Thanks micka!

Apr 14, 2006 13:28

Nothing like beating boredom while having to work on Good Friday!

look up your birthday on wikipedia.com name three events that happened, two people that were born, and one that died.

June 24th

Events:

1901 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens

1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.

1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. (well FUCK!)

And a couple more for shits and giggles:

1974 - The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket

1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.

Births:

1927 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1945 - George Pataki, Governor of New York

Death:

2000 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born intelligence officer (b. 1908)
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