Birthdays: Gautama Buddha –as commemorated by Japanese custom-Kambutsue, Ponce De Leon, King Albert of the Belgians, Mary Pickford, Yip Harburg, Betty Ford, Sonja Henje, Catfish Hunter, Jacques Brel, Darlene Gillespie, Julian Lennon, Carmen McCrae, Shecky Green, Douglas Trumbull, Robin Wright is 59, Patricia Arquette
1876- Amilicare Ponchielli’s opera La Gioconda debuted. The ballet portion is famous as the Dance of the Hours.
1879- Milk first sold in glass bottles.
1911-Vitagraph released Winsor McCay's short cartoon "Little Nemo" theatrically.
1933-The WPA- Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Works Projects Administration founded. It was the Franklin Roosevelt administration’s massive jobs program to heal the Depression by putting unemployed people back to work. They built bridges, dams, roads, federal buildings. The WPA arts projects employed artists like Grant Wood, Berenice Abbott, Tyrus Wong, and Thomas Hart Benton and put on plays with Orson Welles and John Houseman. Lee Krasner said it was a life-saver. They created a WPA Symphony that found dozens of unemployed musicians, including three who once played for Peter Tchaikovsky.
1933- Disney short Father Noah’s Ark opened. Directed by Wilfred Jackson.
1949- A three year old girl named Kathy Fiscus fell into a well in the LA suburb of San Marino California. After a concerted effort by authorities to rescue her, she was found dead. What makes this sad incident memorable, was it was the first time a news story was followed by KTLA television cameras and reported live as it happened.
1963- The Best Short Oscar went to John Hubley's The Hole. Voices by Dizzy Gillespie and George Matthews.
1973- Pablo Picasso died at age 91. His last words at a dinner with friends was a toast 'Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can’t drink anymore'. On his night table was a book of spot cartoons drawn by former Disney animator Vip Partch.
50th Anniv.1974- Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs set in 1935. Hammerin' Hank hit #715 off Dodger pitcher Al Dowling. Aaron had tied the Babe’s record at the end of the previous season and had to endure an entire winter of stress and racial threats before he could come up to bat again and break the record on opening day of the new season. His locker had sacks of vicious hate mail alongside it. Henry Aaron retired with a new record of 755. Pitcher Al Dowling joked: "I never say 7:15 anymore. I only say, 'It's a quarter after seven'."
1975- Frank Robinson becomes the first black manager in major league history as his Cleveland Indians defeat the Yankees 5-3. The Tribe's new player-manager hits a home run in his first at-bat as the designated hitter.
1986- Actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of the town of Carmel, California.
1994- Chan Ho Park becomes the first Korean to play in the US major leagues as he makes his Dodger pitching debut.
1994- Grunge rocker Kurt Kobain’s body was discovered by a security system electrician three days after he blew his own head off with a shotgun.
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