NationStates Jolt Archive

Well here I am just wondering what happened on your birthday in any year but as long as on your birthday. For me it would be october 5 and here is some news from october 5:

1994-A mass suicide

1974-Four dead in Guildford bomb blast

1999-Rising death toll in paddington rail crash

2000-Protesters storm Yugoslav parliament

Wow a lot of death and violence surrounding my birthday. Go on find some stuff. Maybe you'll dig up something interesting

Is there a website where I can look this up?

Is there a website where I can look this up?

You don't save the front page of the paper every year on your birthday? Tsk.

1995
Presidents of Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia accept a US-brokered peace deal to end the 43 month war in Bosnia.

1974
IRA bombs planted in two Birmingham pubs kill 22 and injure a further 120.

1958
In Britain, work starts on the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland.

1955
American rock star Elvis Presley signs an exclusive record deal with RCA.

1953
The discovery of the Piltdown Man skull by Charles Dawson in Sussex in 1912 is finally revealed to have been a hoax.

1936
Britain gets its first television gardening programme: 'In Your Garden' with Mr Middleton

1934
Cole Porter's musical 'Anything Goes' opens in New York, making American actress/singer Ethel Merman an overnight star.

1918
At the end of World War I, the German Fleet is surrendered to Britain at its northern naval base at Scapa Flow.

1843
Thomas Hancock patents vulcanised rubber.

1783
French inventor Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, the Marquis d' Arlandes, make the first manned hot-air balloon flight, traveling five miles over Paris in 25 minutes.

Click Me (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm)

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Here's the one for Feb. 18.

1996: Bomb blast destroys London bus

Three people are feared dead after a bomb explodes on a London bus, nine days after the IRA ended its ceasefire.

1978: Belfast bomb suspects rounded up
Police in Northern Ireland arrest at least 20 people in connection with the La Mon restaurant bomb.


1981: Thatcher gives in to miners
Mrs Thatcher's Conservative Government withdraws plans to close 23 pits in its first major U-turn since coming to power two years ago.

2005: Ban on hunting comes into force
Hunting with dogs in England and Wales becomes illegal as the ban on the activity passes into law.

1954: McCarthy hunts 'army Communists'
The Secretary of the US army orders two generals subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy to ignore the summons.

1969: Lulu ties knot with Bee Gee
Hundreds of people clamour to see the marriage of popstars Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a Buckinghamshire church.

Without looking it up, I can tell you on my birthday in 1994 the movie "Stargate" released in theatres. Yay!

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It's all British news.. :( Thanks though.

Yeah I couldn't find an international version

Oh fun stuff happens on my birthday:

2004: Cassini captures Saturn's rings

1997: Hong Kong handed over to Chinese control

1994: Yasser Arafat ends 27-year exile

And so on ...

Is there a website where I can look this up?
wiki...

1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665 - The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 - French Revolution: Parisian women march to Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism.
1793 - French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1864 - The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 - A strong hurricane devestates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877 - Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1905 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 - Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic.
1915 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 - Baseball: The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1944 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1945 - Hollywood Black Friday: A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947 - The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1949 - WSAZ, West Virginia's first television station, begins broadcasting in Huntington.
1953 - The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1953 - Earl Warren is sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
1962 - The Beatles release their first hit, "Love Me Do," in Britain.
1966 - Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1969 - The first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
1970 - PBS became a television network.
1970 - Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1972 - The Last Goon Show of All goes to air on BBC Radio, one of the most celebrated and influential programmes in the history of radio.
1973 - Signature of the European Patent Convention
1974 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
1974 - I Honestly Love You first reaches #1 on the Billboard charts, giving Olivia Newton-John her first top-selling single in the United States.
1981 - Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary U.S. citizen.
1984 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1990 - After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 - An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 - The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 - The Ladbroke Grove rail crash.
1999 - Angel premieres on the WB network.
2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstration are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 - Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov elected President of Chechnya.
2005 - NHL started its season to end a year-and-a-half lockout

4th July:
1976: Israelis rescue Entebbe hostages.
In a dramatic raid Israeli commandos fly to Uganda and to save 100 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe airport.

