History Blog

February 11

Happy Birthday RIP Thomas Alva Edison(1847-1931) Éva Gábor(1919–1995) Leslie Nielsen(1926–2010) Burton “Burt” Reynolds Jr(1936–2018) ; Tatiana Blacker(“Tina Louise”)–85 Sheryl Crow–57 Jennifer Aniston–50 Brandy Norwood–40 Matthew Lawrence–39 Natalie Dormer–37 Taylor Lautner–27 ; 1938 – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”