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 03:16 pmServer Date, On This Day, Sunday, August 1, 2010.
Birthdays
1770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.
1779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner'.
1815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.
1819 Herman Melville
1933 Dom DeLuise
1936 Yves Saint Laurent
1942 Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead
1963 Coolio, rapper
1973 Tempestt Bledsoe
Events
Confederation Day, celebrated in Switzerland
1291 Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation
1790 First U.S. Census
1794 Whisky Rebellion
1852 Black Methodists establish 1st black SF church, Zion Methodist
1901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
1953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education).
1958 First Class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years
1981 MTV debuts.
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