Birthdays: King Edward I "Longshanks", John Wesley the founder of the Methodists, Igor Stravinsky, Don Graham, Wally Wood, Ralph Bellamy, Dean Martin, Barry Manilow, Joe Piscopo, Newt Gingrich, Martin Bormann, Jason Patrick, Ken Loach, Greg Kinnear is 60, Venus Williams, Thomas Haden Church is 64, Will Forte is 54
1823- Charles Mackintosh patented the waterproof rubberized raincoat. In England, a raincoat is still called a Mackintosh.
1885- The pieces of the Statue of Liberty arrive from France. Some assembly required...
1893- Cracker Jacks invented by RW Reuckheim. Their name came from Teddy Roosevelt sampling the caramel corn, and exclaimed “These are Crackerjack!”- popular slang back then for something very good.
1919 - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiered.
1933-Disney short Mickey’s Mechanical Man.
1946- The first mobile telephone was installed in an automobile in St. Louis, Missouri.
1964- The first Universal Studios tram car tour. Carl Laemmle had been inviting tourists in for a nickel to sit in bleachers and watch movies be filmed as early as 1915.
1968- Ohio Express’ single “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I got love in my Tummy” went gold.
1994- THE WHITE BRONCO CHASE- Movie actor and Hall of Fame football player O.J. Simpson was wanted for questioning about the grisly murder of his second wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her boyfriend Ron Goldman. This day OJ tried to escape. He and his football friend Al Cowlings led police on a strange slow-speed pursuit for two hours around the freeways of Los Angeles as the world watched amazed on live television. He eventually was convinced to surrender. OJ Simpson was acquitted of murder in a controversial trial, but found guilty in a civil wrongful death suit.
2005- The Miyazaki directed hit Howl’s Moving Castle opened in the U.S., dubbed by Pixar and Pete Docter.
2016- Pixar’s Finding Dori opened, the sequel to Finding Nemo, directed by Andrew Stanton
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