Tuesday, February 21, 2012

February 21 - Hi, Pete!




Hi, Pete!


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This Day In History
1804
The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1842
John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1885
The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1937
Initial flight of the first successful* flying car, Waldo Waterman's Aerobile.
1947
In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1995
Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Famous Birthdays
1801
John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890)
1821
Charles Scribner I, American publisher (d. 1871)
1844
Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937)
1893
Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
1907
W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
1910
Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982)
1927
Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
1946
Alan Rickman, English actor
1953
William Petersen, American actor
1958
Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer


* - Successful, in that it both flew like a plane and drove like a car. Commercially, not so much.

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