1918 US Army's Distinguished Service Cross is authorized during the war to end all wars.
1953The first helicopter passenger service begins in NYC
1956 Dick Clark makes his first appearance as host of American Bandstand.
1958 Casey stengel testifies at a congressional anti-trust committee. Here’s the Stengelese Enjoy. .
1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter.
1980 comedian Richard Pryor suffers near fatal burns during a cocaine binge.
1986 Attorney General Commission, the Meese report on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
1992 Newsman Eric Severieid dies. The next year John Chancellor ends his 43 year career at NBC. Don Hewitt recently stepped down after 36 years at 60 minutes. Here’s an interview with Hewitt about recent changes in broadcast news.
Notable Birthdays
1802 Thomas Davenport He’s the inventor of the first commercial electric motor. But what about his wife’s cousin Emily.
1811 Sara Payson Willis Parton (writer, columnist) better known as Fanny Fern.
1819 Elias Howe. He’s the inventor of the sewing machine.
1842 Clara Kellogg (opera singer)
1858 Anthropologist Franz Boas established a new theory of culture and race.
1894 Dorothy Thompson (journalist) first one to be expelled from Nazi Germany.
1926 Mathilde Krim (medical researcher, health educator, AIDS researcher and fundraise
1937 David Hockney English pop artist
1947 Orenthal James Simpson The moral of the tale is good lawyers count and don’t get jealous while on steroids.
