1930: Johannes Ostermeier patents the first commercially available photographic flashbulb, the Vacublitz, Berlin, Germany.
1946: The Photo League sponsors a Stieglitz Memorial Meeting to honor Alfred Stieglitz, photographer, writer, curator, and gallerist, who died on July 13 of that year. Speaker Paul Strand takes as his theme "the artist of today must also be a citizen with a social conscience." At Freedom Hall, 40th St. near Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.
2003: The lead story on The Drudge Report asserts that, according to sources close to the late Robert Mapplethorpe, he took several erotic photographs of the actor and California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s which have never been published. Apparently the artist "considered Schwarzenegger one of his favorite subjects."
Born:
1936 — Peter Eric Palmquist, historian and archivist, Oakland, California, U.S.
1949 — Zahra Kazemi, photojournalist, Shiraz, Iran.
