Today in History
Listings for Sunday, April 14, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1629 Christian Huygens, discovered Saturn's rings, Titan
- 1889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
- 1904 Sir John Gielgud, actor (Arthur, Ages of Man)
- 1904 John Gielgud
- 1925 Rod Steiger
- 1935 Loretta Lynn
- 1941 Julie Christie
- 1941 Pete Rose
- 1961 Robert Carlyle
- 1977 Sarah Michelle Gellar
Events:
- Pan American Day
- 1611 Word "telescope" is first used by Prince Federico Cesi
- 1817 First American school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
- 1828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
- 1860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theater.
- 1894 First public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures).
- 1956 Ampex Co. demonstrates first commercial videotape recorder.
- 1971 Fort Point dedicated as first National Park in SF Bay Area.
- 1981 First Space Shuttle - Columbia 1 returns to Earth.
That's all for today.
