This Day In (Made) History
Today is my birthday. I’m not much of a celebrator of this, or any, traditionally celebrated day. I’m not a scrooge, a prude, or a buzkill. I’m just lazy. But my dis-affection hasn’t stopped others from wishing me all the best on this day.
From family, to Facebook, to forums, virtual and physical friends alike have been fantastic.
Below is an especially warming well-wish:
This day in history (courtesy of Mr. Nic Young)
| 1775 | The Spanish establish a presidio (fort) in the town that became Tucson, Arizona. |
| 1833 | Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, is born (d. 1901) |
| 1858 | Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory. |
| 1890 | H. P. Lovecraft, American writer, is born. (d. 1937) |
| 1907 | Alan Reed, original voice of Fred Flintstone, is born. (d. 1977) |
| 1920 | The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1920 | The National Football League, (NFL), is founded in the United States. |
| 1931 | Don King, American boxing promoter, is born. |
| 1948 | Robert Plant, British Musician (Led Zeppelin), is born. |
| 1953 | The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges that it had tested a hydrogen bomb. |
| 1966 | Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan), is born. (d. 2004) |
| 1970 | Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit), is born. **Yeah, sorry about that.** |
| 1982 | Caleb J. Ross, American author, is born. Caleb spent the majority of his formative years in a storm-wrecked grain silo, where he lived off the remains of the injured and dying animals he cared for with a measured degree of ineptitude. The general ambiance of his youth would inspire a keen interest in amateur taxidermy, a hobby that many historians believe caused the ostracization that led to the dark, anti-social themes of his written works. Caleb was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in the August of 2012, whereupon he shed much of his acquired social stigma, but not the smell of formaldehyde. |
| 1986 | In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. |
