Birthdays: Petrarch, Sir Edmund Hilary, Lord Elgin, Quaker Anne Hutchinson, Natalie Wood, Theda Bara, Diana Rigg, Dick Lucas, Carlos Santana, Lord Reith- the first Director General of the BBC. Gus Arriola, Carlos Alarzaqui, Giselle Bunchen is 45, Sandra Oh is 54, Harrison Ellenshaw is 80
1946-Bob Clampett's cartoon"the Great Piggy Bank Robbery" with Daffy Duck as Duck Tracy. "I'm gonna rrrrrrrrrrrubbb ya out, see!"
1964 –The first surfing record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1968 - Iron Butterfly's "In a-Gadda-da-Vida", reached #4 in the pop charts. Then it was called Psychedelic Rock, today it is considered the first Metal hit. The song was written as “In the Garden of Eden” but singer Doug Ingle was so drunk and stoned, In a Gadda Da Vida was all he could mumble out.
1969- Tranquility Base- The Eagle has Landed. Apollo 11’s Lunar Module the LEM first landed humans on the Moon. Eight hours later Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out onto the surface of the Moon, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for Mankind.”
1973- Bruce Lee died of cerebral edema one month before his last film Enter the Dragon premiered. He was 33. The handsome Hong Kong movie star single-handedly made Chinese martial arts a worldwide craze, and the Kung Fu genre film a standard genre in world movie theaters. He was buried in his Enter The Dragon costume.
1976- Warner\Lambert, makers of Trident sugarless gum, comes out with their famous slogan "Sugarless gum is recommended by four out of five dentists who chew gum". When people asked what gum the fifth dentist recommended, they were brushed.
1984 - Jim Fixx, creator of the Jogging craze through his hit book Running, died at 52 of a heart attack. He was out for a run.
2001- Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away premiered in Japan. The first Japanese anime to win an Oscar.
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