On this day in 1985, after 14 months, amputee Steve Fonyo completed a cross-Canada marathon. In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest. In 1935, construction of Hoover Dam completed. In 1919, Einstein's theory of general relativity was tested with the observation of a total solar eclipse. And in 1886, Putney Bridge opened in west London, while in Atlanta, Georgia, chemist John Pemberton placed his first advertisement for Coca-Cola. Happy Birthday Lisa Whelchel (1963), Melissa Etheridge (1961), Adrian Paul (1959), Annette Bening (1958), LaToya Jackson (1956), Danny Elfman (1953), Al Unser (1939), John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917), Tenzing Norgay (1914), Bob Hope (1903) and Patrick Henry (1736). "Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." - Henry David Thoreau