Hope vigilante's found that asshole Sheriff and some of his "Deputies"
Famous/Infamous Birthdays today
1817 Henry David Thoreau
1854 George Eastman
1937 Bill Cosby
1943 Christine McVie
1971 Kristi Yamaguchi
Events
1191 Third Crusade: City of Acre surrenders to English King Richard I the Lionheart and the Crusaders after a siege of nearly two years
1771 HMS Endeavour captained by James Cook, with Joseph Banks aboard, returns from its first voyage to the Pacific after two years
1776 Captain James Cook departs Plymouth, England helming HMS Resolution, beginning his 3rd and final trip to the Pacific(killed by Hawains). He died after an angry crowd confronted him when he attempted to hold the ruling chief, Kalaniʻōpuʻu, hostage to force the return of a stolen boat.
1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr, near Weehaken, New Jersey
1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1861 "Wild Bill" Hickok legend is born as he reputedly shoots and kills David McCanles in Rock Creek, Nebraska Territory; Hickok later acquitted of murder as court finds he acted in self defense.
1878 Yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans begins, resulting in an estimated 4,500 deaths in the city
1900 114°F (46°C) is recorded in Basin, Wyoming (state record)
1901 MLB Boston Americans pitcher Cy Young wins his 300th baseball game
1916 The third and fourth of four fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occur at Matawan Creek when epileptic Lester Stilwell is dragged into the creek, and Watson Fisher , believing Stilwell had a seizure, is bitten while retrieving the body and subsequently bleeds to death
1933 Congress passes first minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union (I'm sure Stalin was kept awake at night awaiting just that)
1937 Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 experimental long-range airplane, piloted by a three-man crew, completes 11,500 km (7,100 mile) non-stop flight over the North Pole from Moscow to San Jacinto, California in 62 hours, 17 minutes
1943 Battle of Prokhorovka: Soviet forces clash with German forces in one of the largest tank battles in history, considered a German tactical victory but allowed the Soviets to successfully defend Prokhorovka and created the conditions for their decisive Belgorod–Kharkov counteroffensive
1944 US government recognizes authority of French General Charles de Gaulle
1954 President Eisenhower puts forward a plan for the Interstate Highway System
1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney links smoking to lung cancer
1967 Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, results in 26 deaths, 1,500 injuries, and over 1,000 arrests
1976 First "Family Feud" game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson
1979 “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit the second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers 😎
1987 Phillies' Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
1996 Michael Jordan signs a one-year NBA contract with the Chicago Bulls worth $30.14 million
2008 Canadian harness racer John Campbell wins his 10,000th race as a driver by guiding 'Share the Delight' to victory in the 6th race at Meadowlands Racetrack (damn wish I'd heard of this guy when I was playing the ponies)
2017 World's largest iceberg (later christened A68) breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, about 6,000 sq km in length
