Birthdays: Jorge Luis Borges, William Wilberforce, Marlee Matlin, Yasir Arafat, Max Beerbom, Cal Ripken Jr, Joshua Lionel Cowan the inventor of Lionel toy electric trains, Kenny Baker-C3PO in Star Wars, Stephen Fry is 68, Durward Kirby- 1960s T.V. announcer, Duke Kahanamoku-1890- Olympic champion who popularized Surfing, Kirk Wise, Dave Chappelle is 52, Steve Guttenberg is 67
1847 - Charlotte Bronte finished the manuscript of her novel "Jane Eyre".
1853 – Saratoga Springs hotel resort chef George Crum invented Potato Chips, or crisps.
1887- The US set up a weather station in Greenland.
1913- Congress okayed the creation of the Parcel Post system- UPS.
1939- Mr. Leslie Mitchell became the first British Television announcer.
1940- In Milan the first successful jet flight- the Italian Camponi CC-2.
1942- Walt Disney’s film Saludos Amigos received its world premiere in Rio De Janiero.
1951- Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. The film won the Grand Prize and first showed the world that Japanese Cinema was a new creative force in the film world.
1966- The effects fantasy Fantastic Voyage directed by Richard Fleischer opened. The submarine in the film was designed by Harper Goff, who designed the Nautilus for Walt Disney’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, also directed by Richard Fleischer, the son of Max Fleischer.
1973- One month after Bruce Lee’s death, his last film Enter The Dragon opened in the US to wild acclaim. It cost $800,000 to make and grossed over $140 million. It renewed interest in the late star and helped spawn the Chinese Martial Arts craze in the US.
1995- Microsoft's Windows 95 introduced.
1997- According to the 1984 James Cameron film The Terminator this was the day the Skynet computer system became self-aware and began the War of the Day of Judgement.
2006- A team of astronomers at the International Astronomical Union including Neill DeGrasse-Tyson officially demoted Pluto from being the 9th planet to a “dwarf planet.”
2011- Steve Jobs announced he was stepping down from all his positions at Apple, Pixar and Disney due to his failing health. He died of pancreatic cancer shortly after.
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