Birthdays: Elvis Presley would have been 72, composer Robert Schumann, Jose Ferrer, Billy Graham is 89, Shirley Bassey, cartoonist Peter Arno, Yvette Mimieux, David Bowie, John Nierhardt, Bruce Sutter, Charles Osgood,publisher Frank Doubleday, Steven Hawkings. Soupy Sales, real name Milton Supman is 81. Can anyone out there remember Philo Kvetch or do the Mouse?

1889- Herman Hollerith received a patent for the electronic counting machine. The machine fed numbers onto punch cards and was used extensively in the U.S. census of 1890. In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which later was renamed International Business Machines or IBM.

1904- Pope Pius X banned women wearing low cut dresses in front of clergy. He also tried to ban tango dancing.

1962- The Mona Lisa traveled to America and went on display today at the National Gallery in Washington. It was loaned in a deal brokered by Jackie Kennedy and French interior minister Andre Malreaux

1965- NBC TV premiered Hullabaloo, a Rock & Roll dance show with lots of mini-skirted go-go girls. ABC later came up with Shindig.

1973- Carly Simon got a gold record for "You’re So Vain".

1992- BARF! President George Bush Sr. projectile vomited on the lap of Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone in front of press cameras at a state dinner in Tokyo.