Actress Jennifer Coolidge

Events in 1961 and 28-8

Events in US in the birth year of Jennifer Coolidge

• Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" at John F. Kennedy's inauguration (Jan. 20).
• First US astronaut, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., rockets 116.5 miles up in 302-mile trip (May 5).
• Virgil Grissom becomes second American astronaut, making 118-mile-high, 303-mile-long rocket flight over Atlantic (July 21).

Birthday Jennifer Coolidge (28-8) in history

• Day 28-8 year 1609: British explorer Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay, USA.
• Day 28-8 year 1850: Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin , premiered at Weimar, Germany.
• Day 28-8 year 1922: The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
• Day 28-8 year 1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
• Day 28-8 year 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
• Day 28-8 year 1968: Anti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
• Day 28-8 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.