October 7 - Tablets

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This Day In History

1542

Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast.

1691

The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

1826

The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.

1919

KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

1955

American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.

1993

The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

Famous Birthdays

1573

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)

1728

Caesar Rodney, American lawyer,officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, Continental Congressman from Delaware, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution (d. 1784)

1746

William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)

1849

James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)

1885

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

1914

Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)

1917

June Allyson, American actress (d. 2006)

1931

Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate

1939

John Hopcroft, American computer scientist

1951

John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter

1955

Yo-Yo Ma, French-born American cellist

1957

Jayne Torvill, British figure skater
1959
Dylan Baker, American character actor