UN International Day of Older Persons
National days for China, Cyprus, Tuvalu, Nigeria, Palau and Guinea
Birthdays for actor Julie Andrews (1935), former British PM Theresa May (1956) and actor Brie Larson (1989),
Julie Andrews facts:
#1- She only discovered who her real dad was at age 14.
Unfortunately, Andrews had a rather soap opera-esque start in life. She found out at age 14 that she was conceived in an affair between her mother and a family friend.
#2- Her last name at birth wasn’t Andrews.
She was born Julia Elizabeth Wells. She got the name Andrews when her mother divorced her father and remarried a man named Ted Andrews.
Anniversary of:
• the publication of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (1867), Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868) and the Little Golden Books series (1942)
• the first publication of National Geographic magazine (1888)
Henry Ford introducing the Model T car (1908)
• The Beach Boys recording their debut single Surfin’ USA, introducing a new musical style (1961)
• the start of the Howard government’s gun buy back scheme, following the Port Arthur Massacre (1996)
• the deadliest mass shooting in US history when a gunman kills 58 people at a concert in Las Vegas (2017)
