1776 - The New Hampshire assembly adopted the first US state constitution

1824 �?First town meeting in Erin, Ontario

1857 - First township meeting in Minto, Ontario

1870 - First issue of "Le Courier d'Ottawa" newspaper

1874 - Winnipeg holds first civic election. Only 304 voters were registered, but 331 ballots are cast

1887 - First US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University

1896 - German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays

1905 - National Association of Audubon Society incorporates

1910 - Le club athlétique Canadien hockey team play their first game, seven years before the founding of the NHL Their owner is J. Ambrose O'Brien and they are composed entirely of francophones until the 1911-12 season

1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party

1920 - The "curse of the Bambino" haunted the Boston Red Sox after they sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees

1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor of a US state (Wyoming)

1933 - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side

1943 - George Washington Carver, famous black American agricultural scientist, dies at 81

1945 - Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"

1956 - Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"

1959 - "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV

1959 - Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"

1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints"

1963 - Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66

1965 - The Supremes record "Stop! In The Name Of Love"

1970 - Soap Opera "All My Children" premieres on ABC

1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon authorizes a $5.5 billion, six-year program to develop plans for a spaceship capable of undertaking multiple missions, thereby launching the space shuttle program

1976 - "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS

1979 - Charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56

1981 - British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women

1986 - Oilers star Wayne Gretzky becomes the first NHL player to score 100 or more points in seven consecutive seasons

1988 - "Pistol Pete" Mavarich, NBA player (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40

1996 - Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement

1998 - Sonny Bono, (Representative-R-CA)/singer (Sonny & Cher), dies skiing at 62

 

Birthdays

1592 - Shah Jahan - Indian Mughal Emperor who bulit the Taj Mahal
1779 - Zebulon Montgomery Pike - explorer after whom is named Pike's Peak
1849 - Samuel Benfield Steele, Purbrooke, Ontario - soldier, policeman; North West Mounted Police, in charge of Fort Qu'Appelle, where he protected the CPR construction program; pulled together Lord Strathcona's Horse for service in the Boer War
1855 - King Camp Gillette - inventor: safety razor
1876 - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany - Chancellor of Germany: 1949
1894 - Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie, Pugwash NS - university president: twice awarded the Military Cross during WWI; president of University of New Brunswick, then later, the University of British Columbia
1914 - George Reeves [George Keefer Brewer] Woodstock Iowa - actor: Superman, Gone With the Wind
1923 - Sam Phillips, Florence, Alabama - musician/record company founder of Sun Records; signed Elvis Presley
1928 - Walter Fritz Mondale, Ceylon, Minnesota - 42nd Vice President (1977-81)
1929 - Umberto Eco, Alessandria Italy - author: Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum
1931 - Robert Duvall, San Diego California - actor: Great Santini, Taxi Driver, The Godfather
1932 - Chuck Noll, Cleveland Ohio - NFL coach: Pittsburgh Steelers
1939 - Bernard Primeau, Montreal Que - musician: founded Bernard Primeau Jazz Sextet; Perspective, Rencontre Jazz et Classique
1942 - Cliff Potts, Glendale California - actor: Ted -Lou Grant
1946 - Diane Keaton [Hall] Los Angeles, California - actress: Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl, The First Wives Club
1947 - Ted Lange, Oakland California - actor: Isaac -Love Boat, Mr T & Tina
1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, Westport Connecticut - actress: Nancy Drew, Fallon -Dynasty
1958 - Suzy Amis, Oklahoma City Oklahoma - actress: Blame it on Rio, Where the Heart Is
1964 - Tracy Ham - CFL quarterback: Montréal Alouettes
1968 - Joe Juneau, Pont-Rouge Québec - NHL center: Washington Capitals
1969 - Marilyn Manson - singer/musician
1980 - Garette Patrick Ratliff - actor: Return to Blue Lagoon

 

 

 

A Trucker's Breakfast
 
A young man at his first job as a waiter in a diner has a large trucker sit down at the counter and order, "Gimme 3 flat tires and a couple of headlights."
 
Bewildered he goes to the kitchen and tells the cook, "I think this guy's in the wrong store, look at what he ordered!"
 
The cook says, "He wants 3 pancakes & 2 eggs sunny-side up."
 
The waiter takes a bowl of beans to the trucker.
 
He looks at it and growls, "What's this? I didn't order this!"
 
The young man tells him, "The cook says that while you're waiting for your parts you might as well gas up!"