06-02-2006, 02:09 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
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June 2nd
1740 ~ Birthday of Marquis de Sade, French Nobleman & Author.
1835 ~ Start of P.T. Barnum’s circus’ first tour of the U.S.
1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Hardy, Poet & Novelist.
1857 ~ Birthday of Edward Elgar, English Composer.
1896 ~ Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for the radio.
1897 ~ Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, was quoted as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
1953 ~ Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1966 ~ First U.S. Lunar soft landing, by Surveyor 1.
1987 ~ Death of Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist.
1990 ~ Death of Rex Harrison, English actor.
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