Came across this over at McVane’s and decided to give it a shot. Out of the entries for 31 March, here are my selections:
Three events that happened on my special day:
#1993 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
I remember catching the movie because of this, sort of as a farewell gesture … the part where he came out of the grave spooked me. He is the son of Bruce Lee, after all, and I simply had to watch the movie.
#1998 - Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open source license agreement; the open source project is given the code name Mozilla, and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
I luuurve their Firefox web browser with the tabs and live bookmarks.
#2004 - Google announces Gmail, the first web-based mail service to offer 1 gigabyte of storage.
What can I say? Another great creation!
Two important birthdays:
#1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
He’s the Father of Symphony
#1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor (d. 1899)
Ahh … chemistry lessons wouldn’t be the same without the burner named after him
One interesting death:
#1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
Reading her diary was a revelation to me. My teenage literature lessons were all the more engaging because I could relate to what she aspired to and dreamt of. She would have so much to contribute to the world had she lived.
Posted on April 9th, 2006 by ag
Filed under: Just for Fun
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