1990 – Iraq invaded the tiny country of Kuwait. A week later, the United States came to its defense in what is now known as The First Gulf War and Operation Desert Shield.
1975 – The Superdome, New Orleans, LA, opened with a game between New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers. It is now famous for a non-sporting event.
1955 – The miracle zipper, Velcro, was patented.
1876 –The most famous poker hand of all time, Dead Man’s Hand (2 Aces and two eights) was born on this day. Unfortunately, someone had to die in order for its famous-ocity to come into being. Wild Bill Hickock was killed by the young Jack McCall who entered the No10 Saloon, snuck up behind the great gunfighter and shot him in the head.
1870 – London opened the world’s first underground tube railway called Tower Subway.
1869 – The novel Middlemarch was begun buy its author, George Eliot. Known as her greatest work, Middlemarch was published in eight parts from 1871 through 1872.
1610 – The large body of water that Henry Hudson discovered on this day was not as large as he hoped. Although he hoped he had found the Northwest Passage through Canada to the Pacific Ocean, we now know it as Hudson Bay.
216BC – Hannibal destroyed the Roman Army during the Punic Wars. It is now known as one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Y'ALL...
Mary-Louise Parker,1964, actress most noted for her role in Fried Green Tomatoes; Joanna Cassidy, 1944, actress who can be seen in a multitude of sitcoms and TV dramas was featured in Stephen King's Tommyknockers and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead ; Wes Craven, 1934, prolific horror writer who’s most famous character is a nightmare named Freddie Krueger; Peter O’Toole, 1932, actor who portrayed TE Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, that LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG movie set in the desert about war or something like that…zzzzz; All in the Family actor, Carroll O’Connor (1924), also brought southern sheriff Bill Gillespie to the small screen in In the Heat of the Night; James Baldwin (1924) was an author and playwright, you may have read the semi-autobigraphical, Go Tell it On the Mountain or If Beale Street Could Talk; Pierre Charles L’Enfant, 1754, was the architect chosen to design Washington, DC. What do you think of the layout.
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