La Mesa Car Show, La Mesa, California – July 29, 2010
Today in History (July 28)
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show
1951 Walt Disney’s "Alice In Wonderland" released
1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S.
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1921 Peru became independent fron Spain
1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1896 City of Miami incorporated
1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon
1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
Today’s Birthdays
1972 Elizabeth Berkley, born in Michigan, actress, CSI: Miami, Jessie-Saved by the Bell, Showgirl
1948 Georgia Engel, born in Washington D.C., actress, Georgette-Mary Tyler Moore Show
1947 Sally Struther, born in Portland, Oregon, actress, Gloria-All in the Family
1946 Linda Kelsey, born in Minneapolis, actress, Billie-Lou Grant, Kate-Day by Day
1945 Jim Davis, cartoonist, Garfield
1945 Richard William Wright, rock guitarist, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall
1943 Bill Bradley, American Politician
1930 Darryl Hickman, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Human Comedy, Tea and Sympathy
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, New York, 1st lady, 1961-63
1910 Bill Goodwin, born in San Francisco, California, announcer, Jolson Story, Burns and Allen
1907 Vivian Vance, born in Cherryvale, Kansas, actress, Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy
1901 Rudy Vallee, Vt, singer, Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time
1892 Joe E Brown, born in Holgate, Ohio, comedian, Buck Circus Hour
1887 Marcel Duchamp, French painter, Nude Descending a Staircase
1874 Alice Duer Miller, American Poet
1866 Beatrix Potter, born in England, children’s author, Tale of Peter Rabbit
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