Birthdays: English King Edward VII, Hedy Lamarr- born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Stanford White, Marie Dressler, Ed Wynn, Ann Sexton, Spiro Agnew, Tommy Dorsey, Dr. Carl Sagan, Whitey Herzog, Dorothy Dandridge, Dr. Herbert Kalmus the inventor of Technicolor, Lou Ferrigno is 71, Sisqo
1911-The first Neon sign illuminated.
1964- First "Wizard of Id" comic strip published.
1953- Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning and liver failure in New York City, after downing 18 straight shots of whisky. He was 39. There's actually some debate as to whether or not Dylan Thomas intended to drink himself to death. Scholars have recently suggested that he was a diabetic and died of hypoglycemia. Whatever the actual agent of Thomas' demise may have been, the coroner wrote on his death certificate under the cause of death, "Insult to the brain."
1965- "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT?" The first Great East Coast Blackout. A transformer near Rochester shorts out and the surge overloaded station after station until the entire eastern seaboard from Boston to Delaware is in darkness for 12 hours.
1966- In London, John Lennon went to an art exhibit and first met a Japanese avant-garde artist named Yoko Ono.
1981- The Screen Actor's Guild under President Ed Asner voted emergency moneys for striking PATCO air traffic controllers fired by the former SAG president, now U.S. President, Ronald Reagan.
1979- National Public Radio goes on the air. The first US national news show with women as anchors. It was also the first news program in stereo.
2003- Looney Tunes, Back in Action, directed by Joe Dante, released.
2004- The Jones Soda Pop Company of Seattle announced its new creation – Mashed Potato Flavored Soda. This was to follow up on their success last year of Roast Turkey and Gravy Soda.
2004- Mozilla-Firefox 1.0 started up.
2012- Steven Spielberg’s’ film Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis premiered.
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