On this day in...

On this day in...
1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
1923 – Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1945 – Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

Births
1809 – Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director
1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress (Punky Brewster)
1990 – Jon Benet Ramsey, American beauty pageant contestant and murder victim (d. 1996)

A victorious day for American politics as the Constitution prepares to get passed and we get the Voting Act. Plus, Punky Brewster was born. I wish that show still came on.