ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ONLINE WORLD ALMANAC

Gun Plot's Online Almanac provides an online diary of important birthdays and historical world events. It also provides 'What Happened This Day In Australian Military History".

Clicking on the highlighted Names/Links in the birthday list will undertake an automatic search in Google for the person named.

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Times Below are Server Time and Local AEST:

Local Time Australian Eastern Standard
Sunday, 05 February 2012 12:43 pm

Server Date, On This Day, Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Birthdays

1902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
1902 Charles Lindbergh
1906 Clyde W. Tombaugh
1913 Rosa Parks
1918 Ida Lupino
1921 Betty Friedan
1943 Ken Thompson
1945 David Brenner
1947 Dan Quayle
1948 Alice Cooper
1959 Lawrence Taylor
1960 Mattieu Hartley, The Cure

Events

Independence Day, celebrated in Sri Lanka.
1887 Interstate Commerce Act: Federal regulation of railroads
1932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
1936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
1957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale, Syracuse NY
1974 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army

That's all for today.

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