Today in History
Listings for Thursday, August 22, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1862 Claude Debussy, composer
- 1862 Claude Debussy
- 1893 Dorothy Parker
- 1904 Deng Xiaoping
- 1917 John Lee Hooker
- 1920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
- 1920 Ray Bradbury
- 1934 Norman Schwarzkopf
- 1939 Carl Yastrzemski
- 1940 Valerie Harper
- 1947 Cindy Williams
- 1963 Tori Amos
- 1964 Tori Amos
- 1967 Layne Staley, Alice in Chains
- 1967 Layne Staley
- 1973 Howie Dorough
Events:
- 1485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets
- 1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
- 1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
- 1963 Joe Walker in a NASA X-15, reaches 106 km (67 miles)
That's all for today.
