Birthdays: Antonio Frescobaldi, Captain Bligh, Hoyt Curtin, Jimmy the Greek Snyder, Joe Theismann, Cliff Robertson, Angela Cartwright, Alf Landon, Dee-Dee Sharpe who sang the 60's R&B hit the Mashed Potato, Michael Keaton, Don Mattingly, Otis Redding, Anita Ekberg, Topol, Colonel Lyman Sanders the creator of Kentucky Fried Chicken, James Hilton-writer who created the name for paradise- Shangri-La, in his novel Lost Horizons. Adam Sandler is 58, Michelle Williams is 44, Hugh Grant is 65
1892 - E E Barnard at Lick discovered Amalthea, the 5th moon of Jupiter.
1908- THE PATENTS TRUST- Thomas Edison, Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont formed the Motion Picture Patents Group. Called the "Trust". Their attempt to monopolize movie production and strangle off the independents had a lot to do with the early filmmakers relocating to Los Angeles. Otherwise the film capitol of the world would have been Ft. Lee, New Jersey. The only positive result of the trust was they enforced a regular industry standard for film stock of 35 mm running at 24 frames per second. It seems the Mitchell Camera Company was developing a motorized motion picture camera to replace the hand crank variety, but they needed an official speed to set it at. In a contentious meeting of the Trust held at the Waldorf Astoria no one could settle on a single speed. Finally, the compromise was made to make it the number of delegates in the room- 24.
1910- Alice B. Toklas moved in with Gertrude Stein at the 22 Rue de Flerus in Paris.
1926 – The National Broadcasting Company or NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America, RCA. Under the direction of David Sarnoff it became the powerhouse network of broadcasting, recording and later television.
1939- The first Andy Panda cartoon.
1945 - 1st bug in a computer program discovered by USN Commander Grace Hopper. A moth that had burned out some relays was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log. Since then, any computer glitch was called "a bug". The logbook is in the Smithsonian today. Grace Hopper retired as the first woman Rear Admiral.
1949- “Top of the World, Ma!” White Heat, with James Cagney premiered.
1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track, invented by Hank McCune.
1951 - 1st broadcast of the soap opera" Love of Life " on CBS-TV.
1956- Elvis Presley appeared on nationwide television on the Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan himself had vowed never to have the kid on his show but caved in to network pressure. He stayed home that first time, and actor Charles Laughton was the substitute host. CBS Network censors thought the gyrations of Elvis' pelvis so vulgar that in many markets they blacked out the lower portion of the TV screen so he was covered the waist down.
1965- LA Dodger Pitcher Sandy Koufax struck out 14 Cubs to win his perfect game and 4th shutout in one season.
1967- Jay Ward’s show George of the Jungle premiered, with Super Chicken and Tom Slick sequences.
1967- NBC aired a TV comedy special called Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. The ratings and feedback were so good the network decided to make it a regular series.
1982- Princess Grace of Monaco, the former movie star Grace Kelly, suffered a stroke while driving on the mountainous hill roads of Monaco. The car went off a cliff and she was killed. She was 52. Her 17 year old daughter Princess Stephanie was also badly injured but survived. Twenty years earlier in the film To Catch a Thief, Alfred Hitchcock had her drive her car at dangerous speeds over the exact same hairpin turns.
1985- She-Ra the Princess of Power premiered on TV.
1995- Pinky and the Brain premiered.
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