1638 ~ Anne Hutchinsoon, a religious dissident, was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1887 ~ Birthday of Leonard (Chico) Marx, of the Marx Brothers, Comedian. He was the silent one with the horn.

1895 ~ Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first “moving picture show” to an invited audience in Paris.

1919 ~ The first international airline service inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.

1923 ~ Birthday of Marcel Marceau, the best Mime ever to grace a stage.

1948 ~ Birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer of Musical Theater.

1963 ~ The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me", released in the U.K.

1971 ~ The Andromeda Strain became first film to use computer animation.

1972 ~ The U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment. It was not ratified by the states.

1977 ~ The John Denver TV special "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" aired.

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