Feb 4 Full blog--click link at bottom of post Today’s Historical Highlights 1194 - 100,000 ransom is paid for Richard I, King of England 1784 - 1st unmanned balloon flight in Ireland 1789 - 1st US electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as President and Vice-President 1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000 1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public 1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France 1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY 1941 - United Service Organization (USO) founded 1945 - FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta 1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY) 1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria Today Is • Bubble Gum Day • African American Coaches Day • Facebooks Birthday (2004) • Liberace Day • National Wear Red Day • USO Day • World Cancer Day ++++++ • Independence Day (Sri Lanka-1948-Dominion of UK) • Winterlude (French: Bal de Neige) (Canada)-midwinter festivals Today’s Birthdays David Brenner, comedian/TV talk show host (Nightlife) is 78 John Schuck, Boston, Massachusetts, American actor (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yoyo) is 74 James Danforth Dan Quayle, 44th US Vice President is 67 Alice Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], Detroit, rocker (Schools Out) is 66 Clint Black, country vocalist (A Better Man) is 52 Remembered for being born today 1725 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804) 1895 - Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, British actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes) 1902 - Charles A Lindbergh, pilot (1st to fly solo across Atlantic) 1906 - Clyde William Tombaugh, US, astronomer (discovered Pluto) 1909 - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe) 1913 - Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist (bus protestor) 1914 - Ida Lupino, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) 1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist writer and feminist (Feminine Mystique) 1923 - Conrad Bain, actor (Maude, Diffrent Strokes)
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:14:53 +0000
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