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 03:09 pmServer Date, On This Day, Friday, July 30, 2010.
Birthdays
1818 Emily Bronte
1863 Henry Ford, began automobile revolution
1889 Vladimir Zworykin, co-inventor of television
1891 Casey Stengel
1909 C. Northcote Parkinson, naval historian.
1930 Thomas Sowell
1933 Edd "Kookie" Byrnes
1939 Peter Bogdanovich
1941 Paul Anka
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger
1948 Jean Reno
1956 Delta Burke
1964 Vivica A. Fox
Events
Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
1619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. 1st elective governing body in a British colony.
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii.
1946 1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM
1956 Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
1980 Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain, Fran
1983 STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
1984 STS-14 first flight of the shuttle Discovery.
That's all for today.
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