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                              Â
“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, Â 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
