September 15 - Happy Girl

Happy Girl

Overheard

E: I don't like Lima beans. Stop saying I do like them!
M: You don't have to like them, but sometimes you have to eat them.
E: OK. But sometimes I do like them.

This Day In History

1616

The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.

1816

HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.

1831

The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

1835

HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands

1851

Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1947

RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.

1948

The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour.

1981

The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

Famous Birthdays

1254

Marco Polo, Italian explorer. (d. 1324)

1789

James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)

1857

William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1930)

1881

Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)

1890

Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)

1901

Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)

1907

Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)

1916

Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)

1934

Tomie dePaola, American children's author and illustrator

1940

Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author

1946

Tommy Lee Jones, American actor

1971

Josh Charles, American actor
1984
Prince Harry of Wales, English royalty