August 23 - Scarf

Scarf

Overheard

[As this picture was being taken]
E: Hey! No flash photography!

Family Birthdays

Uncle George Ukers

This Day In History

79

Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

1305

Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.

1541

French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

1650

Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

1784

Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.

1904

The automobile tire chain is patented.

1966

Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

1977

The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.

2007

The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Famous Birthdays

1741

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)

1783

William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)

1785

Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)

1846

Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)

1847

Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)

1912

Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)

1923

Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)

1929

Vera Miles, American actress

1934

Sonny Jurgensen, American football player

1949

Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor

1951

Queen Noor of Jordan

1970

Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1974
Ray Park, Scottish actor