This day in history

Some notable historical events that happened today include:

1839 -  John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph.

1850 -  the US admitted California as the 31st state to the Union

1895 -  bowlers organized the American Bowling Congress in Beethoven Hall in NYC. Thomas Curtis was elected as their 1st president 

1940 -  George Robert Stibitz of Bell Telephone Laboratories successfully transmitted information via computer remotely from McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College 

2007 -  1,488 people with the same last name gathered in Letterkenny, Ireland setting a world record. 🇮🇪 

2017 -  Christopher Qualley of Otsego, MN grew a record 22.44-pound carrot

Some interesting birthdays include:

Leo Tolstoy (1825)

Dorothy Price (1890) - Irish physician who played a key role in eliminating childhood tuberculosis in Ireland

Colonel Harland Sanders (1890) - founder of KFC

Joseph E. Levine (1904)

Otis Redding (1941)

Joe Theismann (1949)

Michelle Williams (1980)