Birthdays: Sir Robert Peel founder of London’s police force- the Bobbies, outlaw Belle Starr, John Carradine, William Burroughs, Arthur Ochs Schulzburger, Hank Aaron, Tim Holt, Barbera Hershey, Charlotte Rampling, Roger Staubach, Michael Mann is 82, Bobby Brown, H. R. Giger, Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt), Christopher Guest, Jennifer Jason Leigh is 63, Laura Linney is 60, Michael Sheen is 55, Bruce Timm, who created Harley Quinn.
1846- The Oregon Spectator, first English newspaper on the Pacific Coast, published.
1887- Verdi’s opera "Otello" debuted. Guiseppi Verdi had retired from composing after 1875, but was goaded by a new generation of composers like Arrigo Boito to take up his pen once more.
1916- Enrico Caruso recorded O Solo Mio for the Victor Talking Machine Co.
1919- Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith sign papers to form the United Artists Studio. The press teased, “ The Lunatics have taken over the asylum!”
1921- The Loews State Theater in Chicago opened.
1922- The Reader’s Digest began publication.
1937- Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times opened in theaters. Chaplin was inspired to lampoon modern technological madness when he was invited to view the auto assembly production lines in Detroit and saw men moving like machines.
1952- New York City is the first to adopt the three light traffic lights-red, yellow, green.
1953- Walt Disney’s "Peter Pan" opened in general release theaters.
1956- Darryl Zanuck resigned from 20th Century Fox, the studio he built into a powerhouse. He later won back the chairmanship in 1962 in the wake of the Cleopatra fiasco, and was ousted again in 1970 by a consortium led by his own wife and son, Darryl Zanuck Jr.
1957- Mel Lazarus’ comic strip Miss Peach debuted.
1970- TWA began 747 nonstop services between New York and Los Angeles.
1972- After numerous airline hijackings, the U.S. institutes luggage inspection and metal detectors at airports.
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