Birthdays: Socrates, Pancho Villa, Thomas Chippendale -furniture maker, Igor Stravinsky, Little archduchess Anastasia Romanov, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Dean Acheson, Bill Moyers is 91, Hopalong Cassidy (born William Boyd 1995), Tony Richardson, Lancelot Ware the founder of Mensa, Jimmy Murakami, Harold Whitaker, Kenny G., Spaulding Gray, Ron Livingston is 58, Mark Wahlberg is 54
221BC - The Chinese poet Chu Yuan drowned himself as a protest of an unjust Emperor. His memory is remembered by the annual Dragon Boat Festival. People decorate boats like dragons and drop dumplings into the river to dissuade fish from eating the remains of the poet.
1876- At the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, Americans first discovered an exotic new food- Bananas.
1940- The synthetic rubber tire invented.
1944- As the Allies celebrated the liberation of Rome, A NY animator turned G.I. named Johnny Vita solicited laughs from the troops by appearing on Mussolini’s balcony on the Via Del Corso, doing a mock impersonation of Il Duce.
1946- THE BIKINI went on sale. Two-piece bathing suits had been around since the 1930s. (In Pompeian art, it goes back to Rome). Parisian designer Louis Reard invented our modern concept. Named the Bikini for the Atomic test in the Bikini islands, Diana Vreeland said it would "hit the fashion world like an atomic bomb". The first model to wear it was an exotic dancer, because the regular fashion models refused to parade around in “Reard's flimsy straps”. The fashion at first was banned on some beaches. It didn't really enter the mainstream until the 1960s when Brigitte Bardot and Raquel Welch popularized them.
1964 - Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me," The group disbanded but Davie Jones went on to success after chan
1989- Toronto’s Skydome Stadium opened. Home team Blue Jays lose to the Milwaukee Brewers 5-3.
1998- Walt Disney’s Mulan premiered at the Hollywood Bowl. Directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft.
1998- Reuters and ABC News erroneously reported the death of 96 year old Bob Hope. Arizona Congressman Robert Stump announced the comedian’s death on the floor of the Congress, to the great surprise of Bob Hope, who was eating breakfast while watching TV at the time. Bob Hope lived four more years, dying at age 100.
2000- Pixar oscar winning short “For the Birds” designed and directed by Ralph Eggleston, premiered at the Annecy Festival in France.
2010- The Dr. Who episode where the Doctor (Matt Smith) takes Vincent van Gogh in the Tardis to the present day to see his paintings now hanging in the Louvre.
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