Monday, February 11, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – FEBRUARY 11

HISTORICAL EVENTS

660 BC  Traditional date for the founding of Japan.


1937  Sacagawea gives birth to Pempey (Jean Baptiste Charboneeau) prior to departure on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. William Clark, and his older brother George Rogers Clark (an American Revolutionary War hero in the Northwest Territory), are distant relatives.



From Wikipedia

1858  The Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous) in Lourdes, France.


1937  GM signs first-ever auto workers contract.


1945  President Franklin Roosevelt leaves Yalta with daughter Ann. Roosevelt dies three moths later.



FAMOUS BIRTHS


From GoogleImages

1847  Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, OH. Edison would go on to hold 1200 patents. Edison's father was  Canadian who escaped to the U.S. after taking part in the unsuccessful Mackenzie Rebellion on 1837.



FAMOUS DEATHS

55  Tiberius Cladius Caesar Britannicus (yes him), heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome, clearing the way for Nero to become Emporer. Nero would be the last emporer in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.



From Wikipedia

1650  French philosopher, writer and mathematician, René Descartes ("I think, therefore I am") stops thinking.



From Wikipedia

1976  Lee J. Cobb, American actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront, Death of a Salesman) dies in Woodland Hills, CA.



From GoogleImages

2012  Whitney Elizabeth Houston, American singer and actress dies at 48 in a tragic story. She was a beautiful talented woman ruined by a the wrong man and drugs.


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