Birthdays: John Paul Jones, Czar Nicholas I, Frida Kahlo, Della Reese, Bill Haley,
Nancy Reagan, Sylvester Stallone is 79, Merv Griffin, Janet Leigh, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sebastian Cabot, James Bodrero, The Dalai Lama, LaVerne Andrews of the Andrews Sisters, Ned Beatty, Geoffrey Rush is 74, Former President George W. Bush is 79, Fifty Cent is 50 Years, Jennifer Saunders is 67.
Happy St. Fermin's Day, the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Remember when running the trick to it is keeping oneself directly in front of the bull’s head. This area between his eyes is his blind spot.
1886 - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers the first malted milk to public. It began as an attempt to create a new type of baby formula.
1895- A businessman named William Sydney Porter returned from Honduras where he had fled after being indicted for embezzlement. He had returned because he had learned of the illness of his wife. Porter was sent to prison, and while there began writing little stories which he later published under the name O. Henry.
1917- As Lowell Thomas’ newsreel cameras rolled, Lawrence of Arabia and Bedouin Sheik Ouda Abu-Tai captured the Red Sea Port of Aqaba from Turkish troops. The battle was dramatized in the 1962 David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia.
1925, Walt and Roy Disney place a $400 deposit ($5,750.00 in modern money) on a lot located at 2719 Hyperion Avenue, in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Their aim is to build a big new studio.
1928- The film "The Lights of New York" premiered at the Strand theater on Broadway. 1927's the Jazz Singer popularized sound movies while still being half silent. This film was the first with an all dialogue track.
1944- A fire broke out in the main tent of Ringling Bros Circus during a children’s matinee in Hartford Connecticut. The big top had been waterproofed with a paraffin solution thinned with gasoline and now that mixture engulfed the tent in flames. 168 died and 682 more were injured, mostly children. In 1950 an arsonist named Robert Segee admitted he started the Hartford Circus Fire. One little girl who died was never identified. Newspapers called her “Little Miss Nobody”.
1957- Chuck Jones short "What’s Opera, Doc?" debuted. “Kill da wa-bitt, kill da wa-bitt..."
1957- 16 year old John Lennon first met 15 year old Paul McCartney at a church picnic near Woolton, England. Lennon invited McCartney to join his first band called the Quarrymen, but McCartney missed their first engagement because of a boy scout trip.
1964 - Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premiered in London. The bands iconoclastic, antics portrayed by Richard Lester’s surreal free style direction set the style for the music videos of the future.
1965 - Rock group Jefferson Airplane formed.
1996- Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump opened in theaters.
1998- French workers at Disneyland Paris theme park went on strike for better pay and not having to smile constantly like Americans do.
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