Birthdays: Gouverner Morris, Zane Grey, James G. Blaine, Franz Schubert, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sir John Profumo, Phillip Glass, Johnny Rotten, Ernie Banks, Norman Mailer, Nolan Ryan, Susanne Pleshette, Anthony LaPaglia, Tallulah Bankhead, Jean Simmons, Justin Timberlake is 42, Portia DiRossi, Minnie Driver is 53, Carol Channing
1925- Scotch brand invisible tape introduced by the 3-M Company.
1954- Howard Armstrong, the inventor of FM Radio, driven to despair by constant lawsuits with RCA Corporation over his patents, jumped to his death out of a hotel window. He first put on his hat, overcoat and gloves because he didn't want to be cold. Armstrong normally loved heights and used to climb hundreds of feet in the air to meditate on top of his radio antennas. By 1977 his family won all the lawsuits. Today, most radio, television and air traffic communications are by FM band.
1963- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara declared to the press:” The War in Vietnam so far is going quite well…”
1968- The Seattle city council concluded that there was no legal means to curb hippies hanging out in the downtown U- District.
1978- Polish director Roman Polanski fled the U.S. for exile after being charged for drugging, then having sex with a thirteen-year-old girl in Jack Nicholson’s house. On the eve of sentencing after learning that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Laurence Rittenband intended to send him back to prison, Polanski skipped town.
1978- Famed animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston retired together.
1989- Michael Jackson’s sister LaToya Jackson posed nude for Playboy.
1999- The first episode of Seth McFarlane’s show Family Guy premiered.
2005- The documentary Dream On, Silly Dreamer premiered at the Animex Festival in England. Dan Lund and Tony West’s doc about the loyal Disney 2D animators jobs being eliminated in 2002.
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