October 21

Scott Winters October 21, 2023 0 Comments

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:

1797 – “Old Ironsides,” the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston’s harbor.

1849 – James F. O’Connell, the first tattooed man, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York, NY.

1879 – Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his design for an incandescent lamp. It lasted 13-1/2 hours before it burned out.

1908 – A “Saturday Evening Post” advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia.

1915 – The very first “hello” was transmitted over the Atlantic Ocean wirelessly from the state of Virginia in the United States to Paris, France.

1918 – Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.

1925 – The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York, NY.

1925 – The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.

1927 – In New York, NY, construction began on the George Washington Bridge.

1929 – The Edison Institute, at the Greenfield Village and Form Museum) was dedicated by Thomas Edison and President Herbert Hoover.

1940 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” was published.

1959 – In New York, NY, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public.

1975 – Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1977 – Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was established. It includes the giant dunes, South and North Manitou Islands.

1991 – Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.

1996 – Jay Bargieri, a former executive with EMI Records, announced the launch of the first Internet record label. The record label, Jay-Bird Records, was the first of its kind.

2015 – The day in the future that Doc Brown and Marty McFly traveled to in the 1989 movie “Back to the Future Part II”.

2021 – On the set of the movie “Rust”, a shooting occurred in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded. The gun killed the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injured director Joel Souza.

BIRTHDAYS:

Joyce Randolph – 99 years old (1924) – Actress (Played Trixie on TV’s “The Honeymooners”). Born in Detroit, MI

Manfred Mann – 83 years old (1940) – Musician

Steve Cropper – 82 years old (1941) – Guitarist (Booker T & the MGs, Blues Brothers)

Elvin Bishop – 81 years old (1942) – Singer (Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin Bishop Group)

Judy Sheindlin – 81 years old (1942) – TV personality (TV’s “Judge Judy”)

Paula Kelly – 80 years old (1943) – Actress (TV’s “Santa Barbara”, “Night Court”)

Everett McGill – 78 years old (1945) – Actor (“Licence to Kill”, “Silver Bullet”, “The People Under the Stairs”, “Heartbreak Ridge”, “Dune”, “Yanks”, “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory”, “My Fellow Americans”)

Lee Loughnane – 77 years old (1946) – Trumpeter, flugelhorn player, vocalist (Chicago)

Charlotte Caffey – 70 years old (1953) – Guitarist (Go-Go’s)

Eric Faulkner – 70 years old (1953) – Guitarist, singer (Bay City Rollers)

Steve Lukather – 66 years old (1957) – Guitarist, singer (Toto)

Melora Walters – 64 years old (1959) – Actress (TV’s “Big Love”)

Jeremy Miller – 47 years old (1976) – Actor (Played Ben Seaver on TV’s “Growing Pains”)

Will Estes – 45 years old (1978) – Actor (TV’s “American Dreams”, “Blue Bloods”)

Michael McMillian – 45 years old (1978) – Actor (TV’s “True Blood”, “Hot in Cleveland”)

Kim Kardashian – 43 years old (1980) – TV personality (TV’s “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”, “Kourtney and Kim Take New York”, “Dancing With the Stars: Season 7”)