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:
1846 – Dr. William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient.
1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operating on the Fox River in Appleton, WI.
1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated President William McKinley and his family, was dedicated in Canton, OH.
1927 – “Babe” Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season. The record stood until 1961 when Roger Maris broke the record.
1935 – The Hoover Dam was dedicated.
1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, was televised for the first time. Sponsors paid only $65,000 for the entire series between the two teams.
1950 – The Grand Ole Opry was televised for the very first time.
1951 – The TV Show “The Red Skelton Show” debuted on NBC.
1954 – The U.S. Navy commissioned the Nautilus submarine at Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered vessel. The submarine had been launched on January 21, 1954.
1960 – The cartoon “The Flintstones” became TV’s first prime-time animated series when it debuted on ABC.
1965 – A British science fiction television series called “Thunderbirds” debuted. It was produced using using a form of electronic marionette puppetry called “Supermarionation”.
1968 – The Boeing 747 was rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Facility.
1972 – Roberto Clemente recorded the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 – The Huges (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache made its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.
1976 – California enacted the Natural Death Act of California. The law was the first example of right-to-die legislation in the U.S.
1982 – The TV sitcom “Cheers”, starring Ted Danson, began an 11-year run on NBC. (Ratings in the first season were so low that it was almost cancelled.)
1984 – The “Doonesbury” comic strip by Garry Trudeau returned. The comic had not been printed in nearly 20 months.
1984 – The TV show “Murder, She Wrote”, starring Angela Lansbury, debuted on CBS. It would run until May 19, 1996.
1988 – John Lennon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1991 – TV’s “The Jerry Springer Show” debuted. New episodes were being produced until summer of 2018.
1991 – Liza Minnelli received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1993 – U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, retired.
1993 – Bob-lo Island Amusement Park closed.
1994 – The Space Shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.
2001 – Actress Sharon Stone was admitted to a San Francisco-area hospital for treatment of a brain aneurysm. She made a full recovery.
2014 – Amazon filed for a patent for a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) configured to deliver items to customers. The patent was related to Amazon’s plan for their Prime Air service to use drones for delivery.
BIRTHDAYS:
Angie Dickinson – 94 years old (1931) – Actress
Johnny Mathis – 90 years old (1935) – Singer and actor
Samuel F. Pickering Jr. – 84 years old (1941) – Author and educator
Johann Deisenhofer – 82 years old (1943) – German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Marilyn McCoo – 82 years old (1943) – Singer
Ian Ogilvy – 82 years old (1943) – English-American actor, playwright, and author
Fran Brill – 79 years old (1946) – Actress, singer, and puppeteer
John Finn – 73 years old (1952) – Actor
John Lombardo – 73 years old (1952) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Matt Abts – 72 years old (1953) – Drummer
Deborah Allen – 72 years old (1953) – Country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress
Scott Fields – 71 years old (1954) – Guitarist and composer
Patrice Rushen – 71 years old (1954) – Singer-songwriter and producer
Barry Williams – 71 years old (1954) – Actor
Fran Drescher – 68 years old (1957) – Actress, producer, and screenwriter
Marty Stuart – 67 years old (1958) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Nicola Griffith – 65 years old (1960) – English-American author
Miki Howard – 65 years old (1960) – Singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Blanche Lincoln – 65 years old (1960) – Politician
Crystal Bernard – 64 years old (1961) – Actress and singer-songwriter
Eric Stoltz – 64 years old (1961) – Actor, director, and producer
Marley Marl – 63 years old (1962) – Record producer and rapper
David Barbe – 62 years old (1963) – Bass player and producer
Trey Anastasio – 61 years old (1964) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
Gibby Haynes – 58 years old (1967) – Musician, radio personality and painter
Amy Landecker – 56 years old (1969) – Actress
Silas Weir Mitchell – 56 years old (1969) – Actor
Tony Hale – 55 years old (1970) – Actor and producer
Eric Piatkowski – 55 years old (1970) – Basketball player
Jenna Elfman – 54 years old (1971) – Actress and producer
Jamal Anderson – 53 years old (1972) – Football player and sportscaster
John Campbell – 53 years old (1972) – Bass player and songwriter
Ashley Hamilton – 51 years old (1974) – Actor and singer-songwriter
Daniel Wu – 51 years old (1974) – American–born Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
Jay Asher – 50 years old (1975) – Author
Ta-Nehisi Coates – 50 years old (1975) – Author and journalist
Christopher Jackson – 50 years old (1975) – Actor, singer, musician, and composer
Candice Michelle – 47 years old (1978) – Wrestler
Daniel Grossberg – 47 years old (1978) – Politician
Toni Trucks – 45 years old (1980) – Actress
Dominique Moceanu – 44 years old (1981) – Gymnast
Lacey Chabert – 43 years old (1982) – Actress
Kieran Culkin – 43 years old (1982) – Actor
Seth Smith – 43 years old (1982) – Baseball player
Yan Stastny – 43 years old (1982) – Canadian-American ice hockey player
Adam Jones – 42 years old (1983) – Football player and analyst
T-Pain – 41 years old (1984) – Rapper, producer, and actor
Téa Obreht – 40 years old (1985) – Serbian-American author
Ki Hong Lee – 39 years old (1986) – Actor
Jasmine Thomas – 36 years old (1989) – Basketball player
David Bakhtiari – 34 years old (1991) – Football player
Bria Hartley – 33 years old (1992) – French-American basketball player
Ezra Miller – 33 years old (1992) – Actor and singer
Wayne Selden Jr. – 31 years old (1994) – Basketball player
Aaron Holiday – 29 years old (1996) – Basketball player
Landon Dickerson – 27 years old (1998) – Football player
Trevi Moran – 27 years old (1998) – YouTuber and singer
Maddie Ziegler – 23 years old (2002) – Dancer and actress
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