From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:00:36 -0400
Subject: {Open Tarot Nexus} Tuesday August 23, 2011: Reference.com On This Day
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On This Day:
Tuesday August 23, 2011
This is the 235th day of the year, with 130 days remaining in 2011.
Fact of the Day: Yuri Gagarin
"Yuri (or Yury) Gagarin was a 20th-century Russian explorer who became
the first person to journey into space and to orbit the earth. Gagarin
earned this honor after joining the air force and becoming known as a
daring and skillful fighter pilot. His spaceship, Vostok I, was
launched from a European desert and made it around the Earth in 1 hour
and 48 minutes. Just seven years later, Gagarin was killed when
testing a new jet trainer. Gagarin was honored by having his ashes
buried in the Kremlin wall in Moscow's Red Square."
Holidays
Feast day of St. Rose of Lima, Saints Asterius and Claudius, St.
Tydfil, St. Philip Benizi, and St. Eugene or Eoghan of Ardstraw.
Romania: National Day.
Events
1541 - Jacques Cartier landed near Quebec on his third voyage to North America.
1775 - King George III of England refused the American colonies' offer
of peace and declared them in open rebellion.
1821 - After 11 years of war, Spain granted Mexican independence as a
constitutional monarchy.
1902 - Fanny Farmer, among the first to emphasize the relationship of
diet to health, opened her School of Cookery in Boston.
1914 - Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
1927 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-American
anarchists, accused of robbery and murder on April 15, 1920 were sent
to the electric chair.
1944 - Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King
Michael, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of
the Allies.
1950 - Up to 77,000 members of the U.S. Army Organized Reserve Corps
were called involuntarily to active duty to fight the Korean War.
1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi
Ballet was on tour in New York.
1989 - Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black teenager, was shot to death
after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn
neighborhood.
2005 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
2005 - Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish
settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and
part of the West Bank.
Births
1754 - King Louis XVI of France.
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer.
1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist, social reformer.
1912 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, choreographer, actor.
1932 - Mark Russell, an American political satirist/comedian.
1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist.
1946 - Keith Moon, English singer and drummer for the rock band The Who.
1963 - Kenny Wallace, American race car driver.
1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player.
Deaths
1305 - Sir William Wallace, a Scottish knight who led his countrymen
in resistance to English domination in the region, during periods of
the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian-born American film actor.
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist and collaborator with
composer Richard Rogers.
1990 - David Rose, British-born American composer and orchestra leader.
1997 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
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