Birthdays: Roman Emperor Constantius II, Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene, Mata Hari, Rahssan Rolland Kirk, Dr. Ralphe Bunche, Nicholas Ray, Dr. Richard Leakie, Grandma Moses, Stan Freberg, James Randi, Billy Burke aka Glenda the Good Witch, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Garrison Keillor, Animator Rudy Ising, David Duchovny is 64, Charlize Theron is 49
1919- the First Actor’s Equity Strike.
1928- The US Treasury issued a smaller, leaner dollar bill. Before this dollars were two times larger and wider than the ones we now use.
1931 Jazz trumpeter Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, died of drink and drugs. He was 29. Bix along with his idol Louis Armstrong was considered one of the first jazz musicians to popularize the solo-riff, where in the body of a song the soloist would depart from the arrangement and improvise, like a cadenza in classical music. His family in Davenport Iowa were horrified that their son dropped out of school to associate with musicians and black people. Even after Bix was famous, he returned proudly home only to discover his parents had stacked up every record he sent them in a box under the stairs. They never listened to a single one.
1933-The first "Alley-Oop" comic strip.
1963- Pres. John F. Kennedy and Jacky Kennedy tried to have one more baby, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, but he was born with a breathing disorder and died two days later.
1968- James Brown recorded “Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”, at the Vox Studios in Los Angeles. The single became a clarion call for the Black Power movement in the U.S.
1970 - Christine McVie joined the band Fleetwood Mac.
1970 – The first computer chess tournament.
50th Anniv 1974- French daredevil Phillipe Petit strung a tightrope between the two 110 story towers of NY’s World Trade Center and walked across it. As New Yorkers watched in amazement, Petit kept his concentration by carrying on a conversation with the buildings.
1979- THE RUNAWAY WARS. Hollywood Cartoonist’s Union launched a strike against studios sending their animation jobs overseas.
1981- The animated Heavy Metal movie opened. Directed by Gerald Potterton.
2007- Leo Montulli, a programmer for Netscape, invented internet cookies. Do you accept them?
2020- Howard, a documentary by Don Hahn about the late lyricist of musicals like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast was released on Disney +
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