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This Day In History

3114 BC

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.

1786

Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.

1929

Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1942

Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a frequency hopping, spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

1984

 U.S. President Ronald Reagan, while preparing to make his weekly address on NPR, jokes "We begin bombing in five minutes." (The Soviets are not amused.)

Famous Birthdays

1673

Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)

1825

István Türr, Hungarian soldier and engineer (d. 1908)

1858

Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
1917
Dik Browne, American cartoonist (Hägar the Horrible) (d. 1989)

1921

Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992)

1944

Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor

1949

Eric Carmen, American singer and guitarist (Raspberries)

1950

Steve Wozniak, American computer engineer

1952

Bob Mothersbaugh AKA Bob 1, American guitarist (Devo)

1954

Joe Jackson, English musician and singer-songwriter

1969

Ashley Jensen, English actress

1983

Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor