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Birthdays
| Hardin (Jack) Burnley 1911, comic book artist and illustrator. Burnley was the first artist, after co-creator Joe Shuster, to draw Superman. |
| Terry Beatty 1958, cartoonist, Terry's credits include THE BATMAN STRIKES, MS. TREE and SCARY MONSTERS magazine. Terry has taught in the comic art program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. |
| Rod Taylor 1932, actor, H. George Wells-The Time Machine (1960) |
| George Zucco 1886, actor, Prof. Moriarty - Adv. Of Sherlock Holmes (1939), Stanley-Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943), Ape Man-Return of the Ape Man (1944), Palanth, the High Priest-Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948). |
| Jerome Bixby 1923, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote four episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series: "Mirror, Mirror", "By Any Other Name", "Day of the Dove", and "Requiem for Methuselah". |
| Mitchell Ryan 1928, actor, Burke Devlin - Dark Shadows (107 episodes, 1966-1967), Kyle Riker - The Next Generation ("The Icarus Factor", 1989)Vartis Hammond - Judge Dredd (1995), William Paley - Dark Skies (1 episode, "To Prey in Darkness", 1997), Highfather / Izaya the Inheritor - Justice League (2 episodes, 2003). |
| Felix Silla 1937, actor and stuntman, appeared as a Talosian in the Star Trek: The Original Series pilot "The Cage", Cousin Itt on the classic 1960s television series The Addams Family, playing the robot Twiki in the science fiction series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Silla was a regular performer on H.R. Pufnstuf, appeared as Lucifer on the original Battlestar Galatica, and played an Ewok in Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. |
| Stan Ivar 1943, actor, Mark Johnson - Star Trek: Voyager (2 episodes, 1995). He was also seen on photographs in the episodes "Eye of the Needle" and "Elogium". |
| Nancy Harewood 1950, actress, Roberta - Beyond Westworld (5 episodes, 1980), Lt. Nara - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Eye of the Beholder", 1994). |
| Sam Kieth 1963, comics writer and illustrator and film director, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl. Kieth first came to prominence in 1983 as the inker of Matt Wagner's Mage. In 1989, he drew the first five issues of writer Neil Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman. He acted as illustrator on two volumes of writer William Messner-Loebs' Epicurus the Sage and drew an Aliens miniseries for Dark Horse Comics, among other things, before creating The Maxx in 1993 for Image Comics, with, initially, writing help from Messner-Loebs. It ran for 35 issues and was adapted, with Kieth's assistance, into an animated series for MTV. |
| Don 'Red' Barry 1912, actor, The Grand Vizier / Tarantula - Batman (4 episodes, 1966-1967), Dr. Zoral - Land of the Giants (1 episode, "The Deadly Dart", 1970), Reese - The Immortal (1 episode, "Sanctuary", 1971), Woody - The Bionic Woman (1 episode, "Deadly Ringer: Part 2", 1977). |
| Steve Uy 1979, comic book artist, His work started out as cover art for certain titles such as Iceman, and later on he worked on the mini-series Eden's Trail with Chuck Austen. Later on he went to Image Comics to work on another mini-series, Feather, and afterward did the mini-series Jova's Harvest for Arcana Studios. Uy worked on several issues of Avengers: The Initiative including a special written by Christos Gage and Dan Slott. |
Events
| 1958 , "Seahunt" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was aired on the network for four years. |
| 1988, Star Trek:TNG: "The Big Goodbye" airs. |
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