08-30-2009, 12:41 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: West central Illinois
Posts: 590,002
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August 30th
1862 ~ Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va..
1871 ~ Birthday of Ernest Rutherford, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908.
1909 ~ Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1918 ~ Birthday of Baseball hall-of-famer Ted Williams.
1940 ~ Death of J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1906. Prof. Thomson identified the electron as a subatomic particle, the first one to be discovered. In one of the greatest ironies of modern physics his son, G.P. Thomson later received the prize for proving that the electron was also, in fact, a wave.
1963 ~ Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders went into operation.
1963 ~ Death of Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy.
1987 ~ Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999 ~ East Timorese voted for independence in a referendum.
2006 ~ Death of Glenn Ford, Canadian-born actor.
Tomorrow, jseal will be back! 
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