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Birthday Meme
Mar. 17th, 2004 11:21 pmBirths:
551 BC - Confucius, philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher. (d. 1831)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America. (d. 1891)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician. (d. 1932)
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, author (d. 1945)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer (d. 1974)
1890 - Man Ray, photographer, artist (d. 1976)
1899 - C.S. Forester, author (d. 1966).
1904 - Norah Lofts, author.
1906 - Ed Gein, serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1910 - Mother Teresa, missionary, humanitarian (d. 1997)
1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Chief Minister of Kwazulu-natal Province, South Africa)
1929 - Ira Levin, author
1932 - Antonia Fraser, author
1952 - Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman), actor
Deaths:
1577 - Titian, artist
1590 - Pope Sixtus V
1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, playwright.
1963 - Garrett Morgan, inventor
1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect
1968 - Princess Marina Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist.
Events:
1660: John Milton’s books were burned in London, because of the author’s attacks on King Charles II.
1770: Birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (died 1831), German philosopher, one of the most influential idealist philosophers.
1789: The French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights."
1813: Napoleon, with a force of 130,000, defeats a superior allied force of 200,000 Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the battle of Dresden.
1828: Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks between Brazil and Argentina.
1859: The first commercially productive oil well is drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania the USA by Edwin Drake of Seneca Oil.
1883: Krakatoa explodes!
1900: U.S. Army physician James Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him in an attempt to isolate the means of transmission of yellow fever. Carroll developed a severe case of yellow fever, helping his colleague, Army pathologist Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes transmit this often-deadly disease.
1915: Italy declares war on Germany
1916: Romania declares war on Austro-Hungary and Italy declares war on Germany.
1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for peaceful settlement of disputes.
1938: At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, another poet, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers in order to disrupt the recital. That jealous poet, incidentally, was Robert Frost.
1939: The world’s first jet-propelled aeroplane, the Heinkel HE 178, makes its first flight at Marienehe, north Germany.
1962: The US spacecraft Mariner II is launched towards Venus.
1972: US jets bomb Hai Phong, northern Viet Nam’s major port.
1986: US Air Force reveals they accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on New Mexico in 1957, which did not detonate
1991: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1999: Dom Helder Camara, former Catholic archbishop and renowned Brazilian human rights crusader, dies aged 90.
551 BC - Confucius, philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher. (d. 1831)
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America. (d. 1891)
1858 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician. (d. 1932)
1871 - Theodore Dreiser, author (d. 1945)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer (d. 1974)
1890 - Man Ray, photographer, artist (d. 1976)
1899 - C.S. Forester, author (d. 1966).
1904 - Norah Lofts, author.
1906 - Ed Gein, serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
1910 - Mother Teresa, missionary, humanitarian (d. 1997)
1928 - Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Chief Minister of Kwazulu-natal Province, South Africa)
1929 - Ira Levin, author
1932 - Antonia Fraser, author
1952 - Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee Herman), actor
Deaths:
1577 - Titian, artist
1590 - Pope Sixtus V
1635 - Félix Lope de Vega, playwright.
1963 - Garrett Morgan, inventor
1965 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect
1968 - Princess Marina Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist.
Events:
1660: John Milton’s books were burned in London, because of the author’s attacks on King Charles II.
1770: Birth of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (died 1831), German philosopher, one of the most influential idealist philosophers.
1789: The French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights."
1813: Napoleon, with a force of 130,000, defeats a superior allied force of 200,000 Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the battle of Dresden.
1828: Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks between Brazil and Argentina.
1859: The first commercially productive oil well is drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania the USA by Edwin Drake of Seneca Oil.
1883: Krakatoa explodes!
1900: U.S. Army physician James Carroll allowed an infected mosquito to feed on him in an attempt to isolate the means of transmission of yellow fever. Carroll developed a severe case of yellow fever, helping his colleague, Army pathologist Walter Reed, prove that mosquitoes transmit this often-deadly disease.
1915: Italy declares war on Germany
1916: Romania declares war on Austro-Hungary and Italy declares war on Germany.
1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris, outlawing war and providing for peaceful settlement of disputes.
1938: At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, another poet, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers in order to disrupt the recital. That jealous poet, incidentally, was Robert Frost.
1939: The world’s first jet-propelled aeroplane, the Heinkel HE 178, makes its first flight at Marienehe, north Germany.
1962: The US spacecraft Mariner II is launched towards Venus.
1972: US jets bomb Hai Phong, northern Viet Nam’s major port.
1986: US Air Force reveals they accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on New Mexico in 1957, which did not detonate
1991: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1999: Dom Helder Camara, former Catholic archbishop and renowned Brazilian human rights crusader, dies aged 90.
