Birthdays: Fess Parker, Karl Stockhausen, George Meany, Charles Bukowski, Menachem Begin, Otto Mesmer the creator of Felix the Cat, Myron Grim Natwick the creator of Betty Boop, Hal Foster the creator of Prince Valiant, Kathie Lee Gifford, Edie Gorme, Bill Evans, Leslie Ann Warren, Angela Bassett is 66, Julie Numar is 91, Robert Culp, James Cameron is 69, Bruce Beresford, Steve Carrell is 63, Madonna, aka Louise Ciccone of Bay City Michigan, is 66
1877- BIRTHDAY OF THE WORD-"HELLO". In a letter dated today Thomas Edison wrote to the first president of AT&T about how people should initiate conversation on the new telephone machine. A genteel Victorian would think it impolite to speak until spoken to. Alexander Graham Bell, an old navy man, always thought the right way to start a phone conversation was to say "AHOY!" Edison explained that the results of sonic tests proved the old English fox hunting call "Halloo!" was most audible over great distances. In most languages around the world the word hello is the same.
1930- Ub Iwerk's "Fiddlesticks" the first Flip the Frog cartoon, done in a simple two-color process called Harriscolor. Iwerks was the first designer and animator of Mickey Mouse, who had left Walt Disney to open his own studio.
1938- In Three Forks Mississippi, Blues legend Robert Johnson was poisoned by a jealous husband.
1942- Happy Birthday Mighty Mouse. Terrytoon's short: "The Mouse of Tomorrow".
1954- First issue of Sports Illustrated.
1965- The AFL, American Football League offered it’s first expansion franchise to a new team called the Miami Dolphins. The AFL merged with the NFL in the 80s.
1969- “ Hey Man, we’re gonna serve breakfast in bed for 500,000” So was hippy Wavy Gravy’s announcement at dawn on the second day of the Woodstock Rock Concert. Toasted oats in hot water was ladled out en-masse in paper cups. Wavy declared this was the day Americans learned first learned about Granola.
1974- The Ramones play their first gig at the NY club CBGBs. Hey-Ho, Lets Go!
1977- E-DAY in Memphis. Elvis Presley, donuts and Pizza Hut box in hand, died of a heart attack while sitting on the toilet. He was reading a book-the Historic Search for the Face of Jesus. He was 42.
1985- On her birthday, Madonna married Sean Penn. They divorced shortly after.
1986 - Pixar's short Luxo Jr premiered at the Siggraph in Dallas.
1987- The Harmonic Convergence- Another one of these celestial events that the mainstream media trumpeted as the end of everything. All nine planets of our solar system were in perfect alignment and the subsequent gravitational forces were supposed to knock the Earth into the Sun or something or other that would send us to Hell in a Handbasket. Lots of New Age types flocked to occult sites like Mt. Shasta and Stonehenge to meditate on the End of All Things.
So, what happened? Nothing.
1991- The original Shamu the Whale died of respiratory failure at age 16.
2005- Top Pixar story-artist Joe Ranft was killed in an auto accident. He was 45.
2019- Animator Richard Williams died of cancer at age 86.
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