1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1920 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
1966 - "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs
1987 - Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
1990 - Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1910 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (exciting NSW and Australian batsman of 30's)
1912 - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1973 - Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
1978 - Stephanie Lee Hamilton, Williston ND, Miss America-ND (1997)
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor
1736 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1886 - Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
1896 - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
1916 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies
1916 - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies
Apparently, you can see Russia from your house. Only if you live in the Alaskan city of Diomede. It’s located only 2.4 miles from Russia.
In 1993 a Missouri man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. Instead the river flooded 14,000 acres. He was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.
Wearing a white t-shirt with a large letter “T” on the front is scientifically proven to make you 10% more attractive to women.
Economists have pointed out that if all the money spent on federal antipoverty programs were given to the poor, a family of four would have an annual income near $70,000. They get less than half the money given in their name; most goes to fund the bureaucracies that run the programs.
The typical tax evader in the United States is a male under the age of 50 in the highest tax bracket and with a complicated return, and the most common means of tax evasion is overstatement of charitable contributions, particularly church donations.
When going to battle Rajputs would fashion false trunks for their horses, making them appear to be baby elephants which the enemy’s elephants instinctively would not attack.
Because the Russians did such a great job embalming Lenin, the Vietnamese flew Ho Chi Minh’s corpse to Russia once a year for a “refresh.”
There was a woman in 1972 who possessed a visual acuity 20 times better than average. She could identify people at a distance of more than a mile (1.6 km).
