Thought for Today

  History: 1215: Fourth Lateran Council ends--first use of "transubstantiation" regarding the Eucharist 1782: Britain acknowledges US independence 1864: Battle of Franklin begins 1876: Mask of Agamemnon discovered at Mycenae 1900: Front wheel drive automobile patented 1938: Germany bars Jews from being lawyers 1956: First use of videotape on television 1971: "Brian's Song" airs for the first time 1982: Michael Jackson releases "Thriller" 1993: Jacksonville announced as 30th NFL franchise 1993: "Schindler's List" premiers 1995: Operation Desert Storm ends 2004: Ken Jennings loses on Jeopardy 2017: Longest recorded rainbow--8 hours 58 minutes Born: Jonathan Swift, Oliver Winchester, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Shirley Chisolm [first black Congresswoman], Joe B Hall, Dick Clark, G Gordon Liddy, Bill Walsh, Ridley Scott [Alien, Blade Runner], Bo Jackson Died: FJA Hort [Bible scholar, worked on Greek translation that is the basis of most En...

  History: 1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time 1935: Erwin Scrodinger publishes "Scrodinger's Cat." A thought experiment used to demonstrate concepts in quantum physics. 1945: "Lost Weekend" premiers--1946 Best Picture 1951: First underground atomic explosion in Nevada 1972: First commercially successful video game--"Pong"---released at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale California. Of course, Sunnyvale is the location of Protovision, the game company David is trying to access in War Games Born: Christian Doppler, Louisa May Alcott, C.S. Lewis, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Died: Puccini, Graham Hill [racing], Cary Grant, George Harrison Thought: Reading Psalm 30 this morning where I have placed brackets around 30:5. Here is a verse that all of us have experienced. "Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning."  Some of you are feeling like it is dark this morning, Your body i...

 History: 1660: A group of "thinkers" meet to hear Christopher Wren. Afterwards they agree to meet weekly to discuss scientific topics. A year later they become the Royal Society, the first scientific society. Several of the men are devout Christians--Wren [astronomer, anatomist, meteorologist, surveyor, architect], Thomas Willis [pioneer in the study of the brain; "Circle of Willis" arteries at the base of the brain], Robert Boyle [first modern chemist; Boyle's Law on the relationship between the pressure and volume of gases]. Boyle believed that the study of nature proved the existence of God.  1775: Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy 1895: First car race in America--Chicago to Evanston and back--winner averaged 7 mph 1932: Groucho Marx makes first radio appearance 1948: Hopalong Cassidy premiers on TV Born: John Bunyan, William Blake, Berry Gordy [Motown], Ed Harris, Jon Stewart Died: Friedrich von Steuben [trained the army at Valley Forge]...

  History: 1778: James Cook visits Maui [1st European] 1789: First national Thanksgiving 1791: First US Cabinet meeting at the home of George Washington 1825: First college fraternity--Kappa Alpha 1842: University of Notre Dame founded 1865: "Alice in Wonderland" published in the US 1896: Amos Alonzo Stagg creates the football huddle 1922: Howard Carter opens King Tut's tomb 1940: Nazis begin walling off Jewish ghetto in Warsaw 1942: "Casablanca" premiers 1948: First Polaroid camera sold--$89.75 1956" The Price is Right" with Bill Cullen premiers 1963: Roger Staubach wins Heisman 1973: Rose Marie Woods says she caused the 18.5 minute gap in the White House tapes 1983: Brinks Robbery at Heathrow Airport Born: John Harvard, Ellen White [Seventh- Day Adventist], Mary Edwards Walker [surgeon and only woman to receive Medal of honor during the War Between the States], Bat Masterson, Willis Carrier [air conditioning], Norbert Weiner [cybernetics], Bill Wilso...

