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Another Khemi Saturday DateTime:7/21/2009 11:56:42 AM
Samuel Alexander Mudd, arrested for treating John Wilkes Booth's broken leg after he shot Lincoln. Pardoned four years later for helping with an outbreak of yellow fever. Some birthdays... Nobody bends a spoon like Uri Geller , Peter Criss and Billy Bragg .
On this day in history...
- 1192 - Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna.
- 1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50.
- 1919 - Canadian Natl Railways established (N. America's longest, 50,000 KM).
- 1928 - 1st international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que.
- 1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service.
- 1962 - Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show.
- 1988 - Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London.
- 1993 - Donald Trump weds Marla Maples.
- 2005 - Blizzard bans over 18,000 World of Warcraft accounts for gold farming.
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