Birthdays: Liberace, General George H. Thomas the "Rock of Chickamagua", Sebastian Sperling Kresge the founder of S.S. Kresge stores, Milton Friedman, Sherry Lansing, Geraldine Chaplin, Kurt Gowdy, Dean Cain, Leon “ Bull “Durham, Primo Levi, Fred Quimby, animator Ken Harris, Wesley Snipes is 62, and according to J.K. Rowling, today is the birthday of Harry Potter
Ted Cassidy who played Lurch in the Adams Family,
1922- Ralph Samuelson invented water skis.
1930- Radio mystery show “The Shadow” premiered. “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows…heh, heh, heh.” Orson Welles did the voice of the crime fighting Shadow for a year in 1937 for $185 a week.
1948- President Truman dedicated New York City’s second major airport Idlewild Field. In 1963 it was renamed JFK Airport.
1954- Steve Allen married Jayne Meadows.
1966- Birmingham Alabama held a massed rally to burn Beatles records after John Lennon casually joked that the Beatles had become more popular than Jesus.
1962- Malaysian independence.
1968- In the wake of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, a schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman wrote Charles Schulz that he needed to add a black child to his Peanuts characters. This day Charles Schulz introduced Franklin, the first black character into his Peanuts comic strip.
1971- Apollo 15 astronaut went for a drive on the surface of the moon in their land-rover.
1992- Bebe’s Kids released, the first animated feature directed by an African American animator, Bruce W. Smith.
1992- The Robert Zemeckis’ comedy Death Becomes Her opened. With Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. It is the first film that widely used the new digital matte technique to replace traditional optical printing.
1995- The Walt Disney Company bought the ABC Network, the Discovery Channel and ESPN.
1999- Premiere of Brad Bird’s movie The Iron Giant.
2020- The Twitter accounts of famous people like former Pres Obama, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk were hacked for a sophisticated bitcoin scam. The person arrested was not a foreign agent or terrorist, but a 17 year old High School student from Tampa, Fla., named Graham Clark.
2022- George Jetson of the 1960s TV show The Jetsons was born. The show is set when George was age 40, in 2062.
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