Imorgon är det 8 mars

Sitter och väntar på att dagen skall börja på allvar och kände inspiration till ett blogg inlägg angående händelser och personer anknutna till 8.3 varsågoda:

Händelser:
1655 – John Castor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1911 – International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1942 – World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1978 – The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1980 – The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.

Födelsedagar:
1293 – Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359)
1514 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1700 – Anne Bonny Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)
1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)
1915 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)

Ja de finns många fler, menjag vågar påstå att jag är i rätt gott sällskap.

I (snart blir de sushie)