Friday, August 24-September 7, 2007, #162 (1429)

Today in history
79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
1853 - Potato chips are first prepared
1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory
1932 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey)
1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon
1991 - Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union
1995 - Windows 95, a computer operating system by Microsoft, is released with much fanfare

Birthdays
1817 - Aleksey Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician

Georgian Words of the Day

environment garemo

protection datsva

nature buneba

conservation shenakhva, shenarchuneba

I work in an environmental protection organization

me vmushaob garemos datsvis organizatsiashi


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