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 58, Mila Kunis is 41, Steve Martin is 79
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!"
1939 - 1st night game at Comiskey Park -White Sox 5, Browns 2.
1939- Donald Duck Day at the NY World’s Fair.
1942- Pluto cartoon T-Bone for Two, released. Directed by Clyde Geronimi.
1956- The Marilyn Monroe movie "Bus Stop" premiered.
1962 - French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc to create an auto
Tunnel through the Alps.
1962 - NASA test pilot Joseph Walker takes the X-15 supersonic plane to 60,000 ft.
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 over Gwyned, Wales lasted for 3 hours duration.
1980- Dorothy Stratton was a beautiful Playboy model whose acting career was beginning to take off, as well as a relationship with top Hollywood director Peter Bogdanovich. She was encouraged by Hugh Hefner among others, to shed her old loser boyfriend Paul Snider, who kept hanging around her. Today Dorothy Stratton was found shot to death by Snider, who then turned the gun on himself. She was age 20.
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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