Saturday, April 26, 2008

On this day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_26

Quite an assortment.

Jamestown, Tripoli, Chernobyl, and top quarks on the events side.

We get serious on the births list, however.

Marcus Aurelius (!), Muhammed (bleck), Shakespeare(!!), Thomas Reid AND David Hume, Esek Hopkins, John James Audubon, Alfred Krupp, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Udet, Charles Richter, and Jessica Lynch. Hrm. Rather a shortage of people in the 20th century.

The only name I find worth noting on the death side is, however, a rather big one.

John Wilkes Booth. Eep.

Happy Confederate Memorial Day! (For any Floridians or Georgians out there.)

Happy World Intellectual Property Day! (There's a World Intellectual Property Day?!!? Aren't we getting a little carried away with this sort of thing?)

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