http://cday.sourceforge.net/cday.php Today in history, birthdays, holidays CDAY 1 http://cday.sourceforge.net/cday.php Blaise Pascal, mathematician.<br> B. Pascal --1662<br> J.B.M.C. Meusnier --1793<br> J.D. Gergonne --1859<br> Duchess of Windsor, divorcee<br> Moe Howard<br> Guy Lombardo, conductor<br> Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.<br> Lou Gehrig<br> Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)<br> Pat Buttram<br> Louis Jourdan<br> Pauline Kael<br> Aage "Nils" Bohr, Danish atomic physicist, (Nobel 1975)<br> Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)<br> Gena Rowlands<br> Phylicia Rashad<br> Kathleen Turner<br> Paula Abdul<br> Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal". http://cday.sourceforge.net/cday.php BC - Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.<br> 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta.<br> Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.<br> First baseball game: NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken, NJ).<br> Slavery outlawed in US territories.<br> Father's Day celebrated for first time in Spokane, Washington.<br> First commercial photoelectric cell installed in West Haven Ct.<br> First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.<br> Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created<br> First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd at Muroc, CA.<br> Viking 1 enters Martian orbit after 10 month flight from earth.<br> European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit.