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Come and Take It Day and Mad Hatter Day and Physician Assistant Day.

1991 – Elizabeth Tayor walks down the aisle for the seventh time. No, she isn’t married to construction worker Larry Fortneski anymore, and she is still single after 14 years)

1981 – Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated.

1967 – The first Physician’s Assistants graduated from Duke University today. The program was created by Dr. Eugene Stead.

1866 – The Reno Gang successfully robbed a moving train, the first. They got away with over $10,000.

1847 – Jane Eyre (a book I am not sure I actually read all the way through) by Currer Bell (aka Charlotte Bronte) was published.

1683 – The first Mennonited arrived from Germany thanks to the open arms of William Penn and freedom of religion in Pennsylvania.

BIRTHDAYS:

Actress, Elizabeth Shue, 1963. You probably remember her in The Karate Kid (the one with Ralph Macchio), Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, Back to the Future II &III, Heart and Souls, Leaving Las Vegas or, maybe, The Saint with Val Kilmer.

Actress, Stephanie Zimbalist, 1956. I liked her in Remington Steele but she was also in Centennial, The Babysitter and The Man in the Brown Suit.

Explorer and anthropologist, Thor Heyerdahl, 1914. I love this story, Mr. H wanted to prove that there could be a connection between the South Americans and Polynesia so in 1947, he and a band (of merry men?) went to Peru, built a raft out of balsa wood and other native materials and set sail. Kon Tiki and the crew made it to Tuamotu Islands in 101 days.

Actress, Janet Gaynor, 1906. She was the first actress to win the Academy Award for Best Actress (Seventh Heaven, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel). She also appeared in the original A Star is Born.

Engineer and inventor, George Westinghouse (1846). He invented the railway air brake and was instrumental in the development of AC (alternating current)...Plug it in, plug it in!