June 10 - Lunch

Lunch

This Day In History

1793

The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.

1829

The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.

1854

The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.

1944

15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league baseball game.

1947

Saab produces its first automobile.

1977

Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.

2003

The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Famous Birthdays

1637

Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)

1688

James Francis Edward Stuart (“The Old Pretender”), English-born claimant to the British throne (d. 1766)

1819

Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)

1832

Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)

1835

Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (d. 1930)

1865

Frederick Albert Cook, American explorer and physician, claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1908 (d. 1940)

1891

Al Dubin, American lyricist (d. 1945)

1895

Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)

1901

Frederick Loewe, German-born Austrian-American composer (d. 1988)

1922

Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)

1928

Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator of children's literature (d. 2012)

1941

Jürgen Prochnow, German actor

1965

Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress