Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Today in History 16th June

Hey Gentle reader lets run quickly though the fire pit of time. But be careful...you might burn your pinky toe.


1816: Lord Byron hosts a party and challenges his guests to  write ghost stories. Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein, Polidori writes THe Vampyre and Byron himself writes Darkness.


1829: Geronimo the legendary Apache Warchief is born.


http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Late_offers/pictures/2012/12/14/1355510332066/Geronimo-011.jpg 

1884: The world's first Rollercoaster opens in Coney Island, New York.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01878/1884-switchback_1878183i.jpg 

1911: The company IBM is founded.




http://www.clustervision.com/sites/default/files/images/ibm-logo.preview.jpg

1963: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to go into space.


http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/StarChild/scientists/tereshkova_l2.jpg 

1971: Tupac Shakur, rapper, producer and actor is born.


http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh198/c_extra/Tupac.jpg 

#byron #shelley #polidori 3rollercoaster #ibm #valentinatershkova #geronimo #tupacshakur #june16

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