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:
1806 – Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis, MO, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1845 – The first baseball team in the United States, The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York, was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright.
1846 – The planet Neptune was discovered by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1875 – Billy the Kid was arrested for the first time for stealing a basket of laundry. He broke out of jail and later had a rap sheet that included 21 murders
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (it later become Nintendo Company, LTD) was founded. At the time they weren’t making video games (obviously), but instead they produced the playing card game Hanafuda.
1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington made the first official airmail delivery in American under the authority of the United States Post Office Department.
1930 – Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier.
1934 – The first ever Detroit Lions game was played at the University of Detroit Stadium. (They won!) The team had just moved to Detroit, MI from Portsmouth, OH, where they were called the Spartans.
1951 – The first transcontinental telecast was broadcast to the west coast. The show, “Crusade for Freedom”, was broadcast by CBS from New York, NY.
1962 – The animated TV series “The Jetsons” premiered on ABC. It was the first color television program to be carried on the network.
1969 – The movie “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” premiered in theaters. The film was based loosely on fact. The movie tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the “Sundance Kid” (played by Robert Redford),
1992 – The TV show “Mad About You”, starring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt, debuted.
1994 – The movie “The Shawshank Redemption” premiered in theaters.
1998 – Jamie Lee Curtis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 – Siegfried & Roy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 – NASA announced that it had lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) was released.
2009 – The TV show “Modern Family” debuted on ABC. It remained on the air for 11 seasons.
2019 – Walmart.com started selling Pumpkin Spice Spam. Two 12 ounce cans cost $8.98.
2020 – A grand jury in Kentucky declined to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, which lead to nationwide protests in the U.S.
BIRTHDAYS:
Sonny Vaccaro – 86 years old (1939) – Businessman
Sila María Calderón – 83 years old (1942) – Puerto Rican-American businesswoman and politician, 12th Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
Paul Petersen – 80 years old (1945) – Actor, singer, author, and activist
Mary Kay Place – 78 years old (1947) – Actress
Neal Smith – 78 years old (1947) – Drummer and songwriter
Bruce Springsteen – 76 years old (1949) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
George Garzone – 75 years old (1950) – Saxophonist and educator
Mark Bego – 73 years old (1952) – Author
Dennis Lamp – 73 years old (1952) – Baseball player
Jim Morrison – 73 years old (1952) – Baseball player and manager
Rosalind Chao – 68 years old (1957) – Actress
Tony Fossas – 67 years old (1958) – Cuban-American baseball player and coach
Marvin Lewis – 67 years old (1958) – Football player and coach
Larry Mize – 67 years old (1958) – Golfer
Jason Alexander – 66 years old (1959) – Actor, singer, and voice artist
Kurt Beyer – 65 years old (1960) – Wrestler
Chi McBride – 64 years old (1961) – Actor
Larry Krystkowiak – 61 years old (1964) – Basketball player and coach
Bill Phillips – 61 years old (1964) – Businessman and author
Pete Harnisch – 59 years old (1966) – Baseball player and coach
LisaRaye McCoy – 58 years old (1967) – Actress, model, fashion designer, and First Lady of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Lucia Cifarelli – 55 years old (1970) – Singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Ani DiFranco – 55 years old (1970) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Sean Spicer – 54 years old (1971) – Political aide, 30th White House Press Secretary
Jermaine Dupri – 53 years old (1972) – Rapper and producer
Matt Hardy – 51 years old (1974) – Wrestler
Layzie Bone – 51 years old (1974) – Rapper
Kip Pardue – 49 years old (1976) – Actor and model
Rachael Yamagata – 48 years old (1977) – Singer-songwriter and pianist
Anthony Mackie – 47 years old (1978) – Actor
Ricky Davis – 46 years old (1979) – Basketball player
Bryant McKinnie – 46 years old (1979) – Football player
Matt Kemp – 41 years old (1984) – Baseball player
Anneliese van der Pol – 41 years old (1984) – Dutch-American entertainer
Joba Chamberlain – 40 years old (1985) – Baseball player
Chris Johnson – 40 years old (1985) – Football player
Hasan Minhaj – 40 years old (1985) – Comedian, actor, and television host
Chris Volstad – 39 years old (1986) – Baseball player
Skylar Astin – 38 years old (1987) – Actor and singer
Brandon Jennings – 36 years old (1989) – Basketball player
Melanie Oudin – 34 years old (1991) – Tennis player
Napheesa Collier – 29 years old (1996) – Basketball player
John Collins – 28 years old (1997) – Basketball player
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