April 19 - Shy

Shy

Thanks for the shirt, Auntie Andrea!

Today is the feast of St. Expeditus, patron of procrastinators.

This Day In History

1770

Captain James Cook^* sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

1892

Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1919

Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.

1956

Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.

1971

Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.

1987

The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show

2005

His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on the regnal name Benedict XVI.

Famous Birthdays

1721

Roger Sherman, American statesman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and Elanor & Will's 4th cousin ten times removed. (d. 1793)

1877

Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)

1903

Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)

1912

Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

1930

Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)

1935

Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)

1937

Elinor Donahue, American actress

1946

Tim Curry, British actor

1968

Ashley Judd, American actress

1981

Troy Polamalu, American football player

* - A man of very good taste. Or so I've heard.