Monday, September 10, 2012

September 10 - Potato





Potato





This Day In History
1570
Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1823
Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846
Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858
George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1932
The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1946
While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
2008
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.


Famous Birthdays
1659
Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
1758
Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1801
Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1855
Albert F. Mummery, British mountaineer (d. 1895)
1888
Israel Abramofsky, Russian-born American artist (d. 1976)
1896
Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
1908
Raymond Scott, American composer (d. 1994)
1918
Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1929
Arnold Palmer, American golfer
1934

Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1941
Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
1958
Chris Columbus, American film director
1960
Colin Firth, English actor
1974
Ryan Phillippe, American actor

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