Birthdays: Martha Washington, Alexander Pope, Berkeley Breathed, Al Hirschfeld, Al Martinez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Judy Holliday, Benazir Bhutto, Jane Russell, Mariette Hartley, Bernie Koppel, Rick Sutcliffe, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Flagherty, Juliet Lewis, Tony Scott, Chris Pratt is 43, Prince William the The Prince of Wales is 42.
1871- The Los Angeles Star newspaper announced the first trainload of pretzels had reached town!
1893- The FERRIS WHEEL -George Washington Ferris, Jr. decided that the Columbia Exhibition, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery, needed to surpass the French Eiffel Tower (introduced in 1889 during the centennial celebration of the French Revolution). So he created his wheel so each compartment could hold 12 people plus a butler in a parlor-like atmosphere and rotate them 250 feet in the air. People were afraid they would gasp for oxygen up so high, but it was a big hit anyway.
1907 - E W Scripps founded United Press Agency.
1939- Eugene O’Neill’s wife Carlotta wrote in her diary- “Gene kept me up all night talking about his outline for a new play about his family”- The Long Days Journey into Night. It took him two years to write, and it almost killed him.
1947- To silence a jeering crowd of racists at a Brooklyn Dodgers-Cincinnati game, Kentucky native PeeWee Reese put his arm around Jackie Robinson.
1948- The Mark I computer, built at the Victoria University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program this day. The first computer that could store a program and re-open it.
1948- Columbia Records introduced the 33 1/3-rpm long playing record, the LP. Inventor Peter Goldmark was annoyed that he had to change his 78 rpm records several times to hear just one Brahms Symphony. He decided to invent a way to fit all of a symphony on one side of a record. His immediate supervisors told him to stop it because people would not throw away all their 78 rpm records to replace them with his. So Goldmark went over their heads to CBS chief William Paley and Paley loved the idea. RCA and David Sarnoff tried to compete with the 45-rpm record, but all it was good for was singles. The 33 1/3 dominated recording until replaced by the Compact Disc in the 1980’s.
1965- The Byrds release record Hey Mr. Tambourine Man.
1978 - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's musical "Evita," premieres in London.
1988- Who Framed Roger Rabbit? premiered at Radio City Music Hall. It opened generally three days later.
1991- Disney’s The Rocketeer premiered. Based on Dave Stevens comic book.
1996- Walt Disney’s animated Hunchback of Notre Dame opened in theaters.
1998- Paleontologists in Canada announced the discovery of the largest Tyrannosaurus turd ever found. The search intensified for a T-Rex with a relaxed look on his face.
2004- The first flight in the privatization of Space. Bert Routans’ company financed by Microsoft head, Paul Allen, sent SpaceShip1 up to the edge of the atmosphere. Test pilot Mike Nelvil was the first civilian astronaut.
2008- Pixar’s WALL-E premiered at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.
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