Cheshiresoft CDAY Almanac

Today is Sunday, August 19, 2012.

Birthdays

1646 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England.
1739 G.S. Klgel --1812
1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
1871 Orville Wright, builder of bicycles and airplanes.
1902 Ogden Nash
1906 Philo T. Farnsworth, co-inventor of television
1919 Malcolm Forbes
1921 Gene Roddenberry
1931 Willie Shoemaker
1940 Jill St. John
1946 Bill Clinton
1948 Tipper Gore
1951 John Deacon
1956 Adam Arkin
1963 John Stamos

Events

National Aviation Day
1826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario).
1891 William Huggins describes use of spectrum in astronomy.
1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1960 Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (recovered alive...Yeaaa!)
1979 The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34
1982 Soyuz T-7 is launched

That's all for today.