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08-25-2016, 01:00 PM | #11 |
The Un-Tuckian
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1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. 1543 The first Europeans, and the first firearms, arrive in Japan. 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1894 Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. 1916 The United States National Park Service is created. 1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. 1981 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn. 1989 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time. 1991 Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux. 1994 - Jimmy Buffett crashed his Grumman G-44 Widgeon seaplane on take-off in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Buffett swam away from the wreckage. 2012 Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so. Births 1530 Ivan the Terrible; 1819 Allan Pinkerton (Pinkerton National Detective Agency); 1836 Bret Harte; 1909 Ruby Keeler, Michael Rennie ('Klaatu' in The Day The Earth Stood Still); 1916 Van Johnson; 1917 Mel Ferrer; 1918 Leonard Bernstein♪ ♫; 1919 George Wallace; 1921 Monty Hall; 1927 Althea Gibson; 1930 Sean Connery (woman slapper); 1931 Regis Philbin; 1933 Patrick F. McManus; 1933 Tom Skerritt; 1938 David Canary (All My Children, Bonanza); 1937 Virginia Wolff; 1939 John Badham; 1943 Harry Manfredini♪ ♫; 1944 Anthony Heald (the old friend Hannibal Lecter was going to have for dinner at the end of The Silence of the Lambs); 1949 John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Gene Simmons(KISS); 1950 Willy DeVille♪ ♫(Mink DeVille); 1951 Rob Halford♪ ♫(Judas Priest, Fight); 1954 Elvis Costello♪ ♫; 1958 Tim Burton; 1961 Billy Ray Cyrus♪ ♫; 1962 Vivian Campbell; 1964 Blair Underwood; 1968 Rachael Ray; 1970 Jo Dee Messina♪ ♫; 1976 Alexander Skarsgεrd ('Tarzan' in The Legend of Tarzan, son of actor Stellen Skarsgεrd); 1987 Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) Deaths 79 Pliny the Elder; 1819 James Watt; 1822 William Herschel; 1867 Michael Faraday; 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche; 1908 Henri Becquerel; 1945 John Birch (John Birch Society); 1956 Alfred Kinsey; 1967 Paul Muni; 1984 Truman Capote; 1988 Art Rooney (founded the Pittsburgh Steelers); 2000 Frederick C. Bock (namesake of Bockscar, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan), Allen Woody(Allman Bros); 2001 Aaliyah♪ ♫; 2009 Ted Kennedy; 2012 Neil Armstrong
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