April 18

This was originally written on October 7, 2008:

I thought it would be fun to look up the history of Logan's birthday :) For example, Conan O'Brien shares his same birthday (1963), while Albert Einstein died on that day in 1955!

Here are some other facts:

1775 - "The British Are Coming!" Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride.

1906 - "1906 San Francisco earthquake," estimated magnitude 7.8, destroys much of San Francisco, California. (Fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city.)

1909 - Joan of Arc declared a saint

1923 - 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium

1924 - 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)

1934 - 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth TX)

1942 - World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs

1942 - "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts

1950 - Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves

1951 - "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances

1951 - New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game

1955 - 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed

1963 - Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant

1966 - Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)

1968 - 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike

1968 - London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)

1975 - John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"

1977 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize

1978 - Senate votes to turn Panamá Canal over to Panamá on Dec 31, 1999

1979 - "Real People" premieres on NBC TV

1979 - Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent

1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) came into being

1982 - Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare

1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon

1983 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"

1984 - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

1986 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB

1987 - An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air

1990 - Supreme Court rules that states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home

1993 - David Lee Roth arrested in New York for purchasing marijuana for $10

1994 - "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC

1994 - Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994

1994 - Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke & dies 4 days later

1994 - Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold

1995 - Houston Post folds after 116 years

1995 - Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football

2002 - A new order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.

Holidays:

It was Good Friday in 2003 (the year Joe & I got married)
Zimbabwe : Independence Day (1989)

Other Births:

1946 - Hayley Mills, actress
1947 - James Woods, actor
1949 - Geoff Bodine, automobile racer
1954 - Rick Moranis, comedian
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina The Teenage Witch)
1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love

P.S. The #1 song on Bilboard's Chart the day Logan was born was "Touch My Body" by Mariah Carey (for my birthdate it was "Escape--The Pina Colada Song" and for my husband's it was "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward).