July 08th, 2021

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on July.9th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
National Sugar Cookie Day

Today in History:
1910 Walter Brookins, flying a Wright biplane over Atlantic City, New Jersey, becomes 1st to fly an airplane to an altitude of 1 mile (actually reaching 6,175 feet or 1.169 miles)
1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
1981 Nintendo releases arcade game Donkey Kong in Japan (July 31 in the US)
2009 Joe Sakic retires after 21 NHL seasons with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise, finishing with 625 goals and 1,641 points
2017 CEO Elon Musk is the first owner of Telsa's first mass market electric car - the Model 3
2018 Bright pink is the world's oldest biological colour according to scientists, produced by tiny cyanobacteria in 1.1bn-year-old marine shale rock from Taoudeni basin, Mauritania.
 
Celebrities Birthdays:
Tom Hanks, American actor
Courtney Love, American muscian and actress
Jack White [Gillis], American musician
Jacob Hoggard, Canadian singer
David Hockney, English artist
Dean Koontz, American sci-fi author
 
Movies Released on this day:
Black Widow
 
Songs Released on this day:
1955 Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock"
 
Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.