Aloha from Hawaii broadcast live to Asia and Oceania (1973), and Logician Kurt Gödel dies of starvation (1978). Born on this day: Jason Bateman, Mishima Yukio and Albert Schweitzer. Died: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Lewis Carroll and Humphrey Bogart.
30 events, 72 births and 75 deaths on this date.
Presley, known as the King of Rock and Roll, performed for a satellite link that let viewers in Asia and Oceania watch the show as it unfolded. The Hawaii concert showed how far live television could now reach across the world.
RCA Records · Public domainGödel, the Austrian logician, had a deep dread of being poisoned and so relied on his wife to cook for him. When she was hospitalised, he went without food and starved to death.
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's ship Fram reached the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, where his team set up a camp. From there they would push south for the pole, and Amundsen's party reached it later that year.
Anonymous Unknown author · Public domain
Puccini's melodrama about a singer, a painter and a corrupt police chief opened at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. It quickly became one of the most performed operas in the world, thanks to its dramatic story and memorable arias.
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Josip Broz Tito, who had led the Partisan resistance during the Second World War and served as prime minister, became the country's first president. The post gave the wartime leader a formal head-of-state role, and he held it until his death in 1980.
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Felice Orsini and accomplices threw bombs at the emperor's carriage as it approached the Paris Opera. Napoleon III was unhurt, but many bystanders were killed or injured, and the attack pushed him toward tougher security laws.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter · Public domain
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Jason Bateman is an American actor best known as Michael Bluth in the sitcom Arrested Development and Marty Byrde in the Netflix drama Ozark. He began as a child actor on Little House on the Prairie and later directed Ozark episodes that won him an Emmy.
Colleen Sturtevant · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mishima was a Japanese novelist and playwright, known for Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. He was put forward for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times during the 1960s, but never won it.
Ken Domon · Public domain
A German polymath from Alsace, Schweitzer trained as a theologian and organist before qualifying as a doctor. He ran a hospital at Lambaréné in what is now Gabon, and in 1952 won the Nobel Peace Prize for championing respect for all living things.
Émile Schneider · Public domain
Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter who clung to academic traditions while Romanticism rose around him. He is remembered above all for his portraits, whose distorted forms later inspired Matisse and Picasso.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · Public domain
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician whose nonsense stories, including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, are classics of Victorian literature. He also wrote poems such as Jabberwocky and was an accomplished early photographer.
Lewis Carroll · Public domain
Best known for hard-edged roles in crime dramas and thrillers, Bogart won the Best Actor Oscar for The African Queen. His performances in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon made him a lasting figure of classic Hollywood cinema.
WCCO (AM) , a CBS affiliate--the network where the program originated. This local affiliate intended to use the photo in its local ads for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area it serves. · Public domain
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