Birthdays: Paul Dukas, Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Matthau, Richard Harris, Phillipe Noiret, James Whitmore, Everett Sloane, Rod Carew, Stanley Holloway, Tom Bosley, Randy Quaid, Cindy Margolis, Zack Galifanakis is 54, R.O. Blechman is 93, Brie Larson is 34, Julie Andrews is 88, Pres. Jimmy Carter is 99
1857- Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary premiered in magazine installments. Flaubert was tried for pornography because of it, but acquitted.
1880- John Phillip Sousa was named leader of the Marine Corps Band and began his career as the March King.
1903- First World Series of Baseball. The Boston Pilgrims had lost the first game today to the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3, even though Cy Young was the starting pitcher. But Boston went on to win the series in best of nine games. There was no 1904 World series because the owners couldn't agree on a format.
1908- Ford announces the Model "T" the "Tin Lizzie" the first mass-produced affordable car. It was called the Model T because it took Twenty prototypes to perfect it. The Model T cost $825, paid on installments with as little as $10 down. Its top speed was 45 miles and hour and 15 million were sold. When they asked Henry Ford what color should it be, he replied: "Any color so long as it's black.' The auto goes from being a rich mans plaything to something every home could afford.
1910- A bomb blew up the L.A. Times building, killing 23 people. The Times had a hostility to unions, and two union organizers The McNamara Brothers were arrested.
Despite having Clarence Darrow as a lawyer they were convicted, possibly because halfway through the trial the brothers confessed they did it, and Darrow had to beat a charge of jury tampering. As the McNamaras were hanged they shouted 'Hurrah for Anarchy!'
1944- Nazis doctors in Buchenwald concentration camp began conducting experiments on homosexuals.
1945- Looney Tunes director Frank Tashlin left the cartoon business to work full time as a screenwriter at Paramount on live action movies. He wrote for the Marx Brothers and later directed the Dean Martin Jerry Lewis comedies.
1952- This Is Your Life TV show hosted by Ralph Edwards premiered.
1955- The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason, Jayne Meadows and Art Carney premiered on TV.
1962- Johnny Carson took over the Tonight Show, after host Jack Paar walked off the set too many times. In one incident, Paar was annoyed the network censors cut a comedy sketch that featured a joke about a WC (water-closet).
1968- George Romero's film "Night of the Living Dead' premieres. Despite one film critic describing it as,” A bunch of sick crap”, it went on to become a cult hit.
1971-Walt Disney World Florida opened to the public.
1982- Disney's EPCOT opens.
1987- The Whittier Earthquake rocks L.A. 5.9 on the Richter Scale, it killed 8 and caused millions in damage.
1992 -The Cartoon Network started.
2009- The Walt Disney Family Museum opened in San Francisco.
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