Today in History
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @maniacalmorgan
1568 Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer. I salute you.
1836 U.S. patent #1 for locomotive wheels. There were 9,957 patents that came before, but they just didn't get fancy numbers.
1868 Former slave Oscar J. Dunn, becomes governor of Louisiana.
1923 The draft law passes. Canada subsequently doubles its population.
1930 First ever World Cup begins in Uruguay.
1934 Babe Ruth hits his 700th home run against Detroit.
1945 First atom bomb detonates in New Mexico. They didn't know if it would destroy the world, but they did it anyway. Talk about playing with fire.
1977 New York City experiences 25 hour black-out. Give me a bottle of tequila and some roofalin and I bet I could match that.
1994 O.J. Simpson gives hair samples for testing after being charged with murder.
Happy Birthday to the following people:
Cheech Marin (64).
Han Solo. I mean, Harrison Ford (68)
Erno Rubik (66) There have been millions of hours of frustration due to your blasted Rubik's Cube.
Patrick Stewart (70) Without you, who would facepalm for us?