Captain America, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Wonder Woman, Alien Siege, Supergirl, Six Million Dollar Man, Moon Zero Two, Captain Sindbad, Simpsons.

An interesting day that features the premier of both The Bionic Woman and The Simpsons along with the birthdays of the writers of Dr. Dolittle and Peter Rabbit.


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Birthdays

Nicholas Alascia 1914, was an American comic book artist known for his work on Captain America during the Golden Age of comics, inker for 23 years with Charlton Comics.

Barry Jenner 1941, actor, played Admiral William Ross throughout seasons six and seven of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also voiced Admiral Ross in the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars.

Christine Belford 1949, actress, Lt. Colby - The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode, "Survival of the Fittest", 1974), Baroness Paula Von Gunther - Wonder Woman (1 episode, "Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther", 1976), Leda - Battlestar Galactica (2 episodes, 1978), Dianna Lionstar - Beyond Westworld (1 episode, "The Lion", 1980) , Leigh Gamble - The Incredible Hulk (2 episodes, 1979-1981), Dotty Parker - The Greatest American Hero (2 episodes, 1981-1983) Rose - Mann & Machine (2 episodes, 1992) Whale - The Wild Thornberrys (1 episode, "Tamper Proof Seal", 1999).

Carl Weathers 1948, actor, Stolar - The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode, "One of our Running Backs is Missing", 1975) , Military Policeman - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Dillon - Predator (1987), General Skylar - Alien Siege (2005 TV).

Faye Dunaway 1941, Selena - Supergirl (1984)

Frank Aletter 1926, actor, Connacher - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Parallel", 1963) , Agent 2 - My Favorite Martian (1 episode, "Russians R in Season", 1963), Prof. Irwin Hayden - The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (7 episodes), Leuric - Planet of the Apes (1 episode, "Up Above the World So High", 1974) , Charles Hooten - The Invisible Man (1 episode, "Stop When Red Lights Flash", 1975), Borden - The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode, "The Cross-Country Kidnap", 1975) , Charles Hooten - The Invisible Man (1975), Spencer - The Bionic Woman (1 episode, "The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming", 1978) , Milton Short - Project U.F.O (1 episode, "Sighting 4003: The Fremont Incident", 1978) , James Dowling - Automan (1 episode, "Ships in the Night", 1984).

Warren Mitchell 1926, actor, Prof. Geoffrey D. Munro - Unearthly Stranger (1963), Joe - Out of the Unknown (1 episode, "The Fox and the Forest", 1965) , J.J. Hubbard - Moon Zero Two (1969)

Guy Williams 1924, actor, Prof. John Robinson - Lost in Space (83 episodes, 1965-1968), Captain Sindbad - Captain Sindbad (1963), Sheriff Will Harrington - The Lone Ranger (1955),

Hugh Lofting 1886, writer and illustrator, Dr. Dolittle

Thornton Waldo Burgess 1874, author, Peter Rabbit

John Tartaglione 1921, comic book artist, best known as a 1950s romance-comic artist; a Marvel Comics inker during the Silver Age of comic books; and as the illustrator of the Marvel biographies The Life of Pope John Paul II, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the first of which at least sold millions of copies worldwide in several language

Norman Rice 1907, actor, The Brow - Dick Tracy (3 episodes, 1953).

Events

1954, Riders to the Stars premieres

1967, Dr. Who, four-part serial "The Underwater Menace" airs.

1976, "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)

1980, Blakes 7, 3rd series Episode 2. "Powerplay"

1990, "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV

1998, Star Trek:Voyager "Waking Moments" airs.

2004, Star Trek:Enterprise "Chosen Realm" airs.

2005, Star Trek:Enterprise "Daedalus" airs.

The X-Files, Blade, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Outland, Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, Dr. Who, Kronos, Octaman, Jericho, A Clockwork Orange.

The final Sunday page of Peanuts ended today just one day after Charles himself passed away. Two great things were lost to the world.

In a lighter note Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in the comic strips today in 1930.


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Birthdays

Kim Manners 1951, was an American director, directed the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "When The Bough Breaks". He was perhaps best known for directing and producing 52 episodes of The X-Files, including the series finale.

Joy Chant 1945, sci-fi author, High Kings

Jill Wagner 1979, actress, Krista Starr - Blade: The Series (12 episodes, 2006), Larrin - Stargate: Atlantis (2 episodes, 2007-2008).

Billy Gray 1938, actor, Alan Harper - Adv. Of Superman (1 episode, "Shot in the Dark", 1953), Bobby Benson-The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

Ron Goulart 1933, sci-fi author, Deadwalk, Plunder

Frances Sternhagen 1930, actress, Lazarus - Outland (1981), Dorothy Forrester - Prototype (1993)(TV), Jean Anderson - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Choice", 1995), Mrs. Bellamy - The Simpsons (1 episodes, The Frying Game", 2002).

