Video Is Awesome

If you’ve noticed, I’ve begun sharing things of interest as videos rather than text because I know the power of video. So do others, as the following video attests. To read the text, I recommend viewing this full-screen.

Nov 28th

EVENTS

1520 – Three ships under the command of Ferdinand Magellan become first Europeans to sail from Atlantic to Pacific.
1582 – William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
1925 – Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
1964 – NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

BIRTHS

1929 – Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner
1932 – Ray Perkins, Canadian singer (The Crew-Cuts)
1940 – Bruce Channel, American singer
1943 – Randy Newman, American composer
1949 – Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader
1967 – Anna Nicole Smith, American television personality (d. 2007)