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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Thursday, 09 September 2010 03:36 pmServer Date, On This Day, Saturday, March 19, 2005.
Birthdays
1848 Wyatt Earp
1860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
1928 Patrick McGoohan
1935 Phyllis Newman
1936 Ursula Andress
1947 Glenn Close
1955 Bruce Willis
Events
Canberra Day in Australia
The day the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano.
1822 Boston, Mass incorporated
1859 Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris
1917 US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for the railroads.
1918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time
1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time
1928 'Amos and Andy' debut on radio.
1928 Amos & Andy debuts on radio
1931 Nevada legalized gambling
1949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, TN
1992 NASDAQ begins trading AOL shares for $11.50.
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