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Birthdays
| Ray Bolger 1904, actor, Vector - Battlestar Galactica (1 episode, "Greetings from Earth", 1979), The Scarecrow - Wizard of OZ (1939) |
| George Alec Effinger 1947, sci-fi author, His first published story was "The Eight-Thirty to Nine Slot" in Fantastic in 1971. His first novel, What Entropy Means to Me (1972), was nominated for the Nebula Award. He achieved his greatest success with the trilogy of Marîd Audran novels set in a 22nd century Middle East, with cybernetic implants and modules allowing individuals to change their personalities or bodies. The novels are in fact set in a thinly veiled version of the French Quarter of New Orleans, telling the fictionalized stories of the transvestites and other people Effinger knew in the bars of that city. The three published novels were When Gravity Fails (1987), A Fire in the Sun (1989), and The Exile Kiss (1991). He began a fourth Budayeen novel, Word of Night, but completed only the first two chapters. Those two chapters were reprinted in the anthology Budayeen Nights (2003) which has all of Effinger's short material from the Marîd Audran setting. He made brief forays into writing comic books in the 1980s, including the first issue of a series of his own creation entitled Neil and Buzz in Space & Time about two fictional astronauts who travel to the edge of the universe to find it contains nothing but an ocean planet with a replica of a small New Jersey town on its only island. The first issue was the only issue, and the story ended on a cliffhanger. It was released by Fantagraphics. He also wrote a story based in the Zork universe. |
| Roy E Disney, 1930, was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt Disney founded. |
| Bernard Lee 1908, actor, played M in James Bond movies until Moonraker in 1979. |
| Jeff Jones 1944, artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through 2000s. She provided over 150 covers for many different types of books through 1976, as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. World renowned illustration artist Frank Frazetta called Jeffrey Jones "the greatest living painter". Jones painted covers for books, including the Ace paperback editions of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series and Andre Norton's Postmarked the Stars, The Zero Stone, Uncharted Stars and many others. For a period during the early 1970s she also contributed illustrations to Ted White's Fantastic. In the early 1970s when National Lampoon began publication, Jones had a strip in it for a while called Idyl. By the early 1980s she had a recurring strip in Heavy Metal titled I'm Age. |
| Francis X. Bushman 1883, actor, Chief Clive Anderson - Dick Tracy (1937/I), Secretary General of the International Space Order, 12 to the Moon (1960), Sessom - The Phantom Planet (1961), Mr. Van Jones - Batman (2 episodes, 1966), Old Man - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 episode, "The Terrible Toys", 1966). |
Events
| 1897, McFadden’s Row of Flats comic strip featuring the Yellow Kids ends. |
| 1927 , Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis" was first shown, in Berlin. |
| 1927, Little Annie Rooney comic strip begins. |
| 1929, The Adv. Of Tin Tin comic strip debuted in Le Petit Vingtième. Drawn and written by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. |
| 1938, Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies comics are syndicated. |
| 1938, "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts |
| 1967, The Invaders airs on ABC. |
| 1970, Phoenix Five airs on Australian Broadcasting Corp. |
| 1971, The Immortal is aired. |
| 1977, Children of the Stones first airs on ITV. |
| 1988, The Disney Channel debuts the animated TV show The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. |
| 1999, Batman Beyond began airing |
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