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Happy birthday and many happy returns David Dixon and Andrew Phung and all those born on this day, along with 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1397) 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751) 1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915) 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897) 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874) 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899) 1876 – William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906) 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 2003) 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy) January 7: Christmas (Julian calendar); Victory Day in Cambodia; Flag Day in Italy Francis, Duke of Guise 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise (pictured), retook Calais, Englands last continental possession, for France. 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galileimade his first observation of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two until the following day. 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic. 1979 – The Vietnam Peoples Army captured the Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as its president. That was our last possession. Galileo saw the four moons. Their flag is our flag. Pot is evil. The Republic is now. Lets party.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:12:50 +0000

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