Tuesday, June 5, 2012

June 5 - Music Class




Music Class





This Day In History
1817
The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1851
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1883
The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1915
Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1956
Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show.
1964
DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1977
The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1989
The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1995
The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.


Famous Birthdays
1553
Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1646
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
1718
Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
1723
Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
1760
Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (d. 1852)
1850
Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1883
John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1898
Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960)
1899
Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992)
1919
Richard Scarry, American author/illustrator (d. 1994)
1941
Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
1944
Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer and actor
1949
Ken Follett, Welsh author
1977
Navi Rawat, American actress

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