Birthdays: Sir Lawrence Olivier, Mary Cassatt, Richard Wagner, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, T. Bone Pickens, Herge’ (Tintin), Irene Pappas, Paul Winfield, Richard Benjamin, Susan Strassberg, George Baker (Sad Sack), Paul Winchell, Tommy John, Naomi Cambell, Dr. Robert Moog –inventor of the music synthesizer, Ginnifer Goodwin is 45
1915- The San Fernando Valley voted to become part of Los Angeles.
1922-The U.S. Supreme Court rules Baseball is not a monopoly but a sport. This is the Achilles heel issue everyone jumps on when arguments about baseball owners use of salary fixes and other group actions reach crescendo.
1925- First day of shooting on Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis.
1954- Chuck Jones “Claws for Alarm” with Porky and Sylvester.
1955-The Golden Age of Radio ended when after 22 years the Jack Benny show was canceled. Once the top broadcast show in the nation, Benny went into television.
1966- Bill Cosby became the first African-American to win an Emmy Award for starring in a television series- I-Spy.
1967- T.V. children's show Mr. Roger's Neighborhood debuted.
1973- Scientist Bob Metcalfe of Xerox PARC patented the Ethernet.
1985- Top Disney animation director Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman, who directed the Jungle Book among other films, died in a car crash following lunch at the Smoke House in Burbank. He was 75.
1992- The film Encino Man premiered, with Brendan Frazier and Pauly Shore. Aaoooh!
2001- Ted Turner and Jane Fonda divorced.
2002- The Ayatollahs of Iran outlaw Barbie dolls. They denounced Barbie as "agents of subversive Zionist Western propaganda."
2012- SpaceX, the world’s first privately owned spacecraft, blasted off to bring supplies to the International Space Station.
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