On This Day

EVENTS

■ In 1682, the city of Philadelphia was founded.

■ In 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers appeared in a New York City newspaper.

■ In 1904, the first underground New York City Subway line opened to the public.

■ In 2005, after three weeks of criticism, Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

■ In 2018, a gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th U.S. president; Emily Post (18721960), author; Joe Medicine Crow (1913-2016), historian/author; Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), poet/ playwright; Ruby Dee (19222014), actress; Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), artist; Sylvia Plath (19321963), poet; John Cleese (1939- ), actor/writer; Dick Trickle (1941-2013) race car driver; Ivan Reitman (1946), director/producer; Fran Lebowitz (1950- ), columnist; Matt Drudge (1966- ), journalist; Scott Weiland (1967-2015), singersongwriter; Lonzo Ball (1997- ), basketball player.

QUOTE

“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within — strength, courage, dignity.” — Ruby Dee