- 1975 Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
- 1973 Pink Floyd release their album “Dark Side of the Moon”, since sold over 45 million copies
Ron Howard’s Birthday
Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and actor who first became famous when he played the role of Opie Taylor in the television sitcom series The Andy Griffith Show in 1960. He was born Ronald William Howard on March 1st, 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma, to Jean Speegle Howard and Rance Howard.
The first episode of the hit television series, Happy Days, aired in January 1974. Howard played the starring role of Richie Cunningham and continuing with the series until 1982. He also appeared in two 1974 television movies, The Migrants and Locusts,and one major motion picture, The Spikes Gang. Around this time he left his studies at USC in order to learn the filmmaking business on the job.
World Compliment Day
Birthdays for actor Lupita Nyong’o (1983) and singers Kesha (1987) and Justin Bieber (1994)
Anniversary of:
• the start of the infamous Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts (1692)
• Yellowstone becoming the world’s first national park (1872)
• Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity (1896)
• the US explosion of Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US (1954)
• the release of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
• colour television transmissions beginning in Australia (1975)