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:
1816 – The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, the first savings bank in the United States, opened for business.
1823 – President James Monroe outlined his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
1901 – Gillette patented the KC Gillette Razor. It was first razor to feature a permanent handle and disposable double-edge razor blades.
1927 – After 19 years of Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveiled the Model A automobile — the successor to the Model T
1939 – New York’s La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago, IL, landed at 12:01 am.
1942 – A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr. Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago.
1949 – Gene Autry’s song “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” hit the record charts.
1962 – Breast implants were invented by a Texas doctor.
1969 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people flew from Seattle, WA, to New York, NY. Most of the passengers were reporters and photographers.
1969 – Jeannie” and Major Nelson got married on TV’s “I Dream of Jeannie”.
1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency began operations.
1976 – Fidel Castro became President of Cuba.
1982 – In the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of a retired dentist named Barney Clark. He lived 112 days with the device.
1983 – MTV aired Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video for the first time.
1988 – The movie “Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad”, starring Leslie Neilsen, premiered in theaters.
1991 – American Joseph Cicippio is released by kidnappers after five years of captivity in Lebanon.
1993 – The Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-61) blasted off on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.
1994 – “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles, CA of three counts of pandering.
1994 – The U.S. government agreed not to seek a recall of allegedly fire-prone General Motors pickup trucks. Instead, GM agrees to spend more than $51 million on safety research.
1995 – NASA launched a U.S.-European observatory on a $1 billion mission intended to study the sun.
1997 – The movie “Good Will Hunting”, starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Robin Williams, premiered in theaters.
1998 – Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates donated $100 million to help immunize children in developing countries.
2001 – Enron Corp. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. The filing came five days after Dynegy walked away from a $8.4 billion buyout. It was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2010 – NASA announced the discovery of a new arsenic-based life form.
2013 – The animated TV series “Rick and Morty” debuted on Adult Swim.
2020 – Cannabis was removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
BIRTHDAYS:
Edwin Meese – 94 years old (1931) – Lawyer, 75th United States Attorney General
David Hackett Fischer – 90 years old (1935) – Historian, author, and academic
Wayne Allard – 82 years old (1943) – Veterinarian and politician
Cathy Lee Crosby – 81 years old (1944) – Actress and tennis player
Penelope Spheeris – 80 years old (1945) – Director, producer, and screenwriter
David Macaulay – 79 years old (1946) – English-American author and illustrator
Elizabeth Berg – 77 years old (1948) – Nurse and author
T. Coraghessan Boyle – 77 years old (1948) – Novelist and short story writer
John Wesley Ryles – 75 years old (1950) – Country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
Carol Shea-Porter – 73 years old (1952) – Social worker, academic, and politician
Keith Szarabajka – 73 years old (1952) – Actor
Dan Butler – 71 years old (1954) – Actor, director, and screenwriter
Steven Bauer – 69 years old (1956) – Cuban-American actor and producer
Randy Gardner – 67 years old (1958) – Figure skater
George Saunders – 67 years old (1958) – Short story writer and essayist
Deb Haaland – 65 years old (1960) – Politician, 54th United States Secretary of the Interior
Ann Patchett – 62 years old (1963) – Author
Lucy Liu – 57 years old (1968) – Actress and producer
Nate Mendel – 57 years old (1968) – Singer-songwriter and bass player
Rena Sofer – 57 years old (1968) – Actress
Joe Lo Truglio – 55 years old (1970) – Actor and comedian
Treach – 55 years old (1970) – Rapper and actor
Wilson Jermaine Heredia – 54 years old (1971) – Actor and singer
Alan Henderson – 53 years old (1972) – Basketball player
Monica Seles – 52 years old (1973) – Serbian-American tennis player
Mark Kotsay – 50 years old (1975) – Baseball player and manager
Jarron Collins – 47 years old (1978) – Basketball player and coach
Jason Collins – 47 years old (1978) – Basketball player
Eric Jungmann – 44 years old (1981) – Actor
Britney Spears – 44 years old (1981) – Singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Matt Walsh – 43 years old (1982) – Basketball player
Action Bronson – 42 years old (1983) – Rapper, songwriter, chef, and television host
Eugene Jeter – 42 years old (1983) – American-Ukrainian basketball player, coach, and executive
Jana Kramer – 42 years old (1983) – Actress and singer
Aaron Rodgers – 42 years old (1983) – Football player
Daniela Ruah – 42 years old (1983) – Portuguese-American actress
Dorell Wright – 40 years old (1985) – Basketball player
Renee Montgomery – 39 years old (1986) – Basketball player and executive
Robert Turbin – 36 years old (1989) – Football player
Brandon Knight – 34 years old (1991) – Basketball player
Charlie Puth – 34 years old (1991) – Singer-songwriter and pianist
Zach Cunningham – 31 years old (1994) – Football player
Aaron Jones – 31 years old (1994) – Football player
De'Andre Hunter – 28 years old (1997) – Basketball player
Annalise Basso – 27 years old (1998) – Actress
Ilia Malinin – 21 years old (2004) – Competitive figure skater
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