Birthdays: Gnaeus Agricola- 40AD, Harriet Beecher Stowe, W.B. Yeats, Red Grange, Basil Rathbone, Dorothy Sayers, Ralph Edwards, Paul Lynde, Tim Allen is 71, Darla Hood, Ally Sheedy, Simon Callow is 72, Christo, Ralph McQuarrie, Malcolm McDowell is 81, Stellan Skarsgard is 73, the Olsen Twins are 38, Chris Evans is 43.
1858- THE BIG STINK- The population of metropolitan London had been outgrowing its sewage system. The Thames was London’s main sewer, as well as its source of drinking water. But nobody realized how bad it was until the unusually hot summer of 1858. Today the temperature reached the 90f, and the stink from the river got so bad it broke up a meeting of the Prime Minister’s cabinet. Ministers ran out of Parliament holding handkerchiefs to their noses.
1905- The workers of the Russian city of Odessa go on strike and the Czar's troops shoot them down on the Odessa steps. This causes the Battleship Potemkin's sailors to mutiny. Twenty years later Sergei Eisenstein made a famous film of the incident.
1920-The US Government ruled Americans cannot mail their children through the Parcel Post System.
1927- Wall St. tickertape parade for Charles Lindbergh.
1941-The American Federation of Labor, the AF of L called for a nationwide boycott of all Disney products and films. This was to support the Disney Cartoonists strike.
1958- Frank Zappa graduated Antelope Valley High School.
1982- Bill the Cat first appeared in the comic strip Bloom County.
2010- Pixar’s Toy Story 3 premiered.
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