Saturday, March 3, 2012

March 3 - Sailboat PJs




I See Boat!


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Time out whilst I think up some more deviltry.


This Day In History
1284
The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1776
The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1875
Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
1904
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1915
NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1923
TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1931
The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1969
NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
2005
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.


Famous Birthdays
1678
Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)
1831
George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
1847
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian inventor (d. 1922)
1882
Charles Ponzi, Italian fraud convict (d. 1949)
1911
Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
1916
Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author
1920
James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)
1958
Miranda Richardson, British actress
1962
Herschel Walker, American football player

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