Birthdays: Amerigo Vespucci, John Calhoun, Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov, Neville Chamberlain, Wilson Picket, Edgar Cayce, John Updike, Grover Cleveland, Edward Everett Horton, Vanessa Williams, F. W. DeKlerk, George Plympton, Peter Graves, Irene Cara, Luc Besson, Drew Struzan, Queen Latifah (born Dana Elaine Owens) is 54
1852- New York City steamboat skipper Henry Wells and mailman William Fargo form the Wells Fargo Company. In 1873 they went into a joint venture with several other freight shipping companies they called American Express.
1902- BIRTHDAY OF THE RECORDING INDUSTRY. The RCA Victrola company sent its engineers to Milan to record ten discs of the young singer Enrico Caruso. He became a world celebrity and the phonograph went from being a scientific curiosity to something every home had to have.
1910- Rosie O’Neill invented the Kewpie Doll.
100th Anniversary 1924-The film “The Thief of Baghdad” starring Douglas Fairbanks released. Directed by Raoul Walsh and designs by William Cameron Menzies. It is considered one of the first great special effects blockbuster.
1931- Schick, Inc. introduced the electric razor.
1942- Paramount’s “The Lost Dream” Little Audrey cartoon. The short was directed by Bill Tytla for Famous Studios. He designed Little Audrey based on his own daughter Tammy.
1962- President DeGaulle of France and Algerian FLN sign an accord giving Independence to Algeria.
1964- The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, the final direction of George Pal. With Tony Randall and Barbara Eden.
1965- Cosmonaut Sergei Leonov became the first human to walk in space.
1965- The Rolling Stones were fined 5 English pence for urinating on a wall in Stratford at ABC recording studio Romford.
1967- The Pirates of the Caribbean ride opened at Disneyland, designed by master artists Marc Davis, Alice Davis, Rolly Crump and Claude Coates.
1986- The New York Times reported that a 17-year-old student in New Jersey had tracked the launch of the new Soviet space station, Mir, before the Soviet government formally announced it. Using a shortwave scanner attached to his home computer, Phillip Naranjo tracked transmissions between space vessels and control centers on Earth. Just before the Russians announced Mir on February 20, the teen had picked up their Cyrillic code.
2011- The first space probe went into orbit around Mercury.
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