Know Your Day [Nov 12th 2013]

Birthdays:
1866 - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC)
Dr. Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)[1][2] was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China ("Nationalist China"). As the foremost pioneer of Republic of China, Sun is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC), and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's Republic of China.
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1841 - John W Rayleigh, Malden, England, physicist (discovery of argon - Nobel 1904), (d. 1919)
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PRS (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.
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Inventions :
1940 BATMAN was trademark registered.
BATMAN
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Facts you Didn't Know :
The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
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Random Facts:
The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old.
longest engagement
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Quotes : 
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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Events Happened This Day But Not Today :
1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
Hitler with the Nazis army
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Health Facts :
When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
Bless You For A Sneeze
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