Birthdays: Euclid, Blaise Pascal, King James I Stuart, Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor, Moe Howard, Lou Gehrig, Guy Lombardo, Mildred Natwick, Charles Coburn, Pat Butram, Louis Jourdan, Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Dame Mae Whitty, Lucie Sloane, Ang Sung Soo Chi, Kathleen Turner, Paula Abdul is 60, Zoe Saldana is 44, Gena Rowlands
1867- The first Belmont Stakes horse race. The winner was Ruthless.
1889- Beginning of the Sherlock Holmes adventure, the Man with the Twisted Lip.
1910 - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time. It was organized by the Spokane, Washington members of the local YMCA and Spokane Ministerial Assoc.
1921- Distributer Amadee van Beuren announced production of a new series of "Aesop’s Fables" cartoons to be done by former Bray director Paul Terry. Terrytoons studio is born.
1923 - "Moon Mullins," a Comic Strip, debuts.
1934- The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, created.
1941 - Cheerios Cereal invented. Originally called Cheery-Oats, it was changed to Cheerios in 1945.
1951- Devil May Hare, short by Bob McKimson, introduced the Tasmanian Devil.
1952 - "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.
1956- The comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis announced their breakup.
1960- Freedomland amusement park opened in the north Bronx, New York. Several of its designers like Harper Goff had worked on Walt Disney’s Disneyland.
1963- The Ray Harryhausen fantasy film Jason and the Argonauts premiered.
1973- The Rocky Horror Show stage show opened in London. The film version became a midnight cult classic. Writer Richard O’Brien himself played the doorman Riff-Raff. Let’s do the Time Warp Again.
1978 – Garfield the Cat, created by Jim Davis, 1st appeared as a comic strip.
1983- Don Bluth’s video arcade game Dragons Lair debuted.
1987 - Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce a new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. Jerry is gone, but Cherry Garcia rocks on.
1987 –David Geffen Records signed their 1st artist -Donna Summer.
1998- Disney’s Mulan went into wide release.
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