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Birthdays
| Pat Broderick 1953, comic book artist known for his work on the Micronauts. Broderick also pencilled the four-part Batman: Year Three storyline, written by Marv Wolfman, which detailed the first meeting of Batman and Tim Drake. |
| Lou Fine 1914, Fine's first published comics art was the strip "Wilton of the West" in Fiction House's Jumbo Comics #4 (Dec. 1938), Fine went on to do exquisite and acclaimed work for Fox Feature Syndicate, where he supplied the cover of 1939's Blue Beetle #1 and drew such features as "The Flame" in Wonderworld Comics and the later eponymous series. For publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold's Quality Comics, he drew features including "The Black Condor" (initially under the pseudonym Kenneth Lewis) in Crack Comics; "Doll Man" (under the pseudonym William Erwin Maxwell) in Feature Comics; "The Ray" (initially under the jokey pseudonym E. Lectron) in Smash Comics; "Uncle Sam" (for which Eisner & Iger co-founder Will Eisner received credit) in National Comics; and "Stormy Foster" in Hit Comics. Fine became particularly prominent as a cover artist. |
| Louis Turenne 1933, actor, known for his work on the Babylon 5 television series. Turenne played the Minbari Draal in the first season two-part episode "A Voice in the Wilderness". The producers later cast him in the recurring role of Brother Theo, the leader of a group of Roman Catholic monks who came to live on the station. Pierce -The Incredible Hulk (1 episode, 1980), German Officer - Galactica 1980 (2 episodes, 1980). |
| Charles Monroe Schulz 1922, cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip. Schulz's first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post; the first of seventeen single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957–1959), but abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he also contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth. |
| Robert Strange 1881, actor, John Malcolm - Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), Dog Show Judge - Blondie in Society (1941), Gang Lawyer - Captain America (1944)[Ch. 12]. |
| Erwin Biswanger 1896, actor, 11811 / Georgy - Metropolis (1927). |
| John Cliff 1918, actor, Flattop - Dick Tracy (3 episodes, 1950), Rymers - Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1 episode, "Beyond the Curtain of Space: Chapter III", 1954), Ed Crowley / Heavy - Adventures of Superman (2 episodes, 1956-1957), Gen. Tunney - Men Into Space (1 episode, "Moon Cloud", 1960), Soldier - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "Night of Decision", 1961), Chief Bundy - Dennis the Menace (1 episode, "Dennis at Boot Camp", 1962), Peterson - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Mr. Garrity and the Graves", 1964), Night Watchman - The Gnome-Mobile (1967). |
Events
| 1962, First daily Ben Casey strip, drawn by Neal Adams |
| 1986, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home premiers in the US. |
| 1993, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time is aired. |
| 1997, Star Trek:Voyager, "Concerning Flight" airs. |
| 2002, Soundtrack for Star Trek Nemesis is released. |
| 2003, Star Trek:Enterprise, "Carpenter Street" airs. |
| 2004, Star Trek:Enterprise, "Awakening" airs. |
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