 History: 1792: Benjamin Banneker publishes first Farmer's Almanac 1841: 35 survivors of mutiny on the Amistad return to Africa 1885: Canada establishes its first national park--Rocky Mountains Park--now Banff NP 1920: First Thanksgiving Parade--Philadelphia 1940: Woody Woodpecker premiers 1947: First systematic blacklist of entertainment professionals alleged to be communist 1949: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer appears on the music charts 1973: US reduces maximum speed to 55 mph for fuel conservation 1979: First Madden/Summerall broadcast 1990: Lech Walesa wins first popular election in Poland Born: Andrew Carnegie, Karl Benz, Carrie Nation, Pope John XXIII, Joe DiMaggio, Ricardo Montalban, Joe Gibbs, Percy Sledge, Jeffrey Skilling [Enron], John F Kennedy Jr., Amy Grant, Barbara and Jenna Bush,  Died: Isaac Watts [hymn writer], Kennesaw Mountain Landis, Bill Robinson [Mr. Bojangles], Upton Sinclair, Flip Wilson, Fidel Castro,  Thought: I have a lot of underlines words in...

  History:  1642: Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania 1655: Oliver Cromwell bans Anglicans 1835: Texas Provisional Government authorizes Texas Rangers 1859: Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1874: Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire 1896: First absentee voting law in US--Vermont 1917: Bomb in police station kills 9 officers and one civilian in Milwaukee 1932: FBI CRime Lab opens 1944: Bombers begin first attack on Tokyo 1947: Hollywood 10 held in contempt for refusing to say whether they were communist 1954: First Air Force One christened 1960: Chamberlain claims 55 rebounds 1969: William Calley charged with My Lai massacre 1971: DB Cooper hijacks plane, bails out over Washington 1993: Brady Bill passes 2021: Three men found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia Born: Junipero Serra [priest who established missions in California], Zachary Taylor, Scott Joplin, Dale Carnegie, Lucky Luciano, William F Buckley Jr., Oscar Robertson, Paul Tagliabue [NFL Commissioner who...

 History: 1863: Battle of Chattanooga 1889: First jukebox 1897: "Jerry Coupler" invented--connects train cars 1921: Willis Campbell Act prohibits doctors from prescribing beer or liquor 1923: First version of "The Ten commandments" premiers 1936: First issue of Life Magazine published 1945: Wartime rationing of foods ends 1963: "Doctor Who" premiers 1989: "Bounty Bowl"--Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson accuses Eagles coach Buddy Ryan of placing bounties on players 2004: World of Warcraft video game released-world's most subscribed game 2020: AstraZeneca is third company to release effective Covid vaccine. 2021: NASA launches DART mission to hit asteroid  Born: Franklin Pierce, Josiah Whitney [geologist, Mt. Whitney], Billy the Kidd, Boris Karloff, Harpo Marx, Hal Lindsey, Bill Brock, Chuck Schumer, Robin Roberts, Dan Snyder [Commanders], Miley Cyrus,  Died: Elbridge Gerry ["gerrymander"], Walter Reed, Merle Oberon, Roald Dahl, Roy Acuff, ...

History: 1497: Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope 1927: First snowmobile patent issued 1928: "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel first publicly performed--Torvill and Dean 1930: Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit 1934: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" first presented 1955: RCA buys Elvis' contract from Sun Records for $35,000 1963: Kennedy Assassination 1966: Steve Spurrier wins Heisman 1995: "Toy Story" released 2005: Angela Merkel becomes first woman Chancellor of Germany Born: Abigail Adams, George Eliot [Silas Marner], Charles de Gaulle, Harley Earl [auto designer], Wiley Post, Hoagy Carmichael, Rodney Dangerfield, Eugene Stoner [invented M16], Geraldine Page, Robert Vaughn, Billie Jean King, Jamie Lee Curtis, Boris Becker, Scarlett Johansson,  Died: Blackbeard, George Ferris [Ferris Wheel], Arthur Sullivan [Onward Christian Soldiers, Gilbert & Sullivan], Jack London, Shemp Howard [Stooge], Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, John Kennedy, Ma...

  History: 164 BC: Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jerusalem and rededicates the Temple. Commemorated today as Hanukkah. 1794: Honolulu Harbor discovered 1852: Duke University chartered as Normal College. Founded in 1838 as Union Institute 1925: Red Grange plays last college game with Illinois 1931: "Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff released 1946: Truman is first President to travel in submerged submarine 1959: Jack Benny and Nixon play a duet 1973: 18.5 minute gap in White House tapes announced by Nixon's lawyer 1976: "Rocky" premiers 1989: Law banning smoking on domestic flights signed by President Bush Born: Voltaire, Tom Horn [outlaw], Stan Musial, Marlo Thomas, Tweety Pie [debut], Larry Mahan [rodeo], Earl 'the Pearl" Monroe, Goldie Hawn, Harold Ramis, Steven Curtis Chapman, Bjork, Troy Aikman, Ken Griffey Jr.,  Died: Mel Ott, Max Baer, Carl Hubbell, Bill Bixby, Ken Johnson [only pitcher to lose a complete 9-inning no-hitter], David Cassidy,  Thought: ...

