Today in History
Listings for Sunday, April 7, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1770 William Wordsworth, English poet laureate (The Prelude)
- 1823 G.J. Hoel --1886
- 1859 Walter Camp, father of American football
- 1860 W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
- 1897 Walter Winchell
- 1915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
- 1920 Ravi Shankar
- 1928 James Garner
- 1932 Mark Russell, satirist
- 1933 Wayne Rogers
- 1939 David Frost
- 1939 Francis Coppola
- 1951 Janis Ian
- 1954 Jackie Chan
- 1964 Russell Crowe
- 1975 Victoria Addams
Events:
- 1931 Seals Stadium opens.
- 1933 Prohibition ends. "Gimme a beer, Mac."
- 1948 World Health Organization is established.
- 1953 First jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east)
- 1959 NASA selects first seven astronauts
- 1959 Radar first bounced off sun, from Stanford California.
That's all for today.
