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The United States Air Force Memorial honors the service of the personnel of the United States Air Force and its heritage organizations. The Memorial is located in Arlington County, Virginia, on the former grounds of the Navy Annex near The Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. The Memorial is southwest of the intersection of Columbia Pike and South Joyce Street and is accessible from the north side of Columbia Pike. It was the last project of American architect James Ingo Freed (known for the design of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) with the firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

1640s

• BORN 1644: WILLIAM PENN (QUAKER; FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA, NAMED IN HONOR OF HIS FATHER)

1730s

• BORN 1734: FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE (AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY LEADER)

1780s

• BORN 1788: SIR EDWARD SABINE (ASTRONOMER)

1870s

• BORN 1873: RAY EWRY (TRACK AND FIELD STAR)

1890s

• BORN 1890: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (34TH U.S. PRESIDENT)
• BORN 1894: E. E. CUMMINGS (POET)

1900s

• BORN 1905: EUGENE FODOR (TRAVEL WRITER)

1910s

• 1912: WHILE CAMPAIGNING IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, FORMER PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT WAS SHOT BY WILLIAM SCHRANK
• 1914: FIRST CONTINGENT OF CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ARRIVED IN ENGLAND, DURING WWI
• BORN 1916: CHARLES EVERETT KOOP (U.S. SURGEON GENERAL)

1920s

• 1926: A. A. MILNE’S CLASSIC, WINNIE-THE-POOH, WAS PUBLISHED
• 1926: POLAND PRESENTED 5.5 MILLION GOODWILL SIGNATURES TO THE UNITED STATES FOR 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
• BORN 1927: ROGER MOORE (ACTOR)

1930s

• 1930: GIRL CRAZY BY GEORGE GERSHWIN OPENED AT THE ALVIN THEATRE IN NEW YORK
• BORN 1939: RALPH LAUREN (DESIGNER)

1940s

• 1942: GERMAN U-BOAT SANK PASSENGER FERRY S.S. CARIBOU IN CABOT STRAIT
• 1947: CHARLES YEAGER, PILOTING A BELL X-1 JET, BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER, REACHING MACH 1.06

1950s

• BORN 1950: SHEILA YOUNG (SPEED SKATER, CYCLIST)
• BORN 1952: HARRY ANDERSON (ACTOR)

1970s

• 1977: QUEEN ELIZABETH II BEGAN CANADIAN TOUR
• DIED 1977: BING CROSBY (SINGER)
• BORN 1978: USHER (SINGER)

1980s

• BORN 1981: JORDAN BROWER (ACTOR)
• 1987: EIGHTEEN-MONTH OLD JESSICA MCCLURE (“BABY JESSICA”) FELL DOWN AN ABANDONED WELL IN MIDLAND, TEXAS

1990s

• DIED 1998: CLEVELAND AMORY (CRITIC AND ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST)

2000s

• 2004: A GHANAIAN-REGISTERED BOEING 747 CARGO JET CRASHED AND BURNED ON TAKE OFF FROM HALIFAX AIRPORT IN EASTERN CANADA
• 2004: THE ILLINOIS NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT CONFIRMED THAT A 17-INCH FISH CAUGHT IN CHICAGO’S BURNHAM HARBOR IN LAKE MICHIGAN WAS AN INVASIVE SNAKEHEAD, A FEARED FRANKENFISH KNOWN TO EAT NATIVE FISH AND COMPETE WITH THEM FOR FOOD
• 2006: THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA
• DIED 2009: LOU ALBANO (AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER, MANAGER AND ACTOR)

2010s

• 2010: KHAGENDRA THAPA MAGAR, FROM POKHARA, NEPAL, TURNED 18 YEARS OLD AND WAS CERTIFIED BY GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS AS THE WORLD’S SHORTEST LIVING MAN, AT 26.4 INCHES TALL.
• 2017: VIDEO TWEET WAS POSTED OF A MINIATURE HORSE SEEN IN THE BACK SEAT OF A NEIGHBORING CAR IN IOWA

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