On this day in...
1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.
1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1947 – The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.
2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and was almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.
Births
1503 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
1939 – Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
1946 – Patty Duke, American actress
1948 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
1962 – Ginger Lynn, American adult film actress
1965 – Craig Biggio, American baseball player
Pretty skimpy list of birthdays here with a great porn actress, a Houston Astro, a Heisman Trophy winner and a possibly great prognosticator. But I figured I'd go with Phillip Seymour Hoffman's portrayl of music critic Lester Bangs in 'Almost Famous.'
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