That's My Baby
Overheard
E(to D): Cookie Monster's not a Muppet, you silly goose!
Family
Birthdays
Uncle Dan St. John
This
Day In History
1564
Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
1607
English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1803
Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
1923
The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1956
First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1958
Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
2003
Mommy & Daddy got married, Jersey City, NJ.
Famous
Birthdays
1697
Adam Falckenhagen, German lutenist and composer (d. 1754)
1718
Esek Hopkins, Commander of the US Navy during the Revolutionary War (d. 1802)
1785
John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
1798
Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
1812
Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
1822
Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
1834
Artemus Ward, American comic writer (d. 1867)
1862
Edmund C. Tarbell, American artist (d. 1938)
1888
Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
1897
Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
1910
Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
1912
A. E. van Vogt, Canadian science fiction writer (d. 2000)
1917
I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
1933
Carol Burnett, American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer
1938
Duane Eddy, American musician
1942
Bobby Rydell, American singer
1943
Gary Wright, American singer
1947
Warren Clarke, British actor
1960
Roger Taylor, British musician (Duran Duran)
1963
Li Lianjie/Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
1974
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