Birthdays: Euclid, Blaise Pascal, King James I Stuart, Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor, Moe Howard, Lou Gehrig, Guy Lombardo, Mildred Natwick, Charles Coburn, Pat Butram, Louis Jourdan, Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Dame Mae Whitty, Lucie Sloane, Ang Sung Soo Chi, Kathleen Turner is 70, Paula Abdul is 62, Zoe Saldana is 46, Gena Rowlands is 94.
240 BC- Greek mathematician, Eratosthenes, measuring the cast shadows made by sticks placed in the ground, first calculated the total circumference of the Earth. He was only off by a few miles.
1619- THE OLD GLOBE THEATER FIRE. During a performance of William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, a prop cannon fired a salute that set afire the straw thatch on the roof. Soon the blaze consumed the old theater. Shakespeare, as a partner in the company that owned the Globe, paid to rebuild it. He soon retired home to Stratford. Fifty years later, during Cromwell’s Puritan rule, the Globe was pulled down because the Puritans frowned on theatrical entertainment as ungodly.
1846-THE EARLIEST RECORDED BASEBALL GAME- The famous legend is that Abner Doubleday invented the game in 1839 but that's been mostly disproved. The sport evolved out of an old Anglo-Irish game called Rounders. No one is sure of the exact date the game was invented, but, on this day, a New York newspaper ran a notice of a "base-ball" game played by the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club and the New York Nines Cricket Club at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey. The cricketeers won 23-1. This was the first game played under Cartwright’s Rules. Alexander Cartwright created a finite system of three outs and nine innings.
Baseball spread nationwide because of the Civil War. When men of all the states would spend time in army camps, they learned to play “The Boston-New York Game”. After the conflict, they went to their homes in the various states and took the game with them.
1921- Distributer Amadee van Beuren announced production of a new series of "Aesop’s Fables" cartoons to be done by former Bray director Paul Terry. Terrytoons studio is born.
1923 - "Moon Mullins," a Comic Strip, debuts.
1934- The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, created.
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invented. Originally called Cheery-Oats, it was changed to Cheerios in 1945.
1951-Happy Birthday Taz! Devil May Hare, short by Bob McKimson, introduced the Tasmanian Devil.
1952 - "I've Got a Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.
1956- The comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis announced their breakup.
1956- Don Bluth’s first day at the Walt Disney Studio.
1960- Freedomland amusement park opened in the north Bronx, New York. Several of its designers like Harper Goff had worked on Walt Disney’s Disneyland.
1963- The Ray Harryhausen fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts premiered.
1963- The Canadian Football Hall of Fame formed.
1973- The Rocky Horror Show stage show opened in London. The 1975 film version became a midnight cult classic. Writer Richard O’Brien himself played the doorman Riff-Raff. Let’s do the Time Warp Again.
1978 – Garfield the Cat, created by Jim Davis, 1st appeared as a comic strip.
1983- Don Bluth’s video arcade game Dragons Lair debuted.
1987 - Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream announced a new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. Named for rocker Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead. Today Jerry is gone, but Cherry Garcia rocks on.
1987 –David Geffen Records signed their 1st artist -Donna Summer.
1998- Disney’s Mulan went into wide release. .
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Yesterday’s Quiz: What does to call someone a pleb?
Answer: Roman for plebian, the lowest class.
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