June 12 - Feeding Time

Feeding Time

This Day In History

1665

England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).

1776

The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1898
 General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.

1939

Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

1942

Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1979

Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.

1987

At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1994

The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.

Famous Birthdays

1519

Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)

1577

Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)

1806

John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)

1827

Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (d. 1901)

1890

Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)

1920

Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)

1924

George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States

1928

Vic Damone, American singer
Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter

1929

Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)

1930

Jim Nabors, American actor and singer

1957

Timothy Busfield, American actor

1959

John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)

1964

Paula Marshall, American actress

1967

Frances O'Connor, Australian actress

1974

Jason Mewes, American actor