Birthdays: Michel Caravaggio, Georges Clemenceau, Al Kapp, William Paley, Max Schmelling, Frederic Engels, Marcello Mastroianni, Moon Unit Zappa, Ed Sullivan, Sylvia Kristel, John Sayles, Arnold Stang, J.T. Walsh, Seymour Cray, Janeane Garofalo is 60, Mira Sorvino is 57, Hillary Duff is 37, Naomi Watts is 56, George Scribner, Bridgette Bardot is 90
1924 -the first airplane flight around the world landed back at its point of departure. Commander Leslie Arnold took off from Seattle with 5 converted torpedo bomber seaplanes. One crashed, another sank but the remaining three circumnavigated the globe. They completed the journey in 175 days, making 74 stops and covering 27,550 miles.
1928- For his birthday, William Paley, son of a cigar manufacturer, was given control of a little radio company called the Columbia Broadcasting System. He turned CBS into a corporate broadcasting giant and threw his support behind developing television and long-playing records.
1929- USC first played UCLA in a football game. USC won 76-0. Play was suspended for a few years because of UCLA revamping its program, but resumed regularly in 1935. A sportswriter at the time wrote: "In years to come, this game will probably be one of the top football spectacles of the West"
1935- Mickey Mouse short On Ice, premiered.
1958- HB’s The Huckleberry Hound Show premiered.
1960- Ted Williams hit a home run at his last at-bat. Number 521.
1961- Richard Chamberlain made a name for himself by playing the handsome Dr. Kildare on TV, Raymond Massey co-starred.
1961-The Hazel TV show with Shirley Booth premiered.
1961- Tennessee Tuxedo and his Friends Show premiered. Don Adams (Get Smart) did the lead voice.
1967- Speed Racer premiered in the U.S.
1976- Stevie Wonder released his album Songs in the Key of Life.
1987- Star Trek the Next Generation premiered.
1994- Michael Eisner cancelled plans for a theme park called Disney’s America in Northern Virginia. The idea was dropped after much resistance from local homeowners in Northern Virginia. Many of them were retired Washington D.C. power brokers, who didn’t want a huge noisy theme park next to their quiet estates.
1996- The Ambiguously Gay Duo premiered on the Dana Carvey Show. Created by SNL writer Robert Smigel. J.J. Sedelmier created the animation, Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert did the voices.
2015- Scientists discovered liquid water on the planet Mars.
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