Today in History
Listings for Monday, March 18, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1640 P. de LaHire --1718
- 1782 John C. Calhoun, statesman
- 1796 J. Steiner --1862
- 1837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
- 1858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine, heard of it?
- 1886 Edward Everett Horton
- 1926 Peter Graves
- 1927 George Plimpton
- 1932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
- 1938 Charlie Pride
- 1941 Wilson Pickett
- 1959 Irene Cara
- 1963 Vanessa Williams
- 1964 Bonnie Blair
- 1966 Jerry Cantrell, Alice in Chains
- 1970 Queen Latifah
Events:
- 1541 de Soto is first European to record flooding of the Mississippi
- 1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act, partial cause of American Revolution.
- 1850 American Express founded
- 1850 American Express founded.
- 1881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
- 1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark - first ham broadcaster.
- 1931 First electric razor marketed by Schick.
- 1938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties.
- 1952 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia.
- 1959 Pres Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
- 1965 Russia launches 2nd Voshkod, first spacewalk - Aleksei Leonov.
- 1992 Microsoft Corp. releases Windows v3.1.
That's all for today.