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1884: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal."
1919: Mile High Club concept gets off to slow start with first wedding held in an aircraft.
1969: John Lennon & Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance; world thinks it over for a moment then replies, "Nope. Not gonna happen."
1990: Seinfeld (originally titled The Seinfeld Chronicles), debuts. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
1819 Walt Whitman; 1898 Norman Vincent Peale; 1912 Henry "Scoop" Jackson; 1930 Clint Eastwood; 1938 Peter Yarrow; 1941 Johnny Paycheck; 1943 Joe Namath; 1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder; 1960 Chris Elliott; 1961 Lea Thompson.
1806: Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel; Aaron Burr snips ‘Been there, done that.’
1889: The brassiere is invented.
1967: Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars.
1996: John Tesh's final day as host of Entertainment Tonight.
1908 Mel Blanc; 1909 Benny Goodman; 1936 Keir Dullea; 1939 Michael J. Pollard; 1942 Lenny Davidson; 1943 Gale Sayers; 1945 Meredith MacRae.
1930: Richard Drew invents masking tape; he credits his success to "stick-to-itness."
1951: Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing (the Dalai Lama had an army?).
1964: From Russia With Love premieres in U.S.
1819 Julia Ward Howe; 1837 "Wild Bill" Hickok; 1911 Hubert Humphrey, Vincent Price; 1912 John Cheever, Sam Snead; 1915 Herman Wouk; 1922 Christopher Lee; 1934 Harlan Ellison; 1936 Louis Gossett Jr.; 1944 Christopher Dodd.
1937: Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1994: Michael Jackson marries Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie. Yeah, we still can't figure that one out, either.
2002: NASA probe finds evidence of water on Mars; it is bottled and overpriced.
1877 Isadora Duncan; 1886 Al Jolson; 1903 Estes Kefauver; 1907 John Wayne; 1908 Robert Morley; 1910 Laurence Rockefeller; 1913 Peter Cushing; 1919 Jay Silverheels; 1920 Peggy Lee; 1923 James Arness; 1926 Miles Davis; 1939 Brent Musburger; 1942 Levon Helm; 1949 Pam Grier, Philip Michael Thomas, Hank Williams Jr.; 1951 Sally Ride; 1962 Bobcat Goldthwait; 1964 Lenny Kravitz.
7) Who Mr. Jones is?
6) Renaldo & Claire, WTF?
5) What he just said.
4) What he said just before that.
3) Is he still Jewish or what?
2) Do any of his songs mean anything?
1) How it feels.
1721: John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent; colonists quickly learn to duck into a doorway or alleyway whenever they see him coming.
1895: Oscar Wilde is sentenced to 2 years hard labor for sodomy; sentence is extended when he giggles at the word "hard."
1961: JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade and himself on Marilyn Monroe by the end of the week.
1945: Arthur C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
1962: Isley Brothers release Twist & Shout.
1977: Star Wars released; mutant race of basement-dwelling nerds is born.
1983: Return of the Jedi released.
1986: "Hands Across America," an event in which 7 million people formed a human chain by holding hands from California to New York happens; there was a reason for this but we forget what it was.
1986: A 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one on a golf course in Florida; unfortunately, everyone else in the country is holding hands, so she doesn't get much in the way of applause.
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson; 1878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; 1889 Igor Sikorsky; 1898 Bennett Cerf; 1907 Rachel Carson; 1927 Robert Ludlum; 1929 Beverly Sills; 1938 Raymond Carver.
1844: Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought"; second is "Can you hear me now?"
1883: Brooklyn Bridge opened; Publicity stunt of giving out novelty "Ownership Certificates" to first 100 pedestrians crossing bridge backfires and the bridge is "resold" 36 times by mid-afternoon.
1899: First auto repair shop opens in Boston; the chatty brothers who run the place are a big hit.
1938 Tommy Chong; 1939 Dixie Carter; 1941 Bob Dylan; 1943 Gary Burghoff, James Levine, Frank Oz; 1944 Arthur Brown, Patti LaBelle; 1945 Priscilla Presley; 1955 Rosanne Cash.
1908: Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die; although none exactly squeals "Wheeeeee!" all the way down, either.
1939: Hitler proclaims he intends to move into Poland; sends in troops to look for a three-bedroom, split-level rancher with a nice view of Russia.
1969: The Who release Tommy.
1971: Iron Butterfly disbands; yeah, nobody cared then, either.
1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside; 1883 Douglas Fairbanks; 1910 Artie Shaw; 1910 Franz Jozef Kline; 1910 Scatman Crothers; 1928 Rosemary Clooney; 1934 Robert Moog; 1936 Charles Kimbrough; 1947 Jonathan Pryce; 1961 Drew Carey; 1966 Helena Bonham Carter.
1993: 274th & final episode of Cheers.
1874: Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with pockets reinforced by copper rivets for $13.50 per dozen. That's right, per dozen.
1916 First Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell; age of American innocence officially begins.
1799 Honoré de Balzac
1806 John Stuart Mill
1933 Danny Aiello
1936 Anthony Zerbe
1944 Joe Cocker
1946 Cher
1949 Dave Thomas
1536: Oops, he did it again! Henry VIII has wife No. 2, Anne Boleyn, beheaded.
1792: Russian army enters Poland; Poland sighs and asks, "Oh, what is it this time?"
1960: Alan Freed & eight other DJs accused of taking payola.
1977: Smokey & the Bandit premieres.
1979: In The Navy, by the Village People hits #3 on the charts.
1890 Ho Chi Minh
1915 Pol Pot
1925 Malcolm X
1941 Nora Ephron
1945 Peter Townshend
1948 Grace Jones
9) Overslept.
8) No, no, no, that's when As the World Turns ends.
7) It was supposed to be a surprise, but once word got out, God changed the date (he can do that, you know).
6) Really curious how they'll pull off Ashton Kutcher's replacing Charlie Sheen.
5) Just not feeling all that "raptury."
4) Haven't sold all of the "It's the End of the World and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" t-shirts, yet.
3) Couldn't find a sitter.
2) Wanted to see what kind of crazy stunt Donald Trump pulls next.
1) Traffic.