April 29 - Hopscotch

Hopscotch

Family Birthdays

Uncle Joe Lacovara

This Day In History

1770

James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

1882

The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.

1953

The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

2004

Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.

2011

Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.

Famous Birthdays

1727

Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, founder of modern ballet (d. 1810)

1769

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)

1854

Henri Poincaré, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)

1875

Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)

1899

Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)

1908

Jack Williamson, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)

1917

Celeste Holm, American actress

1925

Iwao Takamoto, American animator, producer and film director (d. 2007)

1931

Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter

1951

Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)

1955

Kate Mulgrew, American actress

1957

Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor

1960

Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian science fiction writer

1970

Andre Agassi, American tennis player
Uma Thurman, American actress