Birthdays: Auguste Rodin, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Bahi-ullah 1817 founder of the Bahii faith, Elizabeth Cadie -Stanton, Cecil B. DeMille, Grace Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Jack Oakie, Kim Hunter, Shamus Culhane, Charles Manson, Neil Young, Edvard Munch, Nadia Comenici, Tanya Harding, Wally Shawn is 81, Megan Mullally is 65, Anne Hathaway is 42, Ryan Gosling is 44, David Brain is 83.
1933- Hugh Gray of the British Aluminum Company takes the first photographs of what he claimed was a monster in Loch Ness. He would be the first of many to have claimed to have seen Nessie.
1936- The Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge dedicated. It’s chief engineer Charles Purcell went on to design LA Freeways.
1937- Alan Turing delivered his famous paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" at Kings College, Cambridge.
In it he said that it would be possible to create a "universal machine". A device that used numbers to solve problems and could be re-programable for different tasks. In his day they were called Turing Machines, but we know them now as Computers.
1938- The Madagascar Plan. Nazi Herman Goring announced a new plan to create a homeland for European Jews in French Madagascar off the coast of Africa. It sounds goofy but they got it from an idea of 19th century Zionist leader Theodore Herzl and the just concluded international conference at Evian France showed the reluctance of the western democracies to take in large amounts of refugees. The idea went nowhere.
1939- Actor Bela Lugosi spent the day at the Walt Disney Studio posing for their animators as the Devil in Night on Bald Mountain in Fantasia. Despite the good publicity shots, lead animator Bill Tytla was dissatisfied with his performance and used fellow artist Ham Luske as his model instead.
1946- Disney's "Song of the South" with James Baskett as Uncle Remus.
1946- The Exchange Bank in Chicago opened the first drive in bank.
1970- The town of Florence Oregon found a large dead gray whale on its beach. City fathers decided it would be easier to dispose if they blew it up. As an audience watched, they stuffed it with half a ton of dynamite. The explosion drew cheers from the audience, then a moment later everyone ran for cover as they were showered by falling 50 pound chunks of blubber and guts. The film of it has been called the first viral video.
1981- Space Shuttle Columbia took off for the second time. First reusable spacecraft.
1990- Akihito became Emperor of Japan.
1999- Kevin Smith wrote and directed the movie Dogma, a hilarious send-up of Roman Catholic doctrine he learned as a kid. With Selma Harek, Jason Lee, Chris Rock, Matt Daemon, Jason Affleck, George Carlin and Alan Rickman. With Alanis Morrissette as God. The movie was furiously attacked by Catholic groups as being blasphemous. At one point Kevin Smith joined a protest line against his own movie. No one recognized him because none of the protestors had actually seen the film.
2014- The European Space Agency successfully landed the first satellite Philae on a moving comet. Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It had been launched ten years before and had taken this long to reach it.
2017- Disney launched its streaming service, Disney +.
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