On This Day = January 14
Bithdays + Events + Holidays + Observances
BIRTHDAYS
1863 = Richard F. Outcault = American author and illustrator
1875 = Albert Schweitzer = French-German physician and philosopher
1883 = Nina Ricci = Italian-French fashion designer
1892 = Hal Roach = American actor, director, and producer
1904 = Cecil Beaton = English photographer, diarist, and designer 🌈
1915 = Mark Goodson = American Family Feud and The Price Is Right creator
1919 = Andy Rooney = American soldier, journalist, critic, and tv personality
1925 = Yukio Mishima = Japanese writer, actor, and model 🌈
1926 = Warren Mitchell = English actor and screenwriter
1933 = Stan Brakhage = American filmmaker
1936 = Clarence Carter = American singer-songwriter
1937 = Billie Jo Spears = American country singer
1938 = Allen Toussaint = American singer-songwriter and producer
1938 = Jack Jones = American singer and actor
1940 = Julian Bond = American academic and politician
1941 = Faye Dunaway = American actress and producer
1943 = Holland Taylor = American actor 🌈
1944 = Nina Totenberg = American journalist
1945 = Alice Nkom = Cameroonian lawyer 🌈
1948 = Carl Weathers = American football player and actor
1948 = T Bone Burnett = American singer-songwriter and producer
1949 = Lawrence Kasdan = American filmmaker
1952 = Maureen Dowd = American journalist and author
1963 = Steven Soderbergh = American filmmaker
1964 = Shepard Smith = American tv host and journalist 🌈
1965 = Mark Addy = English actor
1965 = Slick Rick = English-American rapper and producer
1967 = Emily Watson = English actress
1968 = LL Cool J = American rapper and actor
1969 = Jason Bateman = American actor, director, and producer
1974 = Kevin Durand = Canadian actor
1982 = Marc Broussard = American singer-songwriter
EVENTS
1900 = Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres n Rome.
1960 = The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote-issuing authority, is established.
1952 = Jim Kepner and members of the Mattachine Soceity in LA discuss the idea of publishing a magazine for the LGBT community. They named their organization One, Inc. and put out the first issue in January, 1953. In 1956, One opened the Institute for Homophile Studies. Today, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC is the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world.
1952 = Today, NBC's morning news program, debuts with host Dave Garroway.
1954 = The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1967 = Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
1973 = Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.