Friday, May 11, 2012

May 11 - Big Hug




Big Hug





This Day In History
1502
Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
1647
Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
1820
Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
1858
Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1910
An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1918
The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
1927
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1969
Monty Python comedy troupe forms.
1987
In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
1997
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.


Famous Birthdays
482
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 565)
1720
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)
1811
Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai/American conjoined twins (d. 1874)
1861
Frederick Russell Burnham, American inspiration and "father" of the international scouting movement (d. 1947)
1871
Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
1881
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (d. 1963)
1888
Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
1894
Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1904
Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
1911
Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
1918
Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1920
Denver Pyle, American actor (d. 1997)
1934
Arthur Labatt, Canadian businessman (Labatt Brewing Company)
1946
Robert Jarvik, American physician and inventor
1963
Natasha Richardson, English/American actress (d. 2009)
1968
Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
1988
Jeremy Maclin, American football player

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