This Week in Pop Culture: 8/8 – 8/14

Giving you the 7 day forecast for a bunch of things that have already happened.

August 8

• 1961 – The Edge (guitarist for the band “U2″) is born.
• 2004 – Fay Wray dies.

August 9

• 1173 – Construction begins on the Tower of Pisa.
• 1969 – Members of a cult lead by Charles Manson brutally murder actress Sharon Tate and friends.
• 1974 – President Richard Nixon resigns.
• 2008 – Comedian Bernie Mac dies.

August 10

• 1846 – The Smithsonian is chartered by the United States Congress after a generous donation from James Smithson after his death .
• 1948 – Candid Camera debuts on television.
• 1969 – Charles Manson’s cult kills Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
• 2008 – Musician Issac Hayes dies.

August 11

• 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career.
• 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

August 12

• 30BC – Cleopatra commits suicide.
• 1887 – Erwin Schrodinger is born. Schrodinger’s cat is both alive and dead.
• 1963 – Sir Mix-a-Lot is born.
• 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
• 2009 – Les Paul (guitar maker) dies.

August 13

• 1946 – HG Wells dies.
• 2004 – Julia Child dies.
• 2008 – Micheal Phelps sets the world record for Olympic Gold Medals.

August 14

• Nothing much…

Have a classy week!