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I was born on this day
Also born this day were...
1865 George V king of England (1910-36)
1901 Maurice Evans Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched)
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz], actor (Some Like It Hot, Trapeze)
1926 Allen Ginsberg beat poet (Howl)
and on this day...
1098 Christian Crusaders seize Antioch, Turkey
1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in Calif
1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1851 1st baseball uniforms worn. Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
1860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1935 French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours
1937 Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1949 Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1957 Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsilitis & pharyngitis
1964 Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
1965 Gemini 4 launched; norris2_d US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White)
1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1976 Queen's Bhoemian Rhapsody goes gold
1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1986 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3767
1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
1989 Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
1989 Troops in China shoot & kill 100s of students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan. Worst eruption in Japanese history
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Ragnar Torfason
2005 December 28
