 During the U.S. Civil War, the first days fighting in Gettysburg began. 1874, the Philadelphia Zoological Society opened as the first zoo in the United States. And on this date in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba. Jonathan Romy is 50 years old today, actor known for his role as Jesus in the TV series The Chosen. Olivia de Havilland, 1916.