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:
1889 – Montana became the 41st U.S. state.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered the X-ray.
1910 – William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator.
1932 – Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent Herbert Hoover.
1933 – The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the United States.
1954 – The American League approved the transfer of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team to Kansas City, MO.
1956 – Director Cecil B. DeMille’s epic, “The Ten Commandments”, has its world premiere. The star-studded cast was headed by Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter and Debra Paget.
1956 – After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the “Edsel,” after Henry Ford’s only son.
1960 – Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon in one of the closest Presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th President of the United States.
1962 – Lucille Ball bought out ex-husband Desi Arnaz’s share in Desilu Productions.
1965 – The television soap opera “Days of Our Lives” debuted on NBC.
1966 – Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1971 – Led Zepplin released their song “Stairway to Heaven”.
1972 – HBO launched its programming with the broadcast of the 1971 movie “Sometimes a Great Notion”, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.
1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III was delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay $2.9 million.
1973 – Disney’s movie “Robin Hood” premiered in theaters.
1979 – The late night television news program, “The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage”, premiered on ABC. The show was to be temporary, but it evolved into “Nightline” in March of 1980.
1979 – U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall, in Washington, DC, for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1980 – Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced that they had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn.
1985 – A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland to President Ronald Reagan to negotiate a release.
1990 – President George H.W. Bush ordered more troop deployment in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national force fighting against Iraq.
1991 – After announcing that he was HIV positive, Magic Johnson appeared on TV’s “The Arsenio Hall Show”.
1994 – Sonny Bono was elected to U.S. Congress. He was re-elected two years later.
2000 – A statewide recount began in Florida to decide the winner of the 2000 Presidential election.
2000 – Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report that absolved the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.
2005 – The original “Guitar Hero” game was released in North America.
2009 – The game “Angry Birds Star Wars” was released.
2010 – Conan O’Brien returned to late night, this time with “Conan” on TBS.
2011 – The asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances (201,700 miles) from Earth, the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
2016 – Donald Trump became the first Republican candidate for President to win Michigan in many years. Trump won the election to become the 45th President of the United States. (In Michigan, Trump won 47.6% to 47.31%, the closest race in state history.)
BIRTHDAYS:
Satch Sanders – 87 years old (1938) – Basketball player
Angel Cordero Jr. – 83 years old (1942) – Puerto Rican-American jockey
Bonnie Bramlett – 81 years old (1944) – Singer and actress
Joseph James DeAngelo – 80 years old (1945) – Serial killer
Margaret Rhea Seddon – 78 years old (1947) – Physician and astronaut
Wayne LaPierre – 76 years old (1949) – Businessman, author, and activist
Bonnie Raitt – 76 years old (1949) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mary Hart – 75 years old (1950) – Journalist and actress
Gerald Alston – 74 years old (1951) – R&B singer
Larry Burnett – 74 years old (1951) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Peter Suber – 74 years old (1951) – Philosopher and academic
John Denny – 73 years old (1952) – Baseball player and coach
Christie Hefner – 73 years old (1952) – Publisher and businesswoman
Alfre Woodard – 73 years old (1952) – Actress
John Musker – 72 years old (1953) – Animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
Michael D. Brown – 71 years old (1954) – Lawyer and radio host
Timothy Egan – 71 years old (1954) – Journalist and author
Rickie Lee Jones – 71 years old (1954) – Singer-songwriter and producer
Patricia Barber – 70 years old (1955) – Singer-songwriter and pianist
Jeffrey Ford – 70 years old (1955) – Author and educator
Steven Miller – 69 years old (1956) – Record producer and engineer
Tim Shaw – 68 years old (1957) – Swimmer
Don Byron – 67 years old (1958) – Clarinet player and composer
Ken Lamberton – 67 years old (1958) – Author and educator
Chi Chi LaRue – 66 years old (1959) – Drag queen performer and director
Leif Garrett – 64 years old (1961) – Singer, actor, and television personality
Jeff Blauser – 60 years old (1965) – Baseball player and manager
Craig Chester – 60 years old (1965) – Actor and screenwriter
Parker Posey – 57 years old (1968) – Actress
Tom Anderson – 55 years old (1970) – Businessman, co-founded Myspace
Tech N9ne – 54 years old (1971) – Musician, record producer, and actor
Gretchen Mol – 53 years old (1972) – Model and actress
David Muir – 52 years old (1973) – Journalist
Joshua Ferris – 51 years old (1974) – Author
Brevin Knight – 50 years old (1975) – Basketball player and sportscaster
Tara Reid – 50 years old (1975) – Actress
Colin Strause – 49 years old (1976) – Director, producer, and visual effects designer
Bucky Covington – 48 years old (1977) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Nick Punto – 48 years old (1977) – Baseball player
Maurice Evans – 47 years old (1978) – Basketball player
Laura Jane Grace – 45 years old (1980) – Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Ted DiBiase – 43 years old (1982) – Jr. , American wrestler and actor
Danielle Valore Evans – 42 years old (1983) – Short story writer
Keith Lee – 41 years old (1984) – Wrestler
Jack Osbourne – 40 years old (1985) – English-American television personality
Sam Bradford – 38 years old (1987) – Football player
Yasmani Grandal – 37 years old (1988) – Cuban-American baseball player
Malcolm Thomas – 37 years old (1988) – Basketball player
Giancarlo Stanton – 36 years old (1989) – Baseball player
SZA – 36 years old (1989) – Singer-songwriter
Aaron Fotheringham – 34 years old (1991) – Wheelchair athlete
Riker Lynch – 34 years old (1991) – Actor and singer
Lauren Alaina – 31 years old (1994) – Singer and songwriter
Jade Pettyjohn – 25 years old (2000) – Actress
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