Birthdays: Frank Sinatra, Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, Edvard Munch, Gustav Flaubert, Cherokee Confederate General Stand Watie, John Jay, Edward G. Robinson, Marshal von Rundstedt-the Black Knight of Germany, Ed Koch, Zack Mosley –the cartoonist of “Smilin' Jack", Connie Francis, Dionne Warwick, Cathy Rigby, Tracy Austin, Bill Nighy is 73, Tom Wilkerson is 74, Jennifer Connelly is 53, Mayim Bialik is 48
1897-The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip by Rudolph Dirks appears in the William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal. The first comic where characters spoke in word balloons. When Dirks took a vacation without Hearst’s permission, Hearst got another artist to draw the strip. Dirks went to rival paper The New York Sun, and recreated the strip as the Captain & the Kids, leading to the first artistic plagiarism lawsuit.
1913- The Mona Lisa, which had been stolen out of the Louvre in 1911, was recovered. It was found in a hotel room in Florence, kept by waiter Vincenzo Perugia, who had stolen it. He had worked at the Louvre, so he knew all the back room passages. He and his accomplices dressed as janitors to avoid suspicion.
1925- The world’s first motel opened. Arthur Heinman opened the Milestone Motel in San Luis Obispo California. Motel was a contraction of Motor-Hotel.
1939- Movie star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. one time king of Hollywood, now a forgotten silent movie star, died in his sleep of a heart attack in his apartment in Santa Monica. He was 54.
1952- The first Screen Actors Guild Strike. President Walter Pidgeon -Dr. Morbius in Forbidden Planet- had the movie stars hit the bricks to win television and commercial residuals.
1955- the first hovercraft design patented. It wasn't built and launched until 1959.
1967-“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” opened. The first American movie about an interracial relationship.
1980- The song “Whip It” by Devo won a gold record.
1991- Actor Richard Gere married supermodel Cindy Crawford.
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