Also on this day...
Feast of St. Eligius - Patron of Metalworkers
Eat a Red Apple Day
Rosa Parks Day
Faux Fur Day
Rosa Parks resisted bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Marie Tussaud - found of Madame Tussaud's wax museum - was born in 1761. Mary Martin was born in 1913, and Bette Midler was born in 1945.