Birthdays: The last monarch of
Hawaii Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, Yang Tsu Ching leader of the Taiping
Rebellion, Cleveland Amory, Alfred Spaulding 1850, founder of Spaulding sports
equipment, Martha Mitchell, Mark Harmon is 63, Terry
Bradshaw, Chrysta McAuliffe, Jimmy Connors, Norm Ferguson, Selma Hayek is 47,
Keanu Reeves is 50 –Woah!
Happy Birthday Marge Champion, the model for Snow White, is 95!
1924- Harold Lloyd’s comedy short
"Why Worry?" released.
1930 - 1st non-stop airplane
flight from Europe to US –only 37 hrs.
1931-Young new singer Bing Crosby
sang for the first time on CBS radio.
1973- J.R.R. Tolkein died at age
81. He once said of his trilogy The Lord of the Rings- I should have written
more.
1985-
A team of French and American oceanographers led by Dr. Robert Ballard
discovered the final resting place of the HMS Titanic, which sank in 1912.
Ballard would go on to discover the German battleship Bismarck, the WWII
carrier Yorktown and JFK’s torpedo boat, the P.T. 109.
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