John F. Kennedy was the first president to be born in the 20th century.
2000 was the first century year since 1600 to be a leap year, as only every fourth century year can be one.
Prolific pornographic film actor Harry Reems was born Herbert Streicher to a German-American Jewish family in Bronx, New York. Reems served briefly in the United States Marine Corps before electing to pursue an acting career, principally in off-Broadway theater. He started doing porn for the money.
I’m probably just missing it, but what’s this one playing from?
In any case-
Alfred Jodl and Wilhelm Keitel were among the German officers who voiced strenuous objections to being housed in the same prison as Julius Streicher, a former pornographer who later printed newspapers and anti-semitic children’s books for the Nazis. Unrepentant til the end, Streicher’s last words as he mounted the gallows at Nuremberg were “Heil Hitler!”
Dick Cheney, who accidentally shot Harry Whittington (I don’t think even the Cheney haters, who consider him only slightly less palatable than Hitler, believe he did it on purpose), served as U.S. Congressman from Wyoming, Secretary of Defense and CEO of Halliburton before Texas Gov. George W. Bush chose him as his Vice Presidential running mate in the election of 2000. Given the requirements of the 12th Amendment, this led to a hurried change in Cheney’s residency from Texas back to Wyoming. A lawsuit over the issue was thrown out.
Richard Halliburton was an author and adventure traveler who disappeared while attempting to sail the Sea Dragon (a Chinese junk) from Hong Kong to San Francisco. His goal was to make a grand entrance at the Golden Gate International Exposition, but he was apparently the victim of heavy typhoon-induced squalls in the Pacific Ocean.
The International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong was intended to be the tallest building in the world but had to be scaled down because, among other reasons, it would violate an ordinance not to be taller than the surrounding mountains, so it is 4th tallest instead. Most of the 108 floors are office space; the top 15 floors are a Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
On September 11, 2001, the Empire State Building recaptured its title as the tallest buildingi n New York City; however, they no longer advertise the fact.
The planned replacement building for the WTC is 1776 feet tall (though that includes an antenna). It’s projected completion is “when it gets built”.
Among the works published in 1776 were Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations and Volume 1 of Edward Gibbon’s series The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
David McCullough’s book 1776, about that crucial year in the American Revolution which ended with Washington’s daring raid on Trenton, N.J., will be developed into a miniseries for HBO, just as his bestselling biography John Adams was.
The first program and film broadcast on HBO, Sometimes a Great Notion, starred Paul Newman and Henry Fonda. It transmitted with a CATV system in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (a plaque commemorating this event is found in Wilkes-Barre’s downtown Public Square), in November 1972.
The Broadway musical 1776 by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone includes a section of more than 30 minutes where no musical note is either sung or played. When the show first premiered on Broadway, the musicians were, for the first time, allowed to leave and return to the pit during that portion of the show.
Merging the above two: The Broadway revival of Lerner & Leowe’s musical Camelot starring Richard Harris (who starred in the horrible and disastrous movie version) was broadcast live on HBO in January 1982.
Marcus Loew was an early movie theater owner and executive, best known for being behind the merger of his own Metro Pictures with Goldwyn Pictures, and hiring Louis B. Mayer (and Irving Thalberg) to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, better known as MGM.
Harumph! 
The MGM Studios where such blockbusters as “The Wizard of Oz”, “Ben-Hur”, “Mutiny on the Bounty”, and “Gone With the Wind” were shot were in Culver City, CA, a Los Angeles suburb. The facility is now owned by Sony Pictures.and houses Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures, after a period of being owned by Warner Brothers.
The United Artists film studio was founded in 1919 by Mary Pickford, her fiancee Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and DW Griffith.
The fifth partner in United Artists was lawyer, senator, Treasury Secretary and unsuccessful presidential candidate William Gibbs McAdoo. He was instrumental in the formation of the Federal Reserve Bank.
President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the Act of Congress creating the Federal Reserve System in 1913, is pictured on the no-longer-printed $100,000 bill: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/US100000dollarsbillobverse.jpg
