
[2J[1;37m     What Happend Today!  [1;31mVersion 1.60  [0;36mCopyright (C) 1990, Sprint Software
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[1;32mToday is Wednesday August 14th, the 226th day of 1991.
There are 139 days left in the year.

[1;32mSCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY [1;33mcelebrities born on this date...
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1777 [1;36mHans Christian Oersted, physicist, chemist 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1840 [1;36mRichard Krafft-Ebing, German neuropsychiatrist, sex researcher 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1860 [1;36mErnest T. Seton, naturalist 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1912 [1;36mFrank F. Oppenheimer, NYC, nuclear physicist, brother of Robert 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1943 [1;36mJon A. McBride,  Charleston, WV, captain, USN, astronaut (STS-41G) 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1952 [1;36mMark C. Lee,  Viroqua, Wisc., major, USAF, astronaut (STS-30) 

[1;33mEvents on this day in [1;32mSCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY [1;33mhistory...
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1498 [1;36mColumbus reaches the mouth of Rio Orinoco, South America 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1841 [1;36m1st US scientific expedition arrives in San Francisco 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1857 [1;36mNapoleon III inaugurates the buildings of the New Louvre 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1888 [1;36mElectric meter patented by Oliver Shallenberger, Rochester, Penn. 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1901 [1;36mGustave Whitehead makes 1st US airplane flight, Bridgeport, Conn. 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1909 [1;36mRainbow Bridge natural stone arch discovered in Utah 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1919 [1;36m1st airmail service to a steamer at sea, NYC-"Adriatic" 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1941 [1;36m1st single-rotor helicopter flight, Igor Sikorsky 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1946 [1;36mIce island T-1 discovered in Arctic Ocean 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1959 [1;36mBeacon 2 launched for earth orbit - it fails 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1962 [1;36mFrench & Italian Mont Blanc Vehicular Tunnel workers break through 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1962 [1;36mNASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1966 [1;36m1st US Lunar Orbiter begins orbiting the moon 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1983 [1;36mIBM-PC DOS version 3.0 released 
 [1;36mIn [1;35m1989 [1;36mIBM introduces superconducting instrument to measure brain's magnetism 

[1;33mAnd remember...
    [1;35m     [1;36mKappa Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus, then Draco 
    [1;35m     [1;36mPerseid meteor shower (St. Laurence's Tears), radiant in Perseus 