History Blog

April 24

Happy Birthday Shirley MacLean Beaty–84 Barabra Joan Streisand–76 Richard M. Daley–76 Jean-Paul Gaultier–66 Djimon Hounsou–54 Aidan Gillen(Murphy)–50 Eric Balfour–41 Kelly Clarkson–36 ; 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”