Quiz: What is the difference between a missile and a ballistic missile?
Yesterday’s answer below: What is an “eminence grise”.
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History for 8/7/2023
Birthdays: Roman Emperor Constantius II, Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene, Mata Hari, Rassan Rolling Kirk, Dr. Ralphe Bunche, Nicholas Ray, Dr. Richard Leakie, Grandma Moses, Stan Freberg, James Randi, Billy Burke aka Glenda the Good Witch, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Garrison Keillor, Animator Rudy Ising, David Duchovny is 63, Charlize Theron is 48
1919- the First Actor’s Equity Strike.
1931 Jazz trumpeter Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, died at 29 of drink and drugs. Bix along with his idol Louis Armstrong was considered one of the first jazz musicians to popularize the solo-riff, where in the body of a song the soloist would depart from the arrangement and improvise, like a cadenza in classical music.
1933-The first "Alley-Oop" comic strip.
1968- James Brown recorded “Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”, at the Vox Studios in Los Angeles. The single became a clarion call for the Black Power movement in the U.S.
1970 - Christine McVie joined the band Fleetwood Mac.
1970 – The first computer chess tournament.
1974- French daredevil Phillipe Petit strung a tightrope between the two 110 story towers of NY’s World Trade Center and walked across it. As New Yorkers watched in amazement, Petit kept his concentration by carrying on a conversation with the buildings.
1979- THE RUNAWAY WARS. Hollywood Cartoonist’s Union launched a strike against studios sending their animation jobs overseas.
1981- The Heavy Metal movie opened. Directed by Gerald Potterton.
2007- Leo Montulli, a programmer for Netscape, invented internet cookies. Do you accept them?
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