Yesterday C-Note's Almanac Tomorrow

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1260

Chartres Cathedral in France was consecrated by Pope Alexander IV.

1901
On her 63rd birthday, adventurer and daredevil Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1911
Orville Wright stays airborne for nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.

1915
Comic book writer/artist Bob Kane born in New York.

1923
Poet Denise Levertov born in London.

1933
English gangsters Reginald and Ronald Kray born in Hoxton, Middlesex, England.

1936
Bill Wyman, former bass player for the Rolling Stones, is born in London.

1939

Nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time, in Wilmington, Delaware.

1945

Founding of the United Nations.

1946
The first photograph of earth from outer space is taken by a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket.

1971
Harry Drake sets longest arrow shot using a footbow (1 mile 268 yds).

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