Birthdays: Gary Larson, Erwin "Magic" Johnson, Lina Wertmuller, David Crosby, Alice Ghostly, Buddy Greco, Nehemiah Persoff, The 20's Parisian nightclub singer Bricktop, Dick Lundy, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, C.S. Watson, James Horner, Rene Goscinny, Wim Wenders, Emmanuele Beart, Halle Berry is 57, Mila Kunis is 40, Steve Martin is 78
1457- The first printed Gutenburg Bible finished. One agent of Gutenberg’s bringing the first shipment of bibles to Paris was arrested for witchcraft by the locals. They thought it was humanly impossible for one person to make so many identical books without the aid of black magic.
1873 - "Field & Stream" magazine began publishing.
1908- The first international beauty pageant held in Kent, England.
1928 - Ben Hecht & Charles McArthur's play" The Front Page," premiered in NYC. They later went on to become top comedy writers in Hollywood after Sound pictures created a need for snappy dialogue. They came out to Hollywood after a mutual friend, writer Herman Mankiewicz sent Ben a telegram, “Hecht, some quick! Fortunes to be made and your competition are idiots!"
1935- President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the National Social Security Act. Considered the most successful US Federal social program ever..
1939 - 1st night game at Comiskey Park -White Sox 5, Browns 2.
1939- Donald Duck Day at the NY World’s Fair.
1956- The Marilyn Monroe movie "Bus Stop" premiered.
1962 - NASA test pilot Joseph Walker takes the X-15 supersonic plane to 60,000 ft.
1964 –California Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer.
1965 - Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1.
1965- Jane Fonda married director Roger Vadim, who put the beautiful young blonde in naughty movies like Barbarella. His previous wife Bridgette Bardot was a beautiful young blonde that he put in naughty movies….hmm.
1979 – A rainbow was seen in Northern Wales that lasted for 3 hours duration.
1995- Super-agent Michael Ovitz of CAA was named President of the Walt Disney Company under Michael Eisner. After 14 fruitless months he left.
2009- Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo opened in North America.
2126- Get your catchers mitts out! Comet Swift-Tuttle will pass very close by the Earth.
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