Be Bald and Free Day & National Dessert Day
1975 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr went on trial for killing his parents and brothers and sisters. In 1977, a book was published about the next owners of the house. A book called The Amityville Horror.
1964 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Martin Luther King, Jr.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis began.
1957 - Wake Up Little Susie hit #1 on the charts for The Everly Brothers, their first.
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager flew faster than sound, the first person ever. Does that mean he couldn’t hear himself think while he was flying?
1913 – An explosion in a Welsh coal mine killed 439 workers.
1912 – President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest at near point blank range. Because of a glasses case and his evening speech folded up in his breast pocket, he merely received a flesh wound.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY…
…Rap singer, Usher (1979), I’ve never been a follower.
Fashion Designer, Ralph Lauren (1939), I’ve never been a follower.
…John Dean (1938), attorney known for being the White House council during the Watergate Scandal.
…James Bond actor, Roger Moore (1927).
Previous US Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop (1916).
…poet ee cummings (1894), with over 2,900 poems, I won’t attempt to list them.
…Dwight D Eisenhower (1890), 34th president of the US.
…Elwood Haynes (1857). Mr. Haynes not only received patents for stainless steel, stellite (I don’t know) and a cobalt-chromium alloy, but he is known to have designed one of the first automobiles. He called it “Pioneer”. You can visit it at the Smithsonian.
…Founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn (1644).
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