06-04-2004, 07:46 PM
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Location: Maryland
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June 5th
1718 ~ Birthday of Thomas Chippendale, Furniture Maker.
1723 ~ Birthday of Adam Smith, Economist.
1752 ~ Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning)
1833 ~ Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage.
1883 ~ Birthday of John Maynard Keynes, Economist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Pancho Villa, Revolutionary.
1939 ~ Birthday of Joe Clark, sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
1944 ~ Allied soldiers entered Rome. It was the first capital of an Axis nation to fall.
1977 ~ The Apple II personal computer went on sale.
1995 ~ Bose-Einstein condensate first created.
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