re: Is this approprate?( On This Day)

[martin@kawa.ssl.fujitsu.co.jp (S.C.T. Martin)]

When I read the rest of it I decided maybe every on would want to see.
So, with deep groveling to Way Geiser if I am being a naughty boy...



OTD (version 1.01) - Compiled on: Nov 30 1990
(C) Copyright 1990 The Software Construction Co., All Rights Reserved.

July 30, 1992

Born today ...

    In 1818, Emily Bronte, English novelist ("Wuthering Heights").
    In 1857, Thorstein Veblen, US economist.
    In 1863, Henry Ford, auto pioneer.
    In 1889, Vladimir Zworykin, Russian inventor of the iconoscope.
    In 1891, Casey Stengel, baseball player-manager. (1890?)
    In 1898, Henry Moore, English sculptor.
    In 1929, Chris McGuire, singer ("McGuire Sisters").
    In 1933, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, actor.
    In 1939, Eleanor Marie Cutri Smeal, feminist activist.
    In 1939, Peter Bogdanovich, film director ("The Last Picture Show").
    In 1940, Patricia Schroeder, Colorado Congresswoman.
    In 1941, Paul Anka, singer.
    In 1947, Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder-actor.
    In 1954, Ken Olin, actor.
    In 1956, Delta Burke, actress.
    In 1957, Bill Cartwright, pro basketball player.
    In 1958, Kate Bush, singer.

Events today ...

    In 1619, First legislative assembly in US convened (Jamestown, VA).
    In 1718, William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, died.
    In 1740, 1st glass factory offering "common sized" windows opened (Wistar
               - Salem, NJ).
    In 1898, Kellogg invented corn flakes.
    In 1909, First plane delivered to the War Department.
    In 1928, Chrysler bought the Dodge Brothers, Inc.
    In 1937, American Federation of Radio Artists (later American Federation
               of TV & Radio Artists, under the AFL-CIO) organized.
    In 1942, "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" (WAVES) formed.
    In 1956, "In God We Trust" officially made US motto.
    In 1965, Medicare, US government funded insurance for elderly, created.
    In 1971, Apollo-15 (US), fourth manned lunar landing, landed on the moon.
    In 1975, Former Teamster union leader James Hoffa disappeared.
    In 1980, Vanuatu became an independent republic.
    In 1983, Lynn Fontanne died.
    In 1984, Last 90 US Marine combat troops left Lebanon.
    In 1990, Nolan Ryan won his 300th game (for Texas Rangers, vs. Milwaukee
               Brewers).

Religious events today ...

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