Birthdays: Willa Cather, Larry Bird, Piero Mascagni, Madame Tussaud-1761, Johnny Bench, Louis Prima, Ted Knight –born Wladsyslaw Konopka, Victor Kiam II, Noam Chomsky, Ellen Burstyn-real name Edna Mae Gilhooley, Harry Chapin, Clarence Nash the original voice of Donald Duck, Eli Wallach, Tom Waits is 75, Jeffrey Wright is 60
185AD- Chinese Emperor LoYang wrote of seeing a bright star that was probably a supernova.
1872- The Los Angeles Library Association formed.
1919- “Blind Husbands” premiered, the first film by Erich Von Stroheim. Originally a Viennese hat salesman, Stroheim cultivated his Germanic aristocratic image on the silver screen. The premiere issue of the New Yorker in 1923 glibly noted how “Mr. Stroheim has grown himself a very stylish “Von” in the Southern California Sun”.
1927- Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-meter freestyle, one minute 25 and 2/5thseconds. He competed in two Olympics and was never beaten. He later went to Hollywood and was the star of the Tarzan movies.
1934- Aviator Wiley Post discovered the strong air current in the upper atmosphere called the Jet Stream.
1942- An RAF bomber pilot named Lumsden filed a report about seeing a UFO following his plane in the night skies over the English Channel. British pilots nicknamed the unexplained lights Foo Fighters, then a popular phrase in a comic strip Smokey Stover.
1945- The microwave oven patented.
1964- Height of student uprising at Berkeley College in California. Students won more liberalized curriculum and open teaching and created the first major student protest of the tumultuous 1960's and earned Berkeley the national reputation of the nations most radicalized school. The Oakland police were later nicknamed the Blue Meanies after the villains in the Beatles cartoon Yellow Submarine.
1972- The astronauts of Apollo 17 took the first detailed photograph of Earth from space. Today we call it The Blue Marble photo. It helped energize the environmental movement.
1974- The disco song “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas hit #1 in the pop charts.
1995- The Galileo space probe went into an orbit around Jupiter.
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