TODAY IS ... 10 JANUARY
BIRTHDAYS -
1985 - Alex Meraz - an American actor and martial artist. Meraz played a hot-tempered werewolf named Paul in the film New Moon, the sequel to 2008's Twilight.
1974 - Hrithik Roshan - an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.
1967 - Trini Alvarado - actor: The Frighteners, Little Women, Stella, The Chair, Mrs. Soffel, Rich Kids
1961 - Janet Jones-Gretzky - dancer, actress: Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, Dance Fever, The Beastmaster, The Flamingo Kid, A League of Their Own, The Firm: Total Body - Low Impact Aerobics
1952 – Pat Benatar - Grammy award-winning singer - Her first six albums all go platinum, selling more than 1 million copies. The 1981 album “Precious Time” tops Chart Toppers’s pop chart for one week.
1949 - George Foreman - boxer: oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 [Nov 5, 1994]; commercial pitchman
1945 –Rod Stewart is born in London. His biggest hit, “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright),” is No. 1 on Chart Toppers’s Hot 100 for eight weeks.
1944 - Frank Sinatra Jr. - singer: It’s All Right; bandleader
1943 - Jim Croce - singer, songwriter: You Don’t Mess Around with Jim, Time in a Bottle, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, I’ve Got a Name; killed in plane crash Sep 20, 1973
1939 – Scott McKenzie - biggest hit is the 1967 song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” which reaches No. 4 on Chart Toppers’s Hot 100. He writes the Beach Boys’ 1988 No. 1 hit, “Kokomo.”
1939 –Sal Mineo - Actor - as well as starring in The Gene Krupa Story and Rock Pretty Baby, Sal scored a top 10 hit in 1957 with “Start Movin’ (In My Direction).”
1927 - Johnnie Ray - singer: Cry, Please, Mr. Sun, The Little White Cloud That Cried, Walkin’ My Baby Back Home, Just Walking in the Rain
1904 - Ray Bolger - Actor best known for his role as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, Bolger plays the role of Barnaby in Disney's 1961 live-action feature Babes in Toyland.
OTHER EVENTS –
2008 – 27 Dresses starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden starts screening in Australia. After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
2008 - Disney's Broadway production The Little Mermaid has its official opening night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
2007 - President George W. Bush announced he would send 21,500 additional U.S. forces to Iraq in an effort to quell violence there.
2006 – Kelly Clarkson, Tim McGraw and Green Day are the top music winners at the 32nd People’s Choice Awards, held at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium and broadcast on CBS. Clarkson wins top female performer, while McGraw is named best male performer. Green Day takes home best group.
2003 - North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the global nuclear arms control treaty and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.
2003 - British and Dutch police recover 500 Beatles master tapes missing since a theft some thirty or so years earlier.
2002 – Ocean’s Eleven starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck and Matt Damon begins screening in Australia. Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
2000 – Beat starring Courtney Love and Kiefer Sutherland opens in cinemas in Australia. The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
2000 - America Online announces it is buying Time Warner, in a stock-trade deal valued at $160 billion, the largest in corporate history. The new firm, AOL Time Warner, will have a combined value of $350 billion.
1999 - The Musical "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk" closed at the Ambassador Theatre Broadway after 1130 performances.
1999 - Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'
1999 - Elton John and LeAnn Rimes perform his "Written In The Stars" (from Disney's Broadway show Aida) at the 25th Annual People's Choice Awards broadcast on CBS-TV.
1997 - James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1992- The GREAT RUBBER DUCKY DISASTER- A North Pacific storm causes a ship to lose 29,000 bath toys overboard. They joined 61,000 Nike sneakers already bobbing in the water from a similar accident. Scientists used the rubber ducky migration to plot Pacific Ocean currents around Alaska.
1991 – Predator 2 starring Kevin Peter Hall, Danny Glover and Bill Paxton begins screening in Australia. Amidst a territorial gang-war, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is veteran LAPD officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.
1990 - Time Inc. aquired Warner Communications for the tidy little sum of $14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates.
1986 - The uncut version of Jerome Kern’s musical, "Showboat", opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
1985 – Starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, Rhinestone commences screening in Australia. She's bet everything, and we mean everything, that she can turn this New York cabbie into an overnight sensation. He has other things in mind. But he's never had a trainer like this one!
