Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Today in History

October 3
  • 1778 James Cook anchors in Alaska
  • 1863 Lincoln declares the official day of Thanksgiving
  • 1872 Bloomingdale's opens
  • 1918 section 138 of the Doctrine and Covenants is received by revelation
  • 1942 the first man-made object reaches space
  • 1951 "the Shot Heard 'Round the World"
  • 1955 Mickey Mouse Club airs for the first time
  • 1961 the Dick Van Dyke show debuts
  • 1964 Buffalo wings are invented
  • 1985 Space Shuttle Atlantis makes is maiden flight
  • 1995 OJ is acquitted
  • 1999 the last General Conference held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle
  • 2003 Roy (from Siegfried and Roy) is attacked by a tiger
But most importantly-

1977


I was born!

3 comments:

Amy said...

Awwwwwww, you are SOOOOOOOOOO adorable in your bebe photo. Yay for Heaboo's Birthday!

Melissa Ann said...

I hate to tell you but the "shot heard around the world" was Lexington and Concord in April in 1775! But I thinking you are the most important on October 3rd!

Bakeshow said...

Nope it's a baseball reference when a grand slam was hit in the bottom of the 9th inning. Different shot from yours.