  History: 1493: Columbus discovers Puerto Rico 1805: Lewis & Clark reach the Pacific 1861: JuliaWard Howe commits "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper 1863: Gettysburg Address 1873: Boss Tweed convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison 1895: Pencil patented 1953: Supreme Court rules baseball is a sport, not a business [really] 1959: Rocky & Friends premiers 1965: Kellogg's Pop Tarts created 1969: Conrad and Bean walk on the moon 1975: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" premiers 2021: Australia makes Covid vaccine mandatory Born: George Rogers Clark, James Garfield, Billy Sunday, Hiram Bingham [Machu Picchu], Tommy Dorsey, Peter Drucker [management expert], Indira Gandhi, Alan Young [Mr Ed], Gene Tierney, Roy Campanella, Larry King, Jack Welch [GE], Dick Cavett, Ted Turner, Dan Haggerty [Grizzly Adams], Calvin Klein, Ann Curry [journalist], Allison Janney, Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Kerri Strug, Adam Driver,  Died: Man in the Iron Mask, Franz Schube...

  History: 1307: William Tell said to shoot apple off his son's head 1497: Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope 1626: Saint Peter's Basilica consecrated 1861: First provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress 1865: Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 1872: Susan B Anthony arrested and accused of illegally voting 1874: National Women's Temperance Union formed 1883: Four time zones established in the US 1902: Teddy Bear named for President 1916: Battle of the Some ends with 1 million casualties 1928: "Steamboat Willie" released--first talking Mickey Mouse movie 1956: Khrushchev says "we will bury you" 1959: "Ben Hur" premiers 1963: Touch Tone telephone introduced 1978: 918 Followers of Jim Jones die in Guyana 1999: Texas A$M bonfire collapses killing 12 and injuring 27 2020: US Covid death toll passes 250,000 Born: Louis Daguerre [photographer], Sojourner Truth, Carl Vinson, Eugene Ormandy [Philadelp...

  History: 1800: Congress meets in Washington for the 1st time 1855: David Livingstone sees Victoria Falls [1st European] 1863: Battle of Knoxville begins [ends in December] 1869: First bicycle race 1869: Suez Canal opens 1873: Buda and Pest united 1913: First US dental hygienist course begins 1928: Boston Garden opens 1933: "Duck Soup" opens [Marx Brothers] 1940: Green Bay Packers are first NFL team to travel by plane 1968: Heidi Game [Raiders and Jets] 1970: Patent for computer mouse issued 1973: Nixon--"I'm not a crook" 1991: First TV condom ad Born: Vespasian, Bernard Montgomery, Soichiro Honda [founded Honda], Archie Campbell, Rock Hudson, Bob Mathias, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Lorne Michaels, Tom Seaver, Elvin Hayes, John Boehner,  Died: Bloody Mary, Auguste Rodin, Esther Rolle [Good Times], Weeb Ewbank, Billy Vessels [Heisman, HOF], Bo Schembechler,  Thought: Reading the first chapter of Job this morning. What an amazing story.  Job: Job was blameles...

  History: 1824: Fifth Avenue opens for business [NYC] 1863: Battle of Campbell's Station TN--492 casualties 1871: National Rifle Association chartered 1914: Federal Reserve Sytem opens 1920: Qantas Airlines founded 1938: LSD first synthesized 1945: UNESCO founded 1945: Fisrt Jewish college in US chartered---Yeshiva 1959: Billy Sullivan awarded last AFL franchise--Boston Patriots 1965: EPCOT launched by Disney 1969: First report of My Lai massacre in 1968 2002: First case of SARS recorded 2018: Elevator at John Hancock Center falls 84 stories--all six passengers survive unharmed Born: WC Handy, Burgess Meredith, Terry Labonte, Zina Garrison, Dwight Gooden, Diana Krall, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oksana Baiul,  Died: Moses Cleaveland [founded Cleveland], Alice Liddell [model for Alice in Wonderland], Bob Smith [Alcoholics Anonymous], Clark Gable, Sam Rayburn, Ralph Edwards, Milton Friedman, Melvin Laird,  Thought: Reading Esther 4:14 this morning. Focused on these words, " And who...