1954: Housewives celebrate end of rationing
Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain is over as restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat, and bacon in particular, are lifted.

1995: Major wins Conservative leadership
The Prime Minister, John Major, wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative party.

1985: Teenage genius gets a first
Child prodigy Ruth Lawrence achieves a starred first in Mathematics at Oxford University.

1968: Alec Rose sails home
Round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth after his 354-day trip.

1977: Manchester United sack manager
Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty is sacked by the club's directors.

Wow,pretty mixed for me.

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Cool site.

June 12th-TSI was born. :D

1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.

1943 - Lebanese Independence Day. Lebanon gains independence from France.

1963-John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Later the same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.

1968 - The Beatles release the double-album The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album.

1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.

1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1999 - Wayne Gretzky is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, his number 99 permanently retired by the NHL.

2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.

2003 - The Heritage Classic, the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the NHL, is played in Edmonton, Alberta

2003 - England defeat Australia to win England's first rugby union world cup.

2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.

2005 - The Xbox 360 is released in North America.

2005 - Ted Koppel retires after hosting Nightline for over 26 years.

2005 - Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany

Births
1515 - Marie of Guise, Queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress

BBC:
1995: Life sentence for Rosemary West
1997: Michael Hutchence found dead in hotel

June 12th-TSI was born. :D
Yay!

Well all this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1) happenned as well as this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/1/default.stm).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/10/default.stm

heh
Germnay invades!!!! ahhhh! The Germans are coming!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_15

My birthday has nothing. Nothing at all.

Go Christmas break!

August 24, 1995: Windows 1995 is released on the world
somewhere in time on August 24: Vesuvius erupts, Pompeii is buried.
somewhere in the middle ages: hundreds are slaughtered in a France village ('let God sort them out')

Some events:
1258 - Battle of Baghdad - Mongols overrun Baghdad, burning it to the ground and killing large numbers of citizens (estimates range from 10,000 to 800,000).

1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.

1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.

1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.


Some births:
1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)

1926 - Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 1993)

1955 - Greg Norman, Australian golfer

1962 - Cliff Burton, American musician (d. 1986)

1979 - Daryl Palumbo, American musician


Some deaths:
1242 - Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)

1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)

1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)

1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)

2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)

January 16th:

1979 Shah flees Iran

1919 Prohibition takes effect

1991 The Persian Gulf War begins

1780 British demonstrate naval supremacy in The Moonlight Battle

1953 And Now...The Corvette

1861 Crittenden Compromise is killed in Senate

1990 Soviets send troops into Azerbaijan

1936 The "Moon Maniac"

1963 Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens

1933 Susan Sontag is born

1847 Fremont appointed Governor of California

1991 Bush waits for deadline in Iraq

1964 Johnson approves Oplan 34A

1997 Raytheon Acquires Hughes Electronics

1916 Montenegro capitulates to Austro-Hungarian forces

1945 Hitler descends into his bunker

1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast

The Tamil Tigers are being blamed for the assassination of Sri Lanka's Deputy Defence Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne.

1970: Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic
Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Smith declares his country a republic, cutting its last link with the British Crown.

1969: Concorde flies for the first time
The supersonic airliner Concorde makes a "faultless" maiden flight.

2000: Pinochet escapes torture trial charges
Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges.

1956: King of Jordan sacks British general
King Hussein of Jordan sacks the British commander of the Arab Legion in an effort to strengthen his own position within the Arab world.


CONCORDE YAY!

