1954 Event KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 1952 Birthday Linda M. Godwin, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, PhD/astronaut, STS-37, 59, 76 1951 Birthday Rush Limbaugh, born in Girardeau, Missouri, radio personality 1928 Birthday Chic Hecht, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Senator-R-Nevada 1983 - 1989 1904 Birthday Jess Stacy, born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, pianist, jazz musician, played with Tommy Dorsey, recorded with Lee Wiley, Nelson Riddle in The Great Gatsby soundtrack 1861 Event Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
