Highlights in history
• In 1809, one of the leading literary figures of the Victorian era, poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
• In 1911, actor-comedian Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York.
• In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 14½ hours.
• In 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. (Three days later, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki; five days after that, Imperial Japan surrendered.)
• In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
• In 1986, William J. Schroeder died at Humana Hospital-audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
• In 1991, the World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing web pages over the Internet.
• In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice by a Senate vote of 68-31. John Hughes, 59, Hollywood’s youth movie director of the 1980s and ’90s, died in New York City.
• In 2013, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan went on trial at Fort Hood, Texas, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 attack. (Hasan, who admitted carrying out the attack, was convicted and sentenced to death.)
Debarge is 62
• Country singers Patsy and Peggy Lynn are 56
• Basketball hall of famer David Robinson is 55
• Country singer Lisa Stewart is 52
• Movie writer-director M. Night Shyamalan