On This Day....

Shaam · Post by **Shaam** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:28 pm

17 August

On this day - the following paranormal, supernatural or simply strange; and interesting events occurred:

1601 - Birth of Pierre de Fermat, mathematician who needed wider margins
1877 - Asaph Hall discovered Mars' moon Phobos
1896 - Klondyke Gold Rush began
1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall began
1990 "The Exorcist 3" premiered
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I thot this might be fun. Below is one site to get info from, but there are many more as well.

http://www.paranormality.com/on_this_day.shtml

xcb · Post by **xcb** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:30 pm

The only thing strange about Exorcist 3 was how awful it was!

Shaam · Post by **Shaam** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:44 pm

They did kind of completely exhaust the whole story line...lol

Shaam · Post by **Shaam** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:39 pm

August 18

1587 - First English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare)
1685 - Birth of Brook Taylor England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
1686 - Cassini reported seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1778 - Birth of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen first person to circumnavigate Antarctica
1817 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupted
1868 - Pierre Janssan discovered helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1941 - Britain's National Fire Service established
1983 - Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d was youngest woman to swim English Channel
Choose another day

FraterShadowcaster · Post by **FraterShadowcaster** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:53 pm

In the headlines today: August 18

1991-Soviet hard-liners launch a coup to topple the government of the vacationing President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1922-French author Marcel Proust dies of pneumonia at age 51.
1920-Women gain the right to vote, as the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified.
1894-The Bureau of Immigration is established by the US Congress.
1587-Virginia Dare becomes the first caucasian born in America.
1274-Edward I is crowned King of England.
1227-Genghis Khan, Mongol leader and warrior, dies.

Shaam · Post by **Shaam** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:15 am

00 31 BC - Origin of Era of Augustus
0030 BC - Cleopatra 7th & most famous queen of Egypt, committed suicide
1797 - Birth Mary Shelley, writer Frankenstein
1871 - Birth of Ernest Lord Rutherford England, physicist; discovered atomic nucleus
1885 - 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1901 - Vacuum cleaner patented