Birthdays: Christopher Marlowe, Eva Braun, Ronald Reagan, Francois Truffaut, Babe Ruth, Elias Disney-Walt’s dad, Bob Marley, Queen Anne I of England, Aaron Burr, Robert Townsend, Mike Farrell, Tom Brokaw, Mike Maltese, Haskell Wexler, Axel Rose, Patrick McKnee- Mr. Steed of the Avengers, Thurl Ravenscroft the voice of Tony the Tiger, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Rip Torn, Marty Sklar , Kathy Naijimy is 67
1916- Oliver Hardy tried once to be a dancer in a minstrel show, but wound up managing a movie theater in his hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia. He watched the comics on screen and thought" I’m better than those guys." He moved to Hollywood, and this day signed a contract with the Hal Roach Studios to appear in short comedies, usually as a villain. The following year director Leo McCarey teamed the rotund Hardy with a skinny English music hall comedian Stan Laurel, and the legendary team was born- Laurel & Hardy. Interesting Note: Laurel & Hardy were both over 6 feet tall.
1929- Introduction to Photoplay magazine, the first lecture of the first university film degree course ever in the USA was given at The University of Southern California.
1932- Charles Addams published his first macabre cartoon in The New Yorker.
1935- The board game Monopoly is introduced by Parker Brothers. The prototype of the monopoly board was on a round oilcloth and had street names from Atlantic City NJ.
1935- Boxers or briefs? Arthur Kneibler patented men’s underwear brief. He got the idea looking at Frenchmen’s bathing suits on the Riviera and called them Jockeys.
1937- John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men” published. In a result Mr Steinbeck probably didn’t anticipate, was the stereotype image of a mildly autistic man as the big sidekick Lenny, cartoonists used so often. “Duh, tell me about da rabbits, George.”
1938- The first automatic donut making machine invented in Dubuque, Iowa.
1943- Walt Disney’s Saludos Amigos went into general release.
1956- Invasion of the Body Snatchers opened in theaters.
1974- John Boorman’s sci-fi cult classic Zardoz premiered. Sean Connery in his red jock-strap.
1985- Steve Wozniak, the young engineer who started Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in his garage, retired from running the company. He’d rather work as an engineer and teach children. He also returned to Berkeley to complete his undergraduate degree, under the name Rocky Clark. Rocky was the name of his dog.
2007- PSYCHO ASTRONAUT- Lisa Nowak, Space Shuttle commander, and mother of three, nicknamed RoboChick by the other astronauts, was fell in love with another astronaut on the program, William “Billy-O” Oefelein. This day Lisa Nowak drove non-stop 900 miles from Texas to Orlando to threaten the life of her boyfriend’s new girl. She wore a wig, a Huggies diaper to prevent having to pull over to use the restroom and was carrying handcuffs and duct tape. She was arrested before she could execute her strange plan. The incident spawned dozens of jokes- The Astro-Nut, Lust in Space, The 150 Mile High Club, etc.
2018- First launch of the Space X Falcon Heavy, the first privately owned reusable rocket, capable of taking people to the Moon or Mars. This rocket took into orbit entrepreneur Elon Musk’s personal red sports car with a dummy astronaut in the driver’s seat, with the music playing David Bowie’s Space Oddity in an endless loop. Also, the words from Hitchhiker’s Guide “Don’t Panic” in a panel in the dashboard.
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