1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 - The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
Born this day:
1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
1889 - Claude Rains, English actor (d. 1967)
1924 - Russell Johnson, American actor (The Professor-Gilligan's Island)
1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
1932 - Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
1947 - Dave Loggins, American songwriter and singer
1956 - Sinbad, American actor
1959 - Mackenzie Phillips, American actress
1977 - Brittany Murphy, American actress
1978 - Eve, American rapper
The United States Marine Corps traces its institutional roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, to raise 2 battalions of Marines. That date is regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps' "birthday".
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