Saturday, June 16, 2012

June 16 - Phan




Phan






This Day In History
1774
Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1816
Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
1846
The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
1903
The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
1911
IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1961
Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963
Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.


Famous Birthdays
1583
Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
1723
Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
1738
Mary Katharine Goddard, American postmistress, printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1821
Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
1829
Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1890
Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (d. 1965)
1896
Murray Leinster, American science-fiction and alternate history writer (d. 1976)
1902
George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
1935
Jim Dine, American artist
1962
Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
1970
Phil Mickelson, American golfer
1982
Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress

1 comment:

  1. Oh! Look! Her kerchief fits! Any chance I could have a pic of both kerchiefs being modeled for MY blog?

    I thought all Phans were green and fuzzy...

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