On this day in...
70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1892 – The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. .
1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1993 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
Births
1821 – Louis Vuitton, French designer (d. 1892)
1901 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
1920 – Helen Thomas, American journalist
1949 – John Riggins, American football player
1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1955 – Alberto Gonzales, 80th U.S. Attorney General , 2005-7
1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
Who would have guessed Bill Bob Thornton and my fellow Red Raider Albie Gonzales were born on the same day? I wish Bill Bob Thornton was at Tech instead. In honore of Bill Bob let's enjoy this.
I also heard on the radio today it was President Obama's birthday. You think Wikipedia may have wanted to include that. I guess not. They really crapped the bed on this one.
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