1625: King Charles I marries French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon.
1774: Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1777: The Marquis de Lafayette lands in South Carolina to help the Continental Congress train the US Army.
1786: Winfield Scott, Civil War general, is born. He was known as "Old Fuss n Feathers."
1865: William Butler Yeats, Irish poet is born. He wrote The Second Coming, a favorite of teenage goths the world over. Here's the first stanza:Turning and turning in the widening gyre1892: Basil Rathbone is born. He is most famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and was playing slickly evil Englishmen long before Peter Cushing was ever born. Coincidentally, I was just watching the MST3K episode The Magic Sword which is a Bert I. Gordon Tolkien ripoff with Rathbone playing the evil wizard. He has the line, "I don't bargain with mortals, I destroy them!" Here he is singing "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" when he was very young.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
1881: The USS Jeanette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1893: President Grover Cleveland undergoes secret surgery to remove a cancerous portion of his jaw. The surgery isn't revealed to the American public until nine years after his death.
1898: The Yukon Territory is formed.1900: In China, the Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians kicks off.
1926: Paul Lynde is born. His shtick (as it were) was being so flamingly homosexual it was hard to miss, yet never coming officially out of the closet.
1927: A ticker tape parade is held for Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1934: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time in Venice. Mussolini later describes Hitler as "a silly little monkey."1935: Christo is born. He is an artist who does these mammoth art installations that usually kill more people than they inspire.
1943: Malcolm MacDowell is born.1951: Richard Thomas is born. He is most famous for playing John Boy on The Waltons but he was also in the Roger Corman sci-fi remake of The Seven Samurai called Battle Beyond the Stars.
1953: Tim Allen is born.1962: Brat Pack member Ally Sheedy is born.
1963: Paul De Lisle, bassist for Smash Mouth, is born. 1966: The US Supreme Court rules in Miranda v Arizona that police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. If you've watched enough cop shows, you know them:
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to have an attorney present during questioning. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.1967: President Johnson nominates Thurgood Marshall to become the first black Supreme Court justice.
1970: "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last number one song.1971: The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers.
1974: Steve-O, one of the self-abusing members of the Jackass troupe, is born. I had this great idea for how to reinvigorate the Friday the 13th movie franchise: Friday the 13th XI: Jason Meets Jackass. All of the Jackass crew is at Crystal Lake to shoot a new Jackass movie right when Jason gets reanimated (again) with hilarious results!
1981: Teenager Marcus Sarjeant fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II. He said, "I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be somebody."
1983: Pioneer 10 becomes the first man made object to leave the solar system.
1986: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are born. They're easily two of the creepiest fabricated celebrities out there.
"Come play with us Danny, forever and ever!"
1986: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are born. They're easily two of the creepiest fabricated celebrities out there.
"Come play with us Danny, forever and ever!"
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