Weissmuller was a star athlete, however, way before he became a Hollywood star. An Olympic Gold Medalist, Johnny Weissmuller won a total of five gold medals in swimming in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. He also collected 52 U.S. and 67 world swimming records. 

Without much competition in the swimming pool or in the Tarzan movies, we could say that Weismuller’s only competition was his co-star, Maureen O’Sullivan. Their first [1932] Tarzan movie was Tarzan the Ape Man; the last together was in 1942, titled, Tarzan’s New York Adventure. 

“Me Tarzan, you Jane.” 

1937 - CBS presented the first broadcast of Second Husband. The show continued on the air until 1946. 

 1941 - Walter Stacy Keach Jr.
actor: Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Conduct Unbecoming, Sunset Grill, Texas, Road Games, The Long Riders, Brewster McCloud; narrator: Plague Fighters, Olympic Glory, Savage Seas, World’s Most Amazing Videos; host: Missing Reward, Case Closed, geboren

 1941 - William Guest
singer: group: Gladys Knight & The Pips: Every Beat of My Heart, Letter Full of Tears, Everybody Needs Love, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, If I Were Your Woman, Neither One of Us [Wants to be the First to Say Goodbye], Where Peaceful Waters Flow, Midnight train to Georgia, Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me, I’ve Got to Use My Imagination, On and On, The Way We Were, Try to Remember, geboren

 1941 - Charlie Watts
musician: drummer: groups: Rolling Stones: [I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction, Honky Tonk Women; solo: LPs: Live at Fulham Town Hall; Charlie Watts Quintet: From One Charlie, A tribute to Charlie Parker with Strings, Warm and Tender, Long Ago & Far Away, geboren

 1944 - Garo Yepremian
football: Miami Dolphins kicker: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII, geboren

 1950 - Lawrence McCutcheon
football: LA Rams running back: Super Bowl XIV, geboren

 1950 - Nate Williams
basketball: Utah State Univ., Sacramento Kings, geboren

 1955 - Gary Grimes
actor: Summer of ’42, Class of ’44, Culpepper Cattle Co., geboren

In einem Feldversuch dürfen erstmals 5000 Teilnehmer Btx testen.

1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate of food distribution and other popular products, including tobacco. 

1985 - Tommy Sandt had one of those days. Sandt, a major-league baseball player, became one of the few people to be told, “Yer, outta here!” by a home plate umpire -- before the national anthem was played! Sandt got the heave-ho while turning in his team’s lineup card and taking just a moment to complain about an umpire’s call against his team the night before. 

1985 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the all-time leading point scorer in the National Basketball Association playoffs. He rang up a total of 4,458 points, smashing the previous record held by Jerry West, also of the Los Angeles Lakers. 

2000 - Die Regierung von Simbabwe verfügt die Enteignung von 804 Farmen mehrheitlich weißer Besitzer und bekräftigt damit die Unterstützung der schwarzen Landbesetzer
2000 - Die Regierung von Simbabwe verfügt die Enteignung von 804 Farmen mehrheitlich weißer Besitzer und bekräftigt damit die Unterstützung der schwarzen Landbesetzer
2 2000 Aachen: 1. Übergabe des "Karlspreises" an einen US-Präsidenten, Bill Clinton