Something is going to be happened…

O C T O B E R   2 1 S T :

1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).

1946 – Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps) born (d. 2009)

1973 – John Paul Getty III‘s  E A R  is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn’t arrive until November 8.  John Paul Getty III later became the father of Balthazar Getty, who went on to play the part of Pete Dayton in Lost Highway.

1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

2010 –

~ by benjaminlouche on October 4, 2010.