Birthdays: Roman Emperor Vespasian 9 A.D, Il Bronzino, August Ferdinand Moebius-1790 the inventor of the Moebius Strip. Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, Rock Hudson- born named Roy Scherer Jr, Walt Peregoy, Peter Cook, Isamu Noguchi, Lauren Hutton, Tom Seaver, Gordon Lightfoot, Les Clark, Lee Strasberg, Shelby Foote, Sophie Marceau, Martin Scorcese is 82, Lorne Michaels is 80, Danny deVito is 80
1839- Oberto premiered, an opera written by a new composer named Guisseppi Verdi. ( Joe Green). The great composer would go on to write Rigoletto, Aida and La Traviata.
1853- San Francisco passed a law to put up street signs at the intersections of major streets.
1858- A Pennsylvania businessman named William Larimer founded a new town at the foot of the Rockies called Denver.
1869- The Suez Canal opened. The opera "Aida" was commissioned to be premiered for this occasion but Verdi missed his deadline by ten years.
1875- Russian psychic Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott found the American Theosophical Society.
1876- Peter Tchaikovsky’s musical rhapsody the Marche Slav premiered.
1891- Polish pianist Ignaz Paderewski made his American debut at Carnegie Hall. Paderewski created the cliché image of the temperamental classical musician with long flowing hair. Classical music became known as longhair music.
1926- The Chicago Black Hawks played their first game,
beating the Toronto St. Pats 4-1.
1933- The Marx Bros classic Duck Soup premiered.
1978- This night, our world was rocked by a disturbance in The Force more powerful than the destruction of Alderon, It was "The Star Wars Holiday Special", a two-hour comedy variety show on CBS, with Harrison Ford, Beatrice Arthur and Nelvana’s animated cartoon. To this day even Mark Hamill jokes about how dumb it was.
1989- Don Bluth's animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven premiered.
1993- US Congress voted for the free trade, bill called NAFTA.
1994- The Sony Corporation posted a $2.7 billion dollar loss from its first year owning a Hollywood movie studio. Yet despite a lot of industry jokes ( “What’s the difference between Sony Pictures and the Titanic?-answer: The Titanic had entertainment.”) By 1996 the studio was on top with blockbusters like “Men in Black”
2002- Premiere of Disney’s Treasure Planet.
2019- The first reported case of CoVid 19 was reported in Wuhan China. It grew to become a global pandemic much like the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. So far it has killed 6.6 million people around the world, 1,120,000 in the USA.
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