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- Monday, December 1, 2008
Holidays- No Holidays today
- Birthdays
- ♦ 1792 N.I. Lobachevsky
- ♦ 1886 Rex Stout
- ♦ 1897 Cyril Ritchard
- ♦ 1912 Minoru Yamasaki
- ♦ 1913 Mary Martin
- ♦ 1935 Woody Allen
- ♦ 1936 Lou Rawls
- ♦ 1939 Lee Trevino
- ♦ 1940 Richard Pryor
- ♦ 1945 Bette Midler
- ♦ 1970 Julie Condra
- Events
- ♦ 1640 Portugal becomes independent of Spain
- ♦ 1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
- ♦ 1913 First drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
- ♦ 1917 Father Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town
- ♦ 1918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown
- ♦ 1922 First skywriting over the US: "Hello USA" by Capt Turner, RAF.
- ♦ 1929 Bingo, invented by Edwin S Lowe
- ♦ 1947 Aleister Crowley dies.
- ♦ 1951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds.
- ♦ 1958 Central African Republic established (National Day)
- ♦ 1959 First color photograph of Earth is received from outer space.
- ♦ 1967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope
- Reminders
- No Reminders today
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