57th day of 2016, 309 days remaining in the year. Happy birthday to the original Man in Black.
Sunrise: 6:46am
Sunset: 6:00pm
Moonrise: 9:53pm, 91% of the waning moon will be visible.
Special Celebrations today…
Liberation Day - Kuwait
National Personal Chef's Day
For Pete's Sake Day
Levi Strauss Day
National Bacon Day
World Pistachio Day
On this day in…
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba. He then began his second conquest of France.a
1848 - The second French Republic was proclaimed.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the National Currency Act.
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-powered subway line was opened to the public.
1881 - S.S. Ceylon began his world-wide cruise, beginning in Liverpool, England.
1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
1916 - Mutual signed Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
1929 - U.S. President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Grand Teton National Park.a
1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
1933 - A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Crissy Field for the Golden Gate Bridge.
1945 - In the U.S., a nationwide midnight curfew went into effect.
1952 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb.
1957 - The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
1979 - "Flatbush" debuted on CBS-TV.
1986 - Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Philippines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos went into exile.
1987 - The Tower Commission rebuked U.S. President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - The U.S.S.R. conducted its first nuclear weapons test after a 19-month moratorium period.
1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that Iraqi troops were being withdrawn from Kuwait.
1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
1995 - Barings PLC collapsed after a securities dealer lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices. The company was Britain's oldest investment banking firm.
1998 - A Texas jury rejected an $11 million lawsuit by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey for price drop after on-air comment about mad-cow disease.
1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
2001 - A U.N. tribunal convicted Bosnian Croat political leader Dario Kordic and military commander Mario Cerkez of war crimes. They had ordered the systematic murder and persecution of Muslim civilians during the Bosnian war.
2002 - In Rome, Italy, a bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry. No injuries were reported.
2009 - Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic was acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.
2009 - The Pentagon reversed its 18-year policy of not allowing media to cover returning war dead. The reversal allowsd some media coverage with family approval.
Birthday celebrants today include (or included)…
Victor Hugo 1802
Honore Daumier 1808
Levi Strauss 1829
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846
John Harvey Kellogg 1852
Herbert Henry Dow 1866
William Frawley 1887
Madeleine Carroll 1906
Jackie Gleason 1916
Mason Adams 1919
Tony Randall 1920
Betty Hutton 1921
Margaret Leighton 1922
Fats Domino 1928
Johnny Cash 1932
Priscilla Lopez 1948
Michael Bolton 1953
Greg Germann 1958
John McDaniel 1961
Jennifer Grant 1966
