On This Day:
April 26th
Birthdays:
1785 - John James Audubon (artist / naturalist / ornithologist).
1822 - Frederick L. Olmstead (landscape architect / journalist / social critic).
1900 - Charles Richter (seismologist / physicist / creator of the Richter magnitude scale).
1933 - Carol Burnett (actor / comedienne / singer / writer.).
1963 - Jet Li
1965 - Kevin James
1980 - Channing Tatum
Events:
1607 - First British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry (Virginia).
1906 - First motion pictures shown in Hawaii.
1954 - Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio vaccine begins.
1971 - San Francisco light ship is replaced by automatic buoy.
1981 - Bank robbery occurs in Tucson (Arizona).
