Some system issues today, so things are a bit abbreviated.
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From Crazytown:
The former president held a rally in Ohio over the weekend. He didn't disappoint. (Video). Also (Video).
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
- Hug Holiday Day
- National Almond Buttercrunch Day
- National Camera Day
- National Waffle Iron Day
- World Scleroderma Awareness Day
On this date:
- 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England, went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale. It was rebuilt in the following year
- 1863 - After the National Banking and Currency Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1863, First National Bank in Davenport was the first bank in the country to open under its provisions. It was the first First National Bank
- 1927 - The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completed the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii
- 1956 - The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System
- 1975 - Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of the Apple I computer
- 2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone
Birthdays
- 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator, best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (d. 1944)
- 1910 – Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor (d. 1969)
- 1911 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (d. 1975) (Video)
- 1919 – Slim Pickens, American actor and rodeo performer (d. 1983) (Video)
- 1920 – Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (d. 2013) (Video)
- 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Gary Busey, American actor
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Miscellany
Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study. Research suggests humans cannot slow the rate at which they get older because of biological constraints.
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Categories: Aging (Ageing), Donald Trump
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