On This Day: 6 January

Arrivals

Atkinson, Rowan (1955)
Cicero (106 B.C.)
DeLorean, John (1925)
Kikuchi, Rinko (1981)
Lopez, Nancy (1957)
Mix, Tom (1880)
Moon, Sun Myung (1920)
Reece, Gabrielle (1970)
Sandburg, Carl (1878)
Singleton, John (1968)
Sumner, Charles (1811)
Thomas, Danny (1912)
Young, Loretta (1913)

Departures

Braille, Louis (1852)
Gillespie, Dizzy (1993)
Mendel, Gregor (1884)
Roosevelt, Theodore (1919)

Born Today: Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas starred in Make Room For Daddy, one of most popular TV family comedies of the 1950s. (The show ran from 1953-64, but changed networks in 1957 and was titled The Danny Thomas Show for the rest of its run.) Thomas was born on a horse farm...

» Read on