Birthdays: King Edward I "Longshanks", John Wesley the founder of the Methodists, Igor Stravinsky, Don Graham, Wally Wood, Ralph Bellamy, Dean Martin, Barry Manilow, Joe Piscopo, Newt Gingrich, Martin Bormann, Jason Patric, Ken Loach, Greg Kinnear is 61, Venus Williams, Thomas Haden Church is 65, Will Forte is 55
1823- Charles Mackintosh patented the waterproof rubberized raincoat. In England, a raincoat is still called a Mackintosh.
1885- The pieces of the Statue of Liberty arrive from France. Some assembly required...
1893- Cracker Jacks invented by RW Reuckheim. Their name came from Teddy Roosevelt sampling the caramel corn, and exclaimed “These are Crackerjack!”- popular slang back then for something very good.
1919 - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premiered.
1933-Disney short Mickey’s Mechanical Man.
1946- The first mobile telephone was installed in an automobile in St. Louis, Missouri.
1964- The first Universal Studios tram car tour. Carl Laemmle had been inviting tourists in for a nickel to sit in bleachers and watch movies be filmed as early as 1915.
1968- Ohio Express’ single “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I got love in my Tummy” went gold.
2005- The Miyazaki directed hit Howl’s Moving Castle opened in the U.S., dubbed by Pixar and Pete Docter.
2016- Pixar’s Finding Dori opened, the sequel to Finding Nemo, directed by Andrew Stanton
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