The love of my life and my best friend for over a decade was born 35 years ago on this day. (He hasn’t updates his page in a while but you can send him birthday wishes, fishinnards AT yahoo.com or leave them here if you want).

Also born today, the fabulous KD.

Other less-notable birthdays include: Gustave Flaubert, Bob Barker, Connie Francis, Cathy Rigby, Frank Sinatra, Edward G Robinson, Sheila E., Edvard Munch, Rush Limbaugh, Henry Wells (of Wells-Fargo), and Dionne Warwick.

Radio History geeks know today as the day (in 1901) that Guglielmo Marconi sent the first succesful trans-Atlantic radio transmission. The hovercraft was patented in England on this day in 1955.