LUMPY RUG DAY (Unknown origin or reason, Do you really need a reason to celebrate a lumpy rug?)
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY (1993, The UN proclaimed this day officially. UNESCO/.Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize is awarded.)
1469- Renaissance writer Niccolo Macchiavelli was born.
1494- St. Iago (Jamaica) was discovered by Christopher Columbus.
1802- Washington, DC was incorporated as a city.
1810- George Gordon, Lord Byron swam the 4 mile turbulent Turkish straight known as Hellespont (Dardanelles).
1903- Bing Crosby was born.
1910- Bandleader Artie Shaw died.
1919- Singer/Songwriter Pete Seeger was born.
1921- Sugar Ray Robinson, the boxer, was born.
1921- The first state sales tax was imposed on this day by West Virginia.
1933- Ye-oooow! James Brown was born!
1937- Four Seasons singer Franie Valli was born.
1937- The Pulitzer Prize for Literature was awarded to Margaret Mitchell for her Civil War themed novel Gone with the Wind.
1946- Greg Gumbel, sportscaster and brother of Bryant, was born.
1951- Christopher Cross was born. He is a Grammy winning singer.
1952- On this day, the first aircraft landed on the North Pole. The US Air Force C-47 had been modified with skis for a snow landing and was piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant Colonel William P Benedict. Upon landing, Flether, and passenger Dr. Albert P Crary, placed their tray tables and seatbacks in their upright and locked position before deplaning and walking to the Pole.
1964- Larger than life country singer Wynona Judd was born.
1972- Dan Blocker, Hoss-Bonanza, died after a pulmonary embolism following gallbladder surgery
1974- Singer Jewel Kilcher was born.
1980- Cari Lightner, Fair Oaks, CA, was killed by a drunk driver. This act inspired Candy Lightner, Cari’s mother, to found the influential and still very active MADD (Mother’s Against Drunk Driving).
1982- Beaver’s Dad, Hugh Beaumont died following a stroke.
1986- Willie Shoemaker won the Kentucky Derby perched upon the back of longshot Ferdinand and became the oldest jockey to win the derby at the age of 54.
1994- Richard Skarry, author and illustrator, died from a heart attack at the age of 74.
1997- Garry Kasparov began a chess match with Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer.
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