Birthdays: Alexander Glauzunov, Billie Holiday, Eddie Fisher, Leo Fender, Herbert Hoover, Polish King Jan III Sobieski, Norma Shearer, Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Dean, Justin Theroux, Rosanna Arquette is 66, Antonio Banderas is 65
1629- Painter Diego Velazquez traveled to Italy to study the Renaissance masters on the advice of his buddy, painter Peter Paul Rubens.
1675 - King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
1787- Mozart completed his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -A Little Night Music.
1788- Mozart’s on a roll! This day he completed his Jupiter Symphony #41.
1793- In one of the more positive results of the Reign of Terror, the French Revolutionary Government opened the royal art collection of the Louvre to the public as a museum. And so it remains.
1889 - Dan Rylands patented the screw -on cap.
1897 -German chemists working for the Bayer Company invent Aspirin, the first mass market over the counter drug. A powdered willow tree root that was known to the Native Americans for years. The Romans ground willow root and dissolved it in water for pain.
1948 – Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debuted on ABC.
1962- Amazing Fantasy comic #152 hit the newsstands, introducing a new character called The Amazing Spiderman, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Steve Ditko.
1964- Near Ely, Nevada the U.S. Forrest Service cut down a Bristlecone Pine that scientists thought to be the oldest living thing- 4,900 years old.
1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor seen
entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again.
1970 - Jim Morrison is charged in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1972 - Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession.
1973 –San Francisco’s first BART train travels through the transbay tube to Montgomery St Station.
1979- Britain's first official nudist beach opened at Brighton.
1983- Discovery of the Vega Galaxy. This was the first physical proof of a planetary system outside our Milky Way. Since then with modern orbiting telescopes we’ve found millions of them.
1984- Famed New Yorker cartoonist and former Disney artist Virgil “Vip” Partch died in a car crash with his wife, outside of Valencia, California.
1984- “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” premiered.
1987- Clara Peller, the elderly actress who gained last minute advertising fame by saying Where's the Beef? died at 86. The director and writer of the spots was the father of J.J. Sedelmier, who created the Ambiguously Gay Duo and other TV Funhouse animations for SNL.
2001- Warner Bros animated film Osmosis Jones opened in theaters.
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