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On this day/Today. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon. 1890 – The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage. 1928 – The iron lung (example ...
2015 (Friday) 2014 (Thursday) December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 13 days remain until the end of the year.
2018 (Wednesday) 2017 (Tuesday) 2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 264 days remain until the end of the year.
March 29. March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 277 days remain until the end of the year.
Sept. 9 astrological sign. People born on Sept. 9 have the astrological sun sign of Virgo, just like Beyoncé, whose Sept. 4 birthday puts her once again ahead of the trend. Typical traits of ...
Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. [17] His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.
1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died. 1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
Launched. 1996 ; 28 years ago (original) Current status. Active. Written in. HTML, JavaScript. Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [ 1 ] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ][ 3 ]