Birthdays: King Charles III of Spain, Richard Henry Lee- signer of the Declaration of Independence, Frederico Fellini, Patricia O’Neal, Dorothy Provine, Mario Lanza, David Lynch, George Burns, DeForest Kelly, Arte Johnson, Lorenzo Lamas, Rainn Wilson is 59, Edwin Buzz Aldrin is 95.
Happy Martin Luther King Day in the U.S.
1779- The great English stage actor David Garrick died. Supposedly his last words were when asked “Is it hard to die?” Garrick replied:” Dying is not Hard. Comedy is Hard.”
1908- The Sullivan Ordinance barred women from smoking in public facilities.
1920- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) founded by Roger Baldwin.
1936- 19 year old Adriana Caselotti recorded her first tracks as Snow White for Walt Disney. Her father Guido Caselotti was a casting agent charged with finding the right actress. She stood behind him while he was on the phone, saying” Daddy! Pick me! Pick me!” I met her in her 80s, and that voice was still recognizable.
1938- Early animation pioneer Emile Cohl died while headed for the Paris premiere of Disney's" Snow White and the Seven Dwarves". Cohl by then was so poor that the electricity in his flat had been turned off and the candles had ignited his beard. Angry he was never recognized in his time, he once said: "the French prefer their artists with marble and flowers on top."
1953- The Birth of Little Ricky on the I Love Lucy show drew a larger viewing audience than the televised inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower.
1964- Sports Illustrated Magazine put out its first Swimsuit Edition. Discovering many men like other things besides sports…
1965- Alan Freed, the disc jockey who coined the term Rock & Roll, died at 43 of uremic blood poisoning. He was broken by the Rock payola scandal and died so poor his friends passed the hat to pay for his funeral.
1966- The Ghost and Mr Chicken, with Don Knotts premiered.
1982- Rock star Ozzie Osbourne was hospitalized in Des Moines Iowa after biting the head off a dead bat thrown on stage during a concert.
1982- SONY introduced the Camcorder, the personal video camera.
1986- The worlds first computer virus, Brain, was sent out over the infant internet.
2009- Standing in front of the U.S. Capitol, a building built by black slaves, Barack Obama was inaugurated 44thPresident of the United States. The first African-American.
2016- Cal Tech astronomers announced they discovered signs of a Ninth Planet beyond Pluto. It is 5,000 times larger than earth, and it’s wobbly oblong orbit takes 22,000 years to go completely around the sun, while the Earth takes one year. Named Ultima-Thule, the space probe New Horizon reached it in 2019.
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