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:
1814 – The first plastic surgery took place in England.
1908 – The Village of Kent City, MI was incorporated.
1910 – Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States.
1915 – The first U.S. championship horseshoe tournament was held in Kellerton, IA.
1915 – More than 25,000 women marched on Fifth Avenue in New York, NY, to demand the right to vote.
1929 – After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange began to show signs of panic.
1930 – In Chattanooga, TN, J.K. Scott won the nation’s first miniature golf tournament.
1941 – Walt Disney’s animated movie “Dumbo” was released.
1956 – NBC broadcast the first videotape recording. A tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.
1965 – The last steam operating locomotive in Michigan (owned by the Canadian National Railroad) traveled from Durand to Detroit on its final run.
1973 – President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1978 – CBS Records raised the price of vinyl records by one dollar to $8.98.
1987 – The Senate rejected the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court by a vote of 58-42.
1988 – The video game “Super Mario Bros. 3” was released.
1996 – The wrongful death suit of O.J. Simpson went to trial in Santa Monica, CA. (Simpson was found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman.)
1999 – During a training flight, Harrison Ford crash-landed his helicopter about 60 miles outside of Los Angeles, CA. No one was injured.
2000 – The Fox TV show “Boston Public” premiered. “Every day is a fight. For respect. For dignity. For sanity.” The show ran until January of 2004.
2001 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft began orbiting Mars. In 2010, it became the longest-operating spacecraft ever sent to Mars.
2001 – A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was centered near Prairie Lake, MI — north of Albion, in Calhoun County.
2001 – Apple Computers introduced their portable music digital player called the iPod.
2004 – Ashlee Simpson made an infamous lip-syncing gaffe on TV’s “Saturday Night Live”. A technical snafu caught her off mic when “Pieces of Me,” complete with vocals, began playing. She ran offstage after a half-hearted jig and later blamed the goof on her band and then on her “acid reflux.”
2012 – The twenty-third James Bond film, “Skyfall “, premiered in theaters, starring Daniel Craig in the lead role. The movie made over a billion dollars at the box office.
BIRTHDAYS:
Philip Kaufman – 89 years old (1936) – Director, producer, and screenwriter
Jane Holzer – 85 years old (1940) – Model, actress, producer, and art collector
Ernie Watts – 80 years old (1945) – Saxophonist
Maury Yeston – 80 years old (1945) – Composer, lyricist, and music theorist
Mel Martínez – 79 years old (1946) – Lawyer and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Brian Ross – 77 years old (1948) – Journalist
David Wills – 74 years old (1951) – Country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ken Tipton – 73 years old (1952) – Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Ang Lee – 71 years old (1954) – Taiwanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
Darrell Pace – 69 years old (1956) – Archer
Dianne Reeves – 69 years old (1956) – Singer
Dwight Yoakam – 69 years old (1956) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Martin Luther King III – 68 years old (1957) – Human rights activist, philanthropist and advocate
Michael Eric Dyson – 67 years old (1958) – Activist, author, and academic
"Weird Al" Yankovic – 66 years old (1959) – Comedy musician, writer, and actor
Sam Raimi – 66 years old (1959) – Director, screenwriter and producer
Wayne Rainey – 65 years old (1960) – Motorcycle racer
Laurie Halse Anderson – 64 years old (1961) – Author
Gordon Korman – 62 years old (1963) – Canadian-American author
Eddy Cue – 61 years old (1964) – Computer scientist and businessman
Robert Trujillo – 61 years old (1964) – Bass player and songwriter
Augusten Burroughs – 60 years old (1965) – Author and screenwriter
Al Leiter – 60 years old (1965) – Baseball player and sportscaster
Dale Crover – 58 years old (1967) – Musician
Bill O'Brien – 56 years old (1969) – Football player and coach
Brooke Theiss – 56 years old (1969) – Actress
Matthew Barzun – 55 years old (1970) – Diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Zoe Wiseman – 55 years old (1970) – Model and photographer
Chris Horner – 54 years old (1971) – Cyclist
Tiffeny Milbrett – 53 years old (1972) – Soccer player
Bryan Pratt – 53 years old (1972) – Lawyer and politician
Jasmin St. Claire – 53 years old (1972) – Virgin Islander-American actress
Jimmy Wayne – 53 years old (1972) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Michelle Beadle – 50 years old (1975) – Sportscaster
Jessicka – 50 years old (1975) – Singer-songwriter
Keith Van Horn – 50 years old (1975) – Basketball player
Ryan Reynolds – 49 years old (1976) – Canadian-American actor and producer
John Lackey – 47 years old (1978) – Baseball player
Lynn Greer – 46 years old (1979) – Basketball player
Bud Smith – 46 years old (1979) – Baseball player
Ben Francisco – 44 years old (1981) – Baseball player
Rickey Paulding – 43 years old (1982) – Basketball player
Meghan McCain – 41 years old (1984) – Journalist, author, and television personality
Masiela Lusha – 40 years old (1985) – Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
Miguel – 40 years old (1985) – Singer-songwriter and producer
Briana Evigan – 39 years old (1986) – Actress and dancer
Jessica Stroup – 39 years old (1986) – Actress
Carmella – 38 years old (1987) – Wrestler
Kyle Gibson – 38 years old (1987) – Baseball player
Jordan Crawford – 37 years old (1988) – Basketball player
Zach Brown – 36 years old (1989) – Football player
Margaret Qualley – 31 years old (1994) – Actress
Ireland Baldwin – 30 years old (1995) – Model
Nick Bosa – 28 years old (1997) – Football player
Amandla Stenberg – 27 years old (1998) – Actress
Jordan Goodwin – 27 years old (1998) – Basketball player
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