Get On This Day delivered free to your inbox: br br br 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola is born. br br br br br 1906 – Mount Vesuvius' eruption devastates Naples. br br br br br 1963 – Tito is named as the president for life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. br br br br 1969 – The Internet's symbolic date of birth: publication of RFC 1.