Birthdays: James 'Wild Bill' Hickock, Julia Ward Howe, Aemelia Jenks-Bloomer, Dashell Hammett, Leopold Goldowsky (the inventor of Kodachrome film), Hubert H. Humphrey, Herman Wouk, Harlan Ellison, Joseph Feines, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Richard Schiff is 70, Peri Gilpin, Paul Bettany is 54
1874- Prostitution was outlawed in Los Angeles central business district.
1895 - British inventor Burt Acres patented a film camera/projector
1930- HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTCH TAPE -Chemist Richard Drew of Saint Paul Minnesota invented cellophane tape, marketed by the Minnesota Mining &Manufacturing or 3M Company. It was called Scotch after the stereotype perception that Scottish people are frugal, so it’s a good value. Three years later Drew invented Masking Tape as a way for car manufacturers to paint cars two tone.
1933- Disney’s cartoon “The Three Little Pigs” premiered, whose song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” became a national anthem of recovery from the Great Depression.
Director of the short Burt Gillette left Disney afterwards to run the Van Beuren Studio in New York.
1948- Walt Disney feature Melody Time released, featuring Pecos Bill.
1949- Actress Rita Hayworth married playboy Prince Aly Khan. Prince Aly Khan, 1911-1960, was born in Italy a son of dispossessed Pakistani royalty to the Aga Khan II. He lived his life as an international playboy, socialite and sportsman, making love to women from actress Rita Hayworth to Winston Churchill’s daughter-in-law Pamela Churchill-Harriman. Cole Porter wrote him into a song. He died when he crashed his sportscar in France.
1961 – The first black light is sold.
1969 – Construction on Walt Disney World Florida began.
1977- Punk band The Sex Pistols release their hit God Save the Queen, the Fascist Regime, in time for the Queen’s Jubilee year. Her Majesty herself preferred the Beatles’ All You Need is Love.
2005- Dreamworks animated feature Madagascar opened. Directed by Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell.
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