Monday, April 17, 2006
Things I'm happy about happening on October 17, my bday
Births:
1898 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998)
1915 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
1930 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003) haha
1938 - Evel Knievel, American daredevil
1958 - Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter [pride of Newnan, my grandma's town]
1962 - Mike Judge, Ecuadoran-born cartoonist and writer [the rise of Beavis and Butt-head interview]
1968 - Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician [pic: Ziggy + Melody Makers the day before I saw them w/my dad at FurtherFest 2000]
1972 - Eminem, American rapper [Hoover Policy Review]
1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer [Trump is a fan]
538 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration
1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga
1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia
1806 - Former leader of the Great Slave Rebellion of 1791, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule
1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion [ok not happy]
1933 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US [picture actually his swearing in as citizen, 1940]
1968: Black athletes make silent protest
1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993.
