When a librarian is tired and unable to come up with an interesting post, she resorts to trivia and factoids. Hence, this birthday salute!
Born on this day: 1721 - Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th (what would we have named the hairdo?) 1776 - Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric (what would the Brits call their raincoats?) 1800 - Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber) (how would we get around?) 1808 - Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, 17th president (1865-69) (Discuss an alternate direction of the Reconstruction) 1914 - Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989) (Jazz pioneer born a woman, who lived as a man for most of her adult life) 1917 - Tom Bradley, American politician (d. 1998) (first, and so far only, African-American Mayor of Los Angeles) 1921 - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (d. 2006) 1937 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress (Mary Tyler Moore show, Ordinary People) 1938 - Jon Voight, Yonkers, NY, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy) 1946 - Laffit Pincay Jr, jockey (Kentucky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84, Swale) 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, vocalist (Mick Jagger's main squeeze for a time in the '60s) 1951 - Yvonne Elliman, US actress/singer (Original Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar; I Don't Know How to Love Him) 1972 - Jude Law, British actor (Cute foil for Robert Downey, Jr. in Sherlock Holmes flicks) 1973 - Theo Epstein, the Cubs' new general manager (formerly of Boston)
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9/15/2019 11:54:42 pm
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3/3/2023 06:35:42 pm
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