  History:' 1492: Columbus makes first recorded reference to tobacco 1533: Pizarro arrives in Cuzco 1763: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin survey between Maryland and Pennsylvania 1777: Articles of Confederation approved by Continental Congress 1837: Isaac Pitman introduces Pitman shorthand 1864: Sherman leaves Atlanta on the March to the Sea 1904: King Gillette patents Gillette razor blade 1935: "A Night at the Opera" released--Marx Brothers 1939: Cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial laid 1956: "Love Me Tender" premiers starring Elvis 1959: Clutter Family killed by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith--In Cold Blood 1969: First Wendy's opens in Columbus Ohio 2005: Carrie Underwood releases her debut album Born: William Herschel [Uranus], Felix Frankfurt er, Georgia O'Keeffe, Erwin Rommel, Curtis Le May, Joseph Wapner [People's Court], Howard Baker, Ed Asner, Petula Clark, Beverly D'Angelo, Lorena Ochoa,  Died: Justinian [civil law code], Johannes Kep...

  History: 1666: Samuel Pepys reports on first blood transfusion [between dogs] 1732: First professional librarian hired in US--Philadelphia 1832: First horse-drawn streetcar debuts in NYC 1851: Moby Dick first published in US 1883: Treasure Island first published in book format 1888: USC Methodists play first football game [now the Trojans] 1889: Nellie Bly begins copying Phileas Fogg's journey around the world in 80 days--she makes it in 72 1908: Einstein presents quantum theory of light 1935: Nazis deny Jewish citizenship rights 1960: Ray Charles "Georgia on My Mind" hits #1 1968: Yale announces it will be coeducational 1970: Marshall football team killed in plane crash 1976: "Network" premiers 1993: Don Shula becomes NFL's winningest coach 2020: Covid infections reach 54 million Born: William of Orange, Robert Fulton, Claude Monet, Leo Baekeland [bakelite plastics], Nehru [1st Prime Minister of India], Mamie Eisenhower, Aaron Copeland, Dick Powell, Josep...

  History: 1555: Catholicism re-established as national religion in England 1880: Lew Wallace publishes "Ben-Hur" 1890: First edition of poems by Emily Dickinson 1927: Notre Dame swaps blue jerseys for green 1933: First NFL game on Sunday [previously illegal] 1942: Battle of Guadalcanal begins 1946: First drive-up teller windows open--Chicago 1946: "Song of the South" released 1969: Army announces investigation of William Calley 1990: World Wide Web first proposed 2001: American Flight 587 crashes after takeoff from Kennedy killing 265 2015: Barack Obama named "Ally of the Year" by Out magazine 2019: Disney launches Disney+ streaming service 2019: It is revealed that Houston Astros stole signs using cameras Born: Jeanne Mance [founded 1st hospital in North America], Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Auguste Rodin, Sun Yat-sen, Harry Blackmun, Joseph Coors, Kim Hunter [Planet of the Apes], Grace Kelly, Charles Manson, Al Michaels, Neil Young, Megan Mullally, Sammy So...

  History: 1620: Mayflower Compact signed [some say 11/21] 1647: Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in colonies 1839: VMI is founded in Lexington VA 1909: Construction of Pearl Harbor naval base begins 1918: End of WWI--11th hour, 11th day, 11th month 1921: Tomb of Unknown Soldier dedicated 1926: US Route 66 established--Chicago to Santa Monica--2,448 miles 1939: Kate Smith first sings "God Bless America" 1940: Willys "Jeep" unveiled 1959: First episode of "Rocky & His Friends" premiers 1961: "Catch-22" published 1966: Methodist Church and United Brethren Church unite--United Methodist 1992: Church of England approves ordination of female priests Born: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Patton, Pat O'Brien, Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Winters, Fuzzy Zoeller, Demi Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio,  Died: Nat Turner, Typhoid Mary, Jerome Kern, Alexander Calder, HR Haldeman, Yasser Arafat, Peter Drucker, Robert Vaughn,  Thought: Over in...

