Birthdays
- Betty Friedan, 1921, outspoken feminist, cofounder and first president of the National Organization for Women.
- Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 1746. Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War figure.
- Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 1902. American aviator, first to fly solo and nonstop over the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.
- Byron Nelson, 1912. Premier golfer of the 1930s and 40s,
- Rosa Parks, 1913. Rosa Louis McCauley Parks, her refusal to give up her seat on a bus sparked the modern civil rights movement.
Celebrations
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Medjool Date Day
75th Anniversary of the founding of the USO.
World Cancer Day.
Genealogy Events
UT: RootsTech 2016 Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sponsored by FamilySearch. For more information: https://rootstech.org
AR – Village Genealogical Society Meeting. Mary Reid Warner will be discussing research using land records. 2:00 p.m. in Room 6 of the Coronado Center, 150 Ponderosa Way, Hot Springs Village, AR
HI – Family History Classes: Help in Chinese Genealogy 46-117 Halaulani St Kaneohe, (Oahu) HI. Help in Chinese Genealogy class at the Kaneohe Family History Center, 46-117 Halaulani St Kaneohe HI. For more info: https://goo.gl/1Hn6FD
IN – “Speed Dating for Genealogists” New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, 180 W. Spring St., New Albany, Indiana. 7 PM in the Strassweg Auditorium. For more information http://www.rootsweb.ancestry. com
