Today in History
Listings for Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
Birthdays:
- 1804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
- 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
- 1895 Shemp Howard
- 1918 Mercedes McCambridge
- 1919 Nat King Cole, silky voice.
- 1938 Rudolf Nureyev
- 1944 John Sebastian
- 1949 Patrick Duffy
- 1951 Kurt Russell
- 1955 Gary Sinise
- 1964 Rob Lowe
Events:
- St. Patrick's Day
- Evacuation Day (celebrated in Boston)
- World Maritime Day
- 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt first uses the term "muckrake".
- 1910 Camp Fire Girls are organized.
- 1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC
- 1950 Element 98 (Californium) is announced.
- 1958 Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth
- 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
- 1966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
- 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli Prime Minister.
That's all for today.