Thursday, May 3, 2012

May 3 - Will's First Art




Will's First Art




Overheard
Mommy date and labeled the photo above Will 5/2/12
E: You need to put numbers on this one and this one and this one...

This Day In History
1802
Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
1830
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1877
Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
1937
Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1952
The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
1957
Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California. *
1960
The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1972
The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world's tallest building.

Famous Birthdays
612
Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1415
Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
1713
Alexis Claude de Clairaut, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1768
Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
1874
François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
1903
Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
1912
Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
1917
Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2006)
1959
David Ball, English musician (Soft Cell)
1970
Bobby Cannavale, American actor
1975
Christina Hendricks, American actress
Dulé Hill, American actor


* (Michele here doing dates.  If I recall correctly, this meant something to Paul's grandfather as he was a fan, but I could be mistaken...)





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