Today everyone should relate to this in one way or another. It is Clean Up Your Room Day. Either you need to do it yourself, you need to convince your family to do it OR you mom said it you you when you were a kid. Celebrate by picking up the laundry, taking all the dishes back into the kitchen and pull out that Hefty bag and start stuffing. Maybe you will find that thing you were looking for.
1748-Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (the 10th and final volume) was printed. This was his second to last novel.
1752-Benjamin Franklin tested the first lightning rod.
1774-Death of Louis XV at the age of 64.
1774-Louis XVI (16th) becomes king of France.
1818-Death of Pau Revere, US patriot famous for a midnight ride.
1883-Birth of John Wilkes Booth, Actor and Assassin.
1877-Ring. Hello? The first telephone is installed. Their phone number was 1.
1879-A 455 pound meteorite struck (burying itself 15’ into the ground) near Estherville, IA.
1888-Birth of Max Steiner-Composer, including the movie Gone with the Wind.
1899-Birth of Frederick Austerlitz, Actor/Dancer known as Fred Astaire.
1909-Birth of “Mother” Mabelle Addington Carter. Part of the “First Family of Country Music”. Will the Circle Be Unbroken is a signature song.
1910-Halley’s Comet passes by Earth at its closest path.
1944-Birth of David O Selznick, Producer, including Hitchcock’s films.
1922-Birth of Nancy Walker, Actress most remembered as Ida Morgenstern on Rhoda.
1924-J Edgar Hoover began his ‘acting director’ positon at the FBI. He kept the job (not ‘acting’) for 48 years.
1930-Birth of Pat Summerall, Sports Journalist.
1936-Birth of Gary Owens, Deep-voiced actor most remembered on Laugh-In.
1940-Chamberlain is replaced by Churchill as Prim Minister of Britain.
1946-Birth of Donovan, Singer known for Mellow Yellow.
1957-Birth of Sid Vicious, Singer in band Sex Pistols.
1960-Birth of Paul Hewson, Singer, member of U2 currently going by the name Bono.
1966-Birth of Jason Brooks, Actor
1969-The first color photos of Earth were sent back from Apollo 10.
1977-Death of Lucille Fay Le Sueur (aka Joan Crawford) she was 71 or 74.less than 2 years later, Mommy Dearest, her daughter Christina’s biography was released.
1994-Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president.
1994-Death of John Wayne Gacy, was executed for mass murder at the age of 52.
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