http's Journal: Birthday Meme

As initiated by helicobacter.

Event 1

1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

Event 2

1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

Event 3

1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

Birth 1

412 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487)

Birth 2

1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)

Death

1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)