For lack of anything better to write, I turn 0x1A years old today.
Other things that happened on this day (September 29) according to The History Channel:
- 1547 Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is born near Madrid.
- 1888 William Steinway, a car enthusiast, concluded licensing negotiations with Gottlieb Daimler gaining permission to manufacture Daimler cars in the U.S. long before any other import.
- 1907 Actor and singer Gene Autry is born in Tioga, Texas, to a horse trader who also worked as a Baptist minister.
- 1913 Rudolph Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, jumped overboard while crossing the English Channel on a cruiser - committing suicide at age fifty-five.
- 1941 The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children begins on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
- 1988 Stacy Allison of Portland, Oregon, becomes the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
