Happy birthday and many happy returns Theresa Thutrang Nguyen and Duyz Khalifa. Born on the same day, across the years, along with 1328 – Zhu Yuanzhang (d. 1398) 1687 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759) 1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher (d. 1834) 1833 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) 1917 – Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, bandleader, and composer (d. 1993) 1922 – Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman and philanthropist 1924 – Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003) 1929 – Ursula K. Le Guin, American author 1940 – Geoff Boycott, English cricketer 1942 – Judith Sheindlin, American judge and television host 1949 – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician, 9th Prime Minister of Israel 1956 – Carrie Fisher, American actress, screenwriter, and author 1962 – David Campese, Australian rugby player 1995 – Shannon Magrane, American singer October 21: Trafalgar Day in various Commonwealth countries Florence Nightingale 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Lord Nelson signalled England expects that every man will do his duty to the rest of his Royal Navy forces before they defeated Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and his combined French–Spanish navy at the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spains Cape Trafalgar. 1854 – Florence Nightingale (pictured) and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to Turkey to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. 1910 – HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy. 1944 – World War II: German forces surrendered to American troops, ending the three-week-long Battle of Aachen. 1978 – After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft, Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to King Island, Australia. We got the signal. Florence did her best work in bed. The oceans are ours. We have triumphed. We are flying high. Let us party.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:52:10 +0000
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