April 4 - Happy Birthday, Auntie Cool!

Happy Birthday, Auntie Cool!

This Day In History

1581

Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.

1818

The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).

1887

Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.

1933

USS Akron (ZRS-4) wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.

1968

NASA launches Apollo 6.

1969

Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.

1973

The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.

1975

Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico

1983

Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).

1994

Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".

Famous Birthdays

1640

Gaspar Sanz, Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest (d. 1710)

1646

Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)

1648

Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born English sculptor and woodcarver (d. 1721)

1821

Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1868)

1869

Mary Jane Colter, American architect (d. 1958)

1895

Arthur Murray, American dance teacher (d. 1991)

1908

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (d. 2006)

1932

Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)

1944

Craig T. Nelson, American actor

1948

Dan Simmons, American writer

1960

Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born English-Australian actor

1963

Graham Norton, Irish talk show host

1965

Robert Downey, Jr., American actor

1975

Scott Rolen, American baseball player

1979

Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)