08-30-2006, 05:17 AM
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August 30th
1797 ~ Birthday of Mary Shelley, Author (Frankenstein).
1871 ~ Birthday of Ernest Rutherford, Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908.
1918 ~ Birthday of Baseball hall-of-famer Ted William.
1935 ~ Birthday of John Phillips, American singer (The Mamas and the Papas).
1940 ~ Death of J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1906. Prof. Thomson identified the electron as a subatomic particle, the first one to be discovered. In one of the greatest ironies of modern physics his son, G.P. Thomson later received the prize for proving that the electron was also, in fact, a wave.
1941 ~ Siege of Leningrad began.
1963 ~ Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders went into operation.
1987 ~ Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1999 ~ East Timorese voted for independence in a referendum.
2003 ~ Death of Charles Bronson, Actor.
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