J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics (1906) when he showed electrons were particles. His son won it in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves. And they were both right.
There is an official Russian spinoff of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” called “It’s Always Sunny in Moscow” that focuses on the owners of a Moscow bar named Philadelphia.
Men who help with housework tend to have more sex.
Most burns received by firefighters are in fact scalds, brought on by their sweat turning into steam. Many Fire Services provide t-shirts to be worn underneath fire kit that wick away moisture to try and avoid this.
The US government commissioned teams of artists and scientists to devise ways to warn humans 10,000 in the future of buried radioactive waste. One suggestion was to breed cats whose fur changed color when exposed to radiation, then immortalize the cats in song and legend.
Kirk Douglas’ son, Eric Douglas, tried a career in stand-up comedy. At one point he was frustrated by the audience’s reaction, so he shouted ‘I’m Kirk Douglas’s son!’. An audience member responded by standing up and shouting ‘No, I’m Kirk Douglas’s son!’, followed by the rest of the audience.
In the 1986 NBA draft, Len Bias, the #2 pick by the Boston Celtics died of cocaine overdose 2 days after his draft night. He is considered by some sportswriters to be one of the greatest players not to play at the professional level.
In 2011, a survey done showed that approximately 60% of Jamaicans would push to once again become a British territory; citing years of social and fiscal mismanagement in the country.
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1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1908 - 8th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2)
1963 - 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10
1975 - Dahomey becomes Benin
1990 - US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein
2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
1764 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1920 - Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1954 - June Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited)
1972 - Spence Fischer, WLAF quarterback (Scotland Claymores)
1977 - Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1718 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway at 36
1931 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1986 - Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1997 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
2007 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69
