February 8, 2012

Nacimientos:

1819	John Ruskin, English writer and artist
1820	William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after
1828	Jules Verne, French author of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'
1920	Lana Turner, American film actress
1925	Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor
1931	James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')
1932	John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones'

Acontecimientos:

1725	Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia
1886	A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting
1924	The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison
1955	Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
1969	The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place
1974	The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere
1984	British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon
1994	Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides

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