History: 1775: Second Continental Congress forms Continental Marines [later Marine Corps] 1871: Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingstone 1885: Gottlieb Daimler displays first motorcycle 1891; First meeting of Women's Christian Temperance Union 1908: First Gideon Bible placed in hotel room 1938: Pearl Buck wins Nobel for "The Good Earth" 1950: William Faulkner wins Nobel for Literature 1951: 1st long distance call without operator assistance 1954: Marine Corps Memorial unveiled in Arlington 1969: Sesame Street premiers 1975: Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior 1990: "Home Alone" released 2020: Word of the year is "lockdown" Born: Martin Luther, Claude Rains, Jane Froman, Mikhail Kalashnikov [AK-47], Richard Burton, Roy Scheider [Jaws], Donna Fargo, Gerry DiNardo, Sinbad, Miranda Lambert, Jon Rahm Died: 461: Pope Leo The Great, Mustafa Ataturk [founder of Republic of Turkey], Harry Ford Sinclair [Oil], Stringbean, Leonid Brezhnev, Chuck Connors ...

  History: 1620: The Mayflower spots land--Cape Cod 1821: First US pharmacy college opens in Philadelphia 1857: Atlantic Monthly first published 1862: General Grant bars Jews from serving in the Union Army 1906: Theodore Roosevelt is first serving President to visit a foreign country 1925: Nazi Party creates the SS 1938: Al Capp creates Sadie Hawkins Day 1953: Major League Baseball ruled exempt from anti-trust laws 1969: Simon & Garfunkel record "Bridge Over Troubled Water" 1984: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Three Soldiers completed [You may see Frederick Hart's working model at Belmont University] 1984: "A Nightmare on Elm Street" premiers 2020: Busiest hurricane season on record when Theta named 29th tropical storm 2020: Covid-19 vaccine proclaimed 90% effective Born: Benjamin Banneker [surveyor of Washington DC], Gail Borden [condensed milk], Florence Sabin [1st woman graduate of Johns Hopkins and first woman lifetime member of the National Academy of Scienc...

  History: 392: Emperor Theodosius declares Christianity the state religion of the Roman empire 1731: Benjamin Franklin opens first library in the colonies 1789: Bourbon whiskey first distilled by Elijah Craig in Bourbon KY 1895: Wilhelm Rontgen produces and detects x-rays 1939: Attempt to assassinate Hitler fails 1950: First jet-to-jet dogfight--Korea [US wins] 1956: "The Ten Commandments" released 1999: "The World is Not Enough" released 2016: Donald Trump elected President 2018: Camp Fire starts in California, destroys Paradise, 88 killed 2020: Covid cases top 50 million world-wide Born: Vlad the Impaler, Edmond Halley [comet], Milton Bradley, Bram Stoker, Margaret Mitchell, Esther Rolle [Good Times], Christiaan Barnard [1st heart transplant], Patti Page, Bobby Bowden, Morley Safer, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Hart,  Died: John Milton, Doc Holliday, Otto Rohwedder [invented bread-slicing machine], Norman Rockwell, Alex Trebek,  Thought:  Reading some sad words this mornin...

  History: 1800: Law makes it illegal for women to wear pants in Paris without police permit 1805: Lewis and Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean.  1811: Battle of Tippecanoe--William Henry Harrison 1874: First cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol 1876: Meharry Medical College formed 1916: Jeannette Rankin elected to Congress--first woman 1931: Mao Zedong proclaims Chinese People's Republic 1944: FDR elected to 4th term as President 1962: Nixon says "you won't have me to kick around anymore" after losing Gubernatorial election 1972: Joe Biden elected Senator for the first time 2000: Bush-Gore Presidential election is inconclusive--litigation follows 2007: 9 die in Jokela school shooting in Finland 2020: Kamala Harris is first woman elected Vice President Born: Marie Curie, Leon Trotsky, Albert Camus, Billy Graham, Al Hirt, Joan Sutherland [opera], Jean Shrimpton [first supermodel], Joni Mitchell, David Petraeus, Calvin Borel [jockey and multiple Kentuc...

