Today in History

• 1599 Oliver Cromwell, British Puritan reformer, roundhead
• 1849 C.F. Klein --1925
• 1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, invented radio, (Nobel 1909)
• 1908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
• 1918 Ella Fitzgerald
• 1930 Paul Mazursky
• 1932 Meadowlark Lemon
• 1940 Al Pacino
• 1945 Bjorn Ulvaeus
• 1945 Stu Cook
• 1946 Talia Shire
• 1964 Hank Azaria
• 1969 Renee Zellweger

• Arbor Day. Plant a tree.
• TV-Turnoff Week
• 1901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars
• 1945 United Nations Conference starts.
• 1957 First experimental sodium nuclear reactor starts up.
• 1959 St Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping
• 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifts off with an electronic mannequin.
• 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
• 1972 Glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1461 km
• 1975 First Boeing Jetfoil service, Hong Kong to Macao.
• 2003 Judge rules companies providing Peer to Peer file sharing are not liable for copyright infringements of users (MGM v. Grokster).