Tim Maguire
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is 60 today.
It’s been said that Gates hacked into his high school’s computer system to
make sure there would be more girls in his classes than boys.
Julia Fiona Roberts is 48 today.
Roberts reportedly wanted to be a veterinarian, but
she ended up signing with Click Modeling Agency
in New York.
Ross Simpson
John Marwood Cleese is 76 today.
Cleese studied Law at Cambridge.
President Truman signs the Fair Labor Standards Act.
U.S. President Harry Truman, declaring the federal minimum wage ought to be
nearly double, raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour. The
increase is roughly the equivalent of a wage today jumping to $10.70 from
$5.70 an hour.
Carlota Bradley
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United
States Navy, named by President George Washington after the Constitution of
the United States of America. The Constitution was one of six original frigates
authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and was the third to be
constructed.
USS Constitution fires a 17-gun salute near U.S. Coast Guard Base
Boston during the ship’s Independence Day demonstration last year
in Boston Harbor.
