Birthdays: Gen. Benjamin "Spoons" Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Art Garfunkel is 78, Roy Rogers, Tatum O'Neill, Elke Sommer- born Baroness Elke Von Shletz is 79, Ike Turner, Vivien Leigh. Will Durant, Joel McCrea, Sam Shepard, John Berger, Robert Patrick is 61, Tilda Swinton is 59
1937- Disney's silly symphony The Old Mill debuted. The first film featuring the multiplane camera technique.
1938- Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Stringspremiered.
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 Incrediblespremiered.
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