Birthdays: Gen. Benjamin "Spoons" Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Art Garfunkel is 81, Roy Rogers, Tatum O'Neill, Elke Sommer- born Baroness Elke Von Shletz is 82, Ike Turner, Vivien Leigh. Will Durant, Joel McCrea, Sam Shepard, John Berger, Robert Patrick is 64, Tilda Swinton is 61
In Jolly Old England it is
HAPPY GUY FAWKES DAY! in -1605 Sir Guy Fawkes, a Catholic nobleman, was caught digging a tunnel under the English Parliament and filling it with gunpowder. His goal was no less than blowing up the King and the entire blinkin' government! Sir Roger Catesby was actually the mastermind of the plot, but Sir Guy gets the fame.
1857- Oxford professors at a dinner hear Sir William Trench call for a new Dictionary of the English Language, this time not just a sampler of difficult words but an attempt to inventory all the words used in English at the time. The OED, the Oxford English Dictionary took 70 years to write and was the biggest effort since Dr. Samuel Johnson’s dictionary of 1755.
1895- Invention of the Car Clutch.
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.
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.
1989- Grand Day Out premiered, introducing the audience to the characters Wallace and Gromet.
1994- 45 year old fighter George Foreman capped off an amazing comeback by becoming the oldest person ever to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World.
2004- Pixar's The Incredibles premiered.
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