Birthdays: Roman Emperor Constantius II, Gen. Nathanael Greene, Mata Hari, Rahssan Rolland Kirk, Dr. Ralphe Bunche, Nicholas Ray, Dr. Richard Leakie, Grandma Moses, Stan Freberg, cartoonist S. Gross, James Randi, Billy Burke aka Glenda the Good Witch, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Garrison Keillor, Animator Rudy Ising, David Duchovny is 65, Charlize Theron is 50
1914 – The famous poster of Lord Kitchner pointing and saying "Your country needs you," spreads over the UK. James Montgomery Flagg later copied the poster for the American version with Uncle Sam in a similar pose. Lord Asquith commented that by now the elderly soldier Kitchener made "a better poster than a general."
1919- the First Actor’s Equity Strike.
1928- The US Treasury issued a smaller, leaner dollar bill. Before this, dollars were two times larger and wider than the ones we now use.
1931 Jazz trumpeter Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, died of drink and drugs. He was 29. Bix along with his idol Louis Armstrong was considered one of the first jazz musicians to popularize the solo-riff, where in the body of a song the soloist would depart from the arrangement and improvise, like a cadenza in classical music. His family in Davenport Iowa were horrified that their son dropped out of school to associate with musicians and black people. Even after Bix was famous, he returned proudly home only to discover his parents had stacked up every record he sent them in a box under the stairs. They never listened to a single one.
1933-The first "Alley-Oop" comic strip.
1953- President Eisenhower granted Ohio statehood retroactively 150 years later. It seems when Ohio joined the union in 1803 Congress screwed up the enabling legislation, so Ohio was never officially a state. Local historians were preparing for an anniversary celebration when they uncovered the glitch.
1968- James Brown recorded “Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”, at the Vox Studios in Los Angeles. The single became a clarion call for the Black Power movement in the U.S.
1970 - Christine McVie joined the band Fleetwood Mac.
1970 – The first computer chess tournament.
1974- French daredevil Phillipe Petit strung a tightrope between the two 110 story towers of NY’s World Trade Center and walked across it. As New Yorkers watched in amazement, Petit kept his concentration by carrying on a conversation with the buildings.
1979- THE RUNAWAY WARS. Hollywood Cartoonist’s Union launched a strike against studios sending their animation jobs overseas.
1981- The animated Heavy Metal movie opened. Directed by Gerald Potterton.
2007- Leo Montulli, a programmer for Netscape, invented internet cookies. Do you accept them?
2020- Howard, a documentary by Don Hahn was released on Disney +. It was
about Howard Ashman, the lyricist of musicals like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast who died tragically of HIV/Aids at the moment of his greatest triumphs.
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