Historybook: Director Quentin Tarantino born (1963); Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, dies (1968); Mariah Carey born (1969); Tenerife Airport Disaster, worst accident in aviation history, kills 583 (1977).

"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'No, I went to films.'"

- Quentin Tarantino