Birthdays: King Phillip III of Spain, Christian Huygens, Arnold Toynbee, Sir John Gielgud, Menachem Schneerson- the Grand Rabbi of Chabad, Papa Doc Duvalier, Robert Doisneau, Rod Steiger, Loretta Lynn, Morton Sobotnick, Frank Serpico, Pete Rose, Julie Christie, Kenneth Mars, Anthony Michael Hall, Steve Martin is 80, Sarah Michelle Geller is 48, Adrien Brody is 52. Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo
1871- Canada set its currency in dollars and cents, instead of pounds and shillings.
1883- Leopold Delibes’ opera Lakme premiered in Paris.
1910- At a baseball game in Washington, William Howard Taft becomes the first President to throw out the season's first ball.
1925- WGN broadcasts its first regular season baseball game. Quinn Ryan behind the mike as Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Cubs defeated the Pirates on Opening Day, 8-2.
1956- In Redwood City, Cal. Charles Ginsburg, Ray Dolby and Charles Anderson demonstrated the first videotape recording machine. Back then they were going then for a mere $75,000 each.
1960- The musical Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway.
1962- Bob Dylan recorded “Blowing in the Wind”.
1963- Beatle George Harrison was impressed by an unsigned rock band he just heard called the Rolling Stones.
1969- Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day won the Oscar for best Animated Short.
1969- The first regular season baseball game played outside the United States. The Montreal Expos play their first home game, treating 29,184 fans at Jarry Park to an 8-7 win over the St Louis Cardinals. Speaking about Expo fans, Cub announcer Harry Carrey noted: "They discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is English.”
1994- The cable channel TCM (Turner Classic Movies) premiered this day. Host Robert Osbourne introduced Gone With The Wind.
1998- Hastings and Randolph launched Netflix. The first movie rented? Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.
2005- Baseball returned to Washington D.C., 34 years after the Washington Senators left to Texas, the Washington Nationals played their first game.
2008- Ollie Johnston, the last animator of Walt Disney’s original Nine Old Men, passed away at age 96.
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