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on this day in history. Excuse the small font size; I wanted the post to look good, to have each event stay on one line, not scroll down into two lines: supreme ugliness and bad taste.
A. Births on this day
1338 Charles V (the Wise) king of France (1364-80)
1813 John C Frémont [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer (western US)/Governor (AZ)
1815 Horace Wells dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia)
1824 Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson Lieutenant-General 2nd Corps (ANV, Confederacy)
1855 John M Browning US, weapons manufacturer
1912 Konrad Bloch Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)
1933 William Wrigley III chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)
1941 Placido Domingo Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Madame Butterfly)
1941 Richie Havens Brooklyn NY, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1950 George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies from tuberculosis in London at 46
1959 Cecil B[lount] de Mille producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77
B. Deaths on this day
0879 Boudouin with the Iron Arm Earl of Flanders, dies
1118 Paschalis II [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies
1665 Pierre de Fermat French mathematician (Fermat theorem), dies at 63
1793 Louis XVI French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38
1892 John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 54
1926 Camillo Golgi Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81
C. Events on this day
1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V
1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy”, is published
1799 Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination is introduced
1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens’ “Daily News”
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA
1879 Henrik Ibsen’s “Et Dukkehjem” premieres in Copenhagen
1954 1st atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
See
Scope Systems‘s site for more
history on this date.
