History for 1/5/2024. Birthdays: Zebulon Pike, Stephen Decatur, Alven Ailey, James Stuart Blackton (the first American animator, born in Lincolnshire, England ), W.D. Snodgrass, Jack Norworth who wrote " Take Me out to the Ballgame' , Konrad Adenauer, Astrologist Jean Dixon, Umberto Ecco, Yves Tanguy, Walter Mondale, George Reeves, Roger Spottiswoode, Tissa David, Robert Duval is 93, Dianne Keaton is 78, Spanish King Juan Carlos, Marilyn Manson is 56, January Jones is 43, Bradley Cooper is 49.
Hayao Miyazaki is 83
1896- Josef Pulitzers’ New York World began printing the Sunday Yellow Kid comic strip with a yellow color on his shirt. The strip gave the name to the sensationalist tabloid press 'Yellow Journalism".
1921- Famous Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was preparing one more expedition to the South Pole. This day on his ship anchored in South Georgian Island Bay, he complained he felt ill. He said to his doctor “Oh, what do you want me to give up now?” then fell over dead of a heart attack. He was 47.
1924- William Chrysler introduced his first automobile featuring an all steel chassis frame instead of wood. He created it for the failing Maxwell Car Company and in 1925 changed the name to the Chrysler Car Company.
1925- Nellie Taylor Ross was inaugurated as the Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to hold such an office.
1933- First day of construction on San Francisco¹s Golden Gate Bridge.
1934- Both the American and National Baseball Leagues agreed upon a standard size for a baseball.
1953- Samuel Beckett¹s play Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot) first premiered in Paris.
1959- Buddy Holly released his last single, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore.
1959- The first Bozo the Clown TV show premiered on TV. Larry Harmon played the famous children’s clown.
1961- “Hello Wilbur” Mr Ed the Talking Horse appeared on TV for the first time.
1962- After a holiday break, shooting resumed on Cleopatra. This was the first time stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton worked together, and the first signs of their love affair. Their tempestuous relationship was one of the great affairs of 1960s Hollywood.
1970- Soap opera “All My Children” premiered.
1979- EMI Records ended their contracts with the punk band the Sex Pistols. They felt their outrageous behavior had gone just too far.
1980- The first Hewlett Packard Personal Computer, or PC, goes on the market.
1998-At the Heavenly Valley Ski Resort, former pop singer turned Republican Congressman Sonny Bono died when he skied headlong into a tree.
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