Birthdays
- Elizabeth Blackwell, 1821. First woman physician.
- Horace Greeley, 1811. Newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, and one of the organizers of the Republican Party.
- Joseph Johnston, 1807. Confederate general in the Civil War whose troops were never directly defeated.
- James Michener, 1907. American author of several historical fiction novels.
- George Nissen, 1914. Inventor of the trampoline.
- Norman Rockwell, 1894. American artist and illustrator, known for his realistic and homey magazine cover art for the Saturday Evening Post.
- Gertrude Stein, 1874. Avant-garde expatriate American writer.
Celebrations
“The Day The Music Died”, anniversary of the death of rock and roll legend Charles Hardin “Buddy” Holly, along with J.P. Richardson “The Big Bopper”, and Richie Valens.
National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
175th anniversary of the charter of the Nauvoo Legion, a group of 5,000 men considered the “largest trained soldiery in the US” except for the US Army.
Genealogy Events Today
KY – Spotlight on Genealogy: Ancestry Basics. At Boone County Public Library – Main 1786 Burlington Pike, Burlington. For more info: http://www.bcpl.org/lhg/
UT: RootsTech 2016 Where: Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sponsored by FamilySearch. For more information: https://rootstech.org
