Good morning! Happy Love Your Pet day. It's nice to have a break after hating the miserable creatures the other 364 days, lemme tell ya…
Interrogatories
Are you usually early, late, or right on time? What is your favorite epithet that would not get you fined if you said it on TV? If you could make up your own coat of arms, what would be on it? Do you still have all your marbles? Who is the best teacher you ever had? What is your favorite bread or bread-type product? What is your favorite sandwich?
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On This Day
In 1792, the Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, was signed by President George Washington.
In 1809, the Supreme Court ruled that the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.
In 1839, Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia. (That must have been very effective.)
In 1872, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
In 1931, Congress approved the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (their approval was required due to the bridge passing through Yerba Buena Island, a naval base).
In 1938, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest over Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
In 1962, while aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
Born on This Day
1633 – Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
1745 – Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
1779 - Augustus Wall Callcott, English painter (d. 1844)
1848 – Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
1874 – Mary Garden, Scottish operatic soprano (d. 1967)
1893 – Russel Crouse, American playwright (d. 1966)
1899 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
1902 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
1911 - Margot Grahame, English actress (d. 1982)
1916 – Jean Erdman, American dancer
1924 – Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
1927 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer (d. 1986)
1927 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
1927 – Sidney Poitier, American actor
1929 – Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
1937 – Nancy Wilson, American Jazz singer
1941 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
1943 – Mike Leigh, British film director
1946 – Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
1946 – J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
1949 – Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite who must have had a very strong stomach.
1950 – Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan)
1951 – Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
1953 – Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
1954 – Anthony Head, English actor
1954 – Patty Hearst, American socialite
1960 – Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1963 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player
1963 – Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses)
1967 – Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
1967 – Lili Taylor, American actress
1969 – Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
1971 – Calpernia Addams, transgender activist
1976 – Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness and Stone Gods)
1988 – Rihanna, Barbadian singer
Died on This Day
1762 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1803 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
1871 – Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1893 – P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1895 – Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
1920 – Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
1936 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1972 – Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897)
1976 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
1987 – Wayne Boring, American comics artist (b. 1905)
1992 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (b. 1898)
1997 – Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
1999 – Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
2005 – Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 – John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
2008 – Emily Perry, English actress (b. 1907)
2012 – S. N. Lakshmi, Indian actress (b. 1927)
Today is
World Day of Social Justice
National Cherry Pie Day
Hoodie Hoo Day
Love Your Pet Day
National Handcuff Day
