06-08-2006, 05:16 AM
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June 8th
632 ~ Death of Muhammad, founder of Islam.
1810 ~ Birthday of Robert Schumann, Composer.
1866 ~ The Canadian Parliament met for the first time in Ottawa.
1876 ~ Death of George Sand, Author.
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 Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962.
1949 ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published.
1984 ~ Homosexuality is decriminalized in New South Wales, Australia.
1998 ~ Charlton Heston assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association.
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