Get On This Day delivered free to your inbox: http://bit.ly/14agw7n <br />http://www.worldcrunch.com <br /> <br />1939 – Francis Ford Coppola is born. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqDydPpu0Y <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKzCff8Zbs <br /> <br />1906 – Mount Vesuvius' eruption devastates Naples. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius <br />http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vezuviy_1906_avant.jpg <br />http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vesuvio#/media/File:Napoli_Mount_Vesuvius_1858_engraving.jpg <br /> <br />1963 – Tito is named as the president for life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbX5FgxLWU <br /> <br />1969 – The Internet's symbolic date of birth: publication of RFC 1. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg <br /> <br />Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet