Ugandan rainmaker Festo Kazarwa was beaten to death today in 1988, after a freak hailstorm destoyed his village's crops.


In 1999 Lennox Lewis became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, winning a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas


On this day in 1907, inventor Paul Corno made the first helicpter flight, lifting his machine ~ powered by two propellors ~ six feet above a Normandy field.


Public donations helped the Archbishop of Canterbury to buy the original manuscript of 'Alice In Wonderland' from the U.S. Library Of Congress in 1948

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind