Birthdays: Queen Mary I Tudor -Bloody Mary, Pietro Guarnieri the violin maker, Harry Grover- Seeley one of the founders of Paleontology, Louis Tiffany, Andre Segovia, Wendell Wilkie, Billy de Wolfe, Enzo Ferrarri, Yoko Ono is 86, Jack Palance, Milos Forman, Bobby Bachman of the Bachman Turner Overdrive, Gahan Wilson, Johnny Hart, Matt Dillon is 55, John Travolta is 65, John Hughes, Dr. Dre
1885- Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'published.
1888- The Hotel Coronado in San Diego Cal. opened for guests. It remains one of the largest remaining wood structures in the U.S. Several presidents stayed there, the Duke of Windsor met Wallis Simpson there, and films like the Marilyn Monroe film Some Like it Hot andThe Stuntmanwere shot there.
1950- First Mr. Magoo cartoon "Ragtime Bear".
1953- First 3-D stereoscopic movie,"B'wana Devil"starring Robert Stack.
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