1984 - The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
1984 - Cyndi Lauper became the first female recording artist since Bobbie Gentry [1967] to be nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female), Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Cyndi Lauper went one better for copping the award for Worst Hair Coloring by a Woman on the Planet. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1982 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 degrees C (-17 F) is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire, equaling the record set in the same place in 1895.
1981 - The Gilbert and Sullivan musical "The Pirates of Penzance" opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring pop singers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith. The production will move from the Uris to the Minskoff Theatre to complete a run of 772 performances, then be made into a movie starring Smith and Ronstadt.
1981 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" goes platinum, a little over a month after Lennon's assassination. The album is Number One for eight weeks.
1980 – Time After Time starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen started screening in Austraia. H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
1978 - The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz capsule for a redezvous with the Salyut VI space laboratory.
1976 - C.W. McCall’s Convoy was the #1 single in the U.S. -- on both pop and country charts. “Ah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck ... You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it’s clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon. Yeah, that’s a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...”
1975 - Al Green earns his 12th gold record for the album "Al Green Explores Your Mind." Twelve days later, he earns his 13th gold record for the album's hit single, "Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)."
1972 - Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1971 - The suit to officially dissolve the Beatles as a group gets underway in court.
1971 - Bob Dylan appears on an NBC documentary accompanying bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs on Dylan's "East Virginia Blues" and "Nashville Skyline Rag."
1970-Masterpiece Theater debuted on US TV with Alastair Cooke. The first show was the BBC series the First Churchills. These shows were so popular that for awhile people thought PBS meant Preferably British Shows.
1969 - The final issue of The Saturday Evening Post appeared after 147 years of publication. It returned in limited publication years later. Norman Rockwell’s art was a popular item in the Post.
1969 - George Harrison quits the Beatles for a short while, making him the second Beatle to do so (Ringo had left the group for a brief period a year earlier).
1969 - Elvis Presley’s single, Don’t Cry Daddy, entered the Top 10 on the pop charts this day. If you listened to this song carefully, you’d hear a vocal duet with country artist Ronnie Milsap.
1968 - Aretha Franklin earns her fourth gold single with "Chain of Fools." The record goes on to win the 1968 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a female.
1966 - India and Pakistan sign peace accord.
1965 - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore begin new UK TV series, Not Only But Also. Guest on his first show - John Lennon!
1965 - American promoter Sid Bernstein, having already presented the Beatles at Carnegie Hall, calls group manager Brian Epstein about a possible Shea Stadium concert. It would be the first stadium concert by a rock group.
1964 - The Beatles' first album in the United States, "Introducing the Beatles," was released.
1964 - Georgie Fame makes early TV appearance on Ready, Steady, Go TV show performing his first single, Do the Dog.
1963 - Cliff Richard's film Summer Holiday premieres in London
1960 - Marty Robbins’ hit tune, El Paso, held the record for the longest #1 song to that time. The song ran 5 minutes and 19 seconds, giving many radio station Program Directors fits; because the average record length at that time was around 2 minutes, and formats didn’t allow for records much longer than that, (e.g., 2-minute record, 3 minutes for commercials, 60 seconds for promo, 2-minute record, etc.). DJs got used to the longer length quickly, however, realizing it gave them time, before the record ended, to actually think of something to say next...
1958- Jerry Lee Lewis single "Great Balls of Fire" topped the pop charts.
1957 - Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister of Britain, following the resignation Anthony Eden.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded his first tunes as an RCA Victor artist. Recording in Nashville, Elvis sang Heartbreak Hotel, I Was the One, I’m Counting On You, I Got a Woman and Money Honey. Heartbreak Hotel was #1 by April 11, 1956 and stayed there for eight weeks. It was #1 on the pop and rhythm and blues charts and number five on the country music list.
1953 - "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" by Perry Como topped the charts and stayed there for 5 weeks.
1949 - Los Angeles, with its usually sub-tropical climate, is hit by a freak snowstorm.
1949- For years the recording industry had been working on ways to improve the 78 RPM record –RPM means Rotations Per Minute. RCA records announced the invention of the 45 RPM record. Columbia (CBS) had announced the LP 33 rpm record and originally offered to share the technology but RCA (NBC) was having none of it. But the 33 stored more music and could use old 78 rpm turntables adapted so the 45 soon became a vehicle for hit singles.
1948 - "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City after 734 performances
1947 - Finian’s Rainbow opened on the Great White Way in at 46th St. Theater New York City. The musical played for 725 performances. Years later, Petula Clark would star and sing in the celluloid version on the silver screen.
