On This Date

[Henry M]

On This Date...
In 1963, the first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame were
announced. They were Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas. In 1959,
Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" was released. In 1900, the American
League of Professional Baseball Clubs, also known as the American
League, was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight
founding teams. In 1896, Emile Grubbe was the first doctor to use
radiation treatment for breast cancer. In 1891, Liliuokalani was
proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch. In 1886, Karl Benz,
founder of Mercedes-Benz, patented the first successful
gasoline-driven automobile. In 1845, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
was published in the New York Evening Mirror. And in 1781, Mozart's
opera "Idomeneo" premiered in Munich. Happy Birthday Heather Graham
(1970), Edward Burns (1968), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Ann Jillian (1950),
Tom Selleck (1945), Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981), W.C. Fields
(1880–1946), and Thomas Paine (1737–1809). RIP Alan Ladd (d. 1964) and
H. L. Mencken (1956).

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
- Lewis Carroll

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