10-18-2006, 06:42 PM
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Location: Maryland
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October 18th
1545 ~ Death of John Taverner, Composer.
1767 ~ The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed upon.
1851 ~ Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale.
1871 ~ Death of Charles Babbage, mathematician and inventor of computing machines.
1908 ~ Death of Charles Gounod, composer.
1919 ~ Birthday of Pierre Trudeau, fifteenth PM of Canada.
1926 ~ Birthday of Chuck Berry, Musician.
1939 ~ Birthday of Lee Harvey Oswald, Assassin.
1962 ~ Dr. James D. Watson of the United States, and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1989 ~ Erich Honecker was ousted as leader of East Germany after 18 years in power.
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