| 16 September |
Here are some famous people that share my birthday!
- 1387 Henry V king of England (1413-22)
- 1638 Louis XIV [Sun King] king of France (1643-1715)
- 1822 Charles S Crocker Pres of Central & South Pacific Railroad
- 1858 A Bonar Law (C) British PM (1922-23)
- 1875 James Cash Penney department store founder (J.C. Penney)
- 1877 James J Jeans cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)
- 1880 Alfred Noyes England, poet
- 1895 Charles W Bidwill Sr, NFL hall of famer
- 1914 Allen Funt, TV host & creator
- 1924 Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945/shoplifter
- 1924 Lauren Bacall, actress
- 1925 B(lues) B(oy) King, blues singer
- 1927 Peter Falk, actor
- 1947 Russ Abbott ,British TV comedian
- 1949 Ed Begley Jr, actor
- 1961Jennifer Tilly, actress
- 1963 Richard Marx, rocker
- 1964 Molly Shannon, actress
- 1969 Marc Anthony, singer
- 1985 Madeline Zima, actress
Events that occured on my birthday in history
- 1224 During an extended period of prayer and fasting, St. Francis of Assisi, 42, received the stigmata (crucifixion scars of Christ) on Mount Alvernia, in Italy. Francis, the founder of the Franciscans in 1209
- 1620 The "Mayflower" set sail from Plymouth, England
- 1630 Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
- 1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
- 1782 Great Seal of US used for 1st time
- 1857 Typesetting machine patent
- 1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
- 1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
- 1938 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
- 1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
- 1950 Cleveland Rams (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Phila. 35-10
- 1953 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
- 1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
- 1963 "Outer Limits" premiers on TV
- 1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
- 1974 Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters
- 1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
- 1984 "Miami Vice" premiers
- 1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
