TODAY’S HISTORY

1635: The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, was founded in Boston.

1908: Congress passed a bill establishing the U.S. Army Reserve.

1968: Students protesting the Vietnam War at Columbia University in New York City began occupying campus buildings.

1969: Sirhan Sirhan received the death penalty for assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. His sentence was reduced to life imprisonment in 1972.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: James Buchanan (17911868), 15th U.S. president; Max Planck (1858-1947), physicist; Shirley Temple Black (1928-2014), actress/diplomat; Roy Orbison (1936-1988), singer-songwriter; Lee Majors (1939-), actor; Sandra Dee (1942-2005), actress; Tony Atlas (1954-), wrestler/bodybuilder; Michael Moore (1954-), filmmaker; George Lopez (1961-), comedian/tv personality; John Cena (1977-), wrestler/actor; John Oliver (1977-), actor/ comedian; Dev Patel (1990-), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: An estimated 500 hours of video is uploaded to Youtube.com every minute. The first video on the site, an 18-second clip entitled “Me at the Zoo,” was uploaded on this day in 2005.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1954, Milwaukee Braves rookie Hank Aaron hit his first major-league home run.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.” — Max Planck

TODAY’S NUMBER: 77 — days that “New Coke,” introduced on this day in 1985, was on the market before Coca-cola reintroduced the soft drink’s original formula, under the name “Coca-cola Classic.”