David Sheiner 1928, actor, Dennis - Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950)(TV Series), Doc - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Thirty-Fathom Grave", 1963), Chandler / Josip - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (2 episode, 1965-66), Mr. Burns - The Invaders (1 episode, "The Ivy Curtain", 1967), Zoran - Planet of the Apes (1 episode, "The Cure", 1974)(TV), Stenger - The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode, "The Ultimate Imposter", 1977), E.W.Foster - The Amazing Spiderman (1 episode, "The Captive Tower", 1978)(TV)(voice), Sheldon Greentree - Manimal (1 episode, "High Stakes", 1983), Norm - Automan ( 1 episode, "Unreasonable Facsimile", 1984).

Jack Watling 1923, Sandy Mason - The Invisible Man (Britain 1959), Professor Travers - Dr. Who ( 6 episodes, 1967-68).

Stephen Dunne 1918, actor, Tim Tyler - Batman (2 episodes, 1966)(TV)

Osa Massen 1916, actress, Dr. Lisa Van Horn - Rocketship XM (1950), Julie Bondar - Science Fiction Theatre (1 episode, "The Unexplored", 1950).

Jeff Morrow 1913, actor, Exeter - This Island Earth (1955), Dr. Leslie Gaskell - Kronos (1957), Mitchell 'Mitch' MacAfee - The Giant Claw (1957), Kurt Meyers -The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Elegy", 1960), Dr. John Willard - Octaman (1971).

Clarke Ashton Smith 1893, sci-fi author, Lost Worlds, Genius Loci

Link Baker 1974, actor, Lt. Barber / Artok - Stargate SG-1 (2 episodes, 2001-2002), Lex's Jet Pilot - Smallville (1 episode, "Phoenix", 2003), Air Force Officer - The 4400 (1 episode, "Pilot", 2004), Broken Nose Guard - Heroes (3 episodes, 2007), Technician - Masters of Science Fiction (1 episode, "Watchbird", 2007), Ravenwood Door Guard - Jericho (1 episode, "Termination for Cause", 2008).

Richard Moll 1943, actor, Mr. Moore-Smallville, Java (voice)-Justice League Unlimited, Harvey Dent (voice)-New Batman Adventures, Scorpion (voice)-Batman, Abominiation (voice)-Incredible Hulk, Zorn the Unspeakable (voice)-Freakazoid, Emperor Spooj (voice)-Superman : adv. of, Kyla-Galaxis, Slan Quince-Highlander, Bull Shannon-Night Court, Baba Gentle-Mork and Mindy, Yarat-Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Events

1930, Mickey made his first comic strip appearance, art credited to Ub Iwerks and inking to Win Smith.

1972, A Clockwork Orange was released in England, February 2 in the U.S.

1987, Design patent for a second communicator is issued.

1989, Deep Star Six is released.

2000, Charles M. Schulz's famous Peanuts Sunday page comic strip ends.

2001, The TV series Disney's House of Mouse premieres, part of Disney's One Saturday Morning.

2008, Fox airs the debut of the TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Batman, She-Dragon, Solar Man of the Atom, Bicentennial Man, Land of the Lost, Lost in Space, Flash Gordon, Red Planet Mars, Superman.

The Batman series premiered today on ABC in 1966. The dynamic duo bammed and powwed their way into our hearts.


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Birthdays

Franchesco 1965, comic book artist, best noted currently for She-Dragon.

Joe Quesada 1962, comic book editor, writer and artist. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He started out as an artist in the early 1990s. His first widely distributed works were for Valiant Comics where he penciled interiors and covers for Ninjak, Solar, Man of the Atom and others.

Kirstie Alley 1951, actress, Saavik - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).

Rachael Harris 1968, actress, Rose - SeaQuest DSV (1 episode, "Before and After" 1997), Martis - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Before and After" 1997).

Oliver Platt 1960, actor, Rupert Burns - Bicentennial Man (1999), Voice of Hades - Wonder Woman (2009)(voice), Carl Anheuser - 2012 (2009).

Ron Harper 1935, actor, Uncle Jack - Land of the Lost (13 episodes,1976), Alan Virdon - Planet of the Apes (14 episodes, 1974).

Lew Gallo 1928, actor, Brooks / Lt. Engle / Mechanic - Twilight Zone (3 eps.1960-63) Kruger / Stroller - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (2 episode, 1966), Navy Lt. Charlie Anderson / Vokar - The Time Tunnel (2 episode, 1966-1967), Comdr. Fletcher- Lost in Space (1 episode, "Flight Into the Future", 1967).

