Birthdays: M C Escher, Charles Gounod, James Montgomery Flagg, Kay Kayser, William Lassell 1799- English astronomer who discovered Neptune's moon Triton, Richard Boone, Jeanette MacDonald, Key Luke, Isabella Rosselini, E.G. Marshall, Roger Ebert, Eduard Daladier, Carol Kane, Sammy Kahn, The Quay Brothers, Paul McCartney is 82
1879 - W H Richardson, an African American inventor, patents the baby buggy or perambulator.
1892 - Macadamia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
1898 - 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1900- The Dowager Empress of China Xiao Chin Xi (Cixi) called for the killing of all foreigners during the Boxer Rebellion. She committed the Chinese Imperial Army to the expulsion of all the European colonialist powers. Empress Xiao Chin Xi was the first person the western press called The Dragon Lady, later used by Milt Caniff in his comic strip Terry & the Pirates.
1903 - 1st transcontinental auto trip began in SF. Arrived in NY 3-month later.
1913- composer Cole Porter graduated from Yale.
1923- The first Checker Cab was manufactured in Chicago. The big, boxy, durable Checkers were the most famous American city taxicabs until phased out in the 1980s.
1931- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had in its collection a little blue statue of a Hippo from the tomb of the Egyptian Steward Senbi from the Twelfth Dynasty. People nicknamed it Willie. This day an article about Willie with a color picture appeared in Punch Magazine. Soon museum craftsmen who usually do restoration work made little replicas of Willie that they gave as gifts to donors and eventually started selling to the public. The massive retail business in museum reproductions and merchandise we have today all began with little Willie the Hippo.
1959 - 1st TV telecast transmitted from England to US.
1967- At the Monterey Pop Rock festival Jimi Hendrix electrified the audience then finished his set by burning and smashing his guitar on stage. Until then musicians didn’t behave in such a way towards their instruments. Ravi Shankar was particularly shocked.
1969- Sam Peckinpah’s film “The Wild Bunch” opened. With William Holden, Warren Oates, Robert Ryan and Ernest Borgnine.
1980 –"We are on a mission from God." John Landis movie " The Blues Brothers" with Dan Ackroyd & John Belushi premiered.
1983- Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in Space. Russian Valentina Tereshkova had gone up in 1963.
1999- George Lucas film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The first mainstream film shot completely digital.
2021- Pixar’s Luca opened, directed by Enrico Casarosa.
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