Daffy Duck’s birthday today – , Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Porky’s Duck Hunt”
ALSO
- 2011 “Game of Thrones“, based on the fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin premieres on HBO
- 1941 American actress Doris Day (19) weds trombonist Albert Jorden
- 1943 Actress Claire Trevor (34) weds Navy lieutenant Cyclos William Dunsmoore in Tijuana, Mexico
- 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
- 1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro
- 1982 Proclamation of the Constitution Act by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
