It happened today - January 2nd

This Day in Entertainment  History

1941 - The Andrews Sisters recorded "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" on Decca Records

 

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Isaac Asimov  !!

Birthday:   January 2, 1920
Birthplace:   Russia
Death Date:   Apr 6, 1992

 

 

ISAAC ASIMOV FACTS

Author 

About: Prolific author of science and science fiction books

Before Fame: He became enthused with science fiction novels as a boy, although his father considered them trash

Trivia Fact: Professor of biochemistry at Boston University, Will Smith played in the adapted film version of my book, I Robot.

Family Life: Married Gertrude Blugerman on July 26, 1942 but they divorced in 1973. He then married Janet Jeppson two weeks later.

Associated With: Will Smith starred in the film adaptation of my science fiction novel I, Robot.

 

More facts and trivia - 

 He wrote or edited over 500 volumes and an estimated 90,000 letters or postcards and has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System exept Philosophy.

 Asimov died from AIDS related complications. He contracted HIV from an infected blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery in 1983. The cause for his death was kept secret by his widow for over a decade after his death.

 Asimov was afraid of flying. He only flew twice in his life. He was also a claustrophile, i.e. he enjoyed small,enclosed spaces.

 Asimov taught himself to read at the age of five. His interest in science fictions magazines led him to write his own, and by his mid-teens he was selling his stories to pulp magazines.

 In his robot series “I, Robot“, he developed the “Three Laws of Robotics” – a set of rules of ethics for robots and intelligent machines that has greatly influenced the way writers and thinkers in the field look at the subject.

 Asimov is credited for coining the word “robotic” and “robotics“.