Birthdays: Queen Mary I Tudor -Bloody Mary, Pietro Guarnieri the violin maker, Harry Grover-Seeley one of the founders of Paleontology, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Andre Segovia, Wendell Wilkie, Billy de Wolfe, Enzo Ferrari, Adolphe Menjou, Jack Palance, Milos Forman, Bobby Bachman of the Bachman Turner Overdrive, Gahan Wilson, Johnny Hart, John Hughes, Cybil Shepherd is 75, Matt Dillon is 61, John Travolta is 71, John Hughes, Dr. Dre, Yoko Ono is 92, Disney animator Tony Anselmo.
1564- Michelangelo Buonarotti died just 6 days before his 89th birthday. He was carving still another Pieta a few days before his death. He carved his first one at age 23.
1885- Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' published.
1888- The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego Cal. opened for guests. It remains one of the largest remaining wood structures in the U.S. Several presidents stayed there, the Duke of Windsor met Wallis Simpson there, and L. Frank Baum wrote three of his Wizard of Oz books there. Films like the Marilyn Monroe film Some Like it Hot and The Stuntman were shot there. The script for the movie Blade Runner was written there.
1930- The planet Pluto discovered- in 1909 Scientist Lord Percival Lowell had detected signs of a planet at the edge of our Solar System beyond Neptune but could not definitely confirm or identify it. They named it for the time being 'Planet X'. The Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona had searched in vain for decades until Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, a 24 year old amateur astronomer who was allowed to occasionally use Lowell’s telescope to justify the public grants they got. Lord Lowell had just passed away before the discovery he had dedicated his life to.
When the New Horizons spacecraft flew to Pluto in 2015, it carried a capsule of Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes.
1950- Happy 75th birthday Mr. Magoo! Tha first Magoo cartoon "Ragtime Bear".
1953- The first 3-D stereoscopic movie, "B'wana Devil" starring Robert Stack.
1973- Richard Petty the Stock Car King won his first Daytona 500 race. He would go on to win 6 more and prove that NASCAR racing was one of America’s favorite though most underreported sports.
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