home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
The Datafile PD-CD 5
/
DATAFILE_PDCD5.iso
/
utilities
/
b
/
birthday
/
!Birthday
/
Month
/
Jul
/
28
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-01-28
|
762b
|
19 lines
6
Beatrix Potter (1866), English author
Garfield Sobers (1936), West Indian cricketer
Gerald Hopkins (1844), English poet
Marcel Duchamp (1887), French artist
Ian McCaskill (1938), Weatherman
Rudy Valee (1901), American singer
9
1976 China was struck by an earthquake, killing an estimated 800,000 people
1976 Britain broke off diplomatic links wih Uganda
1972 British dockers began a national dock strike
1959 Postcodes were introduced in Britain
1914 The first World War began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
1858 Fingerprints were first used as a means of identification
1851 The first ever photograph of a total eclipse of the Sun was made
1750 Johann Sebastain Bach, the composer, died
1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, the French poet & soldier, died