Sunday, May 20, 2012

May 20 - Happy Guy




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2012-05-16 08.03.28


This Day In History
325
The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
685
The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
1497
John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship  Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
1570
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
1609
Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1862
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
1873
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1891
The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1895
A filmed boxing match (filmed on the roof of Madison Square Garden) was the first motion picture in the world to be screened before a paying audience, at a storefront on Broadway in New York.
1916
The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
1927
At 7:52am, Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 10:22pm the next day.
1932
Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1980
In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.


Famous Birthdays
1554
Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594)
1593
Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1759
Dr. William Thornton, British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol, an authentic polymath (d, 1828)
1768
Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
1772
Sir William Congreve, English inventor (d. 1828)
1776
Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (d.1862)
1799
Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1806
John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
1818
William Fargo, American pioneer expressman, co-founder of Wells, Fargo & Co. (d. 1881)
1851
Emile Berliner, German-born recording pioneer (d. 1929)
1895
R. J. Mitchell, British aircraft designer (d. 1937)
1908
James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
1913
William Hewlett, American engineer (d. 2001)
1927
Bud Grant, American football coach
1942
Carlos Hathcock, United States Marine (d. 1999)
1946
Cher, American singer & actress
1958
Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's)
1965
Ted Allen, American television host
1975
Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
1979
Jayson Werth, American baseball player

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