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Happy birthday to

• Martin Sheen (actor) – 1940

• Martha Stewart (homemaking guru) – 1941

• John C. McGinley (actor) – 1959

• Tom Brady (football player) – 1977

• Evangeline Lilly (actress) – 1979

On this day

• Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain with Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria, in search of a western sea route to Asia – 1492

• First intercollegiate boat race – 1852

• American Canoe Association formed, Lake George, New York – 1880

• Distinguished Flying Cross for William Bishop announced – 1918

• At 2:47 A.M., Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president by his father at Vermont homestead – 1923

• The first okapi imported into U.S. went on display, Bronx Zoo, N.Y.C. – 1937

• National Basketball Association formed from merger – 1949

• Tom Yawkey inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame – 1980

• Lightning evidently triggered the fire alarm in an office building near Fort Collins, Colorado, which caused the inhabitants to evacuate - without their keys. While locked out, 16 were injured, most by the marble-size hail and wind gusts produced by the thunderstorm. – 1988

August 5

Happy birthday to.....

*Neil Armstrong

(1930-2012)

*Loni Anderson, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati - "Jennifer"), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2025)

*Maureen McCormick

(69th Birthday)

August 8

Happy birthday to

Dustin Hoffman

(88th Birthday)