18 September 2018 Interesting tidbits:

18 September 2018

Interesting tidbits:

1502 – Christopher Columbus landed at Honduras on his fourth, and final voyage.

1830 - On this day America's first locomotive, Tom Thumb, lost a widely celebrated race to a horse. This event is commemorated each year as Iron Horse Outraced By Horse Day.

1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.

1870 – Old Faithful Geyser was observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.

1881 - Chicago Tribune reported on a televideo experiment.

1895 – Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment.

1895 – Booker T. Washington delivered the “Atlanta compromise” address.

1928 – Juan de la Cierva made the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel. In 1920 de la Cierva invented the Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in English. Within the next few years the autogyro appeared in a number of Hollywood films such as It Happened One Night.

1959 – Vanguard 3 was launched into Earth orbit.

1977 – Voyager I took first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

1980 – Soyuz 38 carried 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.

1984 – Joe Kittinger completed the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

Today's birthday crew:

1709 – Samuel Johnson, English author and lexicographer.

1819 – Léon Foucault, French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation.

1870 – Clark Wissler, American anthropologist.

1905 – Eddie Anderson, American actor (Rochester).

1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (I vant to be alone).

1917 – June Foray, American voice actress best known as the voice of such animated characters as Lucifer from Cinderella, Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Witch Hazel, Granny, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick and Magica De Spell. Foray guest-voiced once on The Simpsons, in the season-one episode "Some Enchanted Evening", as the receptionist for the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service. This was a play on a Rocky & Bullwinkle gag years earlier in which none of the cartoon's characters, including narrator William Conrad, was able to pronounce "rubber baby buggy bumpers" unerringly.

1949 - William Stout, American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art.

Happy birthday guys!