Birthdays: Euclid, Blaise Pascal, King James I Stuart, Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor, Moe Howard, Lou Gehrig, Guy Lombardo, Mildred Natwick, Charles Coburn, Pat Butram, Louis Jourdan, Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Dame Mae Whitty, Lucie Sloane, Ang Sung Soo Chi, Kathleen Turner is 69, Paula Abdul is 61, Zoe Saldana is 45, Gena Rowlands is 93.
1619- THE OLD GLOBE THEATER FIRE. During a performance of William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, a prop cannon fired a salute that set afire the straw thatch on the roof. Soon the blaze consumed the old theater. Shakespeare, as a partner in the company that owned the Globe, paid to rebuild it. He soon retired home to Stratford. Fifty years later, during Cromwell’s Puritan rule, the Globe was pulled down because the Puritans frowned on theatrical entertainment as ungodly.
1867- The first Belmont Stakes horse race. The winner was Ruthless.
1889- Beginning of the Sherlock Holmes adventure, the Man with the Twisted Lip.
1921- Distributer Amadee van Beuren announced production of a new series of "Aesop’s Fables" cartoons to be done by former Bray director Paul Terry. Terrytoons studio is born.
1923 - "Moon Mullins," a Comic Strip, debuts.
1934- The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, created.
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invented. Originally called Cheery-Oats, it was changed to Cheerios in 1945.
1951-Happy Birthday Taz! Devil May Hare, short by Bob McKimson, introduced the Tasmanian Devil.
1952 - "I've Got a Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.
1956- The comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis announced their breakup.
1956- Don Bluth’s first day at the Walt Disney Studio.
1960- Freedomland amusement park opened in the north Bronx, New York. Several of its designers like Harper Goff had worked on Walt Disney’s Disneyland.
1963- The Ray Harryhausen fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts premiered.
1963- The Canadian Football Hall of Fame formed.
1964- The Condor Club of San Francisco became the first modern club to offer topless dancers. Carol Doda became the first topless waitress, and a mainstay of San Francisco’s nightclub scene. She augmented her already ample bosom to 44 inches with silicon implants. She joked: "I dunno, I guess I just expanded in the heat!"
1973- The Rocky Horror Show stage show opened in London. The film version became a midnight cult classic. Writer Richard O’Brien himself played the doorman Riff-Raff. Let’s do the Time Warp Again.
1978 – Garfield the Cat, created by Jim Davis, 1st appeared as a comic strip.
1983- Don Bluth’s video arcade game Dragons Lair debuted.
1987 - Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce a new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. Jerry is gone, but Cherry Garcia rocks on.
1987 –David Geffen Records signed their 1st artist -Donna Summer.
1998- Disney’s Mulan went into wide release.
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