Popcorn Ponders the Past

Thirty days has September, April, June and November.....

This day in history.....April 2

1792: Congress establishes the US mint to coin American money

1801: During the naval battle of Copenhagen, Nelson ignores a signal to withdraw by putting the telescope to his blind eye

1958: National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA 1966: Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes spacecraft to orbit Moon

1982: Argentinian forces invade the British run Falkland Islands

April 2nd birthdays 742: Charlemagne, French emperor 1725: Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover, writer and philosopher 1805: Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of fairy tales 1840: Emile Zola, French author 1891: Max Ernst, German painter 1914: Sir Alec Guinness, English actor of stage and screen

April 2, 2008....I wonder what bloggers of the future will write here??