Birthdays: Alexander Glauzunov, Billie Holiday, Eddie Fisher, Leo Fender, Herbert Hoover, Polish King Jan III Sobieski, Norma Shearer, Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Dean, Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette is 60, Antonio Banderas is 59
1536- CANADA GETS ITS NAME-French explorer Cartier discovered a great river on St. Lawrence's Day, which he calls the St. Lawrence River. Cartier asks the Huron people "what people lived upstream?". They replied people who work with red copper, in their language" Caignetdaze". Cartier recorded in his log, the land "Chemin de Canada".
1628- Swedish King Gustavus built a huge battleship called the Vasa. In front of the whole court he launched it into a fjord and it immediately sank to the bottom. Doh!
333 years later it was brought up, and today is a nice attraction in a Stockholm museum.
1629- Spanish painter Diego Velasquez traveled to Italy to study the Renaissance Masters on the advice of his buddy, painter Peter Paul Rubens.
1787- Mozart completes his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -A Little Night Music.
1788- Mozart’s on a roll! This day he completed his Jupiter Symphony #41. It was his last symphony. He never heard it performed in his lifetime.
1948 – Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC.
1981- The animated movie Heavy Metalopened in theaters.
1984- Famed New Yorker cartoonist and former Disney artist Virgil “Vip” Partch died in a car crash with his wife, outside of Valencia, California.
1987- Clara Peller, the elderly actress who gained last minute advertising fame by saying Where's the Beef? died at 86. The director and writer of the spots was the father of J.J. Sedelmeir, who created the Ambiguously Gay Duo and other TV Funhouse animations for SNL.
2001- Warner Bros film Osmosis Jones opened in general theaters.
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