Birthdays: Jean Paul Marat, Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Emmanuel Leutze, Tina Turner, Priscilla Presley, Patti LaBelle, Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong is 87, Peter Ellenshaw, Gary Burghoff, Kristin Scott Thomas is 65, Alfred Molina is 71, Jim Broadbent is 76, John C. Reilly is 62, Bob Dylan is 84, animator James Baxter, animator Art Leonardi is 93.
1883- The Brooklyn Bridge Opened. After 14 years building it and 27 deaths, including the architect John Roebling, and the crippling of his son Washington Roebling, President Chester Allen Arthur and the Mayor of New York Franklin Edison walked out on to the span to be met at the middle by Mayor Seth Low of Brooklyn. Washington Roebling’s wife Emily Roebling was the first person to cross the bridge. At this time the Brooklyn Bridge was the tallest structure in the world.
1899 - 1st auto repair shop and car garage opened. The Back Bay Cycle and Motor Company of Boston.
1929- The Marx Brothers first movie comedy” The Coconuts” premiered.
1935- The first Baseball night game- Reds vs. Phillies.
1941- Paramount Pictures seized direct control of the Fleischer Studio in Miami. They allowed Max and Dave Fleischer another 26 weeks to complete their projects in house but as Paramount employees. They had to sign “resignations in blank” to be exercised at Paramount’s discretion when the 26 weeks were up. Soon Dave quit and Max was fired that December. The studio was re-organized as Famous Studio under Max’s son-in-law Seymour Kneitel and moved back to New York in Jan 1943.
1941- The German battleship Bismarck sunk the largest warship in the British Navy, HMS Hood, when a lucky shot exploded her internal ammunition stockpile. The news shocked a world accustomed to the invincibility of the British Navy. One of the only survivors was a Petty Officer John Pertwee who was transferred to officer school just two days before the battle. Pertwee not only survived the sinking, but he also became the third Dr. Who on TV 1970-1974.
1950- Married movie star Ingrid Bergman shocked American morality by having an open love affair with neorealist film director Roberto Rosselini. This day they were finally married but the outcry of conservatives about this “Apostle of Degradation” was such that her image needed a makeover. So, she played Saint Joan of Arc.
1954 - IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain, a computer that could perform 10
million operations an hour.
1958 – United Press & International News Service merge into United Press International.
1976 - 1st commercial SST Concorde flight to North America -London to Wash DC.
1989- In Los Angeles, a spectacular fire destroyed the Art-Deco-Moderne all-wood landmark, the Pan Pacific Auditorium. .
1991- Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise opened.
1991- Ron Howard’s Backdraft opened.
1999- Tim Sweeny invented the animation/vfx software Unreal Engine.
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