Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- August 26th

Happy Birthday!
1909 Jim Davis, actor (Jock Ewing from Dallas)
1921 Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, helped to expose the Watergate scandal
1935 Geraldine Ferraro, politician (first woman to run as a candidate for the US vice presidency, 1984)
1952 Michael Jeter, actor (Sesame Street, The Green Mile)
1960 Branford Marsalis, musician/bandleader (The Tonight Show)
1979 Jamal Lewis, football player
1980 Macaulay Culkin, actor (Home Alone, Saved)

Deaths:
1930 Lon Chaney, Sr., actor (The Phantom of the Opera (25)
1974 Charles Lindbergh, pilot
1986 Ted Knight, actor (Caddyshack, Mary Tyler Moore)
2004 Laura Branigan, singer/ song writer (Gloria)

Events:
1920 19th Amendment passed giving women the right to vote.