1991
The official end of the Soviet Union (USSR) when three of the major republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia unite to form a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
1988
As many as 100,000 are thought to have been killed by an earthquake in Armenia.
1987
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Intermediate Muclear Forces Treaty in Washington DC. Its the first nuclear arms reduction agreement either country has signed.
1981
In Britain, Arthur Scargill is elected President of the National Union of Mineworkers.
1980
Former Beatle John Lennon is shot dead outside his apartment in New York by lone gunman Mark David Chapman.
1968
Apollo 8 astronauts send the first live television pictures from their spacecraft back to Earth.
1941
World War II: Britain, Australia and the United States of America declare war on Japan following the surprise attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, the day before.
1914
World War I : Battle of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic.
1907
Gustavus V becomes King of Sweden following the death of Oskar II.
1864
Opening of the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon at Bristol, England. The bridge is designed by English civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
1863
English boxer Tom King defeats American John Heenan to become the first heavyweight champion of the world.
1733
First recorded sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object. A man in Dorset, in the West of England, reports seeing a polished silver disc in the sky.
1941
England international footballer Geoff Hurst - scorer of a hat-trick for England against West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final at Wembley Stadium.
1939
Musician James Galway.
1925
American entertainer Sammy Davis Jnr.
1903
French painter Paul Gauguin.
1848
American writer Joel Chandler Harris - author of 'Uncle Remus'.
1980
Former Beatle John Lennon is shot dead outside his apartment in New York by lone gunman Mark David Chapman.
1978
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (1969-1974).
1907
Oskar II, King of Sweden.
1903
British philosopher Herbert Spencer.With Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the public acceptance of the theory of evolution. Spencer coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest' - later attributed to Darwin.
1980: John Lennon was shot
2001: the Conservative government of Canada was formed. :headbang:

538 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
1244 - Battle of La Forbie: Crusaders are defeated by Khwarezmians and Egyptians.
1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army lead by John Hunyadi fought an Ottoman army lead by Murad II.
1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkerque to France for 40,000 pounds.
1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia.
1800 - England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1806 - Former leader of the Great Slave Rebellion of 1791, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1860 - First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open)
1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I
1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US.
1937 - Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appear in a newspaper comic strip.
1941 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
1945 - A massive number of people, headed for CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty) or San Perón (Saint Perón). It's considered the birthday of Peronism.
1961 - Approximately 200 Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police
1965 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
1966 - A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters.
1967 - The musical Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway.
1970 - Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt
1970 - Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1973 - OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria
1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the United States Department of Education and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Both replace the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
1989 - Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area.
1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992.
1994 - Draft peace treaty between Israel and Jordan
1994 - Peace treaty between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
2003 - Carlos Mesa becomes President of Bolivia.
2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 106-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
2004 - Boston Red Sox win Game 4 of the 2004 American League Championship Series in what would become one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. They would not lose another game
2005 - Helicopters and warplanes bombed two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people, the US military says.

* 1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
* 1698 - In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men, except priests and peasants, are required to pay the tax of one hundred rubles a year for those above the lowest class, one kopek each for commoners.
* 1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* 1793 - In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating the Reign of Terror.
* 1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
* 1862 - American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
* 1877 - Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
* 1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
* 1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.
* 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
* 1906 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
* 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
* 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
* 1939 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
* 1943 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment under U.S. General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
* 1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
* 1948 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1949 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
* 1950 - Paul William Roberts, Anglo-Canadian writer born in Wales, U.K.
* 1960 - Muhammad Ali wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
* 1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
* 1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.
* 1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
* 1975 - In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
* 1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
* 1977 - Hanns Martin Schleyer, President of the Employers Association, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. Kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand release of Red Army Faction prisoners
* 1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
* 1980 - The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
* 1983 - Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News
* 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
* 1984 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
* 1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
* 1988 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
* 1997 - At least 87 people killed in the Beni-Messous massacre
* 2000 - Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
* 2001 - Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
* 2001 - Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
* 2002 - A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
* 2002 - The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, United States, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.
* 2004 - Tropical Storm Ivan becomes Hurricane Ivan in the Atlantic Ocean.
* 2005 - Taylor Behl disappears.


September 5th.