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| Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| 6th June |
I am supposed to be studying but as super short attention span gotten the better of me so in the end I've decided to read 'blogs' instead. One of the 1st I read was one of my favourite, its by this Hayley gal who lives in the States and I really feel for her. Her life is kinda topsy turvy now, want to reach out and tell her that everything will be okies soon but I do not know how. She had 2 preganacies, gave her 1st kid up for adoption and her 2nd, a baby gal died of ARPKD barely after birth. Now her 1st kid, Issac, is seriously ill with Kawasaki. Been reading her blog for a while, not many entries though.
Okies, after I've gotten sick of reading blogs, I did a search on Wikipedia on 6th June and my gosh.... a whole list of events, births and death was found. Didnt know that 6th June was such a 'favourite' day. Well.. if I am borned that day .. it has to be a good day LOL
Lets pick some events, births and deaths...
Events
1654 - Christina, reigning queen of the Protestant nation Sweden, abdicates the throne and secretly converts to Catholicism. Charles X succeedes his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/L) sold
1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States
1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
1950 - Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
1956 - David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.
1962 - The Beatles audition for EMI Records.
1993 - Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
2002 - A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
Births
1236 - Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
1714 - King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1875 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1901 - Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
1924 - Jinyong, Chinese novelist
1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - King Albert II of Belgium
1943 - Richard Smalley, Americah chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 - Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
1959 - Colin Quinn, American comedian
1963 - Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
Deaths
1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator from New York
1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
Holidays and observances
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) - Israel
National holiday of Sweden
Queensland Day
South Korean Memorial Day
Samantha Smith Day - Maine (first Monday of June)
Teacher's Day - America
National Yo-yo Day - America
I only picked a handful, basically those that i know and those who seems 'famous' enough hahaha.
Going kuku man... going to start doing my work.. somehow!
and for those that do not know why I picked 6th June... go knock your own head |
posted by thesillypurpledog @ 5:00 PM  |
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