Today is US Coast Guard Day. The Revenue Cutter Service was created by an act of Congress authorizing 10 cutter ships to be built specifically to enforce The U.S.'s tariff laws. In 1915, the RCS 'merged' with the US Life Saving Service creating what we now know as The United States Coast Guard.
On this day in...
1944 - Anne Frank and her family were captured. 7 months later, she died in a concentration camp of typhus.
1927 - Jimmie Rodgers recorded his first songs The Soldier's Sweetheart and Sleep, Baby, Sleep earning him the nickname "The Father of Country Music. " and taking hillbilly music up a notch and slinging into the mainstream.
1892 - Lizzie Borden took and ax, gave her mother 40 whacks, when she'd seen what she had done, she gave her father 41...NOT! It was her half cousin or brother...
1693, Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk, 'invented' Champagne.
Birthdays someone celebrates on this day in:
1971 - Jeff Gordon, NASCAR driver. We like the other Jeff...
1962 - Baseball pitcher, Roger Clemens. Mom likes him, who does he play for?
1961 - Barack Obama, 44th President of the USofA!
1958 - Track champion, Mary Decker. Run, Mary, Run!
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor know for his role in Sling Blade (and for dumping Angelina Jolie so she could be with the Pitt-ster.)
1929 - Palistinian leader, Yasir Arafat, aka Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raoufal-Qudwa al-Husseini, breathe! Arafat
1910 - Composer, William Howard Schuman. At the age of 33, he won the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Music for his cantata, A Free Song.
1901 - Louis Armstrong, trumpeter, What a Wonderful World, Dream a Little Dream of Me, When the Saints Go Marching In.
1900 - Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mum.
1792 - Poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley was born. Prometheus Unbound and To a Skylark are notable works.
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