Friday, January 4, 2019

January 5

1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.

1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.

2005 – Eris, the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered.


Happy Birthday to...

Pablo Gargallo

Yves Tanguy

Jeane Dixon

Lucienne Bloch

Nicolas de Staël

Chris Stein


Kate Schellenbach



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