September 22 - Happy Birthday, Daddy

Happy Birthday, Daddy

Family Events

Daddy's birthday!
Grandma Popcorn's birthday!
Aunt Mary & Uncle Greg's anniversary!

This Day In History

1499

Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.

1598

English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.

1776

Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.

1869

Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.

1888

The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

1910

The Duke of York's Picture House, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain, opens in Brighton.

1979

The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

1991

The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.

Famous Birthdays

S.Y. 1290

Bilbo Baggins

1515

Anne of Cleves, English noblewoman (d. 1557)

1791

Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)

1895

Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)

1908

Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American children's author (d. 2002)

1924

Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist

1927

Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager

1943

Toni Basil, American singer

1948

Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician

1957

Nick Cave, Australian musician

1958

Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
Joan Jett, American singer

1959

Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
1970
Rupert Penry-Jones, British actor
1971
Elizabeth Bear, American author
1982
Billie Piper, English singer and actress
1987
Tom Felton, English actor