1946 - US Army establishes first radar contact with Moon, from Belmar, New Jersey.
1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.
1945 - Erskine Hawkins waxed a classic for Victor Records. The tune, with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, was titled Tippin’ In.
1941- The comedy play ARSENIC AND OLD LACE opened on Broadway. When buying the movie rights Warner Bros agreed to wait until the play ended it’s theatrical run. They thought plays usually are done in a few months. Arsenic and Old Lace ran until 1944.
1941 - Disney's Donald Duck short Timber is released. Donald steals Pete's supper ... so Pete puts him to work as a lumberjack to work for his meal; a job that Donald does not exactly enjoy.
1939- Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov sold his first story to Amazing Stories Magazine "Marooned off Vesta".
1932 - The first "Silly Symphonies" color comic page is published in Sunday editions of newspapers. The edition is titled "Bucky Bug". The page is written, drawn, and inked by Earl Duvall.
1927- Fritz Lang’s masterpiece film Metropolis premiered.
1927 - Film Booking Offices releases the Alice Comedy film Alice the Golf Bug to theaters.
1924- Columbia Pictures created, ruled by Harry Cohn, who's motto was "I don't get ulcers, I give them!"
1922 - Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Féin and one of the architects of the 1921 peace treaty with Britain, was elected president of the newly established Irish Free State.
1920 - The League of Nations was established as the Covenant of the League of Nations/Treaty of Versailles went into effect and had its first meeting in Geneva.
1911 - Major Jimmie Erickson shot the first photograph from an airplane while flying over San Diego, California.
1910 - Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St. New York City
1901- SPINDLETOP- BLACK GOLD, TEXAS TEA..- Conventional wisdom up till then was America’s oil reserves were chiefly around the Great Lakes and Pennsylvania. On this day Texas wildcat drillers strike oil in Beaumont Texas. The Spindletop gusher is so gigantic, 3,000 barrels an hour, it doubles the total U.S. oil production output overnight. Companies like Gulf and Texaco spring up to compete with industry leader Standard Oil (Exxon). The era of the Texas Oil Tycoons began and until they ran dry in the 1970s, America controlled 80% of the worlds petroleum output.
1888 - First single lens motion picture camera and projector: American inventor Louis LePrince patents his device, taking his first pictures the following October.
1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1840 - The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient, began in Britain
1974 - Hrithik Roshan - an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.
1967 - Trini Alvarado - actor: The Frighteners, Little Women, Stella, The Chair, Mrs. Soffel, Rich Kids
1961 - Janet Jones-Gretzky - dancer, actress: Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, Dance Fever, The Beastmaster, The Flamingo Kid, A League of Their Own, The Firm: Total Body - Low Impact Aerobics
1952 – Pat Benatar - Grammy award-winning singer - Her first six albums all go platinum, selling more than 1 million copies. The 1981 album “Precious Time” tops Chart Toppers’s pop chart for one week.
1949 - George Foreman - boxer: oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 [Nov 5, 1994]; commercial pitchman
1945 –Rod Stewart is born in London. His biggest hit, “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright),” is No. 1 on Chart Toppers’s Hot 100 for eight weeks.
1944 - Frank Sinatra Jr. - singer: It’s All Right; bandleader
1943 - Jim Croce - singer, songwriter: You Don’t Mess Around with Jim, Time in a Bottle, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, I’ve Got a Name; killed in plane crash Sep 20, 1973
1939 – Scott McKenzie - biggest hit is the 1967 song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” which reaches No. 4 on Chart Toppers’s Hot 100. He writes the Beach Boys’ 1988 No. 1 hit, “Kokomo.”
1939 –Sal Mineo - Actor - as well as starring in The Gene Krupa Story and Rock Pretty Baby, Sal scored a top 10 hit in 1957 with “Start Movin’ (In My Direction).”
1927 - Johnnie Ray - singer: Cry, Please, Mr. Sun, The Little White Cloud That Cried, Walkin’ My Baby Back Home, Just Walking in the Rain
1904 - Ray Bolger - Actor best known for his role as the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, Bolger plays the role of Barnaby in Disney's 1961 live-action feature Babes in Toyland.
OTHER EVENTS –
2008 – 27 Dresses starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden starts screening in Australia. After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
2008 - Disney's Broadway production The Little Mermaid has its official opening night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
2007 - President George W. Bush announced he would send 21,500 additional U.S. forces to Iraq in an effort to quell violence there.
