Tuesday, October 16, 2012

October 16 - Volunteers





Volunteers





This Day In History
1384
Jadwiga is crowned King* of Poland, although she is a woman.
1781
George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after a siege.
1846
William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1869
The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1923
The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1975
Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1978
Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
1995
The Skye Bridge is opened.
2002
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.


Famous Birthdays
1430
King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1758
Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1804
Benjamin Russell, American artist (d. 1885)
1854
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet (d. 1900)
1888
Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1890
Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
1925
Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
1941
Tim McCarver, American baseball player and commentator
1958
Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer



* - And yet, as St. Hedwig, she is the patron saint of queens.

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