Billy, Byron and Alfred Nobel

Bastille Day, Pandemonium Day and National Nude Day. Do these celebrations work together? Depends on how you spin it. The storming of the Bastille in Paris was definitely pandemonium, I am sure that several of the people storming may have been nude. I wouldn’t want to enter a government building in rags.

On this day …

In 1995, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 was born. As with most people, places and things, its name was shortened to MP3.

In 1914, liquid rocket fuel was patented.

In 1881, waiting in ambush, Sheriff Pat Garrett shot and killed Henry McCarty. McCarty had been convicted and sentenced to hang for killing a sheriff and deputy in Lincoln, NM. He had escaped 2 weeks before the execution, killing 2 guards. Even though he had not been tried for any other deaths, he is believed to have killed nearly 20 people, was 21 at the time of his death and was known as Billy the Kid.

In 1867, Alfred Nobel demonstrated the power of dynamite.

In 1811, George Gordon Byron,after a two year trip through Europe and the Near East, he returned inspired by his travels and wrote  Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. He was also known by the name George Gordon Noel and by his inherited title, Lord Byron.

BIRTHDAYS:

Matthew Fox (1966), Lost doctor; Polly Bergen (1930), actress seen in many roles from 1949 thru 2009; John Chancellor (1927), TV journalist; Ingmar Bergman (1918), director/screenwriter; President Gerald Ford (1913); Woody Guthrie (1912) singer/songwriter.