Ehrich Weiss, better known by his stage name Harry Houdini, died in a Detroit hospital on this day in 1926. A student asked Houdini if it was true that he could accept blows to the stomach without harm. Houdini said yes, and the student punched him in the abdomen before … Continue reading
RELEASE NUMBER: 091029-03 DATE POSTED: OCTOBER 29, 2009 PRESS RELEASE: USASOC Soldiers killed in Helicopter Crash U.S. Army Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, Oct. 29, 2009) — Seven U.S. Army Special Operations Command Soldiers died Oct. 26, 2009 in western Afghanistan. All the … Continue reading
John Adams was born at Braintree, Massachusetts on this day in 1735, to what was already an old American family. Educated at Harvard, he briefly taught school before turning to law, and then to politics. Like his second cousin Sam Adams, he was heavily involved in planning the fight for … Continue reading
Internet messages started with a crash 40 years ago today, and life hasn’t been the same since. “We transmitted the ‘L’ … and the ‘O’ — and then the other computer crashed,” says UCLA’s Leonard Kleinrock, who helped send that first message on the university’s campus on Oct. 29, 1969. … Continue reading
William Henry Gates III was born at Seattle Washington on this day in 1955. He attended the exclusive Lakeside School, where the Mothers Club used rummage sale proceeds to create one of the first computer labs ever installed in a high school. Because of his aptitude he was soon working … Continue reading
Here is a picture of me and my boys, that DeLeesa took yesterday.
John Michael Crichton was born at Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1942. He started writing early with a travel column in the New York Times at fourteen. He pursued a degree in literature at Harvard but disagreed with faculty and switched to anthropology, graduating in 1964. He earned his … Continue reading
You have to see this to believe it, very impressive! [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGU3mpfRoM]
On 19 October 1605, Sir Thomas Browne was born in London (coincidentally, he died on his 77th birthday on 19 October 1682). Trained as a physician, he was drawn to writing as much as he was to medicine. While he wrote a number of books, he is best known for … Continue reading
Noah Webster was born at West Hartford, Connecticut on this day in 1758. He studied at Yale during the Revolution, but was unable to afford to go on to law school so he became a teacher. In 1783 he began a three-volume set of books for teaching English, the first … Continue reading