Hans Rickheit 1973, cartoonist, Rickheit originally self-published minicomics which presented dark surreal vignettes and short stories, many of them directly inspired by dreams. He also produced short films. Rickheit followed these up with a longer work, Kill, Kill, Kill, In the late 1990s, Rickheit moved to the Boston area where he associated himself with the Zeitgeist Gallery located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

House Peters Jr. 1916, actor, Shark Man - Flash Gordon (1936/I)[Chs. 3-4], Henchman Earl - Batman and Robin (1949)[Chs. 7-15], Burt Winslow - King of the Rocket Men (1949), Military Police Captain - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Dr. Boulting - Mitchell's Assistant - Red Planet Mars (1952), Technician - Target Earth (1954), Policeman - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Mr. Bevis", 1960).

Tom Coleman 1897, actor, Miner at Colliery - The Invisible Man Returns (1940), Government Agent - Superman (1948)[Ch. 1].

Events

1966, "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV

1967, Star Trek:TOS, "The Squire of Gothos" airs.

1968, Star Trek:TOS, "A Piece of the Action" airs.

1974, Star Trek: The Animated Series "The Jihad" airs.

2000, Star Trek:Voyager, "Fair Haven" airs.

Superman, Ms Tree, The Time Machine, Tarzan and the Mermaids, Dark Shadows, Cousin Itt, Twiki, Beyond Westworld, The Maxx, Zero Girl, Iceman.

Happy birthday to artist and Facebook friend Terry Beatty.


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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 Galactica, 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.

Battlestar Galactica, Neil and Buzz in Space & Time, Bernard Lee, James Bond, Jeff Jones, I'm Age, The Phantom Planet, Metroplis, Little Annie Rooney.

There is a timely events today. It was in 1929 that the Adv. Of Tin Tin comic strip debuted in Le Petit Vingtième. The movie version was released last month.


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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).

William Sanderson 1951, actor, Deuce-Babylon 5:Thirdspace, J.F. Sebastion-Blade Runner, Dr. Karl Rossum-Adv. Of Batman & Robin, Ed Funsch-The X-Files, Skeets-The Rocketeer,

Sal Mineo 1938, actor, Milo-Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Tsinnajinni-The Immortal.

Paul Henreid 1908, Richard Nincel-The Aquanauts (TV 1960), Victor Lazslo-Casablanca

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

Chic Young, Blondie, Dumb Dora, The Affairs of Jane, Beautiful Bab, Colonel Potterby and the Duchess, Target and the Targeteers, The Heap, Fringe.

One of my best memories of working for the International Comic Book Company in the late 80's, was sorting through and putting in order the old Blondie pages from papers all the way back to the beginning of the strip. The story line was intriguing and left me wanting to read more. I sat there reading and loving the story as Blondie meets Dagwood, Dagwood falls in love with her, Dagwood gives up his fortune to be with her, and finally Dagwood marries her, all in the first 3 years. I was mesmerized and carried on reading them with even more enthusiasm whenever I could. Yes the story has changed over the years but knowing the origins of the characters has made it a timeless strip to me. If you ever get a chance then find the strip on line and read their beginnings, it's time well spent. The reason I mention this today is because it's the late Chic Young's birthday. I'm making a Dagwood sandwich to celebrate his birthday, how about you?


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Birthdays

Chic Young (Murat Bernard Young) 1901, cartoonist, created the popular, long-running comic strip Blondie. In 1921, he learned that the Newspaper Enterprise Association was seeking an artist to do a comic strip about an attractive young woman. He headed for Cleveland and earned a salary of $22 a week while drawing The Affairs of Jane about a struggling film actress who dreamed of graduating from low-budget pictures to stardom. The short-lived strip, which began in 1921 on Halloween came to a conclusion five months later on March 18, 1922. Young soon left for New York where he created another female flapper strip, Beautiful Bab, which the Bell Syndicate began distributing on July 15, 1922. It ran for only four months but landed him a job in the art department of King Features Syndicate. In 1924, he began Dumb Dora, about brunette Dora who "wasn't as dumb as she looked." In the spring of 1930, after six years of seeing Dora increase in popularity, Young requested more money and strip ownership. This action led to changes, and Paul Fung took over Dumb Dora in April 1930 when Young dropped it in order to create Blondie. Blondie began September 8, 1930, and almost immediately became the most popular comic strip in America, gaining even more readers when Blondie and Dagwood married in 1933, followed by the 1934 birth of Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander). Young took a year's hiatus in 1937 when the death of his first son made it difficult for him to draw Baby Dumpling. During his lifetime, he produced more than 15,000 Blondie strips. His other works include the strip Colonel Potterby and the Duchess, which ran as a topper strip on the Blondie page from 1935 through 1963.

