Birthdays: Grandma Moses, Dame Edith Sitwell, Elia Kazan, Richard Roundtree, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Quayle. Peter Lawford, Daniel Inouye, Susan Blakely, Shannon Elizabeth, Sonny Rawlins, Toby Jones is 57, Julie Kavner the voice of Marge Simpson, animator Fred Moore, Leslie Jones is 57
Don Messick the voice of Scooby Doo
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean was the 1st baby placed in an incubator.
1892 - Gentleman Jim Corbett finally KOs John L. Sullivan after 21 rounds for heavyweight boxing title. Corbett was an advocate of the new Marquis of Queensberry rules and preferred using boxing gloves to bare knuckle fighting like Sullivan did.
1916 - Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress.
1923 - Interpol was formed in Vienna
1936 - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) began operation.
1957- Actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini separate.
1961- MGM released Switchin Kittens, Tom & Jerry directed and animated by Gene Deitch in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1963- Mushi productions cartoon series," Tetsuan Atom" debuts in the U.S as Astro Boy.
1968- Led Zeppelin (billed as The Yardbirds) made their live debut at the Teen Club Box 45 in Gladsaxe, Denmark.
1968- Hanna Barbera’s The Banana Splits Show.
1978 - Keith Moon, rock drummer of the Who, died of a drug overdose at 31. He actually overdosed the drug he was prescribed to treat his drug abuse. In one night, he took 22 tabs of choloromethiazole edysilate. He was staying in the very same London flat- #123 Curzon Place, that Mama Cass Elliot died in four years earlier.
1984- The Walt Disney Board formally fired Walt’s son-in-law CEO Ron Miller.
1991- Walt Disney’s Darkwing Duck aired.
1996- Rap artist and actor Tupac Shakur was shot to death gangland style in Las Vegas Nevada. He was standing up in the open roof of a BMW 750 sedan talking to some girls when a Cadillac pulled along side and opened fire. In 2002 the LA Times concluded an investigation that rapper Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G. hired the killer and provided the gun. Notorious B.I.G. was himself shot to death shortly after.
1998- Google started.
2000- Barely legal teen pop star Britney Spears shocked even the permissive MTV Music Video Awards crowd by singing her hit “Oops, I Did it Again” while stripping and grinding in a Las Vegas showgirl type sheer flesh-colored bikini.
2006- Disney short The Little Match Girl, directed by Roger Allers, released.
2008- The Great Recession- Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, the Federal National Mortgage Assoc., go into receivership after sinking under the weight of bad debt.
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