My daughter (No 3) has started another 'chain letter'. So here is my contribution.
I am really impressed that Cleopatra died this day 2000 odd years ago and even more impressed that King George IV was also born on this date.
But most impressive, is that I have a grand-daughter Natasha born this day 1998. Read on dear reader
Births
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
1906 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
1998 - Tash is born
Events
1898 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
1908 - First Model T Ford built
1914 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon
1985 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture Japan killing 520 in the world's worst single-plane air disaster. Four people miraculously survive.
Deaths
30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (b. 1908)
1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1 comment:
Interesting that you were born on the same day as Keith Murdoch - and I was born on the same day as his prominent son, Rupert.
A minor correction, though - Natasha was born in 1998. :)
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