Fun Archive

HISTORICAL DAY

• 1663 - Earthquake in Canada
• 1887 - Snow falls on SF
• 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
• 1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
• 1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing"
• 1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
• 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
• 1971 - US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro
• 1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
• 1979 - According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million

FAMOUS BIRTHDAY

• 1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence
• 1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist
• 1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories
• 1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody,
• 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire
• 1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west
• 1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker
• 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate
• 1906 - John Carradine, actor
• 1907 - Norton Simon, business executive
• 1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch)
• 1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor
• 1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
• 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's)
• 1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster
• 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England
• 1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia
• 1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright