Birthdays: John Randolph, The Marquis DeSade, Martha Custis Washington, Thomas Hardy, Ludwig Roselius the inventor of decaf coffee 1874, Hedda Hopper, Sir Edward Elgar, Johnny Weismuller, Charlie Watts, Disney story artist Dick Heumer, Lotte Reinniger, Marvin Hamlisch, Barry Levinson, Jon Peters, Dana Carvey, Garo Yepremian, Jerry Mathers the Beaver of the old TV show Leave it to Beaver is 76, Dennis Haysbert is 70, Lasse Halstrom is 78
1908- James Spengler worked as a carpet cleaner in a dept. store in Akron Ohio. Being asthmatic, he found his work challenging, to say the least. So he invented the electric powered vacuum cleaner, which he patented this day. He eventually sold his invention to his cousin William Hoover.
1920- Eugene O’Neill won a Pulitzer Prize for his first play Beyond the Horizon.
1918 -In Monroe NY, Velveeta Cheese was invented by Swiss immigrant Emil Frey as a way to recycle damaged and partially used cheese wheels.
1932- The Screen Publicists Guild formed
1940- Will Eisner's "The Spirit" comic first appears.
1952 - Maurice Olley of General Motors began designing the Corvette.
1956- Elvis Presley introduced his hit song “You Ain’t Nothin But a Hound Dog” on the Milton Berle TV show. The song was originally recorded by Big Mama Mabel Thorton.
1958- An L.A. referendum allowed the county to buy Chavez Ravine from its inhabitants to build Dodger Baseball Stadium.
1961-Pulitzer Prize winning writer George S. Kaufman died. Playwright, humorist and critic who wrote Dinner at Eight, You Can’t Take it With You, and Stage Door. He was 71. He requested the epitaph on his headstone read: "Over My Dead Body!"
1973- London animator Richard Williams closed down his Soho studio for one month so his staff could be tutored by old Hollywood animation legends Art Babbitt, Chuck Jones, Grim Natwick, and Ken Harris.
1989- Disney Touchstone pictures released Dead Poet’s Society, staring Robin Williams.
1991- MTV’s nighttime show Liquid Television premiered with Peter Chung’s Aeon Flux.
2017- Wonder Woman, directed by Patti Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot, opened.
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