Saturday, March 24, 2012

March 24 - Storage




Storage


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Daddy went to Ikea and got  us a jungle gym!


This Day In History
1603
James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England.
1707
The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1721
Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
1896
A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission.
1900
Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1944
In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1965
NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1993
Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.


Famous Birthdays
1693
John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1834
John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
1874
Harry Houdini, (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
1911
Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1930
Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1945
Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1949
Nick Lowe, British musician
1974
Alyson Hannigan, American actress

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