Today in History
Listings for Thursday, May 23, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1883 Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
- 1910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband
- 1910 Scatman Crothers
- 1920 Helen O'Connell
- 1928 Rosemary Clooney
- 1933 Joan Collins
- 1952 Marvin Hagler
- 1974 Jewel
Events:
- 1898 1st Phillipine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
- 1908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
- 1995 Sun Microsystems announces Java, the machine-independent OOP language.
That's all for today.
