Birthdays: Alexander Glauzunov, Billie Holiday, Eddie Fisher, Leo Fender, Herbert Hoover, Polish King Jan III Sobieski, Norma Shearer, Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Dean, Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette is 65, Antonio Banderas is 64
1628- Swedish King Gustavus built a huge battleship called the Vasa. This day in front of the whole court he launched it into a fjord and it immediately sank to the bottom. Doh! 333 years later it was brought up, and today is a nice attraction in a Stockholm museum.
1629- Painter Diego Velasquez traveled to Italy to study the Renaissance masters on the advice of his buddy, painter Peter Paul Rubens.
1675 - King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
1787- Mozart completed his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -A Little Night Music.
1788- Mozart’s on a roll! This day he completed his Jupiter Symphony #41. It was his last symphony. He never heard it performed in his lifetime.
1793- In one of the more positive results of the Reign of Terror, the French Revolutionary Government opened the royal art collection of the Louvre to the public as a museum. And so it remains.
1948 – Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debuted on ABC.
1962- Amazing Fantasy comic #152 hit the newsstands, introducing a new character called The Amazing Spiderman, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Steve Ditko.
1964- Near Ely, Nevada the U.S. Forrest Service cut down a Bristlecone Pine that scientists thought to be the oldest living thing- 4,900 years old.
1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor seen
entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again.
1970 - Jim Morrison is charged in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1972 - Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession.
1973 –San Francisco’s first BART train travels through the transbay tube to Montgomery St Station.
1978- Ford announces a recall of its Pinto series car after tests prove when bumped from behind the auto’s gas tank explodes into flames.
1979- Britain's first official nudist beach opened at Brighton.
1983- Discovery of the Vega Galaxy. This was the first physical proof of a planetary system outside our Milky Way. Since then with modern orbiting telescopes we’ve found millions of them.
1984- Famed New Yorker cartoonist and former Disney artist Virgil “Vip” Partch died in a car crash with his wife, outside of Valencia, California.
1987- Clara Peller, the elderly actress who gained last minute advertising fame by saying Where's the Beef? died at 86. The director and writer of the spots was the father of J.J. Sedelmier, who created the Ambiguously Gay Duo and other TV Funhouse animations for SNL.
2001- Warner Bros animated film Osmosis Jones opened in theaters.
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