Wednesday, September 26, 2012

September 26 - Out to Lunch





Out to Lunch


2012-09-22 15.15.26



This Day In History
1580
Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1789
Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General,
1810
A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1908
Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day.
1934
RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1960
In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1973
Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
2008
Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.


Famous Birthdays
1774
Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845)
1849
Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1867
Winsor McCay, American animator (d. 1934)
1872
Max Ehrmann, American poet (Desiderata) (d. 1945)
1877
Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
1888
T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1889
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1895
George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
1897
Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1898
George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907
Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1927
Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
1942
Kent McCord, American actor
1948
Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress
1956
Linda Hamilton, American actress
1985
Talulah Riley, English actress

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