J. J. Jackson(one of the five original MTV video jockeys)β
Andre Norton(science fiction/fantasy writer)β
Oleg Cassini(fashion designer who created the Jackie look, the signature wardrobe created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the early 1960s)β
Events
On this day, St. Patrick died. As a boy, Patrick was captured and carried off from Britain to Ireland tend sheep. After six years, he escaped. Later, he to Ireland and spread the word of Christianity.β
The Transylvania Land Company bought what became the state of Kentucky for $50,000, from a Cherokee Indian chiefβ
British Army evacuated Bostonβ
The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perryβ
John Phillip Holland launched first modern submarine off Staten Island, NYβ
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt were marriedβ
Camp Fire Girls establishedβ
The National Gallery of Art was dedicated in Washington, D.C.β
Gen. MacArthur arrived in Australia to assume supreme command of the Allied forces (WW II)β
Battle of Iwo Jima ended with U.S. victory (WW II)β
The University of California (Berkeley) announced the development of californium, a new element with the atomic number 98β
Vanguard I spacecraft launched by U.S. at Cape Canaveralβ
USS Skate first submarine to surface at North Poleβ
UN conference of the Law of the Sea opened at Geneva, Switzerlandβ
Paroxysmal eruption of Mt. Agung in Baliβ
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, high school teacher, Golda Meir, took office as Israel’s 4th Prime Ministerβ
One of the worst oil spills in history occured when supertanker Amoco Cadiz broke in two off the Brittany coast in France, dumping more than 223,000 tons of crude oil into the seaβ
Julie Croteau first woman to play NCAA baseballβ
1,263 people dressed as leprechauns (in Bandon, Ireland), setting a world recordβ
Weather
Snowstorm central and SW Tennessee; Memphis got 18.5 inchesβ
Fifty degrees below zero F, Snake River, Wyomingβ