B-Days: Georgia O'Keefe, Bill Melendez, Irvin Rommel the "Desert Fox", Avrial Harriman, Daniel Barenboim, George Bolet, William Pitt the Elder, Veronica Lake, Beverly D'Angelo is 72, Mantovanni, Ed Asner, Sam Waterson is 83, Otis Armstrong, Petula Clark is 91
1754- First use of the modern trombone. It was played at a child's funeral.
1881- The American Federation of Labor AF of L formed under the leadership of former cigar-maker Samuel Gompers. In 1951 they merged with the CIO.
1907- The comic strip A. Mutt by Harry “Bud” Fisher debuted in the San Francisco Chronicle. The name was later changed to Mutt & Jeff. It was the first 6 day consecutive daily newspaper strip. The strip was so popular that its creator Harry “Bud “ Fisher became a celebrity, and negotiated the first large backend deal. He became the first millionaire cartoonist.
1920- The League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva.
1926- FIRST NETWORK BROADCAST- NBC hooked up 20 cities across America and Canada for a radio program "The Steinway Hour" with Arthur Rubinstein. It came from the Steinway building penthouse on 57th St. in Manhattan.
1934- Animator Bill Tytla started work at Walt Disney's on a trial basis for $150 a week. He would create Grumpy the Dwarf, The Devil in Fantasia and Dumbo.
1937- The U.S. Congress gets air-conditioning.
1958- Movie star Tyrone Power was filming a sword duel with George Sanders on the film Solomon and Sheba. He paused and told the director “ I have to stop, I don’t feel well”. He then dropped dead of a heart attack. He was 44. His father Tyrone Power Sr. had also died on a Hollywood movie set in 1931 of a heart attack,
1965- Walt Disney announced he planned to build a second Disneyland, this one in Orlando Florida.
1977- The Bee Gees soundtrack for the film Saturday Night Fever came out.
1989- Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid opened.
1990- It was revealed that the Grammy winning pop group Milli Vanilli didn’t sing on their own album but lip-synced to the music.
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