Oct
24
Jeff’s day in history
Filed Under Sunrise on KGMB9
Jeff Booth, whose birthday we made some small reference to on “Sunrise” today, mentioned in the newsroom that he shared a birthday with the football great Y.A. Tittle.
That made me curious. What else happened on Jeff’s birthday in history? I looked it up.
He also shares his birthday with Kevin Kline, the Big Bopper, and that Asian guy who plays the shrink on “Law & Order.”
The astronomer Tycho Brahe died on this date in 1601.
Important events in history that occurred on Oct. 24 included the Great Crash of 1929, the Russian Revolution (1917), the founding of the United Nations (1945) and the Wright Brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk (1911).
Jeff is a former art student and will be happy to hear that the much-painted Cathedral at Chartres was dedicated on Oct. 24, 1260.
The first transcontinental telegraph line was completed on this date in 1861 (spelling the end of the Pony Express after only a year and a half of operation) and this date in 1901 saw the first person go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
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