Today in History

• 1752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet
• 1835 Adlai Stevenson, Veep
• 1893 Gummo Marx
• 1905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952)
• 1905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932
• 1925 Johnny Carson, host
• 1940 Edison Pele, soccer player extraordinaire
• 1940 Pelé
• 1942 Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain)
• 1959 "Weird" Al Yankovic
• 1965 Al Leiter

• Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion.
• United States Day
• Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano.
• 1910 Blanche Scott becomes first woman solo a public airplane flight
• 1915 25,000 women march in New York, demanding the right to vote
• 1941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released
• 1946 UN Gen Assembly convenes in NY for 1st time in Flushing Meadow.
• 1956 The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed by Soviet tanks.
• 1977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve a new Canal Treaty
• 1980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.