On November 21, 1976, Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone as
the underdog prizefighter Rocky Balboa, debuted in New York
City. The movie, which opened in theaters across the United
States on December 3, 1976, was a huge box-office hit and
received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best
Actor and Best Original Screenplay for the then-little known
Stallone. Rocky ultimately took home three Oscars, including
one for Best Picture, and made Stallone one of the biggest
stars in Hollywood.

Sylvester Stallone and Burgess Meredith

Stallone and Carl Weathers

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison,
Alexander Graham Bell‘s Volta Laboratory made several
improvements in the 1880s and introduced the graphophone,
including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders and a
cutting stylus that moved from side to side in a zigzag groove
around the record. In the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the
transition from phonograph cylinders to flat discs with a spiral
groove running from the periphery to near the center, coining
the term gramophone for disc record players.

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

A 13yr Old Melanie Griffith With Her Pet Lion Neil (1971)

Actress Melanie Richards Griffith (66)

She began her career in the 1970s, appearing
in several independent thriller films before
achieving mainstream success in the mid-
1980s.

 


Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr.
(March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963)

On November 20, 1923, the U.S. Patent Office grants Patent No.
1,475,074 to 46-year-old inventor and newspaperman Garrett
Morgan for his three-position traffic signal. Though Morgan’s
was not the first traffic signal (that one had been installed in
London in 1868), it was an important innovation nonetheless:

By having a third position besides just “Stop” and “Go,”
it regulated crossing vehicles more safely than earlier
signals had.

Morgan also invented a "safety hood smoke protection device"