Friday, October 16, 2009

Mara Lynn Gibson

Baby Mara Lynn Gibson
Born 12:04 AM October 14, 2009
8 lbs. 1 oz.
Louisville, KY

Other famous people born on October 14:
Usher, 1978 - Singer
Joe Girardi, 1964 - Former Cubs catcher, current Yankees manager
Roger Moore, 1927 - Actor, James Bond
Ralph Lauren, 1939 - Fashion Designer
Dwight Eisenhower, 1890 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, WWII; US President
William Penn, 1644 - Founding Father, urged the 13 colonies to form together into a "United States of America"



Famous events that occurred on October 14:
1773 - The East India Company's tea ships are burned in Annapolis, MD. American Revolutionary War.
1774 - 1st Continental Congress
1789 - George Washington proclaims the 1st Thanksgiving Day
1908 - Chicago Cubs win World Series, beat Tigers 4 games to 1
1926 - Children's book Winnie the Pooh is first published
1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
1947 - Chuck Yeager flies his Bell X-1 airplane faster than the speed of sound, first man to break the sound barrier
1962 - U2 spy plane flies over Cuba, discovering construction of Soviet missile launchers. "Cuban Missile Crisis" Begins
1964 - Leonid Brezhnev ousts Nikita Kruschev to become the leader of the Soviet Union
1964 - Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize
1968 - Beatles' "White Album" is completed
1973 - Willie Mays collects his last hit, Mets beat the A's in World Series Game 2
1980 - Bob Marley's last concert
1985 - NY Jets retire Joe Namath's #12
2009 - Mara Lynn Gibson born, Norton Suburban Hospital Louisville, KY

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