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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> Net announcement has been pushed back a day.  20.1-b10 should be
> available tomorrow.

Friday is the anniversary of Dec's announcement of the pdp-11!

Here's a list of things about March 28th.  Note that this is from 1994,
so some holiday info is probably wrong as they might track weekends or
via other non-date methods.

Pay no attention to the 1979 and 1983 events. ;)

OTD (version 1.01) - Compiled on: Mar  4 1994
(C) Copyright 1990 The Software Construction Co., All Rights Reserved.

March 28, 1994

Born today ...

    In 1475, Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist.
    In 1483, Raphael, Italian Renaissance painter.
    In 1592, Jan Amos Komensky, Czech author (first to write exclusively for
               children).
    In 1652, Samuel Sewall, American judge.
    In 1660, King George I.
    In 1674, William Byrd, American colonial figure.
    In 1749, Pierre Simon de Laplace, mathematician and astronomer. (3/23?)
    In 1811, St. John Nepomucene Neumann, first male US saint.
    In 1836, Frederick Pabst, brewer.
    In 1868, Maxim Gorky, Russian author. (3/16?)
    In 1891, Paul Whiteman, bandleader.
    In 1899, August Anheuser Busch Jr, brewer.
    In 1912, Lucille Fletcher, writer ("Sorry, Wrong Number").
    In 1914, Edmund S. Muskie, former Secretary of State.
    In 1915, Virginia Knauer, government official.
    In 1921, Dirk Bogarde (Derek van Den Bogaerde), actor.
    In 1928, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Advisor.
    In 1933, Frank Hughes Murkowski, Alaska Senator.
    In 1936, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist.
    In 1942, Bill Greenwood, ABC news correspondent.
    In 1944, Ken Howard, actor.
    In 1948, Dianne Wiest, actress.
    In 1955, Reba McEntire, country singer.
    In 1958, Bart Conner.
    In 1961, Byron Anton Scott, basketball player.
    In 1963, Bernice King.

Events today ...

             Seward's Day (last Monday).
             Teacher's Day (Czechoslovakia).
    In 193, Pertinax, Roman emperor, assassinated.
    In 1797, Patent for the first washing machine awarded (Nathaniel Briggs).
    In 1802, Pallas (asteroid) discovered (Olbers).
    In 1807, Vesta (asteroid) discovered. (3/29?)
    In 1852, Louis Braille, teacher of the blind, died.
    In 1854, Britain and France declared war on Russia.
    In 1862, Battle of Glorietta Pass (New Mexico).
    In 1881, P.T. Barnum became partners with James A. Bailey.
    In 1895, Boston subway construction began.
    In 1921, Earliest "ice-out" at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
    In 1930, Constantinople and Angora changed names to Istanbul and Ankara.
    In 1937, Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer, died.
    In 1939, Madrid surrendered to Francisco Franco (ending Spanish Civil War).
    In 1941, Virginia Woolf, British writer, died.
    In 1943, Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, died.
    In 1944, Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist and humorist, died.
    In 1953, James Francis Thorpe, Olympic athlete, died.
    In 1958, William Christopher Handy, composer and "Father of the Blues,"
               died.
    In 1966, "The Avengers" first came to US prime time.
    In 1968, Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, died. (3/27?)
    In 1969, Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th US president, died.
    In 1970, Digital Equipment Corporation announced PDP-11.
    In 1978, First bilingual congressional committee report issued.
    In 1979, Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident.
    In 1983, Mt. Kilauea (Hawaii) erupted.
    In 1983, NOAA 8 (US), search and rescue satellite, launched.
    In 1984, 36 tornadoes in Carolinas.
    In 1985, Marc Chagall, French painter, died.
    In 1987, Maria von Trapp died.

Religious events today ...

             Saint John of Capistrano's Feast Day.
             Second day of Pesah (Nisan 16) (Passover).


The following is output from "On This Day."  "On This Day" and its
associated databases are available to run on MSDOS computers
(a Microsoft Windows version is also available) for the low price of
$25 (US funds) from

        The Software Construction Co.
        PO Box 160
        North Billerica, MA  01862-0160
        CIS:      70313,3615
        Internet: softcons@world.std.com
        Phone:    (508) 851-6204


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