Today is my birthday so I figured I would do a post about the day in history.
- 1876: Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football.
- 1877: The piano piece ‘chopsticks’ is copyrighted.
- 1913: 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified.
- 1941: Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs.
- 1959: The Day the Music Died.
- 1967: “Purple Haze” recorded by Jimi Hendrix.
- 1980: Aeonn was born at 4:56 in the morning. Wish baby!
- 1984: 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched.
- 1984: The birth of the world’s first baby conceived by embryo transplant.
- 1998: Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain.
- 2002: Superbowl XXXVI, New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams. I was watching the game and was deathly ill. Some birthday.
Other birthdays of mention on February 3rd:
- Norman Rockwell (1894), American artist.
- Gertrude Stein (1874), author and feminist.
- Johannes Gutenberg (1500), inventor of the Printing Press.
- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), the first woman MD.