Birthdays: Andrea Del Sarto, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Ginger Rogers, Pinchas Zukerman,
Orville Redenbacher, Roald Amundsen, Sunny Tufts, Barbera Stanwyck, Reuben Blades, Mary Baker-Eddy the founder of Christian Science, Phoebe Cates, Will Farrell is 58
1439 - Kissing is banned in England to stop diseases from spreading. I wonder if they knew about fist-bumping?
1932- Cecil B. DeMille shot the scene in his film Sign of the Cross where Claudette Colbert took a bath in asses milk. Legend has it that DeMille insisted on real milk in the bath and that by the second day the hot studio lights had curdled it to a smelly cheese. But production notes show the scene was all shot in one day. DeMille always got away with sexy semi-nude scenes by putting them in biblical settings. After all, who would criticize a morality tale from the Good Book?
1935- The first parking meter set up in Oklahoma City.
1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
1951- J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" published.
1954- Groundbreaking for the construction of Disneyland.
1956 –The last time Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus performed under a canvas circus tent.
1963- Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6.
1969- Congress passed Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations. It makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their spacecraft.
1969- Apollo 11 blasted off for the Moon.
1994- Comet Schoendacher-Levy 6 impacted with the Planet Jupiter, giving scientists a spectacular ringside seat to the processes of the creation of the Universe.
1988- Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic film Akira premiered in Tokyo. It opened in America a year later. It was the first Japanese Anime film to go beyond the domestic and its niche fan base, to appeal to a global audience.
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