Saturday, August 4, 2012

August 4 - Pick-Me-Up




Pick-Me-Up





This Day In History
1327
First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
1693
Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
1790
A tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard).
1821
Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1902
The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1958
The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
2007
NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.


Famous Birthdays
1755
Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor (d. 1805)
1792
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
1834
John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1900
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Scottish consort of George VI (d. 2002)
1901
Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (d. 1971)
1915
Warren Avis, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1934
Dallas Green, American baseball player
1942
Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008)
1955
Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1962
Roger Clemens, American baseball player
1969
Michael DeLuise, American actor


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