Subject: Poor Gabriel's Almanac -- Feb 18
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 05:00:33 GMT

Interesting things that happened February 18:

Birthdays on this date ...
  In 1516 Queen Mary I, first reigning queen of Great Britain
  In 1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
          the electric battery
  In 1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
  In 1892 Wendell Wilke, presidential candidate
  In 1894 Andres Segovia, guitarist
  In 1909 Wallace Stegner, Yosemite Calendar
  In 1920 Jack Palance, actor
  In 1920 Bill Cullen, game show panelist
  In 1922 Helen Gurly Brown in Portland Maine, publisher (Cosmopolitan)
  In 1933 Mary Ure
  In 1933 Yoko Ono (in Tokyo, Japan), singer, wife of John Lennon
  In 1933 Kim Novak (in Chicago, Illinois), actor
  In 1950 Cybill Shepherd (in Memphis, TN), actor (Moonlighting)
  In 1954 John Travolta, actor
  In 1957 Vanna White (in South Carolina), game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune)
  In 1964 Matt Dillon, actor
  In 1968 Molly Ringwald (in Los Angeles, CA), actor (Pretty in Pink)

Events worth noting ...
          National Bun Day -- Iceland
  In 1849 First regular steamboat service to California started with the
          arrival of the "California".
  In 1850 Legislature creates the 9 Bay Area counties.
  In 1861 C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis is inaugurated at Montgomery, AL.
  In 1865 Evacuation of Charleston, SC.
  In 1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports.
  In 1930 Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh.
  In 1930 A cow is flown (and milked in flight) for first time.  Her
          milk was sealed in paper containers and dropped by parachute
          over St. Louis, MO.  I knew you'd want to know ...
  In 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
          (built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
  In 1953 Premier of first 3-D feature film, "Bwana Devil", at NY city.
  In 1965 Gambian National Day

And remember ...
  American Heart Month
  Canned Food Month.
  Creative Romance Month.
  Great American Pies Month.
  Human Relations Month.
  Humpback Whale Awareness Month.
  International Friendship Month.
  Liferhythms and Health Month.
  Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month.
  National Black History Month
  National Blah Buster Month.
  National Cat Health Month.
  National Cherry Month
  National Children's Dental Health Month.
  National Condom Month.
  National Embroidery Month.
  National Grapefruit Month.
  National Macadamia Nut Month.
  National Meat Month.
  National Snack Food Month.
 
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