Birthdays: George Fredrich Handel, Samuel Pepys (pronounced
'peeps'), Mayer Amschel Rothschild-1743- founder of the Rothschild banking
dynasty, Victor Fleming, W.E.B. DuBois, Johnny Winter, Peter Fonda is 76,
William Shirer, Allan MacLeod Cormack-inventor of the CAT Scan, Kelly MacDonald,
Tom Bodet, Neal McDonough, Kristin Davis is 51, Dakota Fanning is 22.
1927- animator Les Clark began work at the Walt Disney
Studio. He was the first of Walt’s Nine Old Men.
1935- Walt Disney Mickey & Donald cartoon "The Band
Concert". This was the first color Mickey Mouse cartoon.
1942- In the dead of night a Japanese submarine surfaced off
the California coast and fired it's cannon at lights it thinks is a city. In reality it's an oil refinery near Goleta
(Ellwood) just north of Santa Barbera. The brief bombardment caused $150
dollars in damage. The sub breaks radio silence to report to Tokyo that "
Enemy coast sighted. Los Angeles is in Flames." The incident fueled the
panic that Californians had that the West Coast was ripe for enemy
invasion. The incident was lampooned in
the Steven Spielberg comedy "1941."
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