07-28-2006, 05:09 AM
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July 28th
1741 ~ Death of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer.
1750 ~ Death of Johann Sebastian Bach, German Composer.
1794 ~ Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.
1866 ~ Birthday of Beatrix Potter, English Author. (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1904 ~ Birthday of Pavel Cherenkov, Russian Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
1914 ~ WWI develops: Austria Formally declares war on Serbia.
1973 ~ Watkins Glen, NY concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead.
1996 ~ The remains of a prehistoric man, Kennewick Man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1998 ~ Monica Lewinsky was given blanket immunity from prosecution in exchange for grand jury testimony in the investigation of her relationship with President Bill Clinton..
2004 ~ Death of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962.
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