Today we were supposed to go the library and look up newspapers or magazines from the day we were born, and find out what was happening in Salt Lake or in our birth cities (Louisville for me).
Well, I lamed out. I had ZERO time to do this, so I resorted to the internet, and found basically nothing. I will try to get to this another day, but in the meantime, here are some things that happened on my birthday in various years and in other places:
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1765 - The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies.
1775 - Thomas Paine's African Slavery in America was published. It was the first article in the United States calling for the emancipation of all slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1913 - The Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect federal income taxes, as provided for under the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Federal income taxes had previously been collected from 1864-1872. (Hmmmm, not sure I like this one...;)!)
1917 - Riots and strikes break out in St. Petersburg, Russia, marking the start of the Russian Revolution.
1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1924 - The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India.
1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
1979 - Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1979 - The first extraterrestrial volcano is discovered on Io, a satellite of the planet Jupiter.
1985 - A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in a car-bombing in Beirut kills 85 people and injures 175.
1999 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
1 comment:
Hey, we both lamed out on the same day! I thought your list was very interesting. But too bad there was nothing from 1969 or 1970. I did the opposite - listed just one thing that happened on March 8 1969. Anyway - I'm so glad you survived your snowy walk with no pain!
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