Birthdays: Roman emperor Otho -32AD, English King Edward II-1284, Oliver Cromwell-1599, Giuseppe Marconi, Edward R. Murrow, Ella Fitzgerald, Albert Uderzo, Meadowlark Lemon, Talia Shire, Paul Mazursky, Hank Azaria is 60, Rene Zellwellger is 56, Jason Lee is 55, Al Pacino is 84, Ron Clements is 72
1719- The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe first published.
1926- Giacomo Puccini's last opera Turnadot premiered in Milan. Puccini died before its completion, so students had to finish the work based on his notes. At the beginning of the Third Act conductor Arturo Toscanini put down his baton, turned to the audience and said:" Here is where the Maestro died." He then left the podium in tears and let someone else finish it.
1938- The German shepherd named Buddy became the first seeing-eye dog for the blind.
1953- Watson & Crick announced the DNA Molecular Construction Theory. The world sees for the first time the twisted ladder model. A female researcher named Rosalind Franklin actually did the most important research, but Watson & Crick took the credit. Rosalind Franklin died just before the Nobel committee announced their decision. This day, Watson went down to his local pub and told the barkeep:" Set up a round of lager, for I just discovered the Secret of Life!"
1956- Elvis Presley’s song Heartbreak Hotel goes to #1 in the pop charts.
1961- The US Patent office awarded a patent to Robert Noyce for the integrated circuit. This enabled computers to replace transistors with integrated circuits, and greatly reduce the size of computers while increasing their power.
1972- Witty, urbane actor George Sanders (All About Eve, Samson & Delilah, Sher Khan in Jungle Book) had turned age 65. Depressed about the death of his wife, and a diagnosis of onset Parkinson’s Disease. He complained he had been famous and rich, and was not looking forward to old age, and having a nurse wipe his bottom. So in a small hotel near Barcelona he committed suicide with sleeping pills and left a witty, urbane note. "Dear World: I am leaving because I am bored. Adieu, I leave you with your worries in this sweet cesspool called life."
1981- Dixie, the world’s oldest living mouse, died at age 6 1/2.
1996- "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk" opened on Broadway.
2021- Pixar's Soul won best animated feature at the Academy Awards.
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