I am a big history buff. I love to learn about things that happened in the past – because I feel we should both remember and appreciate what has come before us. Plus, like I mentioned in one my past blogs (CLICK HERE), I love to learn new and interesting tidbits of info. Because to me, no information is useless – there will be a day when it comes in handy (like when playing Trivial Pursuit).
So with that in mind, today is September 14, 2007 … and below I listed a few historical events that happened today in history:
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, the Russian scientist famous for his classical conditioning on dogs is born in Ryazan,
Russia. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936.
1901 - President William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt
succeeded him.
1917 - Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1990 - Ken Griffey and his son Ken Jr. become the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs.
2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11
attacks.
Justin – A Lumen
