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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Local Time Australian Eastern Standard
Thursday, 09 September 2010 03:34 pmServer Date, On This Day, Monday, February 8, 2010.
Birthdays
1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
1820 Willam Tecumseh Sherman
1828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
1828 Jules Verne
1902 Lyle Talbot
1906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
1921 Lana Turner
1924 Audrey Meadows
1925 Jack Lemmon
1925 Jack Lemmon
1931 James Dean
1932 John Williams
1940 Nick Nolte
1940 Ted Koppel
1942 Robert Klein
1968 Gary Coleman
Events
Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
1693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, 2nd college in US
1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
1908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
1922 Radio arrives in the White House.
1977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
That's all for today.
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