Birthdays: Alexander Glauzunov, Billie Holiday, Eddie Fisher, Leo Fender, Herbert Hoover, Polish King Jan III Sobieski, Norma Shearer, Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Dean, Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette is 63, Antonio Banderas is 62
1629- Painter Diego Velasquez traveled to Italy to study the Renaissance masters on the advice of his buddy, painter Peter Paul Rubens.
1787- Mozart completes his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -A Little Night Music.
1793- In one of the more positive results of the Reign of Terror, the French Revolutionary Government opened the royal art collection of the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1948 – Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC.
1970 - Jim Morrison is charged in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1972 - Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession.
1973 –San Francisco’s first BART train travels through the transbay tube to Montgomery St Station.
1983- Discovery of the Vega Galaxy. This was the first physical proof of a planetary system outside our Milky Way. With modern orbiting telescopes we’ve since found millions of them.
1984- Famed New Yorker cartoonist and former Disney artist Virgil “Vip” Partch died in a car crash with his wife, outside of Valencia, California.
1987- Clara Peller, the elderly actress who gained last minute advertising fame by saying Where's the Beef? died at 86. The director and writer of the spots was the father of J.J. Sedelmier, who created the Ambiguously Gay Duo and other TV Funhouse animations for SNL.
2001- Warner Bros film Osmosis Jones opened in theaters.
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