Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- August 13th

Happy Birthday!
1818 Lucy Stone, women's rights activist
1860 Annie Oakley, markswoman
1895 Bert Lahr, actor (Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz)
1899 Alfred Hitchcock, director (Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo)
1926 Fidel Castro, dictator of Cuba
1930 Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (Tiny Bubbles)
1959 Danny Bonaduce, actor (Danny Partridge from The Partridge Family)
1967 Quinn Cummings, actress (The Babysitter, Night Terror, Intimate Strangers)


Deaths:
1910 Florence Nightingale, nurse
1946 H. G. Wells, author (The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds)
1995 Mickey Mantle, baseball player
2004 Julia Child, chef

Events:
1907 First taxi.

History Lesson:
Annie Oakley shot the ashes off of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany's cigarette while it was in his mouth.