Birthdays: Gnaeus Agricola- 40AD, Harriet Beecher Stowe, W.B. Yeats, Red Grange, Basil Rathbone would be 126, Dorothy Sayers, Ralph Edwards, Paul Lynde, Tim Allen, Darla Hood, Ally Sheedy, Simon Callow, Christo, Ralph McQuarrie, Malcolm McDowell is 79, Stellan Skarsgard is 71, the Olsen Twins are 36, Chris Evans is 41.
1927- Wall St. tickertape parade for Lucky Lindy- Charles Lindbergh.
1941-The American Federation of Labor, the AF of L called for a nationwide boycott of all Disney products and films. This was to support the Disney Cartoonists strike.
1942- President Roosevelt by executive order created the Office of Strategic Services or the OSS. Under director Wild Bill Donovan its job was to coordinate espionage and intelligence gathering against the Axis powers in cooperation with its British counterpart, the SOE. On the agencies personnel roster were experts from spymasters William Gates and William Casey to tourist book author Eugene Fodor and chef Julia Child. Child for a time was an executive assistant to Donovan and transferred to India helped develop a shark repellent for downed fliers. Child recalled the OSS was nicknamed “Oh So Secret!” and “Oh, So-Social” for all the New York society High Society types in it. After World War II, the OSS became the CIA.
1958- Frank Zappa graduated Antelope Valley High School.
2010- Pixar’s Toy Story III premiered.
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