On this day in 2001, Sherman Bull and Erik Weihenmayer summitted Mount Everest, respectively becoming the oldest and first blind person to do so. In 1986, Hands Across America took place. In 1977, a film by George Lucas called Star Wars was released. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced his goal to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade. And in 1953, at the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test. Happy Birthday Lauryn Hill (1975), Jamie Kennedy (1970), Anne Heche (1969), Mike Myers (1963), Frank Oz (1944), Ian McKellen (1939), Dixie Carter (1939), Robert Ludlum (1927), Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803). "Customers don