Happy 70th Birthday to Ian Anderson, aka Jethro Tull!
Today is Friday, August 10, 2018, the 22nd day of the year with 143 days remaining.
Sunrise: 6:21am
Sunset: 8:09pm
...giving us 13 hours and 47 minutes of daylight. 3% of the waning moon will be visible, setting at 7:54pm.
Tides at the Golden Gate
- High: 12:24pm/11:22pm
- Low: 5:16am/5:07pm
Special international celebrations today…
- Independence of Quito - Ecuador
- St. Lawrence Day - Spain (patron of cooks, protector of vineyards)
- Qiangtang Kyagqen Horse Racing Festivals - Tibet
- International Biodiesel Day
- World Lion Day
It’s also…
- Kool-Aid Day
- National Duran Duran Appreciation Day
- National Shapewear Day
- Paul Bunyan Day
- Skyscraper Appreciation Day
- Smithsonian Day
- S'mores Day
On this day in…
1792 - King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason.
1809 - Ecuador began its fight for independence from Spain.
1821 -Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union.
1846 - The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by theU.S. Congress. The "Nation's Attic" was made possible by $500,000 given by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1859 - In Boston,MA, the first milk inspectors were appointed.
1869 - The motion picture projector was patented by O.B. Brown.
1881 - Thomas Edison's exhibit opened the Paris Electrical Exhibition.
1885 - The first electric streetcar, to be used commercially, was operated in Baltimore,MD, by Leo Daft.
1914 - Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
1944 -U.S. forces defeated the remaining Japanese resistance on Guam.
1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1947 - William Odom completed an around-the-world flight. He set the solo record by completing the flight in 73 hours and 5 minutes.
1948 - On ABC, "Candid Camera" made its TV debut. The original title was "Candid Microphone."
1949 - In theU.S., the National Military Establishment had its name changed to the Department of Defense.
1954 - Construction began on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1965 - In Austin,TX, a fire burned part of the 20th floor of the 27-story University of Texas main building. A collection that contained items once owned by escape artist Harry Houdini and circus magnate P. T. Barnum were damaged by smoke and water.
1971 - Harmon Killebrew (Minnesota Twins) got his 500th and 501st home runs of hismajor league baseball career.
1973 - Arnold Palmer did not make the cut for the final two rounds of the PGA Golf Championship. It was the first time in his career.
1981 - Pete Rose hit a single and broke the National League all-time hit record with his 3,631 hit.
1988 -U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by theU.S. government during World War II.
1993 - A massive deficit-reduction bill was signed into law byU.S. President Bill Clinton.
1994 -U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
1999 - Near an India-Pakistan border area an Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval aircraft. Sixteen people were killed.
2003 - Ekaterina Dmitriev and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were married. Malenchenko was about 240 miles above the earth in the international space station. It was the first-ever marriage from space.
Today’s birthday celebrants include (or included)...
- Alexander Glazunov 1865
- Herbert Clark Hoover 1874
- Leo Fender 1909
- Jeff Corey 1914
- Al Alberts (Four Aces) 1922
- Rhonda Fleming 1923
- Claus Von Bulow 1926
- Jimmy Martin 1927
- Jimmy Dean 1928
- Eddie Fisher 1928
- Rocky Colavito 1933
- Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers) 1940
- Ronnie Spector 1947
- Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 1947
- Patti Austin 1948
- Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) 1949
- Daniel Hugh Kelly 1952
- Rosanna Arquette 1959
- Antonio Banderas 1960
- John Farriss (INXS) 1961
- Julia Fordham 1962
- Aaron Hall 1964
- Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) 1967
- Todd Nichols (Toad The Wet Sprocket) 1967
- Michael Bivins 1968
- Angie Harmon 1972
- Nikki Bratcher (Divine) 1980
- Kylie Jenner 1997 - TV personality, model
