Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is 80 years old today.

Launching from the Japanese sub I-25 (like below) Nobuo
Fujita piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon near
Brookings and firebombed Mount Emily, starting a forest fire.           

President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately called for a news
blackout for the sake of morale. No long-term damage was 
done, and Fujita eventually went home to train navy pilots for
the rest of the war.

It was the first-ever aerial bombing on the US mainland.

       

Nobuo Fujita standing by his Yokosuka E14Y "Glen"
seaplane.

                        
TIM MAGUIRE

1959

MIKE GRACIA

Ringo Starr (Sir Richard Starkey) achieved international
fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He is 85 years old
today.

                          
ED DANAHUE

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)