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Summoned at 06:50am on Monday, May 21, 2012

birth:

Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC

chris:

Trinity Sunday (7 days after Pentecost)

compu:

DEC announces PDP-8

histo:

Battle of Iquique in Chile
US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956

computing:

DEC announces PDP-8 (1968)

events:

Charles Lindberg arrives in Paris from New York (1927)
Last communication from the U.S. Scorpion with 99 men aboard. (1968)
The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific. (1956)
the American Red Cross is founded. (1881)

hawaii:

1st steamship arrives in Hawaii. (1846)

lives:

Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German (1471)Renaissance artist.
Alexander Pope, poet and satirist, is born (1688)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aircraft builder (e.g. Curtiss Jennie) and inventor of the aileron, was born (1878)
Harold Robbins, novelist (1916)
Henry VI of England is murdered (1471)
Plato (Aristocles) born (Athens(?), 427 BC)
Raymond Burr, actor (1917)
Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph (1860)

sfo:

Mount Davidson Cross lit by President Roosevelt in Washington via Telegraph (1933)

world:

Battle of Iquique (Chile)


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