Today is the birthday
. . . of Pollyanna. Hayley Mills is 65.
. . . of two-time Oscar nominee James Woods. He’s 64.
. . . of Rick Moranis, 58.
. . . of Daphne Moon. Jane Leeves of “Frasier” is 50.
. . . of Conan O’Brien. He’s 48.
. . . of America Ferrera; anything but ugly, Betty is 27. Ms. Ferrera is of Honduran descent.
Lawyer and author Clarence Darrow was born on this date in 1857.
Darrow became famous for defending some of the most unpopular people of his time. In the 1925 Monkey Trial, he defended high school teacher John Scopes for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Tennessee school. In “The Crime of the Century,” in 1924, he successfully defended two confessed teenage murderers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, from receiving the death penalty.
. . .He once said: “I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.”
The San Francisco earthquake was on April 18, 1906. It was magnitude 8.3; 3,000 people are estimated to have died.
The first game was played at Yankee Stadium on this date in 1923.
War correspondent, and Albuquerquean, Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa, on this date in 1945.
Albert Einstein died at age 76 on this date in 1955.