History Blog

May 10

Happy Birthday RIP “Fred Astaire”(Frederic Austerlitz 1899–1987) “Nancy Walker”(Anna Swoyer 1922–1992) “Sid Vicious”(John Simon Ritchie 1957–1979) Gary Owens(Altman 1934–2015) ; James Abrahams–76 Margaret “Meg” Foster–72 Paul Hewson(“Bono”)–60 Jason Brooks–54 Dallas Roberts–50 Odette Annable(Yustman)–35 ; 1908 – The first Mother’s Day observance took place during church services in Grafton, W.Virginia ; 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan