inspired by kristin
saw her post and thought...hmm...what happened on my birthday ( april 16th 1980)? here are some cool ones:
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors in the Amritsar Massacre
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August of 1963 - a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.
births
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
1952 - Bill Belichick, American football coach
1963 - Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer (The Osmonds)
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors in the Amritsar Massacre
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August of 1963 - a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.
births
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
1952 - Bill Belichick, American football coach
1963 - Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer (The Osmonds)
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