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
Thursday, 09 September 2010 03:38 pmServer Date, On This Day, Friday, March 12, 2010.
Birthdays
1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
1832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
1859 E. Cesaro --1906
1921 Gordon MacRae
1922 Jack Kerouac
1928 Edward Albee
1932 Andrew Young
1940 Al Jarreau
1941 Barbara Feldon
1942 Paul Kantner
1946 Liza Minnelli
1948 James Taylor
1962 Darryl Strawberry
Events
Zeta Bo”tid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
Commonwealth Day
1850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturers tax
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga
1925 First transatlantic radio broadcast.
1936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat"
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
That's all for today.
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