Birthdays:Charlie Parker King James II Stuart, John Locke, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Jean Dominique Ingres, Preston Sturges, Ingrid Bergman, William Friedkin is 86, Dinah Washington, George Montgomery, Slobodan Milosevic, Robin Leach, Michael Jackson, Joel Schumacher, choreographer Mark Morris, Charles Kettering inventor of the automobile ignition, Joyce Clyde Hall the founder of Hallmark greeting cards, Richard Attenborough, Donald O’Connor, Rebecca DeMornay, John McCain,Elliot Gould is 82,
1893- Whitcomb Judson & Gideon Sundback invented the ‘clasp-locker” aka the zipper.
1925 - After a night on the town, Babe Ruth showed up late for batting practice. So Yankee manager Miller Huggins suspended Ruth & slapped a $5,000 fine on him. Whenever the Yankees were on the road and were safely winning a game, Ruth would take himself out of the lineup early so he could scout out a good bar for the team to go to later.
1953- Warner's "Cat Tails for Two" introduced Speedy Gonzales. Named for WB assistant animator Frank Gonzales.
1954- San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opened.
1955- Mamie Van Doren married Ray Anthony.
1958 - George Harrison joins the Quarrymen -Lennon-McCartney and Sutcliffe. The later rename themselves the Beatles.
1962- The Kennedy State Department sent poet laureate Robert Frost on a goodwill tour of Soviet Russia.
1967- Final Episode of the television series "The Fugitive". Dr. Richard Kimble catches the one-armed-man and clears his name. 78 million people watched this episode.
1970- The Chicano Moratorium- 20,000 Americans of Mexican ancestry protested the war in Vietnam. During the rioting, the Times correspondent Ruben Salazar was killed by police. The Chicano Rights movement was born.
1976 - Anissa Jones, the child actress who played Buffy on the television show Family Affair), died of a drug overdose at age 18.
2002- Peep-O-Rama, Times Square’s last remaining peep show, closed.
2015- Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In the emergency Animation teacher Sue Kroyer outfitted a winnebago with veterinary supplies and drove from Los Angeles to New Orleans to aid in animal rescue of domestic pets stranded by the storm.
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