Good News in History September 23

133 years in the past right this moment, the Nintendo firm was based in Kyoto. For lovers of Tremendous Mario Bros., Pokémon, Zelda, and all different contributions from the third nice pillar of console video gaming, it is perhaps shocking to know the corporate, based by Fusajiro Yamauchi, basically predates residence electrical energy. They did nonetheless open store promoting leisure—within the type of the Japanese enjoying card sport Hanafuda. READ Extra concerning the firm’s surprisingly lengthy historical past…

The Hanafuda playing cards they manufactured was one of many solely tolerated types of playing through the late nineteenth century, and Nintendo is believed to imply the “temple of free hanafuda,” referring to this legality. The playing cards have been concerning the measurement of western enjoying playing cards, solely thicker and with nature photographs like koi, cranes, and fish on them.

Nintendo survived in a tough setting, because the playing cards have been a distinct segment market with a protracted product life and costly manufacturing course of. They continued to outlive as a enterprise by a brand new tax on enjoying playing cards, the Russo-Japanese Warfare, and a call that Mr. Yamauchi needed to make adopting his son-in-law so the enterprise may proceed to be registered as a family-owned firm.

Following World Warfare II, Nintendo nonetheless managed a big market share in enjoying card manufacturing, and with grandson-in-law Hiroshi on the helm, they contracted with Walt Disney to place Disney characters on card units. Hiroshi additionally modified the title from Nintendo Karuta to The Nintendo Taking part in Card Co., after which a second time to Nintendo Co. Ltd. when he took the corporate public.

Extra troubles endured in a altering market, however by 1980 the built-in circuit had been invented, as had the digital display screen, and all the opposite elements that will permit Nintendo to begin making online game consoles. And the remaining they are saying, is historical past.

MORE Good Information on this Day:

• American commander John Paul Jones was mentioned to have declared, “I’ve not but begun to combat!” throughout a Revolutionary Warfare naval battle (1779)
• 91 years in the past, Ray Charles, the American singer, songwriter, musician and composer, who was blind since childhood and pioneered the style of soul music by combining rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues, was born (1930)
• Saudi Arabia Nationwide Day celebrates unification (1932)
• Silent film star Charlie Chaplin returned to his native England after 21 years (1952)
• Lincoln Heart for the Performing Arts in New York Metropolis opened its first venue, Philharmonic Corridor — now Avery Fisher Corridor (1962)
• The Jetsons first aired, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon and the primary colour sequence of the ABC TV community (1962)
• The Field Tops began a 4 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Letter’, one of the crucial recognizable pop songs, which bought over 4 million copies, earned two Grammy nominations, and have become a Prime Ten hit for Joe Cocker (1967)
• Mozilla’s Firefox net browser (the quickest and most secure browser till Chrome got here alongside) was born: model 0.1 (2002)

Comfortable thirty seventh Birthday to Hasan Minhaj, the comic, author, producer, political commentator, and actor who was named one in every of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Folks in 2019. His Netflix stand-up comedy particular Homecoming King garnered rave opinions and gained him a 2018 Peabody award.

Jon Stewart employed the first-generation American to be a correspondent on the comedy information program The Each day Present in 2014.

In 2017, he hosted the annual White Home Correspondents’ Dinner, and the next 12 months launched the weekly political comedy sequence Patriot Act on Netflix, which earned him his second Peabody.

Minhaj is again with a model new one-man present, The King’s Jester, returning to his storytelling roots and touring the nation. WATCH a clip, in the event you don’t thoughts slightly cursing, to see why this comedian has simply bought out six nights on the Kennedy Heart’s predominant stage… (1985)

And, 216 years in the past right this moment, Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis from their groundbreaking exploration to the Pacific Northwest throughout which they mapped the land and established friendship and commerce with at the least two dozen indigenous nations.

Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, the Military volunteers commanded by Captain Meriwether Lewis and shut buddy, Second Lieutenant William Clark, endured the perilous expedition for greater than two years, mapping a path to the Pacific Ocean and learning the world’s crops, animals, and geography. They met Sacagawea, a Shoshone girl who traveled with the group and was reunited along with her lengthy misplaced brother, a tribal chief who performed a pivotal position in aiding the expedition’s journey over the Rocky Mountains. (1806)

Comfortable 79th Birthday to Spanish singer and songwriter Julio Iglesias.

The Grammy-award winner in 2013 was the Latin artist who bought probably the most data in historical past and is without doubt one of the prime ten document sellers in music historical past, with greater than 100 million records bought worldwide in 14 languages. Throughout his profession he has performed greater than 5000 live shows for over 60 million folks, and is the preferred worldwide artist in China, Brazil, France, Romania, Italy, and others. WATCH a duet with Willie Nelson, performing To All of the Women I’ve Beloved Earlier than… (1943)

And, Comfortable Birthday to Bruce Springsteen who was ‘born Within the USA’ 73 years outdated right this moment.

The New Jersey singer-songwriter’s latest movie, Western Stars, took him into new artistic frontiers as a co-director exploring his troubled previous, together with psychological sickness, by the lens of the recent LP of the identical title.

“The older you get, the heavier that baggage turns into that you simply haven’t sorted by,” says The Boss in his 2019 movie. “I nonetheless have days once I battle with it.”

“Growing old is horrifying however fascinating, and nice expertise morphs in unusual and sometimes enlightening methods,” wrote Springsteen in his 2016 best-selling memoir Born to Run. The guide impressed his Tony Award-winning play, Springsteen on Broadway, which featured the Boss baring his life story, set to song and monologue which ran for greater than a 12 months by December 2018.

Springsteen has been candid about his struggles with psychological sickness, which runs in his household and for which he takes drugs which have helped. Throughout a profession that has spanned 5 a long time, Springsteen grew to become identified for his poetic and socially acutely aware lyrics and epic 3-hour stage performances, enjoying songs that usually deal with the struggles of the working-class.

His best-known songs embody Born to Run, Thunder Street, and Badlands within the 70s, Hungry Coronary heart, Dancing within the Darkish, Born in the usA. and Glory Days within the 80s, and Human Contact and Streets of Philadelphia within the 90s. He has gained 20 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a not too long ago the Tony. He’s now waiting for getting the E Avenue Band again collectively, with new songs he’s written for a “actually good rock band document.” (1949)

Additionally, on today 102 years in the past, Mickey Rooney, the award-winning actor and comic was born in Brooklyn, New York. In a profession spanning 9 a long time, he appeared in additional than 300 movies and performed the younger ‘Andy Hardy’ in 15 movies that epitomized American household values. A flexible performer and dancer at age 17, he was celebrated for his efficiency as a juvenile delinquent in Boys Town, reverse Spencer Tracy. Laurence Olivier as soon as mentioned he thought of Rooney “the perfect there has ever been”. One director known as him “the closest factor to a genius I ever labored with”.

At 19, he was the primary teenager to be nominated for an Oscar (the primary of 4 nominations with 2 wins in his lifetime) for his main position in Babes in Arms and on the peak of his profession—from 1939 to 1941—Rooney was the highest box-office attraction and one of many best-paid actors of that period. Drafted into the Military throughout World Warfare II, he served practically two years entertaining over two million troops on stage and radio and was awarded a Bronze Star for performing in fight zones.

Rooney’s recognition was renewed with supporting roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Requiem for a Heavyweight, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and The Black Stallion in 1979. He gained an Emmy in 1982 plus a Golden Globe for his position in Bill. WATCH CNN and ABC’s obituaries summarizing his good life upon his dying at 93… (1920–2014)

Images: Rooney in 1940 (left), and in 1986 (proper) by Allan Warren, CC license

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