March 29 - Time for a Book

Time for a Book

Overheard

[While helping E get ready for a walk]
D: You know, pretty soon, you'll have to get dressed by yourself.
E (patiently): It's not a dress, it's just a jacket.
 

This Day In History

1638

Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.

1806

Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

1871

The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

1882

The Knights of Columbus are established.

1886

Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

1957

The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

1974

NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury.

Famous Birthdays

1668

Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)

1790

John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)

1867

Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)

1913

R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)

1917

Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)

1918

Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)

1941

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate

1943

Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer

1967

John Popper, American musician

1968

Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer