12/05/10

Jagiellon University, the oldest university in Poland, was founded in 1364.  The National University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru, was founded in 1551.  It is the oldest university in the Americas.  The first County Championship was held in 1890.  Yorkshire defeated Gloucestershire.  A magnitude 8 earthquake in Sichuan killed 69,000 in 2008.

Born today:  Edward Lear (1812-1888), Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903-1991), Leslie Charteris (1907-1993), Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), Farley Mowat (1921), Tony Hancock (1924-1968), Burt Bacharach (1928), George Carlin (1937-2008), Susan Hampshire (1937), Ian Dury (1942-2000), Steve Winwood (1948), Gabriel Byrne (1950), Billy Duffy (1961) and Catherine Tate (1968).

It is International Nurses' Day.