Birthdays: Ulysses S. Grant, King Edward IV, Samuel Morse, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edward Gibbon, Anouk Aimee, Sheena Easton is 66, Sandy Dennis, Coretta Scott King, Kasey Kasem, Jack Klugman
1667- Blind poet John Milton sold his masterpiece "Paradise Lost" to publisher Samuel Simmons for ten pounds. Ten years earlier under Oliver Cromwell’s patronage Milton was getting over a thousand pounds each for his poems
1918- Former race car driver Eddie Rickenbacker, now a fighter pilot in WWI, shot down his first enemy plane. By Nov. he shot down 26 planes and became America’s premiere ace. He won the Medal of Honor, Croix de Guerre, was later a CEO of Eastern Airlines and even wrote a 1935 comic strip about a pilot called Ace Drummond. In his later years he became with a young WW2 veteran who made comics named Charles Schulz.
1964- The John Muir National Wilderness created.
1967- Twiggy Day at Disneyland. The famous English fashion model and her entourage spent a groovy day at the park.
1970- THE FIRST ATM- Automatic bank teller machine, opened at the Surety National Bank in downtown Los Angeles.
1975- Monty Python and the Holy Grail opened in US theaters.
1981- Ringo Starr married Barbera Bach, his costar on the film 'Caveman'. UngaBunga!
2005- Maiden flight of the world's largest passenger plane- the Airbus A-380.
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