Birthdays: Gen. Benjamin "Spoons" Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Art Garfunkel is 80, Roy Rogers, Tatum O'Neill, Elke Sommer- born Baroness Elke Von Shletz is 81, Ike Turner, Vivien Leigh. Will Durant, Joel McCrea, Sam Shepard, John Berger, Robert Patrick is 63, Tilda Swinton is 60
1699- According to Jonathan Swift, this is the day Lemuel 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.
1975- Mormon lumberjack Travis Walton was abducted by aliens and experimented on for five days, then returned to his Snowflake Arizona home. The encounter was seen by seven adult men, who were his co-workers. Walton published a bestseller Fire in the Sky, that was made into a movie.
1979- National Public Radio’s news show Morning Edition started.
1989- Grand Day Out premiered, introducing the audience to the characters Wallace and Gromet.
1999- A man was arrested in Minneapolis for stealing and keeping 150 shopping carts in his apartment.
2004- Pixar's The Incredibles premiered.
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