Dick Briefer 1915, comic book artist, created the superhero team the Target and the Targeteers for Novelty Press in 1940. introduced the eight-page feature "New Adventures of Frankenstein", an updated version of the much-adapted Frankenstein monster created by Mary Shelley in her 1818 novel Frankenstein.[9] Considered by comics historians including Don Markstein as "America's first ongoing comic book series to fall squarely within the horror genre", the feature, set in New York City circa 1930, starred a guttural, rampaging creature actually dubbed "Frankenstein" (unlike Shelley's nameless original monster).

Leo Gullotta 1946, actor, Nadir - Sinbad of the 7 Seas (1989).

K Callan 1942, actress, Lenore Mackenzie - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "The Americanization of Machiko - August 4, 1953", 1989), Alsia - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Rival", 1994), Martha Kent - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (87 episodes, 1993-1997), Tilly Hill - King of the Hill (3 episodes, 2000-2003), Charlie - Heroes (1 episode, "Chapter Eighteen 'Brave New World'", 2010).

Algis Budrys 1931, sci-fi author, His first published science fiction story was "The High Purpose", which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1952. Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Among his other pseudonyms in the SF magazines of the 1950s and elsewhere, several revived as bylines for vignettes in his magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, is "William Scarff". He also wrote several stories under the names "Ivan Janvier" or "Paul Janvier." He also used the pen name "Alger Rome" in his collaborations with Jerome Bixby. Budrys's 1960 novella Rogue Moon was nominated for a Hugo Award, and was later anthologized in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two (1973). His Cold War science fiction novel Who?

Lee Van Cleef 1925, actor, Hauk - Escape from New York (1981) , Herrick / Lesser / Loren - Space Patrol (3 episodes, 1952-1953) (TV Series), Corp. Stone - The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953).

Jane Ross 1932, actress, Tamoon - Star Trek:TOS (1 episode, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", 1968), Human - Planet of the Apes (1968).

Ernest C. "Ernie" Schroeder 1916, comic book artist and a commercial illustrator and sculptor, best known for drawing and co-writing Hillman Periodicals' influential muck-monster The Heap from 1949 to 1953. Other characters with which Schroeder is associated include Hillman's Airboy and Harvey Comics' Shock Gibson and Spirit of '76.

Patrick Sabongui 1975, actor, Taliban Guard / Kanaan - Stargate: Atlantis (5 episodes, 2006-2008), Soldier #1 - The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Knot Top Gang Leader - Watchmen (2009), Ahmed - Fringe (1 episode, "Fracture", 2009), Weasley Bouncer - Caprica (1 episode, "Ghosts in the Machine", 2010).

Events

1952, Radar Men from the Moon (Republic Pictures) is released. It was the first Commando Cody serial and was produced in 12 chapters.

1966, A five-page Spirit story, set in New York City, appeared as part of an article about the Spirit in the New York Herald Tribune.

1978, Blakes 7, 1st.series Episode 2. "Space Fall"

1979, Blakes 7, 2nd series Episode 1. "Redemption"

1996, The first episode of "3rd Rock from the Sun" aired on NBC.

Stephen Hawking, G.I. Joe, Predator, David Bowie, The Time Machine, The Black Hole, Flash Gordon, William Hartnell, Doctor Who.

Two doctors and a musician to point out today. One doctor is real and the other played the original Doctor. The musician made his mark for being a little out of there in the beginning. The people I'm talking about are Stephen Hawking, William Hartnell, and David Bowie. Another thing to note is they are all British.


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Birthdays

Stephen Hawking 1942, noted scientist, appearing as a hologram of himself in Star Trek:TNG "Descent, played himself on both Futurama and The Simpsons

Michelle Forbes 1965, actress, Ro Laren-Star Trek: The Next Generation

Suzanne Rachel Forbes 1967,comic book artist on the DC Comics Star Trek series

Rachel Emily Nichols 1980,actress,Orion Starfleet cadet (green girl) Gaila in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, Scarlett-G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

John McTiernan 1951, Director, Predator

David Bowie 1947, singer and actor, also known as David Robert Hayward-Jones, played Lord Royal Highness-Spongebob Squarepants, Jareth the Goblin King-Labyrinth, Thomas Jerome Newton-The Man who fell to Earth.

Terry Brooks 1944, sci-fi author

Yvette Mimieux 1939, actress, Weena-The Time Machine (1960), Dr. Kate McCrae-The Black Hole, Dr. Leah Jansen-The Neptune Disaster.

Steve Holland 1925, actor, Flash Gordon - Flash Gordon (30 episodes, 1954-1955).

William Hartnell 1908, actor, the first actor to play the lead role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. (136 episodes, 1963-1966, 1972, 1973)

Events

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