Monday, October 21, 2024

Tom Sito's Animation Almanac for Oct. 21, 2024


Birthdays: Dizzy Gillespie, Whitey Ford, Alfred Nobel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Blair, Carrie Fisher, Patty Davis (Reagan's daughter), Benjamin Netanyahu, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Manfred Mann, Sir Georg Solti, Angus McFadyen, Ken Watanabe is 65, Kim Kardashian is 44.

 

 

1879- Thomas Edison announced the invention of the Light Bulb. After experimenting with dozens of different type filaments in a vacuum, Thomas Edison perfected the light bulb with carbonized cotton. He and his crew stared at the glowing bulb for 40 hours to make sure it was really worked.

     

1932- The film Red Dust premiered. It made stars out of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow.

 

 

1939- Walt Disney sent a confidential memo to his legal team: “Everything we do in the future should include television rights. There might be a big angle on television for the shorts we have already produced.” At this time, television was still mostly experimental.  It would be 15 years until Disney had a television show, and he was considered an early pioneer. 

 


1941- WONDER WOMAN, Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a niece of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. She married psychologist William Moulton Marston who when not inventing the lie detector, was an educational consultant for Detective Comics, Inc. (DC Comics). Elizabeth noticed the DC line was filled with images of super men like Green Lantern, Batman, Superman. She wondered why there was not a female hero? On her urging, Dr. Marston brought this up to DC head Max Gaines. Gaines was intrigued by the concept and told Marston that he should create a female hero – at first “Amazon Woman”, then "Wonder Woman." Marston's 'good and beautiful woman' made her debut in All Star Comics #8. 

 

 

1956- The last trolley cars in Flatbush Brooklyn shut down.

 

1959- Six months after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright his last creation the Guggenheim Museum in New York City opened.

 

1967- THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON- 100,000 anti-Vietnam War protestors surrounded the Pentagon in Washington and tried to do an “exorcism “ and levitate the building. This was the day of the famous images of Hippies putting flowers in the gun barrels of the National Guard troops.


 

1972- Curtis Mayfield’s theme to the movie “Superfly” debuted at Number #1 in the Billboard charts.

 

1975- The Cincinnati-Boston World Series-Carleton Fisk's 12th inning homer keeps the Boston Red Sox hopes alive against Johnny Bench and the 'Big Red Machine".

 

2003- The Great California Brush Fires. Hot dry wind and a lost hunter ignited the worst brush fires in California history. Ten fires from Ventura County north of Los Angeles to Tijuana Mexico burned hundreds of thousands of acres for two weeks, destroyed 3000 homes and killed 20. The smoke clouds were visible from space.

 

2015- According to Robert Zemeckis 1989 film Back to the Future II, all the events Marty McFly and Doc Brown experience in the future occur on this date. Did you ever get your hoverboard?

 

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