2006 – Kelly Clarkson, Tim McGraw and Green Day are the top music winners at the 32nd People’s Choice Awards, held at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium and broadcast on CBS. Clarkson wins top female performer, while McGraw is named best male performer. Green Day takes home best group.
2003 - North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the global nuclear arms control treaty and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.
2003 - British and Dutch police recover 500 Beatles master tapes missing since a theft some thirty or so years earlier.
2002 – Ocean’s Eleven starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck and Matt Damon begins screening in Australia. Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
2000 – Beat starring Courtney Love and Kiefer Sutherland opens in cinemas in Australia. The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
2000 - America Online announces it is buying Time Warner, in a stock-trade deal valued at $160 billion, the largest in corporate history. The new firm, AOL Time Warner, will have a combined value of $350 billion.
1999 - The Musical "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk" closed at the Ambassador Theatre Broadway after 1130 performances.
1999 - Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'
1999 - Elton John and LeAnn Rimes perform his "Written In The Stars" (from Disney's Broadway show Aida) at the 25th Annual People's Choice Awards broadcast on CBS-TV.
1997 - James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1992- The GREAT RUBBER DUCKY DISASTER- A North Pacific storm causes a ship to lose 29,000 bath toys overboard. They joined 61,000 Nike sneakers already bobbing in the water from a similar accident. Scientists used the rubber ducky migration to plot Pacific Ocean currents around Alaska.
1991 – Predator 2 starring Kevin Peter Hall, Danny Glover and Bill Paxton begins screening in Australia. Amidst a territorial gang-war, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is veteran LAPD officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.
1990 - Time Inc. aquired Warner Communications for the tidy little sum of $14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates.
1986 - The uncut version of Jerome Kern’s musical, "Showboat", opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
1985 – Starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, Rhinestone commences screening in Australia. She's bet everything, and we mean everything, that she can turn this New York cabbie into an overnight sensation. He has other things in mind. But he's never had a trainer like this one!
1984 - The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
1984 - Cyndi Lauper became the first female recording artist since Bobbie Gentry [1967] to be nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female), Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Cyndi Lauper went one better for copping the award for Worst Hair Coloring by a Woman on the Planet. Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1982 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 degrees C (-17 F) is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire, equaling the record set in the same place in 1895.
1981 - The Gilbert and Sullivan musical "The Pirates of Penzance" opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring pop singers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith. The production will move from the Uris to the Minskoff Theatre to complete a run of 772 performances, then be made into a movie starring Smith and Ronstadt.
1981 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" goes platinum, a little over a month after Lennon's assassination. The album is Number One for eight weeks.
1980 – Time After Time starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen started screening in Austraia. H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
1978 - The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz capsule for a redezvous with the Salyut VI space laboratory.
1976 - C.W. McCall’s Convoy was the #1 single in the U.S. -- on both pop and country charts. “Ah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck ... You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it’s clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon. Yeah, that’s a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...”
1975 - Al Green earns his 12th gold record for the album "Al Green Explores Your Mind." Twelve days later, he earns his 13th gold record for the album's hit single, "Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)."
1972 - Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1971 - The suit to officially dissolve the Beatles as a group gets underway in court.
1971 - Bob Dylan appears on an NBC documentary accompanying bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs on Dylan's "East Virginia Blues" and "Nashville Skyline Rag."
1970-Masterpiece Theater debuted on US TV with Alastair Cooke. The first show was the BBC series the First Churchills. These shows were so popular that for awhile people thought PBS meant Preferably British Shows.
1969 - The final issue of The Saturday Evening Post appeared after 147 years of publication. It returned in limited publication years later. Norman Rockwell’s art was a popular item in the Post.
1969 - George Harrison quits the Beatles for a short while, making him the second Beatle to do so (Ringo had left the group for a brief period a year earlier).
1969 - Elvis Presley’s single, Don’t Cry Daddy, entered the Top 10 on the pop charts this day. If you listened to this song carefully, you’d hear a vocal duet with country artist Ronnie Milsap.
1968 - Aretha Franklin earns her fourth gold single with "Chain of Fools." The record goes on to win the 1968 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a female.
1966 - India and Pakistan sign peace accord.
1965 - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore begin new UK TV series, Not Only But Also. Guest on his first show - John Lennon!
1965 - American promoter Sid Bernstein, having already presented the Beatles at Carnegie Hall, calls group manager Brian Epstein about a possible Shea Stadium concert. It would be the first stadium concert by a rock group.
