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:
1797 – “Old Ironsides,” the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston’s harbor.
1849 – James F. O’Connell, the first tattooed man, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York, NY.
1879 – Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his design for an incandescent lamp. It lasted 13-1/2 hours before it burned out.
1908 – A “Saturday Evening Post” advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia.
1915 – The very first “hello” was transmitted over the Atlantic Ocean wirelessly from the state of Virginia in the United States to Paris, France.
1918 – Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
1925 – The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York, NY.
1925 – The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.
1927 – In New York, NY, construction began on the George Washington Bridge.
1929 – The Edison Institute, at the Greenfield Village and Form Museum) was dedicated by Thomas Edison and President Herbert Hoover.
1940 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” was published.
1959 – In New York, NY, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public.
1975 – Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1977 – Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was established. It includes the giant dunes, South and North Manitou Islands.
1991 – Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1996 – Jay Bargieri, a former executive with EMI Records, announced the launch of the first Internet record label. The record label, Jay-Bird Records, was the first of its kind.
2015 – The day in the future that Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled to in the 1989 movie “Back to the Future Part II”.
2021 – On the set of the movie “Rust”, a shooting occurred in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded. The gun killed the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injured director Joel Souza.
BIRTHDAYS:
Frances FitzGerald – 85 years old (1940) – Journalist and author
Rhoda Gemignani – 85 years old (1940) – Actress
Steve Cropper – 84 years old (1941) – Guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor
Elvin Bishop – 83 years old (1942) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Lou Lamoriello – 83 years old (1942) – Ice hockey player, coach, and manager
Judy Sheindlin – 83 years old (1942) – Judge and television host
Christopher A. Sims – 83 years old (1942) – Economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate
Ron Elliott – 82 years old (1943) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
Everett McGill – 80 years old (1945) – Actor
Jim Hill – 79 years old (1946) – Football player and sportscaster
Lee Loughnane – 79 years old (1946) – Singer-songwriter and trumpet player
Shaye J. D. Cohen – 77 years old (1948) – Historian and academic
Allen Henry Vigneron – 77 years old (1948) – Archbishop
Patti Davis – 73 years old (1952) – Actress and author
Charlotte Caffey – 72 years old (1953) – Guitarist and songwriter
Marc Johnson – 72 years old (1953) – Bassist, composer, and bandleader
Dick DeVos – 70 years old (1955) – Businessman
Catherine Hardwicke – 70 years old (1955) – Film director, producer, and screenwriter
Fred Hersch – 70 years old (1955) – Pianist and composer
Mike Tully – 69 years old (1956) – Pole vaulter
Steve Lukather – 68 years old (1957) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Melora Walters – 66 years old (1959) – Actress, director, and writer
Jon Carin – 61 years old (1964) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Horace Hogan – 60 years old (1965) – Wrestler
Mo Lewis – 56 years old (1969) – Football player
Nick Oliveri – 54 years old (1971) – Singer-songwriter and bass player
Matthew Friedberger – 53 years old (1972) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Lera Auerbach – 52 years old (1973) – Russian-American pianist and composer
Charlie Lowell – 52 years old (1973) – Pianist and songwriter
Toby Hall – 50 years old (1975) – Baseball player
Jeremy Miller – 49 years old (1976) – Actor and singer
Josh Ritter – 49 years old (1976) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Will Estes – 47 years old (1978) – Actor
Joey Harrington – 47 years old (1978) – Football player and sportscaster
Michael McMillian – 47 years old (1978) – Actor
Khalil Greene – 46 years old (1979) – Baseball player
Gabe Gross – 46 years old (1979) – Baseball player
Kim Kardashian – 45 years old (1980) – Reality television personality, actress, model, businesswoman and socialite
Brian Pittman – 45 years old (1980) – Bass player
Matt Dallas – 43 years old (1982) – Actor
Jim Henderson – 43 years old (1982) – Baseball player
Hari Kondabolu – 43 years old (1982) – Comedian, actor, and podcaster
Ray Ventrone – 43 years old (1982) – Football player
James White – 43 years old (1982) – Basketball player
Casey Fien – 42 years old (1983) – Baseball player
Zack Greinke – 42 years old (1983) – Baseball player
Amber Rose – 42 years old (1983) – Model
Shelden Williams – 42 years old (1983) – Basketball player
Tom Brandstater – 41 years old (1984) – Football player
Kenny Cooper – 41 years old (1984) – Soccer player
Marvin Mitchell – 41 years old (1984) – Football player
Justin De Fratus – 38 years old (1987) – Baseball player
Glen Powell – 37 years old (1988) – Actor
Festus Ezeli – 36 years old (1989) – Nigerian-American basketball player
Damion Lee – 33 years old (1992) – Basketball player
Kane Brown – 32 years old (1993) – Singer and songwriter
Doja Cat – 30 years old (1995) – Rapper, singer and songwriter
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