Birthdays: Joshua Norton aka Joshua I Emperor of the United States 1819, Jack Benny- real name Benjamin Koubielsky, Frederick Douglas, Christopher Latham Scholes- inventor of the typewriter, George Washington Ferris inventor of the Ferris Wheel, Pier Francesco Cavalli, Jimmy Hoffa, Vic Morrow, Skeezix Wallet (character in Gasoline Alley comic strip), Gregory Hines, Ignaz Friedman, Thelma Ritter, Carl Andersen, Hugh Downs, Jim Kelly, Florence Henderson, Meg Tilly, Alan Parker, Simon Pegg is 54, Margaret Knight the inventor of the flat bottom paper bag.
1886- Los Angeles exported its first trainload of oranges back east.
1907- Golden Books incorporated. One of their artists was Gustav Tennegren, who would become a key design stylist of Walt Disney's Snow White and Pinocchio.
1927- Alfred Hitchcock’s first suspense film “The Lodger” opened in London.
1931- Tod Browning's film of the play Dracula, starring Hungarian actor's union organizer and recreational morphine addict Bela Lugosi, premiered.
1941- Mickey Mouse cartoon The Little Whirlwind, was released. Fred Moore tried redesigning Mickey and Minnies ears so they did not float around, and had inner-ear color. Ward Kimball and Ken Muse did the animation.
1962- First Lady Jackie Kennedy gave a tour to network television cameras of the private living quarters of the White House. It’s the first time most Americans had ever seen the inside of the Executive Mansion. She worked mostly without a script, adding her own details as she went along. The day after the broadcast, Pres. Kennedy called the FCC just to see how her Nielsen ratings were. They were much higher than his speeches ever were.
1967- Former kinky pinup model Betty Page married Harry Lear and became a born-again Christian.
1970- David Mancuso fixed up an abandoned building and opened a private party space called The Loft. All races, gay and straight. Everyone could party. It became a prototype of future dance clubs that spawned the Disco movement.
1979- Digital music composer Walter Carlos, who scored the film A Clockwork Orange, announced he had a trans operation and was now Wendy Carlos.
1990- THE PALE BLUE DOT. As the Voyager 1 spacecraft was leaving our solar system, Dr. Carl Sagan had the spaceship look back and take a family photo of our planet system, 3.7 billion miles away. A few faint dots on a distant sunbeam. Carl Sagan said, “Look at that dot. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.”
1991-Meg Ryan married Dennis Quaid. The divorced a few years later.
2005- Steve Chen, Chad Harley and Jared Karan started You Tube.
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