Birthdays: Elector Johann-Frederich the Magnanimous, Franz Lehar, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Max Skladanowsky, Jaroslav Hasek, Eve Arden, Jill Clayburgh, Alice B. Toklas, Isaiah Thomas, Cloris Leachman, Jane Campion, Al Lewis, Animator Bill Plympton is 76, Lars von Trier, Burt Young is 83, Kirsten Dunst is 41, Gal Gadot is 38.
WALPURGISNACHT- In the Hartz Mountains of Germany the eve the Feast Day of St. Walpurga the demon chaser is a Halloween kind of party, when the Devil can romp for a night.
1902- The first ice cream cone was served at the St. Louis Worlds Fair. Los Angeles claims it was first.
1905- At Evansville Illinois, future baseball umpire Cy Rigler began the practice of raising his right arm to indicate strikes, so that friends in the outfield could distinguish calls.
1916- The Chicago Cubs played their first game in Wrigley Field, then called Weegman Park.
1939- The 1939 World’s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows, NY. The Trylon & Perisphere presided over the gleaming Art-Deco paean to optimism, even as the world waited nervously for Hitler’s next move. With President Franklin D. Roosevelt in attendance the NBC network began regular television broadcasting. It only went to a few homes. Experts were not optimistic." It requires a darkened room and constant attention." one said.
1945- "Arthur Godfrey Time" debuts on CBS radio. Godfrey was a local Washington D.C. deejay who gained nationwide fame for his emotional coverage of the funeral of FDR. He then went from radio to television, hosting the first regularly successful television entertainment program. Godfrey in later life got increasingly hard on his employees and in an infamous incident actually fired star singer Julius LaRosa live on the air.
1952- Mr. Potato Head became the first toy advertised on television. Over one million kits were be sold in the first year. Originally invented by George Lerner in 1949 to stick faces on real vegetables, Mr. Potato Head was sold to brothers Henry and Merrill Hassenfeld in 1951 (the creators of the toy company Hasbro, Hass-Bros, get it?). In 2000 Rhode Island declared itself the Mr. Potato Head State. The Hasbro Toy Company is headquartered in Pawtucket, a city just outside of Providence.
1953- Frank Sinatra did his first session at Capitol Records with Nelson Riddle. This is the first recording of crooner Sinatra’s mature style.
1976- After completing his work on the Rescuers, Disney animator Milt Kahl retired.
1988- Tom Hanks married actress Rita Wilson.
1992- BERN, the Geneva particle lab where the World Wide Web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, declared that WWW, aka The Web, would be open and free to all with no restrictions or royalties to be paid to them.
1993- The Walt Disney Company announced its’ purchase of top independent film producer Miramax. They produced films like The Crying Game. Ten years later a feud with Michael Eisner caused Miramax founders the Weinstein brothers to leave and form The Weinstein Company. By the time Miramax was sold off in 2010, it was a shadow of its former self.
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