On my birthday… :)

Hi everyone,

This year, on my birthday, I thought I’d do something a little different. After a little research, I decided to put together a short list of historical facts that, when I read them, had some sort of positive emotional reaction within me. So here’s my look back, on this day, June 18^th, through history:

On this day:

1155 - Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome.

1778 - Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary War.

1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.

1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.

1927 - The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."

1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales.

1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.

1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1948 - Columbia Records publicly unveiled its new long-playing phonograph record, the 33 1/3, in New York City.

1959 - A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.

1959 - The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.

1966 - Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.

1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience made its debut performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in California.

1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

I share the day with a couple of interesting people (more than this, but these strike me):

M.C. Escher 1898

Paul McCartney 1942

If you can think of anything else I should know about this day, please feel free to share it with me, I’d love to hear from you! :)

Stephen