On this day

[fuhrel at ccmail.ccsn.nevada.edu]

     And Fabian was born, as was Christopher Marlowe.  And Gerry and the 
     Pacemakers hit big with Ferry 'Cross the Mersey.
     
     Bob Fuhrel


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Subject: On this day
Author:  	"Henry M" <gravity at nicom.com> at SMTP-CCSN
Date:    2/6/97 7:27 AM


Kinda quiet on this day, or maybe it's just me, but in history:
     
In 1515, Italian editor and printer Aldus Manutius died; he produced 
the first paperbacks and invented italics.  
     
In 1665, Anne, queen of England from 1702-14, was born; the last of 
the Stuart monarchs, she was on the throne for the union of England 
and Scotland in 1707.  
     
In 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state of the United States.  
     
In 1802, Charles Wheatstone, the English physicist and pioneer of 
telegraphy, was born.  
     
In 1804, English cleric and chemist Joseph Priestley, one of the 
discoverers of oxygen, died.  
     
In 1838, during the Boers' Great Trek, Boer leader Piet Retief was 
murdered by the Zulu king Dingane's warriors.  
     
In 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed under which New Zealand's 
Maori population accepted Queen Victoria's sovereignty in their 
lands.  
     
In 1895, legendary baseball player George Herman "Babe" Ruth was 
born.  
     
In 1912, Eva Braun, the wife of Adolf Iitler, was born; they married 
the day before they committed suicide in their Berlin bunker in April 
1945.  
     
In 1922, the Washington Conference between U.S., France, Japan, Italy 
and Britain ended with agreement on restricting use of poison gas and 
submarine warfare.  
     
In 1931, Isabel Peron, the Argentine dancer who became a political 
leader and followed her husband Juan as president from 1974-76, was 
born.  (A former entertainer President of a country? Crazy idea!)
     
In 1952, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland died 
and was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.  
     
In 1955, ELVIS PRESLEY gave his first live performance in an 
auditorium in Memphis, Tenn.
     
In 1958, seven members of Britain's Manchester United football team 
were among 21 killed in a plane crash in Munich. Nicknamed the "Busby 
Babes" after their manager Matt Busby, they were returning from a
 European Cup match.  
     
In 1976, the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation admitted it had bribed 
officials in the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden and Italy.
     
AsB4
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