Birthdays: Salvador Dali', Jean Jerome, Chang and Eng Bunker-the original Siamese Twins-1811, Baron Munchausen, Irving Berlin, King Oliver, Martha Graham, Dr. Richard Fenyman, Mort Sahl, Foster Brooks, Denver Pyle, Henry Morgenthau, Doug McClure, Randy Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Rev Louis Farrakhan, Albert Hurter, Margaret Kerry the model for Walt Disney’s Tinkerbell is 95
1831- French writer Alexis De Tocqueville visited the United States.
1934- The Howard Hawks screwball comedy Twentieth Century premiered with John Barrymore and Carol Lombard.
1935- Disney Silly Symphony Water Babies, directed by Wilfried Jackson.
1956 - The Pinky Lee Show last aired on NBC-TV.
1968 - actor Richard Harris attempted a singing career, releasing the song "MacArthur Park".
1972 -On the Dick Cavett talk show rock star and peace activist John Lennon said his phone had been tapped by FBI. It turns out it was, but at the time we all thought he was just paranoid from too many drugs.
1981- The musical play CATS opened in London.
1981- Bob Marley died of brain cancer at age 36. Marley and his group the Wailers, made Jamaican Reggae mainstream in pop music.
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