Happy 9th birthday celsius1414.com!
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Wed, 2008-10-08 11:55.
On this date in 1999, celsius1414.com came into being.
Thanks to Wikipedia, here’s some other notable things that happened on 1999/10/08:
- New Coligny Calendar, NCC, the beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
- John McLendon, American basketball coach b. 1915, passed away.
Okay, admittedly not the most auspicious day in history. However, a number of interesting folks were born on October 8th, such as:
- 1920 - Frank Herbert, author (d. 1986)
- 1941 - Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist
- 1943 - Chevy Chase, comedian and actor
- 1943 - R. L. Stine, author
- 1948 - Johnny Ramone of The Ramones (d. 2004)
- 1949 - Sigourney Weaver, actress
- 1950 - Robert Kool Bell of Kool & the Gang
- 1959 - Mike Morgan, pitcher, including for the Dodgers 1989-1991
- 1965 - C-Jay Ramone of The Ramones
- 1970 - Matt Damon, actor