Happy 50th to Our Beth!

On Beth’s birthday in history…

• 1400 Owain Glyndr declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
• 1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, first known astronomical observation
• 1782 The first impression of the Great Seal of the United States was made
• 1795 United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa.
• 1810 Hidalgo begins Mexican revolt against Spain (National Day)
• 1812 Russians set fire to Moscow shortly after midnight - the city is burned completely down days later.
• 1857 Typesetting machine patent
• 1858 First overland mail for California
• 1863 Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
• 1885 Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
• 1887 The first game of softball was played in Chicago, Illinois
• 1890 Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team the Packers
• 1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders; Settlers race in Oklahoma for prime land in the Cherokee Strip.
• 1901 Alturas, California, incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
• 1908 General Motors founded by William C Durant
• 1915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
• 1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
• 1920 The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City - 38 are killed with 400 injured.
• 1924 Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
• 1926 St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
• 1927 Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Assn title
• 1939 Yanks clinch pennant 11
• 1940 Sam Rayburn elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, widely regarded as the most effective Speaker of the House in American history.
• 1941 Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• 1943 Australians capture Lae
• 1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
• 1949 First Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner episode- Fast and Furry-ous is aired.
• 1951 Betsy Rawls wins the US Women's Open Golf title
• 1955 Juan Pern is deposed in Argentina.
• 1962 Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC
• 1963 "Outer Limits" premiers on TV
• 1963 Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak.
• 1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
• 1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
• 1972 First TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
• 1972 Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
• 1973 Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13
• 1974 BART begins regular transbay service
• 1974 Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters
• 1976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
• 1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premiers on TV
• 1977 Ringo releases "Drowning in the Sea of Love"
• 1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Iran
• 1984 "Miami Vice" premiers
• 1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
• 1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
• 1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
• 1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
• 1991 The trial of Panamanian "strongman" Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
• 1992 Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.
• 2004 Hurricane Ivan touches land near Pensacola, Florida, becoming the third (now fourth) costliest hurricane to strike the United States.

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