He was one of the best and most famous.
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Successful people and unsuccessful people have one thing in common: Neither wants to do what needs to be done. one does it anyway. | Mike R Holland
An average person will spend 25 years asleep.
1837 Wild West figure Wild Bill Hickok is born in Troy Grove, Illinois. A frontiersman, lawman, marksman and army scout, he was shot dead on August 2, 1876 during a poker game by a drunk in the Number Ten saloon in Deadwood, in Dakota. In his hand, was a pair of eights and a pair of aces, the ‘dead man’s hand’.
1931 Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer make the first flight into Earth’s stratosphere, from Augsburg, Germany, in a pressurised gondola borne beneath a balloon designed by Piccard. It was also a precursor to manned exploration of the ocean depths, also by Piccard.
1941 The Germany navy’s feared battleship Bismarck, is sunk. HMS Rodney becomes the only battleship to torpedo another.
1942 Sailor Dorie Miller gets the Navy Cross for his reckless fight back at Pearl Harbor (he manned anti-aircraft guns – as depicted in the movies Tora! Tora! Tora! and Pearl Harbor.)
1942 Reinhard Heydrich (the darkest figure in the Nazi elite, and someone Hitler described as ‘the man with the iron heart’) is ambushed and fatally wounded by Czech rebels in Prague.
1963 The son of Kikuyu farmers, Jomo Kenyatta becomes Kenya’s first prime minister.
1966 The 55th West German air force F-104 interceptor crashes – 292 of the 916 Starfighter fleet crashed, hence the name Witwenmacher (The Widowmaker).
2017 Pitched battles between Islamic State-linked militants and Philippine government troops in and around Marawi, leave 43 dead.
2017 Arsenal wins the FA Cup making Arsène Wenger the most successful manager in FA Cup history with seven titles.
2021 English playwright William Shakespeare is reported to have died after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine by Argentinian news channel Canal 26. (It was a case of mistaken identity, the Bard died in 1616.)
2025 Sherpas in Nepal warned that Everest traditions were being threatened by climbers using xenon gas treatments and hypoxic tents to speed up their ascents.
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