FACTS: 1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of cartoon stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse. 1978 - Jonestown mass suicide: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple in a mass murder-suicide; 913 die, including 276 children. 1985 - Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, is first published.
BIRTHS 1928 - Mickey Mouse, Cartoon Mouse 1968 - Owen Wilson, American actor
DEATH: 2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
The year 1928 keeps jumping out at me. It's weird.
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FACTS:
1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of cartoon stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
1978 - Jonestown mass suicide: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple in a mass murder-suicide; 913 die, including 276 children.
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, is first published.
BIRTHS
1928 - Mickey Mouse, Cartoon Mouse
1968 - Owen Wilson, American actor
DEATH:
2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
The year 1928 keeps jumping out at me. It's weird.