Today In History

Today, as if not noteworthy enough for being MY birthday, also is a pretty historic day in history so here are some tidbits thanks to todayinhistory.com:

1536 - Anne Boleyn beheaded
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots arrested by Elizabeth I
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to the United States
1863 - Siege of Vicksburg
1864 - Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1865 - Capture of Jefferson Davis
1884 - First performance of Ringling Brothers Circus
1890 - Birth of Ho Chi Minh
1892 - Founding of Colonial Dames Society of America (which I am eligible to join!)
1910 - Cy Young's 500th win
1915 - Birth of Pol Pot
1921 - Congress establishes National Immigration Quota system
1925 - Birth of Malcom X
1928 - 1st Annual Frog Jumping Jubilee in Angel's Camp, CA
1930 - Women win the right to vote in South Africa
1935 - NFL adopts the college draft; also death of T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
1941 - Birth Of Nora Ephron
1943 - Churchill pledges full support of Britain to the United States against Japan
1945 - Birth of Pete Townshend
1952 - Birth of Joey Ramone
1958 - US & Canada form NORAD
1964 - US Embassy in Moscow discovers it is bugged (also my birthday!)
1967 - US bombing of Hanoi (1967 is the only year at the Vietnam Memorial to cover multiple panels)
1971 - Death of Ogden Nash
1973 - Secretariat wins Preakness
1975 - 1st woman climbs Mt Everest
1994 - Death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

So there you have it. The famous, the infamous, the noteworthy.

To my fellow Taureminis - and you know who you are - Happy Birthday!