Birthdays for director Peter Jackson (1961), rapper Vanilla Ice (1967), actress/singer Willow Smith (2000)
Anniversary of:
• Michelangelo completing the painting of The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel (1541)
• the “last successful cavalry charge in history” by the 4th Australian Light Horse during the Battle of Beersheba in WWI (1917)
• the completion of the Mount Rushmore Monument (1941)
• the deaths of magician Harry Houdini (1926), actor River Phoenix (1993)
