Birthdays: James Watt, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert E. Lee, Paul Cezanne', Janis Joplin, Slobodan Milosovic’, radio comedian Ish Kabibble, Dolly Parton, Michael Crawford, Chic Young, Guy Madison, Richard Lester, John H. Johnson publisher of Ebony and Jet Magazines, Jean Stapleton, Fritz Weaver, Sean Wayans, Robin MacNeill, Paul Rodriquez, Antoine Fuqua, Drea Di Matteo, and Bart the Bear-1977 Bear who starred in movies like Clan of the Cave Bear, The Bear, White Fang and Legends of the Fall, Tipi Hedren is 94.
1829- Goethe published Faust Part 1.
1853- Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore with the famous Anvil Chorus premiered in Rome.
1869- New York City controller Andrew Green received a petition from 18 of the city’s wealthiest citizens. It called for the establishment of a Museum of Natural History. The famous building was built in 1874.
1919- Famed dancer of the Ballet Russe Vaslav Nijinsky danced his last performance at a hotel in San Moritz Switzerland. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he was incarcerated for the next 30 years, and underwent numerous shock therapies until his death in 1950.
1924- Lillian Bounds began work at the little Walt Disney studio as an ink and paint artist. She only took the job because it was a short walk from her sister Hazel's house where she was staying, and she didn't want to spend money for bus fare.
She wound up falling in love and marrying Walt Disney and became a multimillionaire. Before her death in 1997 she financed the creation of Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
1949- Disney’s So Dear To My Heart opened in theaters.
1961- The first episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show was filmed.
1967- The Star Trek episode “The Arena” first aired. Where Captain Kirk battled the Gorn in Vasquez Rocks.
1983- Apple introduced the Lisa. Named for Steve Jobs daughter, at a price tag of ten thousand dollars and incompatibility with the earlier Apple II doomed it to weak sales.
1985- Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA peaked the pop charts at #9.
1993- First day of full production at Pixar on their first feature film Toy Story.
2020- The first case of coronavirus Covid 19 in the USA reported. Snohomish, Washington. Medical experts started to sound alarm bells, but President Trump chose to sit on this information, and ignore the warnings for 6 more weeks, until March. All the while he was quietly warning his personal investor friends. To date 1,167,000 deaths in the U.S. since then.
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