452 ~ Attila the Hun invaded Italy.

1625 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Cassini, Scientist.

1776 ~ American invaders driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer.

1866 ~ The Canadian Parliament met for the first time in Ottawa.

1867 ~ Birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect.

1887 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.

1910 ~ Birthday of John W. Campbell Jr., Science Fiction Writer, Publisher, Editor.

1916 ~ Birthday of Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel laureate.

1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published.

2004 ~ First transit of Venus since 1882; the next one will occur on June 6, 2012.

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