffe was the bass guitarist of the Beatles until creative differences and a marriage made him drop out of the band in favor of George Harrison. This day Sutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage at age 21.
1962- The Los Angeles Dodgers play their first game at their new Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine. They lost to the Cincinnati Reds 6-3.
1971- Rob Reiner married Penny Marshall.
50th Anniv 1973- At Xerox PARC, Dick Schoup’s team of scientists created Superpaint, the first digital paint and surfacing system for computer images. The first picture on the computer was a photo scanned of Dick holding a sign that read “ It works, sort of.”
1985- Madonna began her first tour, the Virgin Tour.
1992- Bill & Sue Kroyer’s Ferngully the Last Rainforest premiered.
1992. Raunchy comedian Sam Kinison was killed in a head on collision with a truck on the road to Laughlin Nevada. He was 36. Ironically, the comedian who had glorified the wild sex, drugs and rock&roll lifestyle was sober at the time, and the other driver, a 17 year old, was drunk.
2019- The first photo evidence of a Black Hole in space. Young MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of an algorithm that allowed scientists to capture the first-ever black hole photo. Proving Einstein was correct.
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