June 9 - Knitters

Knitters

Today is World Wide Knit in Public Day.

This Day In History

1310

Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.

1534

Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.

1732

James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.

1891

 Painter Gauguin arrives in Papeete, Tahiti

1924

In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.

1928

Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

1934

Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.

1973

Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.

Famous Birthdays

1768

Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)

1781

George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)

1891

Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)

1900

Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)

1915

Les Paul, American guitarist and inventor (d. 2009)

1918

John Hospers, American philosopher and Libertarian politician (d. 2011)

1922

John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)

1925

Keith Laumer, American science fiction author (d. 1993)

1943

Joe Haldeman, American science fiction author

1951

James Newton Howard, American film composer

1961

Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter and playwright

1963

Johnny Depp, American actor

1978

Michaela Conlin, American actress

1981

Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress

1988

Mae Whitman, American actress and voice actress