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:
1512 – Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1800 – President John Adams became the first President to live in the White House when he moved in.
1864 – The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to make payments by mail.
1870 – The Weather Bureau made its first official meteorological forecast. It later was renamed the National Weather Service.
1879 – Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his high-resistance carbon filament.
1894 – Thomas Edison filmed American sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The film was instrumental in her getting hired by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
1894 – “Billboard Advertising” was published for the first time. It later became known as “Billboard.”
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appeared in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1914 – 19 year old Mary Jacobs invented the brassiere.
1930 – The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel was dedicated. It was the only underwater international border crossing.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeated War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination was exhibited to the world.
1941 – Photographer Ansel Adams took a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, NM, that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1950 – Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
1955 – The Vietnam War began.
1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opened to traffic connecting the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan.
1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wore a protective mask and became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1960 – While campaigning for President, John F. Kennedy announced his idea of the Peace Corps.
1962 – WZZM TV 13 went on the air for the first time at 6:30 pm. A tube failed 20 minutes later and they were off the air.
1963 – Wham-O patented the Frisbee.
1967 – The movie “Cool Hand Luke”, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy, premiered in theaters.
1968 – The movie rating system of G, M, R, X went into effect (PG-13 and NC-17 were added later).
1973 – Interstate 75 was completed in Michigan. It is the state’s longest expressway covering 395 miles from the Ohio border to Sault Ste. Marie.
1973 – Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
1977 – President Jimmy Carter signed a bill to gradually raise the minimum wage to $3.35 by 1981.
1979 – A law went into effect in Michigan requiring vehicle owners to renew their license plates on their birthday.
1981 – The U.S. Postal Service raised the first-class letter rate from 18 to 20 cents.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States when the opened their factory in Marysville, OH. The Honda Accord was the first car produced there.
1991 – Clarence Thomas was sworn in as the newest Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1994 – The Amazon.com domain name was registered.
1998 – Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.
2003 – Reverend V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire. He’s the first openly gay man to reach that level in the Episcopal Church in America.
BIRTHDAYS:
Bill Anderson – 88 years old (1937) – Country music singer-songwriter
Nicholasa Mohr – 87 years old (1938) – Puerto Rican American Nuyorican writer
Roger Kellaway – 85 years old (1940) – Pianist and composer
Joe Caldwell – 84 years old (1941) – Basketball player
Robert Foxworth – 84 years old (1941) – Actor and director
Ted Hendricks – 78 years old (1947) – Guatemalan-American football player
Jeannie Berlin – 76 years old (1949) – Actress
Michael D. Griffin – 76 years old (1949) – Physicist and engineer
Belita Moreno – 76 years old (1949) – Actress and acting coach
Mitch Kapor – 75 years old (1950) – Computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Robert B. Laughlin – 75 years old (1950) – Physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Jan Davis – 72 years old (1953) – Engineer and astronaut
Beth Leavel – 70 years old (1955) – Actress and singer
Lyle Lovett – 68 years old (1957) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Rachel Ticotin – 67 years old (1958) – Actress
Tim Cook – 65 years old (1960) – Businessman and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc
Calvin Johnson – 64 years old (1961) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Anthony Kiedis – 63 years old (1962) – Singer-songwriter
Big Kenny – 62 years old (1963) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Sophie B. Hawkins – 61 years old (1964) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Willie D – 59 years old (1966) – Rapper and entrepreneur
Gary Howell – 59 years old (1966) – Businessman and politician
Gary Alexander – 56 years old (1969) – Basketball player
Jenny McCarthy – 53 years old (1972) – Actress and model
David Berman – 52 years old (1973) – Actor
Bo Bice – 50 years old (1975) – Singer and musician
Bryan Harsin – 49 years old (1976) – College football coach
Steve Hutchinson – 48 years old (1977) – Football player
Jessica Valenti – 47 years old (1978) – Author
Coco Crisp – 46 years old (1979) – Baseball player
Alex Prager – 46 years old (1979) – Photographer and director
Matt Jones – 44 years old (1981) – Actor and comedian
Stephen Vogt – 41 years old (1984) – Baseball player
Marcus Landry – 40 years old (1985) – Basketball player
Penn Badgley – 39 years old (1986) – Actor and television personality
Bruce Irvin – 38 years old (1987) – Football player
Tim Frazier – 35 years old (1990) – Basketball player
Anthony Ramos – 34 years old (1991) – Actor and singer
Semaj Christon – 33 years old (1992) – Basketball player
Brent Rooker – 31 years old (1994) – Baseball player
Joe Chealey – 30 years old (1995) – Basketball player
Chinanu Onuaku – 29 years old (1996) – Basketball player
Max Burkholder – 28 years old (1997) – Actor
Alex Wolff – 28 years old (1997) – Actor and musician
NLE Choppa – 23 years old (2002) – Rapper and YouTuber
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