On This Day....
1820 | Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was born in Florence, Italy. |
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1870 | Manitoba entered the confederation as a Canadian province. |
1907 | Actress Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Conn. |
1932 | The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J. |
1943 | Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II. |
1949 | The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin blockade. |
1965 | West Germany and Israel established diplomatic relations. |
1970 | The Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice. |
1972 | The album "Exile on Main St." by the Rolling Stones was released. |
1982 | Pope John Paul II was assaulted by a knife-wielding Spanish priest while visiting the shrine of Fatima in Portugal. (In 2008, the pope's longtime private secretary revealed that the pontiff had been lightly wounded.) |
2002 | Jimmy Carter became the first present or former U.S. president to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. |
2003 | Suicide bombers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 26 people, including nine U.S. citizens. |
2003 | Fifty-nine Texas House Democrats fled to Oklahoma to prevent passage of a congressional redistricting bill. |
2008 | An earthquake in China's Sichuan province killed some 70,000 people. |
2009 | Five Miami men were convicted in a plot to blow up FBI buildings and Chicago's Sears Tower. |
2011 | A German court convicted retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk of being an accessory to the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. (Demjanjuk, who maintained his innocence, died in 2012.) |
Birthdays!!!!
Malin Ackerman, Actress - 36
Tony Hawk, Skateboarder - 46
1925 | Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 89 |
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1928 | Burt Bacharach, Singer, songwriter, turns 86 |
1938 | Millie Perkins, Actress, turns 76 |
1948 | Lindsay Crouse, Actress, turns 66 |
1948 | Steve Winwood, Rock musician (Traffic), turns 66 |
1950 | Bruce Boxleitner, Actor, turns 64 |
1950 | Billy Squier, Rock musician, turns 64 |
1955 | Kix Brooks, Country singer (Brooks and Dunn), turns 59 |
1959 | Ving Rhames, Actor, turns 55 |
1962 | Emilio Estevez, Actor, turns 52 |
1963 | Vanessa Williams, Actress, turns 51 |
1966 | Stephen Baldwin, Actor, turns 48 |
1969 | Kim Fields, Actress ("The Facts of Life"), turns 45 |
1970 | Samantha Mathis, Actress, turns 44 |
1978 | Jason Biggs, Actor ("American Pie" movies), turns 36 |
1979 | Steve Smith, Football player, turns 35 |
1992 | Malcolm David Kelley, Actor ("Lost"), turns 22 |