1900 - First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1966 - The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
1971 - Australian Evonne Goolagong becomes the first Aborigine to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title.
1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Also today in 1976, Bulgemeister was born at his family home in Kuala Belait, Brunei Darussalam. The twelfth child (out of eighteen children) of a couple, who happened to be single child of their parents, spent most of his childhood in Kuala Belait and completed his primary school education at Sekolah Rendah Kuala Belait. He had his secondary school education at Maktab Sains Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan, which was then followed with A-level at New College Cardiff. After graduating from Kingston University in 2001, he joined Brunei LNG and has been with BLNG ever since.
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I received endless birthday wishes and thank you all for them.
At the LLRC today, I had a surprise birthday cake given to me from all the staff from the lab, while almost everyone in the LLRC Hall sang me a birthday song. I am really touched with the gesture. Many thanks guys!
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