Birthdays: Roman Emperor Valentinian III (419AD), Bishop Thomas Cranmer (1429) , Christoph Witobald Gluck, Herman Hesse, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lamumba, Thurgood Marshall, Andrez Kertesz, Richard Petty, Abe Levitow, Ken Curtis, Ahmad Jamal, Cheryl Ladd, Jose Canseco, Jerry Hall, Imelda Marcos, Ron Silver, Lindsay Lohan, Brock Peters, Margot Robbie is 35, Larry David is 78
1650- The first daily newspaper is published in the city of Leipzig.
1723- Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale Magnificat first performed in Leipzig.
1921- To prove what a neat new invention radio was, RCA chief David Sarnoff broadcast for free a live feed of the Jack Dempsey vs. George Carpentier championship prizefight. He had loud speakers set up in Times Square that attracted ten thousand listeners. As it happened, the live reports were a sham. An eyewitness to the fight relayed details via tickertape to a Manhattan studio. Then an announcer read them aloud over the radio as though he were there. No matter, the effect was electric. Suddenly everyone wanted a radio in their home.
1927- The film Flesh and the Devil established a new star named Greta Garbo.
1934- Twentieth Century Fox signed a movie contract with child star Shirley Temple.
1945- In the July issue of The Atlantic Magazine, MIT Scientist Vanaevar Bush predicted some day in the future we would all be writing to each other on little electronic boxes on our desks. He didn’t have the name computer yet. He called it a “memex”. We would read stories, watch movies, have access to all the libraries of the world. We would send each other letters and pictures on it. In a Manila hospital, a young serviceman named Douglas Engelbart was recovering from war wounds. He read this article there and was inspired to study this new field. He eventually invented the computer mouse, hot keys, and coined the term "on-line."
1951- New Yorker cartoonist Sam Cobean was killed in a car accident. He was 38.The following year a collection of his work “The Cartoons of Cobean” was published by Saul Steinberg, with a forward by Charles Addams.
1955- The Lawrence Welk T.V. Show debuts. Wannaful, wannaful!
1973-Art Babbitt began his animation lectures to Richard Williams London Studio. Dick took copious notes, and they became one of the most copied, underground how-to books in film history.
1980- the Abrahams-Zucker Bros comedy Airplane! Premiered.
1982- Don Bluth’s The Secret of Nimh premiered.
1986- Walt Disney’s The Great Mouse Detective released in theaters.
1986- John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China debuted.
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