Birthdays: Robert F. Kennedy Sr., Maya Plisetskaya, Gene Tierney, Dick Smothers, Bo Derek, Sean Young, Richard Dawson, Estelle Parsons, Barbera Hendricks, Duane Allman, Chester Gould the creator of Dick Tracy, Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, Benoit Mandlebrot, Alastair Cooke, Sam Wright, Ming Na Wen is 61, President Joe Biden is 82
1620- Shortly before coming ashore in the New World, The Mayflower Compact was drawn up by William Brewster and signed by the 24 male Pilgrim settlers "To covenant and combine ourselves into a civile body-politick".
1718- " Fifteen men on a Dead Man’s Chest, Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum! Even though he knew the British Navy had cornered him, and was going to attack tomorrow, violent pirate Blackbeard spent this night drinking and partying with his crew. When someone asked Blackbeard, if you fall who do you leave your treasure to? He replied, “ No one knows where the treasure is but me and the Devil himself. And the longest liver can have it all.” Arrr….
1752- Death of John Shore, he was the most celebrated trumpet player of his time. Georg Frederich Handel and Henry Purcell wrote music for him, and he was the inventor of the Tuning Fork.
1795- Beethoven’s opera Fidelio premiered. He rewrote the overture four times and still wasn’t happy with it. So, he rewrote it once more and published the other four as the Leonore Overtures.
1875- Henry James published his first novel Rockwell Hudson.
1894- Prince Ananias premiered, the first operetta of Victor Herbert.
1947- The longest running television show in history- Meet the Press, premiered. And it is still on today.
1958- On the TV show Playhouse 90, John Frankenheimer presented “The Old Man” the first show shot and edited completely on videotape. Videotape had been around since 1951 but was used primarily for in-studio live news shows and variety segments.
1959- The day the famous Twilight Episode aired “Time Enough At Last”. When Burgess Meredith played a bookworm who gets his wish to be left alone to read books, except…”
1998- Several state governments and the US tobacco industry reached a landmark settlement arising from lawsuits over smoking illnesses. The trial killed off once and for all ads featuring The Marlboro Cowboy and Joe Camel, a cartoon character that at one point was as recognizable to children as Donald Duck.
1998- Pixar’s film A Bugs Life was generally released.
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