  History: 1605: Guy Fawkes attempts to kill King James 1639: First post office in the colonies [Massachusetts] 1917: Supreme Court strikes down Louisville KY law requiring whites and blacks to live in different areas 1935: Parker Brothers releases "Monopoly" 1953: "How to Marry a Millionaire" released 1955: The date Marty McFly returns to in "Back to the Future" 1956: The Nat King Cole show debuts--first variety program hosted by a black 1959: AFL announced with 8 teams 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini calls US "The Great Satan" 1996: Derek Jeter is AL Rookie of the Year 2009: Major Hasan kills 13 and wounds 43 at Fort Hood TX 2017: Gunman kills 26 and wounds 20 at church in Sunderland TX 2021: Aaron Rogers admits he is unvaccinated Born: Will Durant [historian], Roy Rogers, Vivien Leigh, Ike Turner, Elke Sommer, Art Garfunkel, Sam Shepard, Peter Noone [Herman's Hermits], Bill Walton, Bryan Adams, Tatum O'Neal, Sam Rockwell, Jerry Stackhouse, Bu...

 History: 1646: Massachusetts imposes death penalty for denying that Bible is God's word 1841: First wagon train arrives in California 1862: Gatling Gun patented 1873: Gold crown for tooth patented 1879: Thomas Elkins patents Refrigerating Apparatus and James Ritty patents first cash register to keep bartenders from stealing. 1904: First stadium built specifically for football [Harvard] 1921: Hitler establishes the Brown Shirts 1922: Howard Carter discovers King Tut's tomb 1939: First air conditioned auto--Packard 1948: TS Eliot wins Nobel for literature 1979: Iranian students seize US Embassy in Tehran taking 90 hostages 1981: Dr. Nichopoulas acquitted of overprescribing drugs for Elvis 1994: First conference focused exclusively on the World Wide Web 2001: First Harry Potter movie premiers 2008: Barack Obama elected President 2021: Europe again the epicenter for Covid cases Born: Augustus Toplady [wrote "Rock of Ages"], Will Rogers, Gig Young, Ruth Handler [Barbie], ...

 History: 1394: Jews expelled from France 1493: Columbus discovers Dominica 1534: Act of Supremacy makes Henry VIII and subsequent monarchs head of the Church of England 1900: First automobile show--NYC 1906: SOS becomes worldwide distress signal 1930: Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America 1930: Detroit-Windsor tunnel opens 1957: Soviets launch Sputnik 2--Laika dies 1970: Nixon promises gradual troop withdrawal from Viet Nam 1975: Good Morning America premiers 1978: Different Strokes premiers 1983: Nashville Network debuts on cable TV 1992: Carol Moseley-Braun becomes first African American woman in the Senate 1998: "Shakespeare in Love" premiers 2014: One World Trade Center opens 2021: Vaccination of 5-11 year old children for Covid begins in US Born: Stephen F Austin, William Cullen Bryant [Thanatopsis], Bronko Nagurski [Football HOF], Bob Feller, Charles Bronson, Dr. James Kennedy [Evangelism Explosion], Michael Dukakis, Roy Emerson, Anna Wintour [Vogue], Larry Holmes, Ros...

  History: 1783: Washington bids farewell to the army 1859: John Brown found guilty of murder, inciting revolt, and treason 1867: "Harper's Bazaar" 1st published 1886: Carl Benz receives patent for vehicle with gas engine operation 1895: First organized auto race in US--Chicago 1898: First official cheerleaders take the field at the University of Minnesota 1917: Balfour Declaration supports Jewish State in Palestine 1947: Howard Hughes flies the Spruce Goose for the only time 1955: David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government 1959: Charles Van Doren confesses that "Twenty One" was fixed 1983: Michael Jackson releases single of "Thriller" 1983: MLK Holiday established 2000: First crew arrives at the International space Station Born: Daniel Boone, Marie Antoinette, James K Polk, George Boole [Boolean algrebra], Warren G Harding, Burt Lancaster, Ray Walston [My Favorite Martian], Ken Rosewall, Stefanie Powers, kd lang, David Schwimmer, Nelly,  Died: George B...