Birthdays: Marquis De Lafayette, Max Schreck (Nosferatu), Joseph Kennedy Sr., Felix Salten- the author of Bambi, Buddy Holly, Jane Curtin, Sergio Aragones is 87, Swoozie Kurtz, Jo Ann Worley, Rosie Perez is 59, Billy Rose, Ernest Tubb, Justin Whalin, Idris Elba is 52, Anika Noni-Rose, Anika Noni Rose is 52, animator Bruce Smith.
1696- William Kidd set sail from Portsmouth with a heavily armed ship named the Adventure. Captain Kidd’s orders were to clear the Indian Ocean of pirates, but instead he became a pirate himself.
1791- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera La Celemenza de Tito premiered in Prague.
1847- After living in a shack on Walden Pond for two years, Henry David Thoreau moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord Mass.
1862- During the Civil War an incident occurred when Stonewall Jackson’s Confederate brigades moved through the pro-Union town of Frederick, Maryland. All civilians kept indoors and waved white flags from their homes. But elderly widow Barbara Fritchie flew a big ass Stars & Stripes from her window and dared anyone to do anything about it. General Jackson just smiled and tipped his hat as he rode by. Years later a famous poem was written about the incident, The Ballad of Barbara Fritchie:” Shoot if You Must, This Old Grey Head, But Spare your Countries’ Flag, She Said!”
1910- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughn-Williams premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral. During rehearsals, the organist wrote a friend it was “A queer, mad work, by an odd fellow from Chelsea.”
1916- Piggly-Wiggly, the first true self-serve supermarket, opened in Memphis Tenn. Founder Clarence Saunders saw in shops a lot of time and effort was spent by clerks gpoing into back rooms getting people’s orders. He created an open store plan, baskets and no clerks except at check out. Leaving the customer to take what they wish at their own speed. He later invented the metal rolling shopping basket.
1935- the musical Top Hat opened with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
1958- The Spunky and Tadpole show debuts!
1968- the television premiere of H.R. PUFNSTUFF this day! Witchipoo, Orson and the Vroom Broom.
1969- DePatie-Freleng's The Pink Panther TV Show premiered.
1971- Happy Birthday Pampers. Scientists at Proctor & Gamble invent the disposable diaper.
1972 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appeared on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
1997- The great funeral of Princess Diana of Wales brought England to a halt and was televised around the world.
2000- The United Nations held a Millennial Summit. 150 presidents, kings, princes and prime ministers convened in New York City, the largest international conference ever held. Nothing important was decided and New Yorkers grumbled about the traffic.
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