Today in History

• 1304 Petrarch, poet, in Italy.
• 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary, one of 1st two men to scale Mt. Everest.
• 1933 Chuck Daly
• 1938 Diana Rigg
• 1938 Natalie Wood
• 1946 Kim Carnes
• 1947 Carlos Santana, Oye Como Va

• Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia
• 1810 Columbia gains its independence.
• 1859 admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
• 1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
• 1960 1st submerged submarine fires Polaris missile: George Washington
• 1960 USSR recoveres 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space.
• 1969 first men land on the moon, aboard Apollo 11 at 09:18 GMT. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin establish Tranquility Base
• 1977 Voyager 2 launched to the outer solar system.