BIRTHDAYS AND EVENTS
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Notable Birthdays for April 24
Robert Bailey Thomas (1766-1866) - Founder of The Farmer's Almanac.
John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931) - Photographer and author who is considered the "Father of Travelogue" (travel experiences).
Fannie Thomas (1867-1981) - The oldest known person (at the time) who lived to be 113 years old and 273 days.
John Russell Pope (1874-1937) - Architect who created the Jefferson Memorial.
Justin Wilson (1914-2001) - Cajun-inspired cuisine chef.
Jerome Callet (1930-2019) - Brass instrument designer.
Louis Keith (1935-Still Living) - Expert physician on multiple-births.
Shirley MacLaine (1934-Still Living) - Multi-award winning actress whose career has spanned over 70 years and movie credits include The Trouble with Harry (1955), Terms of Endearment (1983) and Steel Magnolias (1989).
Barbra Streisand (1942-Still Living) - Actress and singer of songs like The Way We Were.
Richard Sterban (1943-Still Living) - Bass singer for the country band the Oak Ridge Boys.
Larry Tesler (1945-2020) - Computer scientist who invented the concept of "copy, cut, paste."
Roger D. Kornberg (1947-Still Living) - Biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2006) for his studies of the process by which genetic information.
Memorable Events for April 24
1704 - The Boston News-Letter is published in Boston by John Campbell.
1800 - President Adams signs legislation to create the The U.S. Library of Congress.
1833 - Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent the first soda fountain.
1865 - The fire alarm and police telegraph system is put into operation in San Francisco.
1888 - George Eastman founds Eastman Kodak.
1897 - William Price is assigned as the first White House reporter.
1962 - MIT sends the first t.v. signal by satellite.