A quick look at Today in History, check out some Celebrity Birthdays, and find out what Days of the Year to celebrate.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
1675 – The first corporation was chartered in the United States. The company was the New York Fishing Company.
1790 – President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
1831 – U.S. Mail began to arrive in Detroit, MI, on a daily basis.
1835 – The United States national debt was zero for the only time.
1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph code he had devised using dots and dashes as letters. The code was the predecessor to Samuel Morse’s code.
1856 – Dr. John Veatch discovered Borax (hydrated sodium borate).
1877 – Crazy Horse (Tashunca-uitco) and his warriors fought their final battle against the Cavalry in Montana.
1889 – The first computer, a tabulating machine, was patented by Dr. Herman Hollerith. His company, Tabulating Machine Company, later became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1894 – Fire caused serious damage at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL.
1901 – The first tournament sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress was held in Chicago, IL.
1929 – William S. Paley appeared on CBS Radio for the first time to announce that CBS had become the largest regular chain of broadcasting chains in radio history.
1958 – Fourteen year old chess wiz Bobby Fisher won the United States Chess Championship for the first time.
1963 – Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was exhibited in the U.S. for the first time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
1964 – President Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Poverty.”
1973 – The trial of seven men accused of bugging Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex opened in Washington, DC.
1979 – The TV game show “Password Plus” debuted on NBC.
1982 – American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) settled the Justice Department’s anti-trust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
1982 – The U.S. Justice Department withdrew an anti-trust suit against IBM.
1985 – The Post Office issued a set of Elvis Presley stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of his birth.
1987 – The Dow Jones industrial average closed over the 2000 mark for the first time.
1992 – President George H.W. Bush collapsed during a state dinner in Tokyo. White House officials said Bush was suffering from stomach flu. Bush vomited on the Japanese prime minister’s lap.
1993 – An Elvis Presley commemorative stamp was debuted by the U.S. Postal Service. The 29-cent stamp showed the likeness of the 1950’s era Elvis.
1993 – The fantasy comedy slasher film “Leprechaun” premiered in theaters. It was Jennifer Aniston’s film debut. (I wonder if she puts that on her résumé?)
1994 – Tonya Harding won the ladies’ U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, MI, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Association later took the title away from Harding because of her involvement in the attack.
1997 – Mister Rogers (Fred Rogers) received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 – Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for his role of mastermind behind the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1998 – Scientists announced that they had discovered that galaxies were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds.
2002 – President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 – Pete Rose admitted he bet on baseball, on ABC’s television show “PrimeTime Thursday”.
2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake’s granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2005 – The rate for First Class mail was raised to 39¢.
2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collided at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man was killed, but the sub surfaced and was repaired.
2009 – In Egypt, archaeologists entered a 4,300 year old pyramid and discovered the mummy of Queen Sesheshet.
2011 – Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot while talking with constituents at a Tucson grocery store by 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner. Although she miraculously survived being shot in the head, six others were killed.
2016 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world’s most powerful drug trafficker, was recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico
BIRTHDAYS:
Clarence Benjamin Jones – 95 years old (1931) – Lawyer and scholar
Bob Eubanks – 88 years old (1938) – Game show host and producer
Carolina Herrera – 87 years old (1939) – Venezuelan-American fashion designer
Cristy Lane – 86 years old (1940) – Country and gospel singer
Boris Vallejo – 85 years old (1941) – Peruvian-American painter
Terry Brooks – 82 years old (1944) – Lawyer and author
Nancy Bond – 81 years old (1945) – Author and academic
Kathleen Noone – 81 years old (1945) – Actress
Robby Krieger – 80 years old (1946) – Guitarist and songwriter
Vladimir Feltsman – 74 years old (1952) – Russian-American pianist and educator
Harriet Sansom Harris – 71 years old (1955) – Actress
Calvin Natt – 69 years old (1957) – Basketball player
Betsy DeVos – 68 years old (1958) – Businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education
Dave Weckl – 66 years old (1960) – Drummer
Calvin Smith – 65 years old (1961) – Sprinter
Michelle Forbes – 61 years old (1965) – Actress
Maria Pitillo – 60 years old (1966) – Actress
Willie Anderson – 59 years old (1967) – Basketball player
R. Kelly – 59 years old (1967) – Singer-songwriter, producer, and sex offender
Jason Giambi – 55 years old (1971) – Baseball player
Mike Cameron – 53 years old (1973) – Baseball player
Jenny Lewis – 50 years old (1976) – Singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
Amber Benson – 49 years old (1977) – Actress, writer, director, and producer
Genevieve Cortese – 45 years old (1981) – Actress
Gaby Hoffmann – 44 years old (1982) – Actress
Chris Masters – 43 years old (1983) – Wrestler
Jeff Francoeur – 42 years old (1984) – Baseball player and broadcaster
Chris Douglas-Roberts – 39 years old (1987) – Basketball player
Alex Tyus – 38 years old (1988) – American-Israeli basketball player
Blair Walsh – 36 years old (1990) – Football player
Greg Smith – 35 years old (1991) – Basketball player
Stefanie Dolson – 34 years old (1992) – Basketball player
Valkyrae – 34 years old (1992) – Online streamer
Glenn Robinson III – 32 years old (1994) – Basketball player
Ryan Destiny – 31 years old (1995) – Actress and singer
Tony Bradley – 28 years old (1998) – Basketball player
Noah Cyrus – 26 years old (2000) – Singer, songwriter, and actress
Zach Charbonnet – 25 years old (2001) – Football player
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