08-10-2007, 02:04 PM
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August 10th
1519 ~ Ferdinand Magellan's 5 ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1675 ~ Foundation stone set of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
1846 ~ The Smithsonian Institution was chartered following a $500,000 donation by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1885 ~ America's first commercially operated electric streetcar began operation in Baltimore.
1896 ~ Death of Otto Lilienthal, Aviation Pioneer.
1945 ~ Death of Robert Goddard, Rocket Scientist.
1988 ~ Something that hit too, too close to home!
1990 ~ The Magellan space probe arrived at Venus.
1995 ~ Norma McCorvey, '”Jane Roe” in the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
2003 ~ The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, recorded in Kent, UK.
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