Happy Birthday Weasling! Yay!

A few other famous people born on this day:

• Charles VI (1368 King of France)
• Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd (1904 FBI Most Wanted criminal)
• James A Michener (1907 writer)
• Dr Henry Heimlich (1920 doctor/inventor of the Heimlich maneuver)
• Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny (1938 Russian cosmonaut)
• Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky (1939 Russian cosmonaut)
• Lizzie Borden (1950 director/writer)
• Morgan Fairchild (1950 actress)
• also: A Weasel.

Other happenings on this day in history:

• 1913 - In one of the blackest days in U.S. history, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This amendment created the income tax.
• 1953 - French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau publishes his most famous and lasting work, The Silent World.
• 1959 - The Day the Music Died: A small plane carrying The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens crashed near Mason City Iowa, while en route to a show in Fargo, North Dakota.
• 1966 - the USSR accomplishes the first controlled landing on the moon, when the unmanned spacecraft Lunik 9 touches down on the Ocean of Storms. After its soft landing, the circular capsule opened like a flower, deploying its antennas, and began transmitting photographs and television images back to Earth.
• 1998 - The tail of a U.S. marine tactical surveillance jet on a training mission severs a tram cable at a ski resort near Trento in northern Italy, sending 20 skiers nearly 300 feet to their deaths.

Wow. Most important of all is that today is IceQueens birthday!