6.12.2008
Happy Birthday Bryan!
Bryan, here are a few people who were born the same day as you:
David Rockefeller 1915
George H.W. Bush (U.S.) 1924
Anne Frank 1929
Jim Nabors 1930
Marv Albert 1941
and here are some events that took place on this day:
1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.
1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. The was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
1898 - Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain.
1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.
1923 - Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.
1929 - Anne Frank was born in Germany. She wrote in her diary about growing up in occupied Amsterdam during World War II. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.
1931 - Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws.
1971 - Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.
1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
1985 - Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky was named winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy. The award is given to the the league Most Valuable Player.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
1992 - In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings, but he was held liable in a civil suit.
2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.
1975 - Mary and Joe Perkins become parents for the fisrt time with the birth of Bryan!!
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