Birthdays: Georg Phillip Telemann, Johann Strauss Sr., Albert Einstein, Casey Jones, astronaut Frank Borman, Les Brown, Hank Ketcham, Wolfgang Petersen, Diane Arbus, Chris Klein, Michael Cain born Maurice Mickelwhite is 92, Billy Crystal is 77, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, Quincy Jones
1883- Karl Marx died in London. Marx's last words were:" Get out of Here!
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough already!"
1885- Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Mikado premiered in London.
1903- President Teddy Roosevelt established Pelican Island as the first Federal Wildlife Preserve.
1923- President Warren Harding became the first President to file an Income Tax Return.
1930- Mickey’s Barn Dance premiered.
1932- Inventor GEORGE EASTMAN shot himself- The inventor of the Roll-film camera, who named his celluloid strips 'film' and founded Eastman/Kodak. He had been suffering from a long painful spinal illness and left the note: " To my friends: The End is near. My work is done. Why wait? " He was 77.
1941- Xavier Cugat and his orchestra first recorded "Babalu". It later became popular in the U.S when sung by a young man from Cuba named Desi Arnez. In the Quick Draw McGraw cartoon, Quick Draw’s sidekick is a Mexican donkey named Baba Looey.
1943- Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" premiered. George Szell conducting. Young Leonard Bernstein once asked Copland how he could write more "American" sounding music? The maestro answered:" Lenny, just shuttup and write. You're American. It's all going to sound that way anyway!"
1967- Julie Newmar first appeared as Catwoman on the Batman TV show.
1991- Lyricist Howard Ashman (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) died of HIV/AIDS. He was 40.
1998- The epic disaster movie Titanic surpassed Star Wars and Jurassic Park as the greatest money earning film (until Avatar). It cost over $200 million to make but it earned at least $1 billion in box office alone. Quote director James Cameron: I’m King of the World!!
2020- Pres. Trump declared a national emergency over covid-19.
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