Cheshiresoft CDAY Almanac

Today is Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

Birthdays

1623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
1623 B. Pascal --1662
1754 J.B.M.C. Meusnier --1793
1771 J.D. Gergonne --1859
1886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897 Moe Howard
1902 Guy Lombardo, conductor
1903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
1903 Lou Gehrig
1909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
1915 Pat Buttram
1919 Louis Jourdan
1919 Pauline Kael
1922 Aage "Nils" Bohr, Danish atomic physicist, (Nobel 1975)
1933 Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1934 Gena Rowlands
1948 Phylicia Rashad
1954 Kathleen Turner
1962 Paula Abdul
1978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal".

Events

240 BC - Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.
1756 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta.
1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
1846 First baseball game: NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken, NJ).
1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories.
1910 Father's Day celebrated for first time in Spokane, Washington.
1931 First commercial photoelectric cell installed in West Haven Ct.
1932 First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
1947 First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd at Muroc, CA.
1976 Viking 1 enters Martian orbit after 10 month flight from earth.
1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit.

That's all for today.