Birthdays: Liberace, General George H. Thomas the "Rock of Chickamagua", Sebastian Sperling Kresge the founder of S.S. Kresge stores, Milton Friedman, Sherry Lansing, Geraldine Chaplin, Kurt Gowdy, Dean Cain, Leon “ Bull “Durham, Primo Levi, Fred Quimby, animator Ken Harris, Ted Cassidy who played Lurch in the Adams Family, Wesley Snipes is 61, and according to J.K. Rowling, today is the birthday of Harry Potter
1922- Ralph Samuelson invented water skis.
1930- Radio mystery show “The Shadow” premiered. “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows…heh, heh, heh.” Orson Welles did the voice of the crime fighting Shadow for a year in 1937 for $185 a week.
1948- President Truman dedicated New York City’s second major airport Idlewild Field. In 1963 it was renamed JFK Airport.
1954- Steve Allen married Jayne Meadows.
1968- Charles Schulz introduced Franklin, the first black character into his Peanuts comic strip.
1970- Black Tot Day- The British Navy officially ended its centuries old custom of giving a ships crew a ration of rum.
1971- Apollo 15 astronaut went for a drive on the surface of the moon in their land-rover.
1992- Bebe’s Kids released, the first animated feature directed by an African American, Bruce W. Smith.
1992- The Robert Zemeckis’ comedy Death Becomes Her opened. With Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. It is the first film that widely used the new digital matte technique to replace traditional optical printing.
1995- The Walt Disney Company bought the ABC Network, the Discovery Channel and ESPN. Recently, they are looking to sell them off.
1999- Premiere of Brad Bird’s movie The Iron Giant at Mann's Chinese in Hollywood.
2022- George Jetson of the 1960s TV show The Jetsons was born. The show is set when George was age 40, in 2062.
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