wiki birthday meme

why not... you can always blame woodwitch   ...October 24th:


Three Events

• 1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
• 1947 - Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
• 2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.

Two Births

1915 - Bob Kane, cartoonist (d. 1998) 

1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones) 


One Death

1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)