Birthdays: Gen. Benjamin "Spoons" Butler, Eugene V. Debs, Art Garfunkel is 83, Roy Rogers, Tatum O'Neill, Elke Sommer- born Baroness Elke von Shletz is 84, Ike Turner, Vivien Leigh. Will Durant, Joel McCrea, Sam Shepard, Yoshiyuki Tomino, John Berger, Robert Patrick is 67, Tilda Swinton is 64, Marvel artist Jim Steranko, Disney animator Mike Gabriel
1699- According to Jonathan Swift, this is the day Lemuel Gulliver was shipwrecked on the isle of Lilliput.
1872- Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined again for trying to vote in a presidential election.
1937- Disney's silly symphony The Old Mill debuted. The first film featuring the multiplane camera technique.
1938- Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings premiered.
1955- This is the date in 1955 that Marty McFly travels to in the film Back to the Future.
1975- Mormon lumberjack Travis Walton was abducted by aliens and experimented on for five days, then returned to his home in Snowflake, Arizona. The encounter was seen by seven adult men, who were his co-workers. Walton published a bestseller Fire in the Sky, that was made into a movie.
1979- National Public Radio’s news show Morning Edition started.
1994- 45-year-old fighter George Foreman capped off an amazing comeback by becoming the oldest person ever to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World.
1999- A man was arrested in Minneapolis for stealing and keeping 150 shopping carts in his apartment.
2004- Pixar's The Incredibles, directed by Brad Bird premiered.
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