Today Is:
Official Holidays:
Immigrant's Day (Argentina)

Special Interest Holidays:

Newspaper Carrier Day

Birthdays:

Paul Harvey
Dick York
Mitzi Gaynor
Khandi Alexander
Damon Wayans
Sam Yaffa
Mike Piazza
Ione Skye
Beyoncé Knowles


Today Was:

Los Angeles was founded in 1781
Beetle Bailey, the comic strip, first appeared in 1950
The Ford Edsel was introduced in 1957
Mark Spitz won his seventh Olympic medal in swimming in 1972

Deaths:
Albert Schweitzer in 1965
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf in 2001
Steve Irwin in 2006

This Week Is:
-National Payroll Week

This Week Is:
-Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month
-Apple Month
-Chicken Month
-Children's Good Manners Month
-Fall Hat Month
-Self Awareness Month
-Little League Month
-Women of Achievement Month