Happy Birthday, Cousins!
Family Birthdays
Amanda & Erika Nesvold
Overheard
The other day, after a bite of Daddy's lunch:
E: More!
D: <raised eyebrow>
E: More please!
D: Not right now.
E: Mommy! Daddy's not sharing!
This
Day In History
1554
A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1733
Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1816
The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
1914
In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1935
USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1994
Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
2001
NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
Famous
Birthdays
1567
Thomas Campion, English composer and poet (d. 1620)
1809
Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-his death) (d. 1865)
1843
John Graham Chambers, English athlete who wrote the Queensberry rules for boxing (d. 1883)
1881
Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
1884
Max Beckmann, German artist (d. 1950)
1914
Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000)
1915
Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (d. 1987)
1938
Judy Blume, American author
1939
Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)
1948
Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
1965
Rubén Amaro, Jr., American baseball player
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