Birthdays: King Charles I of England, President James Garfield, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Roy Campanella, Tommy Dorsey, Ted Turner is 86, Calvin Klein, Indira Ghandi, Larry King, Kathleen Quinlan, Alan Young -Mr. Ed’s friend, Ahmad Rashad, Allison Janey is 65, Meg Ryan is 63, Jodie Foster is 62, Adam Driver is 41, Dick Cavett is 88
1493- On his second voyage to the New World, this day Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Puerto Rico.
1939- The Looney-Tunes short The Night Watchman, a Sniffles cartoon that marked the directing debut of Chuck Jones.
1941- Princess Iron Fan, by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming, opened . Considered the first Asian animated feature film.
1942- In a concentration camp in Poland, author-artist Bruno Schulz was executed. The author of “Street of Crocodiles” last act was being forced by a Gestapo officer to paint images from Brothers Grimm fairytales on his son’s bedroom wall before he was shot.
1959- Jay Ward's television show 'The Adventures of Rocky and his Friends' debuts.
1969- The great soccer champion Pele scored his 1,000 goal.
1998- Film Director Alan J. Pakula directed classics like All the Presidents Men, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Pelican Brief. He was one of the Hollywood types who preferred living in New York City. This day while driving on the Long Island Expressway a large truck kicked up in its tires a discarded piece of steel pipe and flung it through Pakula’s windshield, killing him instantly.
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