Wednesday, March 14, 2012

March 14 - Boxes




Boxes


In W's defense, E climbed in there and put the other box on her head. He just started thumping on it.

Family Birthdays
Abigail Parsons*

This Day In History
1489
The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1794
Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885
The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
1942
Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1994
Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.


Famous Birthdays
1681
Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
1833
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first female dentist in the United States (d. 1910)
1835
Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
1854
Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1915)
1863
Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (d. 1900)
1879
Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1903
Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
1908
Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft) (d. 1991)
1912
Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1933
Sir Michael Caine, British actor
1934
Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
1951
Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1960
Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)



* - Decide for yourselves whether 'big sister in torment' was an appropriate theme for today.

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