Birthdays: Ethiopian Emperor Rastafari Halie Selassie "the Lion of Judah", Raymond Chandler, Jackson Beck the voice of Bluto, Raymond Booth, Don Drysdale, Gloria DeHaven, Arthur Treacher, Pee Wee Reese, Bob Fosse, Harry Cohn, Don Imus, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Slash, Marlon Wayans, Woody Harrelson is 65, Edie McClurg, Daniel Radcliffe is 37
Happy Bluto Day! Jackson Beck, the voice of Bluto 1912-2004.
Today is the Ancient Roman Festival of Neptune, God of the Sea. In Greek Poseidon
1599- Michel Caravaggio received his first commission for a painting.
1866- The Cincinnati Reds Baseball club formed. The oldest continuous professional sports team in the U.S.
1886- This was the day Bowery saloonkeeper Steve Brodie claimed he jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and lived to talk about it.
1888 - John Boyd Dunlop patented the pneumatic rubber tire.
1904 – The Ice Cream Cone created by Charles E. Menches during the St. Louis World’s Fair. Another claimant to the creation was Syrian waffle vendor Ernest Samwi. The city of Los Angeles claims the creation also. Also introduced there was a new drink called Dr. Pepper.
1932-The Birthday of Fritos. Texas ice cream maker Elmer Doolin bought a recipe for corn chips from a Mexican fry cook for $100 dollars and started the Frito-Lay Company.
1951-Thelonius Monk recorded the seminal jazz album Straight, No Chaser.
1966- The comedy song "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha!" released. The singer was Napoleon XIV.
1968- Fred Blasie won an unprecedented fifth World Wrestling Championship belt. Blasie later gained more fame for recording the comedy song "Pencil Necked Geeks" and beating up comedian Andy Kaufman in the ring for calling wrestling a hoax..
1982- Actor Vic Morrow and two children were killed by a stunt helicopter crash while filming "Twilight Zone, the movie". The last scripted line before his death was "I’ll Keep you safe kids, I swear to God!" The children were being worked into the early morning hours without a caretaker supervisor in defiance of the Coogan Laws. Director John Landis was investigated but exonerated.
1999- The Inspector Gadget Movie starring Matthew Broderick opened.
2004- Two armed men entered the Munch Museum in Norway and stole Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream at gunpoint. It was recovered with some water damage three years later.
2011- Singer Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning. They found two empty bottles of vodka next to her body. She was 27. She joined the infamous 27 Club like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison and Kurt Kobain.
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