Today is the birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich! Today also had the births and events happen in history that I have listed below.

Birthdays: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese Shogun (1358), Francesco Borromini (1599), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1694), Nicholas Van Dyke (1738), Fletcher Christian (1764), Charles Robert Maturin (1782), William Faulkner (1897), Mark Rothko (1903), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Phil Rizzuto (1916), Sir Colin Davis (1927), Barbara Walters (1929), Shel Silverstein (1930), Glenn Gould (1932), Michael Douglas (1944), Cheryl Tiegs (1947), Mark Hamill (1951), Christopher Reeve (1952), Anson “Potsie” Williams (1952), Heather Locklear (1961), Scottie Pippen (1965), Will Smith (1968), Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), Heather Stewart-Whyte (1969), Matt Hasselbeck (1975)

Events:
1493 - Columbus sets out on second voyage to America (with 17 ships)
1513 - Spanish explorer Balboa reaches the Pacific Ocean
1534 - Pope Clement VII dies
1639 - First printing press in America
1775 - Rev. War hero Ethan Allen captured
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution; the first 10 became the Bill of Rights
1849 - Johann Strauss, Sr., dies
1882 - First baseball double-header
1890 - Yosemite National Park established
1960 - Emily Post dies
1963 - Annette Funicello’s first beach film, Beach Party, debuts
1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV
1976 - The band, U2, forms
1981 - Justice Sandra Day O’Connor sworn in as first femail Supreme Court Justice
1986 - Justice Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
1990 - Saddam Hussein warns U.S. will repeat Vietnam experience
1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley dies
2005 - Don Adams dies