Birthdays: Percy Shelley, Hans Christian Andersen, Nicholas Conte' 1755-inventor of the modern pencil and the conte'-crayon, Louis Armstrong, William Pater, Dr. Alexander Schure, Richard Belzer, Franco Corelli, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon England's late Queen GrandMum, Roger Clemens, Mary Decker-Slaney, Billy-Bob Thornton is 71, former President Barack Obama is 64
1782- In Vienna’s St. Stephen Cathedral, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart married Constanze Weber, the aunt of composer Karl Maria von Weber. Mozart had first proposed to Constanze's sister, but she chose another. They had several children, but only two survived to adulthood. They both died childless.
1821- 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post -published until 1969.
1855 - John Bartlett publishes his first book of "Familiar Quotations"
1892-" Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when he saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one.", etc. In Fall River Mass, Andrew and Abbie Borden were found brutally murdered and their daughter Elisabeth was accused. Ms. Borden pleaded innocence and cited a long history of abuse from her parents. She was acquitted but the murderer was never found. When Lizzie died peacefully in 1927 she left $30,000 to the ASPCA.
1921 The Motion Picture Fund created.
1922- In honor of the passing of Alexander Graham Bell, all 13 million telephones in the United States observed three minutes of silence.
1925- Conrad Hilton opened the first Hilton Hotel in Dallas Texas.
1941- Walt Disney signed a deal with the National Film Board of Canada to create training films and bond drive promotions for the war effort.
1956- Elvis Presley released his version of the Big Mama Mabel Thornton song, "You Ain’t Nothin’ but a Hound Dog".
1984- Actor Johnny Depp opened his own club on the Sunset Strip called the Viper Room. The original club on that site had once been owned by mobster Bugsy Siegel.
1995-“Babe” a charming movie about a little talking pig written and directed by Chris Noonan, in collaboration with George Miller.
1997- Jeanne Calment of Arles France died. She holds the record of being the longest living human being. 122 years, 164 days old. She married in 1896, and once met Vincent van Gogh, who she described as, “ A dirty, smelly man with a bad character.”
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