The birthday meme

[rhu]

I wasn't going to do it....

Events
1702 - The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.

Births
1890 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (d. 1974)
1898 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
1950 - Bobby McFerrin, American singer

Deaths
1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1881)
1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I wasn't either, but it is kind of interesting.