Friday, May 4, 2012

May 4 - Babel




Babel



Family Birthdays
Cousin Zach Ukers

This Day In History
1256
The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1626
Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan) aboard the See Meeuw.
1675
King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1871
The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1904
The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1959
The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
1974
An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
2001
The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.


Famous Birthdays
1655
Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731)
1733
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1796
Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859)
1826
Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
1827
John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1852
Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1890
Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist, a founder of the Group of Seven (d. 1945)
1917
Edward T. Cone, American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist (d. 2004)
1929
Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993)
1939
Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
1941
George Will, American writer
1950
Darryl Hunt, English musician (The Pogues)
1958
Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990)
1959
Randy Travis, American musician

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