Birthdays: Richard the Lionhearted, Michel Caravaggio, Antonin Dvorak, Patsy Cline, Jimmy Rogers the Singing Brakeman, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Sid Caesar, Freddy Mercury, Lyndon LaRouche, Ewell Gibbons- natural food advocate, Heather Thomas, David Arquette is 52, Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, Pink is 45, Alvy Ray Smith is 81
1920 - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
1921 - 1st Miss America crowned -Margaret Gorman of Washington DC.
1926- Screen actress Greta Garbo skipped her own wedding and left John Gilbert alone at the altar. They still stayed lovers and lived together.
1930 - Richard Drew invented Scotch tape. He later invented masking tape.
1935-A vocal group called "4 Joes from Hoboken" get their first break on Major Bowe's radio show. One of the singers is a young man named Frank Sinatra.
1939- British film director Alfred Hitchcock began shooting his first Hollywood picture- Rebecca, for David Selznick.
1946 - SF 49ers play their first AAFC game, losing to the NY Yankees 21-7.
1954- Akira Kurosawa’s film The Seven Samurai premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, beautiful black actress (Island in the Sun), died of sleeping pills overdose. She was 41.
1966- STAR TREK debuted. LA policeman turned screenwriter Gene Roddenberry pitched it to Desilu Productions as, “Wagon Train in Outer Space.” The first episode “The Man Trap” aired this night. The show was produced by Lucille Ball’s production company, Desilu. That season Star Trek ranked 52nd in the Nielsen ratings, behind #1 "Iron Horse" starring Dale Robertson, and "Mr. Terrific". It was canceled after two seasons but a letter writing campaign won it a third season. Star Trek then found a new life in syndication.
The cult fan base called Trekkies kept the memory of the show alive for ten years until Paramount revived it to cash in on the Star Wars-Close Encounters craze for Sci-Fi. First as a Filmation animated series, and then from 1979 a series of feature films, then spin-offs.
Frank Sinatra once said: "The only good thing to ever come out of the 1960s was Star Trek."
1966 - "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell premiered on ABC-TV
1967 - Surveyor 5 launched; made a soft landing on Moon, Sept 10.
1971- Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center opened. It was planned in the early sixties by John and Jackie Kennedy, unaware that their name would one day be on it. The performance featured the debut of Leonard Bernstein’s choral work “Mass”.
1973- Hanna Barbera’s The Superfriends premiered on ABC TV.
1973- Star Trek the Animated Series by Filmation premiered. The first reassembly of the cast since the show’s cancellation. Gene Roddenberry wrote some of the scripts.
1974- Daredevil Evil Knievel in his most famous stunt, jumped the Snake River Gorge in a rocket powered motorcycle.
1986- The Chicago based television talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show went national and became one of the most successful talk shows ever.
1998- Disneyland closed forever the submarine and My Toad’s Wild Ride.
2001- The Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks produced HBO miniseries Band of Brothers premiered. Several of the people portrayed in the series like Major Dick Winters and Sgt Guarniere were still alive and acted as technical advisers.
2022- Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully at Balmoral Castle. She was 96. She had reigned 70 years, the longest of any British monarch.
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