Birthdays: Mary Shelley, Jacques Louis David, Huey Long, Fred MacMurray, Raymond Massey, Ted Williams, John Blondell, Nancy Kulp, Timothy Bottoms, Jean-Claude Killy, Shirley Booth, John Landis, Tug McGraw, Stephen Silver, R. Crumb is 80, Lewis Black is 75, Cameron Diaz is 51
1935- “Top Hat” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers premiered.
1936- First newspaper comic strip entirely devoted to Donald Duck.
1939- The last peacetime voyage of the HMS Queen Mary left Southampton evacuating Americans fleeing the impending war in Europe. Among the crowd was a large contingent of Hollywood stars like Robert Montgomery, Loretta Young, Bob Hope and Jack Warner who planned to attend the first Cannes Film Festival (postponed until 1946).
1939- The first Marvel comic book went on sale. Marvel comic #1, introducing The Human Torch and the Submariner.
1942- Cartoonist Al Capp premiered his comic strip “Fearless Fosdick”, a spoof of Dick Tracy detective stories.
1968- The first 7-11 store opened in Palmdale California. Have a Slurpee!
1975- Ralph Bakshi's film "Coonskin". Bad boy Bakshi's portrayal of African American urban violence was deemed so offensive that it caused the first ever riot at the Museum of Modern Art, and it died at the box office. The film was retitled on video "Streetfight". When Ralph resurfaced, he turned his attention to Sword & Fantasy films.
1980- Willie Nelson released his hit song “On the Road Again.”
1983- Lt. Guion Bluford, the first African American in Space, went up on the Challenger space shuttle.
1992- Astronomers Jane Luu and David Jewitt discovered the Kuiper Belt. That out at the edge of our Solar System, where Pluto is, is a second asteroid belt of even more particles and debris.
1993- The David Letterman Show premiered on CBS. Letterman was wooed away from NBC for $42 million bucks.
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