06-14-2006, 12:56 PM
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June 14th
1671 ~ Birthday of Tomaso Albinoni, Italian Composer.
1736 ~ Birthday of Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French mathematician. The unit of electrical charge, the coulomb, and Coulomb's law are named after him.
1841 ~ The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.
1903 ~ Birthday of Alonzo Church, Mathematician & Logician.
1909 ~ Birthday of Burl Ives, American Folk Singer, Author & Actor.
1919 ~ John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1940 ~ WWII: German troops enter Paris.
1952 ~ The keel was laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1982 ~ Argentine forces in the capital Port Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces, bringing the Falklands War to an end.
1995 ~ Death of Roger Zelazny, science fiction author.
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