Birthdays: J.C. Penney (James Cash Penney), B.B. King, Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov, Anne Francis, Linda Darnel, Nadia Boulanger, Alan Funt, George Chakiris, Peter Falk, Ed Begley Jr, Jennifer Tilly, Molly Shannon, Marvin P. Middlemark 1919-the inventor of the rabbit ears TV antenna, Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rourke is 69
1920- Enrico Caruso made his last recordings for the Victor Recording Company.
1941- After the settlement in the Walt Disney Animators Strike was announced, today was the first day everybody went back to work. From 1,200 employees in May, a little under 700 reported for work. Bad feelings between pro-unionists and loyalists caused more to quit, then Pearl Harbor caused more to leave.
1941- CBS radio premiered the Arkansas Traveler Show. In it, bandleader Bob Burns played a strange instrument made out of a stovepipe he called a Bazooka. Later, when the US Army issued the first hand-held rocket launchers to their infantry, the GI’s called the things bazookas because it resembled Burn’s instrument.
1949- Chuck Jones "Fast and Furrious" the First Road Runner-Coyote cartoon.
1953- The St. Louis Browns baseball team moved to Baltimore and became the Baltimore Orioles.
1963- The Beatles released “She Loves You-Yeah,Yeah,Yeah.” in the U.S. on the Swan Records label.
1963- The sci-fi thriller series The Outer Limits premiered- Do not attempt to adjust your television- We control the horizontal, We control the vertical, etc.
1964- The Peter Potamus Show debuted. Time for my hippo-hurricane-holler.
1965- The Dean Martin Show premiered on NBC. “Everybody loves somebody, sometime…”
1966- the last LOOK magazine published.
1966- The new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center had its opening night. A performance of Samuel Barbers Anthony & Cleopatra sung by Leontyne Price and Justino Diaz. It was a near disastrous night because Ms Price got locked in a pyramid for a while and couldn’t get out.
1968- Presidential candidate Richard Nixon appears on the TV comedy "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" and says:" Sock it to Me?"
1983- Arnold Schwarzenegger became a US citizen.
1984- “Miami Vice” TV show debuted.
1985- Steve Jobs was kicked out of the chairmanship of Apple. CEO John Scully denies he actually fired Jobs. He just stripped him of all his authority and this day Jobs quit. Steve Jobs always claimed he had been fired. Jobs went on to run his new company Next and Pixar. In Dec 1996, after failing revenue, Steve Jobs was invited back to take over Apple. At the time of his death in 2007, Apple was the richest company on earth.
2003- Sheb Wooley, the composer of the 1951 hit “One Eyed, One Horned, Flying Purple People Eater” and the theme song of the TV show Hee Haw and the originator of the Wilhelm Scream, died in Henderson Tennessee at age 82.
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