If you wondered wether or not June 2nd was a special day at all, wonder no longer. You'd be surprised at what all has occurred on this day:
1823 Ashley's fur trappers attacked by Indians, war begins
1886 Grover Cleveland first U.S. president married in White House
1896 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio in Britain
1912 Universal Pictures founded
1920 Eugene O'Neill wins Pulitzer Prize for Beyond the Horizon
1924 Congress grants U.S. citizenship to all American Indians
1943 Actor Leslie Howard dies in plane crash
1944 United States begins "shuttle bombing" Germany in Operation Frantic
1953 Queen Elizabeth II crowned monarch of the United Kingdom
1954 McCarthy charges communists are in the CIA
1965 First Australian combat troops arrive in Viet Nam
1985 R.J. Reynolds and Nabisco merge
1987 General George Doriot dies
1993 Apple suit against MicroSoft dismissed
1993 Interactive television first tested
1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of Oklahoma City bombing
There's a humungous load of famous people who share today as their birthday. To wit:
1535 Pope Leo XI, Pope
1715 Herman-Fran�ois Delange, Composer
1740 Marquis de Sade, French novelist
1806 Isaac Strauss, Composer
1835 Pope Pius X, Pope
1840 Thomas Hardy, English novelist/poet
1849 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter
1857 Edward William Elgar, Composer
1864 Ransom Olds, Father of Oldsmobile
1875 Charles Stewart Mott, American philanthropist
1876 Hakon Borresen, Composer
1899 Royal Beal, Actor
1904 Johnny Weissmuller, Actor
1907 Dorothy West, Journalist/author, (Living is Easy)
1915 Walter Tetley, Cartoon vocalizer
1916 Betty Furness, Actress
1921 Alexander Salkind, Film producer
1929 Chuck Barris, TV game show producer/host, CIA operative?
1929 Frederic Devreese, Composer
1930 Charles Conrad, Jr., American astronaut
1937 Sally Kellerman, Actress
1940 Christopher Bernau, Actor
1941 Charlie Watts, Musician
1941 Stacy Keach, Actor
1942 Marie Cheatham, Actress
1942 Barry Levinson, Director
1944 Marvin Hamlisch, Composer
1945 Bob Benrit, Musician
1948 Jerry Mathers, The Beaver
1950 Toni Alessandrini, actress
1951 Steve Brookins, Musician
1954 Michael Steele, Musician
1960 Kyle Petty, Race car driver
1971 Tess, Teh Funny
1978 Nikki Cox, Actress
1982 Jewel Staite, Actress
If you're so inclined, you can find a much larger list of who fed and who ate it on June 2nd. The ones above are just the more common names. But still, it's not a bad haul for a birthday: two Popes, Tarzan, the Beav, more musicians than you can shake a stick at, and the creator of the Gong Show himself, Chuck Mothergrabbin' Barris. Yes, it was a good day.
Happy Birthday, Tess!
Actually, my grand entrance on the scene occured in 1971... heh At least you erred on the side of youth! ;-) Yeah, me and Nikki Cox, sisters in birthdays and also in beauty! Ahem. What? A girl can dream...
I'm sad that Leslie Howard died on my birthday, though. He was brilliant in "The Scarlet Pimpernel"... QE2 (Electric Boogaloo) was crowned on my birthday as well, eh? Brilliant.
Posted by Tess at June 4, 2003 9:14 AMWell, there goes my dodgy late-night math. I was thinking "32" and that became "72" somehow. How exactly is a mystery. Maybe I secretly wish I had been born in 1968, no clue. I fixed it and now you're as old (young) as you were (are).
Posted by wee at June 4, 2003 10:44 AM