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March 19
Facts
- 1831 - The City Bank of New York becomes the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken).
- 1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
- 2004 - Taiwanese president
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December 10th:
Events
1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
1993 - First release of Doom, one of the most popular shoot-em'up PC videogames (omg!)
Births
1815 - Ada Lovelace, British computer programmer (d. 1852) (she's the one they named the computer language ADA after zomg)
1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
Deaths
1978 - Ed Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
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