Birthdays: Roman Emperor Theodosius I, Alexander Hamilton, Gliere, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Harry Selfridge the London department store guy, Rod Taylor, David Wolper, Lyle Lovett, Ben Crenshaw, Naomi Judd, Joan Baez, Stanley Tucci, Disney animator Prez Romanillos, Amanda Peet
Roman festival Carmentalia, or the Feast of the Nine Muses. Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomeni, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope.
1892- French impressionist painter Paul Gaughin, aged 44, married a 13 year old Tahitian girl named Teha’amana who he called Tehura. His previous marriage to a Danish lady who gave him 5 children had broken up.
1908- President Teddy Roosevelt declared the entire Grand Canyon a National Monument. “The Ages have been at work at it and Man can only mar it.”
1913- Horse drawn public transport ended in Paris. As the last horse-omnibus moved through the streets. Parisians held mock funerals.
1934- COMIC BOOKS- Illustrated light fiction stories had been around for decades, and some publishers printed collections of popular newspaper comic strips. This day Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published Issue #1 (February) of Fun Magazine, which featured all original comic stories, including action stories, and took in advertising. The modern comic book is born. A few years later Major Nicholson’s company National Allied Publications would change its name to Detective Comics, DC Comics. They published Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
1948- President Harry Truman called for the creation of free, two-year community colleges for all those who desired a college education.
1949- The first recorded snowfall in Los Angeles.
1963- A record was released in Britain called “Please, Please Me” recorded by a working class rock & roll band from Liverpool called The Beatles. It was their first hit.
1964- U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry gave the first warnings against smoking. The Nazis had prohibited smoking in government buildings in 1939.
1965- Whisky-A-Go-Go, the first Disco opened on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Discotecque is French for record library. An earlier Whisky had opened in Chicago. The LA Whisky a Go Go opened with a live band led by Johnny Rivers, featuring a mini-skirted female DJ spinning records between sets from a suspended cage at the right of the stage. That July, the DJ danced during Rivers' set. The audience thought it was part of the act and the concept of Go-Go dancers was born. Groovy!
1995- After the Feds de-regulation of media ownership and the seeing the success of the Fox Network, Warner Bros collected up six independent television stations around the US and this day started them off as the WB Network, today called the CW.
1999- John Stewart became the anchor of the Daily Show on Comedy Central.
2004- Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, registered the domain name Facebook.com. It originally was a way for them and their classmates to rate female students they knew to be, “hot or not”.
2013- Disney animated series Sofia the First premiered.
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