This day in history

Some notable historical events that happened today include:

 

1775 -  American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured

 

1780 -  Benedict Arnold defected to the British

 

1789 -  Congress proposed the Bill of Rights

 

1867 -  Congress created the 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C 

 

1888 -  the Royal Court Theater in London opened

 

1890 -  President Benjamin Harrison established Sequoia National Park- California's first National Park and the country's second

 

1959 -  The Mummy starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing was 1st released in the UK

 

1976 -  Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton responded to an ad on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band which became U2

 

1981 -  Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 1st female US Supreme Court Justice 

 

2018 -  Michael Kors bought Versace for $2.1 billion

 

Some interesting birthdays include:

 

William Faulkner (1897)

Robert Muldoon (1921) - Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 - 1984

Barbara Walters (1929)

Shel Silverstein (1930)

Michael Douglas (1944)

Cheryl Tiegs (1947)

Anson Williams (1949) - best known as Potsie on Happy Days

Mark Hamill (1951)

Christopher Reeve (1952)

Heather Locklear (1961)

Denise Comstock (1962) - this is my mom, she was a flight Attendant for PanAm

Scottie Pippen (1965)

Will Smith (1968)

Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) - she's also married to Michael Douglas 

Donald Glover (1983)

Nicole Comstock (1991) - this is me. I was born on my mom's birthday! She started having contractions while she was opening her gifts so she ripped open the box of Sees Candy and ate the whole top layer because she wouldn't be able to eat chocolate while breast feeding