This Day In History

HISTORICAL DAY

• 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
• 1847 - 1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
• 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
• 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
• 1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
• 1932 - 1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY
• 1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
• 1945 - Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR
• 1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
• 1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY
• 1964 - Amendment 24 banning poll tax
• 1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
• 1973 - Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
• 1974 - Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
• 1984 - Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
• 1985 - 20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture

HISTORICAL BIRTHDAY

• 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist & father of aerodynamics
• 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, (Lucky Lindy) 1st to fly solo across Atlantic
• 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
• 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, musical conductor (or 0203)
• 1918 - Ida Lupino, actress
• 1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist & writer (The Feminine Mystique)
• 1923 - Conrad Bain, actor
• 1931 - Isabel Peron, Argentine president
• 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso
• 1943 - Cheryl Miller, in Sherman Oaks
• 1944 - Florence LaRue, in Gordon Pennsylvania & one of 5th Dimension
• 1948 - Alice Cooper, singer
• 1950 - Pamela Franklin,
• 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn,
• 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, NY Giants linebacker
• 1960 - Pamela Ferdin,