Birthdays: Earl Kitchener, the Sirdar of Omdurman, Roy O. Disney, E.I. Dupont, Ambrose Bierce, Jack Dempsey, John Ciardi, Mick Fleetwood, Phil Harris- singer and voice of Baloo in Disney’s Jungle Book, Billy Casper, Michelle Lee, Claude Chabrol, Chief Dan George, Pete Hamill, Peter Weller, Sherry Springfield
1497- English explorer John Cabot discovered Canada -Eh!
1889- The Bank of Telluride Colorado was robbed by a lapsed Mormon miner named Robert Parker, who now called himself Butch Cassidy.
1901- The first exhibit in a Paris salon on the Rue Lafitte of a Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso.
1945- Meet the Press debuted on radio. Two years later it moved to television and it remains TV’s longest running program.
1947- THE FIRST MODERN UFO SIGHTING. A commercial airline pilot flying out of Seattle notices 6 silver disc shaped objects hovering over Mt. Reynier near Seattle. They then shot off at terrific speed. They are never identified nor explained. The pilot, Kenneth Arnold had impeccable credentials as an ex-combat Marine pilot and chamber of commerce member. The government response was to hit him with an IRS audit. The "flying-saucer" craze, with allegorical overtones to postwar atomic paranoia, sweeps the American imagination throughout the 1950’s.
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" became the first network western on television-NBC.
1963 - 1st demonstration of a home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1970 – The Mike Nichols movie "Catch 22" opened in movie theaters.
1994- Walt Disney’s The Lion King opened in regular theaters.
1997- Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair, The Parent Trap), shot himself at 75. He was suffering from incurable emphysema and lung cancer and tired of fighting the disease.
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