National Handwriting Day
1628 -
Charles Perrault was born.
1737 -
James Hancock was born.
1816 -
France decreed that the
Bonaparte family should be excluded from the country forever.
1896 -
H.L. Smith took the first
x-ray photograph. It was a hand with a
bullet in it. The hand was attached to a
corpse.
1902 -
Joe E. Lewis, American actor and comedian born.
1906 -
Henry Youngman American comedian and actor born
1932 -
Hattie W. Caraway, a
Democrat from
Arkansas, became the
first woman
to be elected to the
U.S. Senate.
1950 - A
Swedish tanker struck the British
submarine Truculent during the submarine's trials in the
River Thames. Only 15 of 70 men on the submarine survived.
1971 - "
All In the Family" debuted - on
CBS-TV.
Zanzibar Revolution Day -- (
Tanzania)
Baptism of Jesus -- (
Christian)
Plough Sunday -- (Christian -
England)
Yellow Galactic Seed Day -- (
Mayan)
Sel Day of salt -- (
French Revolutionary Calendar)