Birthdays: Roman emperor Otho -32AD, English King Edward II-1284, Oliver Cromwell-1599, Giuseppe Marconi, Edward R. Murrow, Ella Fitzgerald, Albert Uderzo, Al Pacino is 82, Jason Lee is 53, Meadowlark Lemon, Talia Shire, Paul Mazursky, Hank Azaria is 58, Rene Zellwellger is 54, Ron Clements is 70
1684- The thimble invented.
1719- The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe first published.
1850- Baron de Reuter used 40 carrier pigeons to carry stock market prices between Paris and London. He went on to form Reuters, the first international news agency.
1886- In the Gilded Age, most American workers worked a 10-12 hour day, seven days a week. This day The New York Times attacked the demand from union workers for an 8-hour workday as: “…a seditious, riotous notion that would collapse the American economy and lead to sloth, drunkenness and debauchery. It was probably the idea of foreign extremists."
The eight-hour day doesn’t become a norm in America until 1913 (in animation until 1941) and is still under attack today.
1926- Giacomo Puccini's last opera Turnadot premiered in Milan. Puccini died before its completion, so students had to finish the work based on his notes. Conductor Arturo Toscanini put down his baton at the beginning of the Third Act, turned to the audience and said:" Here is where the Maestro died." He then left the podium and let someone else finish it.
1938- The German shepherd named Buddy became the first seeing-eye dog for the blind.
1956- Elvis Presley’s song Heartbreak Hotel goes to #1 in the pop charts.
1961- The US Patent office awarded a patent to Robert Noyce for the integrated circuit. This enabled computers to replace transistors with integrated circuits, and greatly reduce the size of computers while increasing their power.
1972- Witty, urbane actor George Sanders (All About Eve, Samson & Delilah, Sher Khan in Jungle Book) had turned age 65. He complained he had been famous and rich, and was not looking forward to old age, and having a nurse wipe his bottom. So he committed suicide and left a witty, urbane note. "Dear World: I am leaving because I am bored. Adieu, I leave you with your worries in this sweet cesspool."
1981- Dixie, the world’s oldest living mouse, died at age 6 1/2.
1996- "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk" opened on Broadway.
2021- Pixar's Soul won best animated feature at the Academy Awards.
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