1498 - Jean Cabot receives a reward of £200 from King Henry VII for his discoveries in North America

1665 - Germain Morin, the first Canadian born priest, was ordained at Quebec

1793 �?John Graves Simcoe reached Lac Au Claire and renamed it Lake Simcoe in memory of his father

1793 - Tennis is first mentioned in an English sporting magazine

1803 - The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was formally dedicated

1827 �?Governor General Lord Dalhousie presided over the laying of the cornerstone of the Rideau Canal at Entrance Bay

1829 - London's Metropolitan Police Force [Scotland Yard] goes on duty

1890 - First pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at the Polo Grounds in NY City

1905 - Opening of Carnegie Library at Guelph, Ontario

1915 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their first pennant

1930 - Hamilton Tigers play the University of British Columbia in the first Canadian football game played under lights

1932 - 24-year-old Katherine Hepburn appears in her first film, A Bill of Divorcement, starring John Barrymore

1938 - In the Munich Pact, France and Britain agree to Adolf Hitler's demand that the Sudetenland, a German-speaking region in Czechoslavakia, be ceded to Germany, in exchange for Hitler's assurance of peace

1946 - For the first time the NL pennant ends in a tie, Cards & Dodgers

1946 - Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play their first NFL game in LA

1948 - London Majors score five runs in the top of the ninth to defeat Fort Wayne (Indiana) General Electrics 5-0 in the deciding game of the best-of-seven international sandlot series

1953 - The "Milton Berle Show" premiers

1957 - The NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds, 9-1 to Pittsburgh

1962 - Canada launches its first orbiting satellite, Alouette 1, on a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

1963 - The Rolling Stones open for Bo Diddley & the Everly Brothers on their first US tour

1969 - "Love American Style," premiers on ABC

1988 - Stacy Allison of Portland, Oregon, becomes the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

 

Birthdays

1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Alcalá de Henares Spain - author: Don Quixote
1758 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain - naval hero at Trafalgar
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Rome Italy - physicist: constructed the first American nuclear reactor
1903 - Ted Decorsia Brooklyn NY - actor: Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon
1907 - Gene Autry, Tioga Tx - singer/actor: Back in the Saddle Again; California Angels owner
1907 - Michael Shepley, Plymouth England - actor: Dick & the Duchess
1908 - Greer Garson, North Ireland - actress: Pride & Prejudice
1910 - Virginia Bruce - actress: Action in Arabia
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Ferrara Italy - director: Blow-up, Zabriskie Point
1913 - Stanley E Kramer - producer/director: On the Beach
1915 - Brenda Marshall, Phillipines - actress: Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark
1916 - Trevor Howard, England - actor: Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter
1920 - James Mitchell, Calif - actor: Oklahoma, Devil's Doorway
1922 - Lizabeth Scott, Scranton Pa - actress: Dark City, Desert Fury
1923 - O.A. "Bum" Phillips - football coach: Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints
1924 - Steve Forrest, Huntsville Tx - actor: Ben-Dallas, SWAT
1929 - Bob Newhart, Oak Park Ill - actor: Bob Newhart Show
1931 - Anita Ekberg, Sweden - actress: La Dolce Vita, War & Peace
1931 - Eddie Barth, Philadelphia - actor: Shaft, Simon & Simon
1932 - Robert Benton, Texas - writer/director: Kramer vs Kramer
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Ferriday, La - singer: Great Balls of Fire, Breathless
1939 - Larry Linville, Ojai Calif - actor: Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie
1939 - Mylene Demongeot, Nice France - actress: Just Another Pretty Face
1942 - Donna Corcoran, Quincy Mass - actress: Man Without a Star
1942 - Ian McShane, Blackburn England - actor: Roots, Bare Essence
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, France - fusion violinist
1942 - Madeline Kahn, Boston Mass - actress: Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety
1943 - Lech Walesa, Popowo Poland - lead Polish Solidarity
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, New Orleans La - sportscaster/TV host: Today Show
1948 - Mark Farner, Michigan - singer: Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion
1953 - Drake Hogestyn, Ft Wayne Indiana - actor: 7 Brides for 7 Brothers
1954 - Cindy Morgan [Cichorski] Chicago Ill - actress: Tron
1956 - Sebastian Coe, England - Olympic 1500m runner
1960 - Leslie Graves, Silver City NM - actress: Capitol
1966 - Jill Whelan, Oakland Calif - actress: Vicki-Love Boat
1970 - Emily Lloyd - actress: Wish You Were Here

 

 

White Hair

 

One day, a little girl is sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly notices that her mother has several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast to her brunette hair.
 
She looks at her mother and inquisitively asks, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mommy?"
 
Mommy replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."
 
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then asked, "Mommy, how come all of grandma's hairs are white?"