24 Apr 07 - Tuesday
Birthdays:
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas founded Farmer's Almanac
1905 Robert Penn Warren 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1942 Barbra [Joan] Streisand Brooklyn NY, singer/actress/award winner (Funny Girl, The Way We Were)
1943 Richard Sterban Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys)
1944 [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun] US singer (Rock the Boat)
1945 Doug Clifford Palo Alto CA, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1947 Glenn Cornick rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
1954 Jack Blades rock bassist (Damn Yankees & Night Ranger)
1963 Billy Gould Los Angeles CA, rock bassist (Faith No More)
This day:
1061 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
1704 "Boston News-Letter", 1st successful newspaper in US, is established
1731 Daniel Defoe English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
1800 Library of Congress is established with $5,000 allocation
1824 Herman Muntinghe theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty
1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House
1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1950 President Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 The Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1967 Vladimir M Komarov cosmonaut (Voshkod I), is 1st to die in space,
aboard Soyuz 1 at 40
1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York NY
1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead
1974 Bud Abbott comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78
1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1992 Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1997 Pat Paulsen comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Paul McCartney
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