Love Note Day
Math Story Telling Day
National One-Hit Wonder Day
Crab Meat Newburg Day
National Psychotherapy Day
World Pharmacists Day
Bright Pink Lipstick Day
Vegan Baking Day
(World) Ataxia Awareness Day
Hug A Vegetarian Day
Save The Koala Day
Native American Day
Birthdays
1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1917 - Phil Rizzuto, MLB baseball player, and sportscaster
1931 - Barbara Walters, TV journalist, news reporter
1944 - Michael Douglas, actor
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model
1951 - Mark Hamill, actor
1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor, "Superman" movie
1961 - Heather Locklear, actress
1968 - Will Smith, actor, "MIB"
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress
Today In History
1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.
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