On This Day

Also known as (aka) Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), renaissance author, courtier, and father of inductive reasoning.

Sorry, I didn't find any mention of Franky Bacon!

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But you posted the pic, Melo, old bean. Didn't you know it was Francis Bacon?

"Franky" (Frankie) is an English alternative or nickname for "Francis" (male) or "Frances" (female).

For example, Francis Albert Sinatra was severally known as Frank, Franky/Frankie and "Ol' Blue eyes".

I posted the Francis Bacon picture, when you said Franky, I did a search and didn't find antything relationed with Francis and I didn't relationed too!

So, Frank isn't a name? It's a nickname? Sorry my ignorance!

Well, Frank CAN be a name on its own, but often it is a nickname for Francis, Francisco, Francesco, and less often for Franklin, etc.

No ignorance to apologise for there, matey.

Thanks!

BTW, we use the nickname "Chico" for Francisco.

Born on this date in 1944

Nicholas Berkeley Mason

In Spanish we use the nicknames "Paco" and "Curro" for that very same name though they are not similar to it at all.

the following all died on this date in 1986:

Ronald McNair
Michael Smith
Judith Resnik
Gregory Jarvis
Francis Scobee
Ellison Onizuka
Christa McAuliffe

when Challenger X exploded 73 seconds after liftoff...

even though it happened 21 years ago, many people remember watching it on live TV...

1948 - Mahatma Ghandi assassinated in New Delhi,India

1948 - born on this date Vincent Furnier...aka Alice Cooper

In 1974 12 people including 2 children were killed when the a terrorist bomb was dotonated on a bus carrying off duty soldiers and their families to an army base in Yorkshire, England.

MYSTERY PERSON OF THE DAY

1971 - I hit the longest golf tee shot in "space"...

WHO AM I???
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born on this date

1812 - Charles Dickens

FWIW:answer to the previous poorly worded post is Alan Sheppard,golfing on moon during spacewalk...