A quick look at Today in History, check out some Celebrity Birthdays, and find out what Days of the Year to celebrate.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
1825 – Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters.
1841 – The State of Michigan’s first farm magazine, the “Western Farmer”, was published. The first issue had 8 pages and 100 readers.
1861 – Georgia joined South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began operation in Roselle, NJ.
1907 – The first film reviews appeared in “Variety” magazine.
1915 – George Claude, of Paris, France, patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising signs.
1935 – Coopers Inc. began selling the world’s first briefs.
1937 – Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record. He flew from Los Angeles, CA, to New York, NY, in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
1949 – The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance for each year in office.
1952 – The National Football League (NFL) bought the franchise of the New York Yankees from Ted Collins. The franchise was then awarded to a group in Dallas on January 24.
1953 – 71.7 percent of all televisions in the U.S. were tuned into CBS, as Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), of “I Love Lucy,” delivered a baby boy.
1955 – President Dwight Eisenhower allowed a filmed news conference to be used on television (and in movie newsreels) for the first time.
1957 – Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, did a half-hour TV show without saying a single word of dialogue.
1963 – The Bluegrass duo Flatt and Scruggs topped Billboard’s country chart with “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” the theme song from “The Beverly Hillbillies”.
1977 – Snow fell in Miami, FL. This was the only time in the history of the city that snow had fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
1977 – President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D’Aquino (the “Tokyo Rose”).
1978 – The last Volkswagon Beetle made in Germany leaves the VW plan in Emden. Beetle production continued in Latin America until 2003.
1979 – Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell was released on parole after serving 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced.
1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus was released.
1988 – The CBS documentary/news magazine television show “48 Hours” debuted.
1989 – Michigan Governor James Blanchard banned corporal punishment in public schools
1990 – The movie “Tremors”, starring Kevin Bacon, made its premiere in theaters.
1993 – IBM announced a loss of $4.97 billion for 1992. It was the largest single-year loss in U.S. corporate history.
1994 – The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, The Grateful Dead, Elton John, John Lennon, Bob Marley and Rod Stewart are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1996 – First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury looking into the Whitewater real estate investment venture.
1997 – The cooking TV show “Emeril Live” debuted on the Food Network.
1999 – The Supreme Court refused to hear a 1998 lawsuit brought by ticket buyers against TicketMaster, claiming that the firm engaged in anti-competitive behavior and price-fixing with promoters.
1999 – RIM released their first Blackberry. It was a two-way pager that could receive email. It was named after it’s keyboard’s likeness to the fruit.
2000 – In New York’s Time Square, the first WWF restaurant opened.
2006 – The New Horizons probe was launched by NASA on the first mission to investigate Pluto.
2011 – Jennifer Lopez made her debut as a judge on TV’s “American Idol”. She joined fellow newcomer Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and holdover Randy Jackson.
2013 – In Scottsdale, AZ, the original Batmobile for the TV series “Batman” sold at auction for $4.6 million. It was the first of six Batmobiles produced for the show.
2024 – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s probe landed on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
BIRTHDAYS:
Tippi Hedren – 96 years old (1930) – Model, actress, and animal rights-welfare activist
Richard Lester – 94 years old (1932) – American-English director, producer, and screenwriter
Larry Clark – 83 years old (1943) – Director, producer, and screenwriter
Shelley Fabares – 82 years old (1944) – Actress and singer
Thom Mayne – 82 years old (1944) – Architect and academic, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
Dolly Parton – 80 years old (1946) – Singer-songwriter and actress
Paula Deen – 79 years old (1947) – Chef and author
Nancy Lynch – 78 years old (1948) – Computer scientist and academic
Martha Davis – 75 years old (1951) – Singer
Dewey Bunnell – 74 years old (1952) – English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Desi Arnaz Jr. – 73 years old (1953) – Actor and singer
Katey Sagal – 72 years old (1954) – Actress and singer
Cindy Sherman – 72 years old (1954) – Photographer and director
Susan Solomon – 70 years old (1956) – Atmospheric chemist
Ottis Anderson – 69 years old (1957) – Football player and sportscaster
Danese Cooper – 67 years old (1959) – Computer scientist and programmer
Jeff Pilson – 67 years old (1959) – Bass player, songwriter, and actor
Paul McCrane – 65 years old (1961) – Actor, director, and singer
William Ragsdale – 65 years old (1961) – Actor
Chris Sabo – 64 years old (1962) – Baseball player and coach
Jeff Van Gundy – 64 years old (1962) – Basketball player and coach
Michael Adams – 63 years old (1963) – Basketball player and coach
Whitfield Crane – 58 years old (1968) – Singer-songwriter
Edwidge Danticat – 57 years old (1969) – Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
Trey Lorenz – 57 years old (1969) – Singer-songwriter and producer
Shawn Wayans – 55 years old (1971) – Actor, producer, and screenwriter
John Wozniak – 55 years old (1971) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Drea de Matteo – 54 years old (1972) – Actress
Frank Caliendo – 52 years old (1974) – Comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Walter Jones – 52 years old (1974) – Football player
Ian Laperrière – 52 years old (1974) – Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
Drew Powell – 50 years old (1976) – Actor
Pasha Kovalev – 46 years old (1980) – Russian-American dancer and choreographer
Luke Macfarlane – 46 years old (1980) – Canadian-American actor and singer
Elizabeth Tulloch – 45 years old (1981) – Actress
Pete Buttigieg – 44 years old (1982) – Politician
Mike Komisarek – 44 years old (1982) – Ice hockey player
Jodie Sweetin – 44 years old (1982) – Actress and singer
Hikaru Utada – 43 years old (1983) – American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
Elvis Dumervil – 42 years old (1984) – Football player
Damien Chazelle – 41 years old (1985) – Film director, screenwriter, and producer
Benny Feilhaber – 41 years old (1985) – Soccer player
JaVale McGee – 38 years old (1988) – Basketball player
Shaunette Renée Wilson – 36 years old (1990) – Guyanese-American actress
Erin Sanders – 35 years old (1991) – Actress
Shawn Johnson East – 34 years old (1992) – Gymnast
Logan Lerman – 34 years old (1992) – Actor
Jack Schlossberg – 33 years old (1993) – Writer and political candidate
Jonathan Taylor – 27 years old (1999) – Football player
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