Another Khemi Sunday
DateTime:9/27/2009 11:20:23 AM

Ratatouille would be pleased. Today's birthdays include Nostradamus , Patty Duke  and some football punk . We have another big day in gaming history, today is the birthday of Commander Keen. The game was released in 1990. Long live the classics! Class is dismissed. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

On this day in history...

• 1656 - Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M. Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales.
  
• 1819 - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state.
  
• 1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
  
• 1977 - "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC.
  
• 1980 - At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon.
  
• 1987 - Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new.
  
• 1990 - Command Keen is released.
  
• 1995 - AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant.