
06-07-2004, 06:37 PM
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June 8th
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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