1964 - The Beatles' first album in the United States, "Introducing the Beatles," was released.
1964 - Georgie Fame makes early TV appearance on Ready, Steady, Go TV show performing his first single, Do the Dog.
1963 - Cliff Richard's film Summer Holiday premieres in London
1960 - Marty Robbins’ hit tune, El Paso, held the record for the longest #1 song to that time. The song ran 5 minutes and 19 seconds, giving many radio station Program Directors fits; because the average record length at that time was around 2 minutes, and formats didn’t allow for records much longer than that, (e.g., 2-minute record, 3 minutes for commercials, 60 seconds for promo, 2-minute record, etc.). DJs got used to the longer length quickly, however, realizing it gave them time, before the record ended, to actually think of something to say next...
1958- Jerry Lee Lewis single "Great Balls of Fire" topped the pop charts.
1957 - Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister of Britain, following the resignation Anthony Eden.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded his first tunes as an RCA Victor artist. Recording in Nashville, Elvis sang Heartbreak Hotel, I Was the One, I’m Counting On You, I Got a Woman and Money Honey. Heartbreak Hotel was #1 by April 11, 1956 and stayed there for eight weeks. It was #1 on the pop and rhythm and blues charts and number five on the country music list.
1953 - "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" by Perry Como topped the charts and stayed there for 5 weeks.
1949 - Los Angeles, with its usually sub-tropical climate, is hit by a freak snowstorm.
1949- For years the recording industry had been working on ways to improve the 78 RPM record –RPM means Rotations Per Minute. RCA records announced the invention of the 45 RPM record. Columbia (CBS) had announced the LP 33 rpm record and originally offered to share the technology but RCA (NBC) was having none of it. But the 33 stored more music and could use old 78 rpm turntables adapted so the 45 soon became a vehicle for hit singles.
1948 - "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City after 734 performances
1947 - Finian’s Rainbow opened on the Great White Way in at 46th St. Theater New York City. The musical played for 725 performances. Years later, Petula Clark would star and sing in the celluloid version on the silver screen.
1946 - US Army establishes first radar contact with Moon, from Belmar, New Jersey.
1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.
1945 - Erskine Hawkins waxed a classic for Victor Records. The tune, with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, was titled Tippin’ In.
1941- The comedy play ARSENIC AND OLD LACE opened on Broadway. When buying the movie rights Warner Bros agreed to wait until the play ended it’s theatrical run. They thought plays usually are done in a few months. Arsenic and Old Lace ran until 1944.
1941 - Disney's Donald Duck short Timber is released. Donald steals Pete's supper ... so Pete puts him to work as a lumberjack to work for his meal; a job that Donald does not exactly enjoy.
1939- Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov sold his first story to Amazing Stories Magazine "Marooned off Vesta".
1932 - The first "Silly Symphonies" color comic page is published in Sunday editions of newspapers. The edition is titled "Bucky Bug". The page is written, drawn, and inked by Earl Duvall.
1927- Fritz Lang’s masterpiece film Metropolis premiered.
1927 - Film Booking Offices releases the Alice Comedy film Alice the Golf Bug to theaters.
1924- Columbia Pictures created, ruled by Harry Cohn, who's motto was "I don't get ulcers, I give them!"
1922 - Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Féin and one of the architects of the 1921 peace treaty with Britain, was elected president of the newly established Irish Free State.
1920 - The League of Nations was established as the Covenant of the League of Nations/Treaty of Versailles went into effect and had its first meeting in Geneva.
1911 - Major Jimmie Erickson shot the first photograph from an airplane while flying over San Diego, California.
1910 - Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St. New York City
1901- SPINDLETOP- BLACK GOLD, TEXAS TEA..- Conventional wisdom up till then was America’s oil reserves were chiefly around the Great Lakes and Pennsylvania. On this day Texas wildcat drillers strike oil in Beaumont Texas. The Spindletop gusher is so gigantic, 3,000 barrels an hour, it doubles the total U.S. oil production output overnight. Companies like Gulf and Texaco spring up to compete with industry leader Standard Oil (Exxon). The era of the Texas Oil Tycoons began and until they ran dry in the 1970s, America controlled 80% of the worlds petroleum output.
1888 - First single lens motion picture camera and projector: American inventor Louis LePrince patents his device, taking his first pictures the following October.
1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1840 - The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient, began in Britain
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