Bruce Bennett: actor,track,Tarzan
AKA: Herman Brix
Real Name: Herman Brix

Suggested Reading:

Elizabeth I (Very Interesting People Series)

Benjamin Disraeli (Very Interesting People)

Frédéric Chopin

"I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces."

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin, born this day in 1810, was a Polish French composer and pianist of the Romantic period who ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets by reason of his imagination and fastidious craftsmanship.

Yellowstone National Park, situated in the western United States and designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978, was established by the U.S. Congress as the country's—and the world's—first national park this day in 1872.

More Events on this day:

1932: The infant son of American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh was abducted from his home, Bruno Hauptmann being later convicted of the baby's kidnapping and murder.

1919: Protesters in Seoul, Korea, launched the March First Movement, a series of demonstrations for Korean national independence from Japan.

1896: The Ethiopian army of Emperor Menilek II won a decisive victory against the Italian army at Adwa, Ethiopia.

1875: Republicans in the U.S. Congress passed the last of the Force Acts, which protected the constitutional rights of blacks during Reconstruction.