August 6 - Making a Mess

Making a Mess

This Day In History

1787

Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1819

Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

1912

The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

1926

Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

1930

Judge Joseph Force Crater walks out of a restaurant in New York and disappears, never to be seen again.

1964

Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

1991

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1996

NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

Famous Birthdays

1619

Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1766

William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)

1809

Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)

1844

James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896)

1866

Matthew Henson, American explorer (d. 1955)

1881

Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)

1889

John Middleton Murry, English writer and critic (d. 1957)

1902

Dutch Schultz, American organized crime figure (d. 1935)

1911

Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)

1917

Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)

1928

Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)

1934

Piers Anthony, English writer
1943
Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
1953
John Craton, American composer
1962
Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress
1963
Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
1965
David Robinson, American basketball player
1973
Vera Farmiga, American actress
1985
Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer