Birthdays: Gary Larson, Erwin "Magic" Johnson, Lina Wertmuller, David Crosby, Alice Ghostly, Buddy Greco, Nehemiah Persoff, The 20's Parisian nightclub singer Bricktop, Dick Lundy, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, C.S. Watson, James Horner, Rene Goscinny, Wim Wenders, Emmanuele Beart, Halle Berry is 59, Mila Kunis is 42, Steve Martin is 80
1873 - "Field & Stream" magazine began publishing.
1908- The first international beauty pageant held in Kent, England.
1928 - Ben Hecht & Charles McArthur's play" The Front Page," premiered in NYC. They later went on to become top comedy writers in Hollywood after Sound pictures created a need for snappy dialogue. They came out to Hollywood after a mutual friend, writer Herman Mankiewicz sent Ben a telegram, “Hecht, some quick! Fortunes to be made and your competition are idiots!"
1935- President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the National Social Security Act. Still considered the most successful US Federal social program ever.
1939 - 1st night game at Comiskey Park -White Sox 5, Browns 2.
1939 - Donald Duck Day at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Donald has been flown in from Hollywood to attend the premiere of his latest cartoon Donald's Penguin, playing at the National Biscuit Theatre in the Food Pavilion. Donald then handed out gifts to five hundred lucky children and was presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of International Friendship from Prof. Frank Monaghan of Yale University during a ceremony held in Carnival land.
1942- Pluto cartoon T-Bone for Two, released. Directed by Clyde Geronimi.
1956- The Marilyn Monroe movie "Bus Stop" premiered.
1962 - French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc to create an auto
Tunnel through the Alps.
1962 - NASA test pilot Joseph Walker takes the X-15 supersonic plane to 60,000 ft.
1964 –California angels pitcher Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer.
1965 - Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1.
1965- Jane Fonda married director Roger Vadim, who put the beautiful young blonde in naughty movies like Barbarella. His previous wife Bridgette Bardot was a beautiful young blonde that he put in naughty movies….hmm.
1994 – The world’s most wanted terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" was arrested in Khartoum Sudan when he entered a clinic to have a varicose vein removed from his testicle.
2009- Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo opened in North America.
2126- Get your catchers mitts out! Comet Swift-Tuttle will pass very close by the Earth.
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