Raise a toast to clean water, Our Town, and radioactive goo!

1998

Steve Jobs fans, rejoice! Bill Gates gets a pie in the face in Brussels, Belgium.

1987

Congress overrides President Reagan’s veto of the Clean Water Act.

1974

Patricia Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. John Waters is forever grateful.

1969

Yasser Arafat becomes the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. So there’s that.

1938

The fourth wall crumbles: “Our Town,” by Thornton Wilder, opens on Broadway.

1936

The first radioactive is produced synthetically (radium E)

1924

The first Winter Olympic Games close in Chamonix, France

1789

The first Electoral College chooses George Washington to be the President and John Adams to be the first VP

Cupcake Time!

1973

Boxer Oscar De La Hoya

1969

Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher

1948

Golfer/Wayne’s World lauded rock star Alice Cooper (born Vincent Furnier)

1947

“Potatoe” loving VP Dan Quayle