Richard B. "Red" Skelton, the Comedian. was born on July 18, 1913 in Vincennes, Ind. He began acting in a medicine show at age of ten and was successively with a tent show, minstrel show, on a show boat, a clown in Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus, and on burlesque circuit. Made Broadway debut in 1937; radio debut on Rudy Vallee program in 1937, and first motion picture appearance in Having a Wonderful Time in 1938. He has since appeared in many movies including Ship Ahoy; I Dood It; DuBarry Was a Lady; Thousands Cheer; Bathing Beauty; The Show Off; Merton of the Movies; The Fuller Brush Man; A Southern Yankee; Neptune's Daughter; Excuse My Dust; The Clown; etc. His first radio program was "Red Skelton's Scrapbook of Satire" in 1942. Since 1951, he has starred on television in The Red Skelton Show. Brother Red was raised in Vincennes Lodge No. 1, Vincennes, Indiana in 1939. He was also a member of Al Malaikah Shrine Temple, Los Angeles.
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. He would later become a United States Marine Corps Fighter Pilot and Astronaut. He is a member of Concord Masonic Lodge #688 in New Concord, Ohio. HE presently serves as the US Senator from Ohio. Glenn received a Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. On October 29, 1998, while still a sitting Senator, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew on Discovery (STS-95). With the death of Scott Carpenter on October 10, 2013, Glenn is the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven.
On this day in 1940. Mason and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America's 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented term. Brother Roosevelt, a democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office. He was the only US President to serve more than two terms as President.
On this day in 1792, John Paul Jones, America’s Revolutionary war hero and Mason died in Paris, France.
On this day in 1947, Mason and President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act which was a revision of the same act passed by
Mason and President George Washington in 1792.
On this day in 1962, Congress votes in favor of s bill that preserves the birthplace and former Manhattan home of Mason and President Teddy Roosevelt called Sagamore Hill where he lived after his presidency until his death.
On this Day in 1921 Mason, Astronaut, and Senator John Glen was born.