Birthdays: Mort Walker would be 100, Alan Ladd, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, Irene Papas, Memphis Slim, Eddie Brat Stanky, Eric Larson, Mitzi Gaynor, Richard Tyler, Eileen Brennan, Phil Stern- former WWII Darby’s Ranger and personal photographer for Louis B. Mayer of MGM, Valerie Perrine, Charlie Sheen is 59
1895 - 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1912- Los Angeles attraction Frazier's Million Dollar Pier destroyed by fire.
1930- The first issue of the Hollywood Reporter.
1937- Orson Welles Mercury Theater of the air produced its first play on nationwide radio- an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.
1939- British Prime Minister Chamberlain's war announcement interrupts a Disney Cartoon "Mickey's Gala Premiere" showing on the nascent BBC television service. Television shuts down for the duration.
1962- The Hanna-Barbera show 'Lippy the Lion and Hardy-Harr-Harr" premiered.
1967- Sweden officially switched from driving on the left side of the street (UK style) to driving on the right, with the expected traffic confusion.
1970 - Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), died at age 27.
1970 - Jochen Rindt, famed German racecar driver died in a car crash. He was 28.
2003- Two crooks in Detroit hijacked a Krispy Kreme truck and tried to hold three thousand donuts hostage.
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