Grandparent's Day

GRANDPARENT’S DAY

National Pet Memorial Day          Chocolate Milkshake Day

1993 – The Lacey V Murrow Bridge over Lake Washington in Seattle was rebuilt after being destroyed by a flood. Originally built in 1938 and was the first concrete floating bridge in the world. I guess the first one floated away.

1978 – Ruben Studdard, second season American Idol winner, was born in Frankfurt, Germany.

1972 – William Boyd, aka Hopalong Cassidy died at the age of 77.

1957 – Rachel Ward, actress seen in The Thorn Birds, was born in Chipping North, Oxfordshire, England.

1953 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married in Newport, Rhode Island.

1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson defeated British native, Randy Turpin to win back his middleweight championship belt.

1944 – Barry White, singer of Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe and songwriter to the unheralded, under appreciated band ,The Banana Splits, was born in Galveston, TX.

1940 – Four unwitting French teens, following their dog, discovered a cave filled with 15,000-17,000-year-old cave drawings. There are 600 painted and 1,500 engravings in the stone wals, mostly of animals. The only ‘human’ figure had a bird head and ‘was a happy boy’.

1942 – Linda Gray, actress known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on Dallas, was born Santa Monica, CA.

1913 – Jesse Owens, athlete and Olympic star, was born in Oakville, AL.

1888 – Maurice Chevalier, actor seen in Gigi singing Thank Heaven For Little Girls, was born in Menilmontant, Paris, France.

1846 – Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning eloped and lived happily for 15 years until her death (of a LONG undiagnosable-for-the-time illness) at the age of 55.