Tuesday, January 31, 2012

January 31 - Self-Portrait



Self-Portrait




This Day In History
1846
After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1862
Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865
The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
1930
3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1958
Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1961
Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1971
Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.


Famous Birthdays
1543
Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1673
Louis de Montfort, French Catholic priest and saint (d. 1716)
1797
Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
1872
Zane Grey, American novelist (d. 1939)
1892
Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1915
Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968)
1919
Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1921
Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959)
1923
Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
1937
Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
1947
Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
1959
Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor





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