In Mickey Rooney's cleverly titled autobiography "Life Is Too Short," he claims to have met Walt Disney by chance at a Hollywood studio in the 1920s, where Disney told him that he was going to name his newly created cartoon mouse for him. Rooney enters the Guinness Book this year as the person with the longest stage/screen career -- 86 years. He first appeared on a vaudeville stage at the age of 15 months in 1922.

Happy 100th birthday to the Milk-Bone brand of dog biscuits, first manufactured by the F.H. Bennett Biscuit Company on the Lower East Side of New York City. Originally called Maltoids, it was renamed Milk-Bone because of the cow's milk it once contained. Bennett merged with Nabisco in 1931, which is today part of Kraft Foods; the brand was sold to Del Monte in 2006.

Israeli statesman Abba Eban served as Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Ambassador to the U.S. Mr. Eban was born in the same country as actor Basil Rathbone, which was:
A) Australia
B) Canada
C) South Africa
D) Belgium

Previous answer: The 9-volt battery was introduced by Eveready in 1956, specifically to provide the power for transistor radios, which required more power than the 1.5-volt batteries of the time.

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