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09-07-2013, 07:09 PM
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September 8th
1636
~
Harvard College was founded as the first college in the Americas.
1886
~
Birthday of
Siegfried Sassoon
,
Poet
.
1925
~
Birthday of Peter Sellers, Actor (A Shot in the Dark, Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther, etc.).
1930
~
3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1941
~
The
Siege of Leningrad
began.
1944
~
London was hit by a V2 rocket
for the first time.
1949
~
Death of Richard Strauss, Composer.
1966
~
The first episode of the original “
Star Trek
” aired.
1974
~
President
Ford granted an unconditional pardon
to former President Nixon.
1981
~
Death of Hideki Yukawa, the Japanese physicist who proposed the meson elementary particle, awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics 1949
.
2003
~
Death of Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (
Triumph of the Will
).
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