Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) and husband Michael Douglas (1944) share a birthday, as well as actor/musos Will Smith (1968) and Donald Glover (1983)
Anniversary of:
• the birth of the remote control after engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully guided a boat (1906)
• Henry Ford announcing an 8 hour, 5-day work week, one of the first big companies to do so (1926)
• the formation of U2 after Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton responded to an advertisement posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr at Dublin’s Mount Temple Comprehensive School (1976)
• Cathy Freeman’s famous 400m Olympic win (2000)
• Bill Cosby’s sentencing to 3-10 years in jail for 2004 sexual assault. He was the first celebrity to be jailed in the #MeToo era (2018)