FDR, Broadway musicals, and US mail: life is sweet!

1994

The Church of England ordains 33 women, its first female priests.

1987

“Le Mis” opens on Broadway. You will rue the day you made musicals cool again, Claud-Michel Schonberg. Just you wait. I’ll exact my revenge.

1972

NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons. Before I die I hope I score a Gordie Howe hat trick (a goal, an assist, and a fight in one game). Just one and it doesn’t even have to be in the NHL, or anything. Just rec league.

1969

Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London. Poor Sir Paul. Oh wait, he married a model and has oodles of money. Never mind.

1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt conducts his first fireside chat. Mmm, false reassurance.

1849

The gold rush begins: gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California

1789

The U.S. Post Office established, which is cool, and all, but wouldn’t it be even cooler if we still had the Pony Express? Ponder that.

1737

Galileo’s body is moved to the Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. Gotta love postmortem forgiveness and adulation.

Go shorty, it’s your birthday

1968 “The Dark Knight” actor Aaron Eckhart

1962 Baseball player/scandal maker Darryl Strawberry

1953 Writer Carl Hiaasen

1946 Icon Liza Minnelli