09-20-2009, 08:14 PM
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September 21st
19 BC ~ Death of Virgil, Roman poet. (Aeneid, etc.)
1756 ~ Birthday of John MacAdam, road builder.
1780 ~ Benedict Arnold gave the British the plans to West Point.
1866 ~ Birthday of H. G. Wells, science fiction author.
1874 ~ Birthday of Gustav Holst, Composer.
1897 ~ The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter was published in the New York Sun.
1937 ~ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien first published.
1947 ~ Birthday of Stephen King, Author.
2003 ~ The Galileo mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.
2008 ~ And then there were none: The last two independent Wall Street investment banks, Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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