1962 Birthday Adam Baldwin, actor, Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard 1959 Birthday Matthew Modine, born in Loma Linda, California, actor, Full Metal Jacket 1957 Death Bernard Spooner, U.S. inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies 1943 Death Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns 1935 Birthday Barbara J Jacket, U.S. athletic coach, Olympics 1972 1923 Event Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City 1886 Event 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, New York (tuxedo)
