February 18 - Happy Birthday, Uncle Devin!

Happy Birthday, Uncle Devin!

Also, pitchers & catchers report for Spring Training today!

Family Birthdays

Devin F. Rushing-Schurr

This Day In History

1911

The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.

1930

While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

1930

Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.

1977

The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.

1979

Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

Famous Birthdays

1404

Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)

1516

Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)

1745

Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)

1838

Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)

1848

Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)

1898

Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)

1929

Len Deighton, British author

1930

Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist

1931

Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)

1947

Dennis DeYoung, American musician (Styx)

1950

John Hughes, American film director (d. 2009)

1956

Paul Reed Smith, American luthier

1968

Molly Ringwald, American actress