Birthdays: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cole Porter, John Bartlett of Bartletts Familiar Quotations, Boy George O’Dowd, Les Paul, Burl Ives, Lash LaRue, Happy Rockefeller, Robert MacNamara, Major Bowes, Carl Neilsen, Jerzy Kosinski, Pierre Salinger, Steffy Graff, Marvin Kalb, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist who formulated Coulomb's Law, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, Michael J. Fox is 63, Johnny Depp is 61, Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag) is 43
Today is the Rom
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr., Springfield, Vermont
1839 – The first Henley Regatta held
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner.
1860- DIME NOVELS & PULP FICTION. Mr. Erastus Beadle published the first dime novel, Maleska, Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Anna Stephens. Sometimes called the Penny Dreadfuls, pocket-sized stories printed on cheap pulp paper became popular reading. They fantasized the West, extolling two-gun chivalry and virtuous maidens, roaring desperadoes and wild savages. This early form of mass media made celebrities out of characters like Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Black Bart, Billy the Kid and Belle Starr.
1918- Louella Parsons began her Hollywood Gossip column. Louella became one of the most powerful and widely read columnists in Hollywood’s golden age. Stories say Louella got as much pull as she did in the Hearst newspaper empire for helping cover up the killing of director Thomas Ince as well as trying to stifle the release of Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane. There is a story that Disney animator Frank Thomas spotted her being mean to a waitress while holding court at the Brown Derby. That inspired him to make her the model of the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland.
90 Years ago 1934- Happy Birthday Donald Duck! Walt Disney's short cartoon "The Little Wise Hen".
1934- The film The Thin Man with William Powell. Myrna Loy and Asta the dog went into general release.
1938 - Chlorophyll isolated by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins the 1st Caldecott Medal for outstanding children’s books.
1941- First day shooting on the film, the Maltese Falcon. It was John Huston’s first directorial effort. The story had already been made into a movie twice before, so nobody had high hopes for it. The studio budget was so low, Humphrey Bogart had to wear his own suits on camera.
1942 - Anne Frank began her diary.
1943- The Internal Revenue Service introduced the Pay-As-You-Go system of tax collection, or today we know it as tax withholding from your paycheck.
1950- After all appeals fail the first of the Hollywood Ten, screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, Philip Dunne, Alvah Bessie, Waldo Salt, Edward Dymytrk, David Ogden Stewart, Ring Lardner and John Howard Lawson are sentenced to prison. In the L.A. Municipal Jail one felon greeted the writers with a smile and said: "Hi Ya, Hollywood Kids!”
1953 - Elvis Presley graduates from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
1973- The thoroughbred horse Secretariat ridden by Ron Turcott won the Belmont Stakes, taking the first Triple Crown since Citation did it in 1948. He won it by an amazing 31 lengths! Secretariat was sired by Bold Ruler, the 1957 Preakness winner. The Triple Crown is three high stakes races. The Kentucky Derby is a mile and 1/4 (called by horseman "the classic distance"), the Preakness is slightly shorter at a mile and 3/16ths, and the Belmont, as reported, is a mile and 1/2. So the second race is actually shorter than the first. The big deal is that they all take place in only five weeks, which is asking a great deal of three-year-old colts.
1976 – Chuck Barris’ the" Gong Show" premiered. Where’s Jean-Jean the Dancing Machine?
1989 - Queen Elizabeth II knighted Ronald Reagan.
2006- Pixar film Cars released.
2160 - Montgomery Edward Scott, called Scotty or Mr. Scott, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the engineer of the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek. “ Cap’n, Ah dunna know how much more the engines can take!”
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