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Today in History... [just because

Today in History... [just because I can]

1819 - John Keats was inspired write one of the best-loved English poems, Ode to Autumn.
1893 - New Zealand becomes the first self-governing nation in the world to grant all of its female citizens the right to vote when the Electoral Bill, pushed by years of suffragette activities by women, is signed by Governor Lord Glasgow.
1928 - Adam West, star of the tv series Batman, was born.
1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut.
1936 - Indian Love Call, was recorded by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, on Victor Records.
1945 - Randolph Mantooth, good looking star of Emergency. I had a crush on him for the *longest* time.
1988 - U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
1991 - Otzi, the Iceman, was found by a German tourist on the Similaun Glacier on the Italian-Austrian border.