Today is Cousin’s Day and Amelia Earhart Day. Amelia, where ever you are, women of the world appreciate what you did for our ‘cause’. To all my cousins, ones I know where they are and the ones who have been lost in time, HI and I miss you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

1970, singer, Jennifer Lopez; 1964, baseball player, Barry Bonds; 1963, basketball player, Karl “The Mailman” Malone; 1951, Wonder Woman actress (the one and only, in my opinion), Lynda Carter; 1947, Airplane actor, Robert Hays; 1936, comedian/actress, Ruth Buzzi; 1933, soap opera actor and famous father, John Aniston; 1921, jazz pianist, Billy Taylor; 1920, American politician, Bella Abzug; 1897, aviatrix, Amelia Earhart; 1802, The Three Musketeers writer, Alexander Dumas (pere); 1783, liberator of South America, Simon Bolivar.

WHAT HAPPENED??

1956, after ten years together, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis divorce following their show at the Copacabana Club in NYC.

1911, Hiram Bingham discovered the ancient Inca settlement in Peru known as Machu Picchu.

1901, William Sydney Porter, was released from jail after serving 3 years for embezzlement. William Sydney Porter writes under the name, O Henry.

1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted into the Union after the end of the Civil War.

1847, Brigham Young and his Mormon pioneer followers settled into Utah’s Valley of the Great Salt Lake.

1487, Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands go on strike after the state declares foreign beer off limits.