Happy birthday and many happy returns Sam Marji. Born on the same day, across the years, as 1006 – Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036) 1490 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548) 1537 – Edward VI of England (d. 1553) 1855 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922) 1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930) 1891 – Edith Stein, German nun, philosopher, and saint (d. 1942) 1910 – Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and critic (d. 1985) 1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007) 1949 – Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan murderer 1955 – Jane Siberry, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and poet 1968 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and producer 1975 – Marion Jones, American basketball player and runner 1996 – Riechedly Bazoer, Dutch footballer October 12: Our Lady Aparecidas Day and Childrens Day in Brazil; Independence Day in Equatorial Guinea(1968); National Day in Spain (1492) Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse in her balloon, before her parachute descent 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse(pictured) became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 m (3,000 ft) in a hot-air balloon gondola. 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. 1917 – First World War: New Zealand troops suffered 2,735 casualties, including 845 deaths, in the First Battle of Passchendaele, making it the nations largest loss of life in one day. 1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and most of her cabinet. 1999 – Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf led a military coup against the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. You have the prettiest parachutes. You have pledged. You remember NZ. You saved Maggie. You finished the coup. Now we can party.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:32:28 +0000
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