Matt Gough Blog [closed]: On This Day
Friday, May 21 2004, 01:10
some events that occured on my birthday:
- 427 BC - birth of Plato, ancient Greek philosopher (d. 347 BC)
- 1904 - birth of Fats Waller, pianist (d. 1943)
- 1927 - Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight.
- 1932 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1952 - birth of Laurence Tureaud (MR. T) actor.
- 1956 - first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb takes place at Bikini Atoll
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