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Monday, September 4, 2006


9/4/06
Well, I woke up unusually this morning at 5:30 AM. I don't even get up this early for school. But what I heard on my radio this morning started to make me cry. Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter had died. I grew up watching him and learned so much from him. I really didn't cry but just had watery eyes.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that on Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players?

TODAY IN HISTORY
476 - Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed.
1260 - Florence and Siena fought in the Battle of Montaperti, as part of the conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines.
1886 - After years of fighting against the U.S. Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered in Arizona.
1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced.
1972 - Mark Spitz won his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals at the same Olympic games.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

The Matterhorn is located on the border between Switzerland and Italy, towering over the Swiss town of Zermatt and the Italian town Breuil-Cervinia in the Val Tournanche. Long an iconic symbol of Switzerland and the Alps, it was the last major mountain of the range to be climbed, not merely because of its technical difficulty, but of the fear it inspired in early mountaineers. The summit of the Matterhorn was first reached in 1865, after several years of attempts. By today's standards, the climbing is not especially hard, and thousands make the ascent each summer.

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