By Kiesly Jameson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (born January 19, 1953), better known as Desi Arnaz Jr., is an American retired actor and musician. He is the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Arnaz was born on January 19, 1953, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles.[1] His older sister is actress Lucie Arnaz, who was born in 1951.
His birth was one of the most publicized in television history. His parents were the stars of the television sitcom I Love Lucy, and Ball’s pregnancy was part of the story line, which was considered daring in 1952. The same day Ball gave birth to Desi Jr., the fictional Lucy Ricardo gave birth to “Little Ricky”. As a testament to how interested the American public was in Lucy’s TV baby, Arnaz appeared on the cover of the first issue of TV Guide with the headline “Lucy’s $50,000,000 baby”, ($570,000,000 in 2023 dollars)[2] because revenue from advertising tie-ins was expected to top that amount.[3] Actor Richard Keith (a.k.a. Keith Thibodeaux) later portrayed “Little Ricky” in the TV series; Keith spent much time with Lucie and Desi Jr. in childhood and became close friends with the family, teaching Desi Jr. how to play drums.[4]
Arnaz attended University High School in West Los Angeles.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Why do we measure daylength in hours?
The ancients divided the day in half, roughly corresponding to sunrise and sunset, with 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. The length of an hour varied, depending on the time of year, until mechanical clocks were invented in the late Middle Ages.
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Born
- James Watt (inventor) –
- Robert E. Lee (Confederate general) –
- Edgar Allen Poe (author) –
- Paul Cézanne (painter) –
- Jean Stapleton (American actress ) –
- Patsy Rowlands (actress) –
- Janis Joplin (singer ) –
- Dolly Parton (singer) –
- Paula Deen (chef) –
- Desi Arnaz, Jr. (actor, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) –
- Drea de Matteo (actress) –
Died
- Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Canadian religious sister ) –
- William O. Douglas (Supreme Court Justice) –
- James Dickey (writer/poet) –
- Carl Perkins (musician) –
- Wilson Pickett (singer) –
- Denny Doherty (one of the founding members of the musical group The Mamas & The Papas) –
- Suzanne Pleshette (actress) –
- Stan “The Man” Musial (baseball player) –
Events
- Tin can patented –
- Explorer Charles Wilkes claimed discovery of Antarctica –
- First Brown vs. Harvard ice hockey game took place –
- Law raised salary of U.S. president to $100,000 –
- U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized first space satellite communications link between the United States and Europe on an experimental basis. –
- The last old-style, German-made Volkswagen Beetle left the plant in Emden, Germany –
- Astronaut Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman to be selected for a space mission –
Weather
- Twenty-four degrees below zero F in Hartford, Connecticut –
- Temperature dropped 50 degrees in Portsmouth, New Hampshire –
- The temperature rose 43 degrees in 15 minutes at Fort Assiniboine, near Havre, Montana. –
- Lake Erie froze from bank to bank for the first time in modern history –
- Snow fell in Miami, Florida –
- A record-low barometer reading of 29.25 inches occurred due to a West Coast storm –
- Temperature dipped to -36 degrees F, New Whiteland, Indiana –
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