Birthdays: King Charles III of Spain, Richard Henry Lee- signer of the Declaration of Independence, Frederico Fellini, Patricia O’Neal, Dorothy Provine, Mario Lanza, David Lynch, George Burns, DeForest Kelly, Arte Johnson, Lorenzo Lamas, Rainn Wilson is 58, Edwin Buzz Aldrin is 94.
1779- The great English actor David Garrick died. Supposedly his last words were when asked “Is it hard to die?” Garrick replied:” Dying is not Hard. Comedy is Hard.”
1936- 19 year old Adriana Caselotti recorded her first tracks as Snow White for Walt Disney. Her father Guido Caselotti was a casting agent charged with finding the right actress. She stood behind him while he was on the phone, saying” Daddy! Pick me! Pick me!” I met her in her 80s, and that voice was still recognizable.
1938- Early animation pioneer Emile Cohl died while headed for the Paris premiere of Disney's" Snow White and the Seven Dwarves". Cohl by then was so poor that the electricity in his flat had been turned off and the candles had ignited his beard. Angry he was never recognized in his time, he once said: "the French prefer their artists with marble and flowers on top."
1947- Josh Gibson, star hitter of the segregated Negro Baseball Leagues, died indigent and alone. He was only 35. Had he been white he would be counted with Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb in baseball stardom. Instead, he was buried in obscurity. There was no money for a gravestone.
1949- FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a pen that shoots tear gas.
1953- The Birth of Little Ricky on the I Love Lucy show drew a larger viewing audience than the televised inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower.
1961- John F. Kennedy gave his famous inaugural speech:” Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Outgoing President Eisenhower disliked JFK personally. He was angry that his win over Nixon seemed a repudiation of his policies, so almost nothing was said between them in the limousine during the drive to the ceremony. John Kennedy also went through that day mostly hatless, inaugurating the fashion. Before JFK, a man was not fully dressed without a hat or cap of some sort.
1965- Alan Freed, the disc jockey who coined the term Rock & Roll, died at 43 of uremic blood poisoning. He was broken by the Rock payola scandal and died so poor his friends passed the hat to pay for his funeral.
1966- The Ghost and Mr Chicken, with Don Knotts premiered.
1982- Rock star Ozzie Osbourne was hospitalized in Des Moines Iowa after biting the head off a dead bat thrown on stage during a concert.
1982- SONY introduced the Camcorder, the personal video camera.
1986- The worlds first computer virus, Brain, was sent out over the infant internet.
2016- Cal Tech astronomers announced they discovered signs of a Ninth Planet beyond Pluto. It is 5,000 times larger than earth, and it’s wobbly oblong orbit takes 22,000 years to go completely around the sun, while the Earth takes one year. Named Ultima Thule, the space probe New Horizon reached it in 2019.
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