http://fisherbear.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] fisherbear.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] monkeybard 2008-08-16 01:46 am (UTC)

OK, I'll bite.

1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

1554 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
1835 - Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)

The obvious choice of holiday would be St. Andrew's Day, but for various reasons I think I prefer "Official end of the Hurricane season."

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