Birthdays: Gen. Benjamin
"Spoons" Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Art Garfunkel is 75, Roy Rogers,
Tatum O'Neill, Elke Sommer- born Baroness Elke Von Shletz is 76, Ike Turner,
Vivien Leigh. Will Durant, Joel McCrea, Sam Shepard is 73, John Berger, Robert
Patrick is 58, Tilda Swinton is 56
1699- According to Jonathan Swift,
this is the day Llemual Gulliver was shipwrecked on the isle of Liliput.
1937- Disney's silly symphony The
Old Mill debuted. The first film featuring the multiplane camera technique.
1938- Samuel Barber’s Adagio for
Strings premiered.
1940- President Franklin Roosevelt
was re-elected to an unprecedented 3rd term. His defeated Republican opponent-
Wendell Wilkie, became the butt of jokes in many Looney Tunes.
1955- The date in 1955 that Marty
McFly travels to in the 1985 film Back to the Future.
1979- National Public Radio’s news
show Morning Edition started.
2004- Pixar's The Incredibles
premiered.
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