Birthdays: Issac Bashevis Singer, Frederick Maytag, inventor of the electronic washing machine-1857, Emiline Pankhurst, Woody Guthrie, Gerald Ford, Ingmar Bergman, Jerry Rubin, Scott Rudin, Rosie Grier, Harry Dean Stanton, Polly Bergen, Gustav Klimt, Terry Thomas, Jimmy Hoffa, Dave Fleischer, Bill Hanna, Walt Stanchfield, Joel Silver, Vincent (Big Pussy) Pastore
Happy Tape Measure Day.
1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1908- The Adventures of Dollie premiered, the first movie of D.W. Griffith.
1917- Buster Keaton made his film debut in the Fatty Arbuckle comedy The Butcher Boy.
1933- Well Blow Me Down!- Max Fleischer's first "Popeye the Sailor" cartoon debuted. The character was first created by Elzie Segar for his Thimble Theater comic strip. Based on a eccentric old neighbor who smoked a pipe and liked to get into fights. Vaudevillian Red Pepper Sam provided his salty mumbles throughout the post-sync track. Fleischer soon realized the improvised mumbling was funnier than the written dialogue. When Sam asked for more money than Max Fleischer thought he was worth, he replaced him with assistant animator Jack Mercer, who remained his voice until his death in 1984.
1944- T.S. Elliott, then working for the London publisher Faber & Faber, wrote George Orwell a letter rejecting the manuscript of his book “Animal Farm” for publication. He said although the writing style was good and the most intriguing use of allegory since Swift’s Gulliver, its politics were too Trotskyite to be representative of their company. Orwell found another publisher.
1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
1951 - 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 –Triple Crown Winner Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races.
1955- The Kaarman Ghia debuted. Volkswagen wanted an "image car" to compete with the sleek American designs like the Corvette and Thunderbird. So they subcontracted the Kaarman motorbus company who engaged an Italian design firm named Ghia and the distinctive little coupe was born.
1967 - The new band called The Who began a US tour as the opening act for Herman’s Hermits.
1969- The movie Easy Rider premiered.
1997- Johnny Bravo premiered on TV.
2015- After a nine-year voyage, the space probe New Horizon made a closer flyby of the planet Pluto than any spacecraft had ever done. Scientists has dismissed Pluto as a shapeless asteroid. Horizon showed Pluto was perfectly round, had an ice cap, and even a slightly blue atmosphere.
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