The Messenger #136 (1403)

Thursday, July 19, 2007, #136 (1403)

Today in history

1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days
1692 - Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
1848 - Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention
1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon
1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town
1979 - The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua
1980 - Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR
1994 - Four 26-pound ceiling tiles fall from the roof of the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, just hours before a scheduled Seattle Mariners game

Birthdays

1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
1834 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
1922 - George McGovern, American politician
1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles)
1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
1960 - Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
1961 - Campbell Scott, American actor

Georgian words of the day

concert - kontserti
music - musika
performance - gamosvla
stage - stsena

What time does the concert start today?