Wednesday, August 22, 2012

August 22 - Reading





Reading






Family Birthdays
Uncle John Hoyos


This Day In History
565
Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
1485
The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1780
James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1849
The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
1851
The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1864
Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1902
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1932
The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting.
1968
Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1989
The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
2004
A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007
The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.


Famous Birthdays
1647
Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. 1712)
1771
Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1822
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1834
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1862
Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1891
Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
1893
Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
1902
Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
1912
John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
1920
Ray Bradbury, American writer (d. 2012)
1925
Honor Blackman, English actress
1936
Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer
1958
Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959
Mark Williams, English actor
1970
Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-born American chef and television host
1971
Richard Armitage, English actor

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