NationStates Jolt Archive

Hey, check here:

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

Me: April 13

-Guy Fawkes Born
-4th Crusade Sacks Constantinople
-7th Crusade defeated
-Spanish Communist Worker's Party Founded
-Thomas Jefferson Born
-Oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes
-Amritsar Massacre in India
-Alferd Packer convicted for murder, one of the only people in the US ever jailed for cannibalism
-WWII: Mass Grave of Polish Prisoners found
-Venezelan Coup ends
-Jack Chick born (!)
-Feast Day of St. Martin the Confessor
-Two porn stars born

Cool.

January 10
* 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
* 236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
* 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
* 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
* 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
* 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
* 1810 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
* 1811 - African-American slaves in Louisiana rebel in two parishes.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the US.
* 1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens, between Paddington and Farringdon Street.
* 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
* 1901 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
* 1920 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
* 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
* 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
* 1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
* 1929 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
* 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the US Congress.
* 1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
* 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
* 1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published.
* 1982 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This equaled the record set in the same place on February 11, 1895. The record would be equalled again at Altnaharra on December 30, 1995
* 1984 - The US and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
* 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
* 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
* 1999 - The Sopranos airs its pilot episode on HBO.
* 1999 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapsed into the sea.
* 2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
* 2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.

509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
604 - Pope Sabinian is consecrated.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.
1609 - Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him - the Hudson River.
1743 - Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.
1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1813 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1847 - Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1862 - American Civil War: Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 - The important Battle of Tall al Kabir is fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1906 - First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
1914 - During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1922 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 136.4 °F (58 °C).
1923 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
1939 - Canada enters World War II.
1940 - World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
1940 - World War II: Italy invades Egypt.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 - The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1965 - Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1979 - South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognized outside South Africa).
1985 - Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros.
1987 - Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.
1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic in the U.S., grounded since September 11, 2001 attacks, is allowed to resume.
2006 - At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.


The most significant is bolded. :D

Umm...post the date? As in, the day you were born?

The two that come to mind are Hitler's suicide and the end of the Vietnam War.

28th April:

1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, only days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1796 - The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1862 - American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.
1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1950 - King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, got married with his queen, Queen Sirikit, after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.
1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1977 - The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 - President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1981 - Galician current Statute of Autonomy.
1986 - United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
1987 - U.S. engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii, a flight attendant is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when an upper part of the plane's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure.
1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 - In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.
1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week.
2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.

Plane crashed, according to the News Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. That's it.

The two that come to mind are Hitler's suicide and the end of the Vietnam War.

Oh sure, all the GOOD things happen on your birthday. The only good things I've got going are porn, rebels, and thomas jefferson.

* 3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna is believed by Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet on this day.
* 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
* 1268 - The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor.
* 1332 (or 1329) - Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
* 1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
* 1685 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
* 1797 - Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
* 1814 - Battle of Montereau occurs.
* 1841 - The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
* 1856 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
* 1861 - In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
* 1861 - With the Italian unification almost complete, King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
* 1865 - In the U.S., Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
* 1878 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
* 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
* 1901 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
* 1911 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
* 1913 - Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.
* 1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.
* 1930 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
* 1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
* 1932 - The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
* 1936 - The United States Patent Office grants design patent 98,617 to Frank A. Redford for the design of the Wigwam Motel.
* 1943 - The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
* 1943 - Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech.
* 1948 - Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach of Ireland.
* 1953 - The first 3D film, Bwana Devil, opens.
* 1953 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the I Love Lucy television series through 1955.
* 1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1969 - Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 disaster kills all on board.
* 1970 - The Chicago Eight are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic Party national convention.
* 1972 - The California Supreme Court invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison.
* 1977 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747.
* 1983 - Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington, said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in American history.
* 1991 - The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
* 1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
* 2001 - NASCAR legend Ralph Dale Earnhardt is killed in a crash during the last lap of the Daytona 500.
* 2003 - Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea
* 2004 - Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
* 2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.

Remind me again that my birthday date coincides with the whole Nazi shit really hitting the fan in my dear native country. That, and the whole rather longish list doesn't even really offer all that much of a positive highlight to balance it out.

I share a birthday with Nero Caesar!

I've got Custer's Last Stand, the start of the Korean War, Jimmie Walker, George Orwell, Antoni Gaudi, Mozambique's independence, Lord Mountbatten, and the deaths of Simon de Montfort and Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers. All on June 25th.

Events
70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
take that!

1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - The army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes considered the end of the age of chivalry in England.)
1578 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the fraternity of Freemasonry.
1782 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is married to Constanze Weber.
1789 - In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1821 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1824 - Battle of Kos fought between Turks and Greeks.
1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1906 - Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality.
1936 - Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator.
1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1954 - Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
1964 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are allegedly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese gunboats. Years later, the claim of NVA attack was revealed to be false.
1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1983 - Thomas Sankara becomes president of Upper Volta.
1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally kills a gull during warmups in the outfield prior to a baseball game in Toronto at Exhibition Stadium and is charged by local police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1985 - In a day of milestones, Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 17th pitcher to win 300th career games and Rod Carew of the California Angels becomes the 16th player ever to collect 3000 career hits. Seaver pitches the White Sox to a 4–1 six-hit victory on Phil Rizzuto Day at Yankee Stadium as 54,032 New Yorkers cheer him on, while Carew bloops a single to left off Frank Viola in the 3rd inning of the Angels 6–5 win over the Twins. It marks the only day in which two men reach these two milestones on the same day.
1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
1991 - The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1993 - A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1997 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
2005 - Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General.
2006 - Dame Silvia Cartwright will step down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and will be replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who will be sworn in on 23 August.

Remind me again that my birthday date coincides with the whole Nazi shit really hitting the fan in my dear native country. That, and the whole rather longish list doesn't even really offer all that much of a positive highlight to balance it out.

Still...I got cannibals, porn, terriosts, and mass graves.


I kick ass.

The most pertinent ones:

* 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed. :rolleyes:

* 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax. I know someone who'll be excited to hear this. :)

* 1875 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby. Not bad for a dead guy.

* 1902 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism. What is it with this thing this week?

* 1933 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway. Ny Norland would have been so proud of me.

* 1954 - The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. I KNOW THAT! I know that because it's my birthday (well, not the year) and so I always remembered that date and in my high school graduation English exams I wrote about it just because of the fact that I remembered the date and I so got an A. :cool:

* 1970 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean. I like him, he's cool.

* 1984 - Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture. FLORT :p

* 2000 - Beverly Hills 90210 airs its last episode. You can thank me by sending gifts.

* 2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first state in the United States to legalize Same-sex marriage. :cool:

I'm just going to do selected relevance to me (sort of)

1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when a helicopter spins out of control.

I know a family member of one of the victims. In a very strange way it makes her hate Meatloaf (the performer...I don't know her feelings on the dish...)

1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1904 - Probably the first Ice cream cone was sold at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
1903 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.

and a bunch of other stuff...

And apparently I share a birthday with Woody Harrelson and Monica Lewinsky.

DW Griffith died on my birthday.

Two revolution days and a rememberance day as well.

Some highlights:

1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

1846 - Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

1848 - First commercial production of chewing gum by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine in the United States and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'.

1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

1905 - Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

1962 - The Jetsons aired for the first time.

1969 - The Chicago 8 trial opens in Chicago.

1973 - Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

1980 - Bob Marley's last concert.

2002 - Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix) web browser is born: version 0.1.

August 22

565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses.
1559 - Bartholome de Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.
1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War.
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States.
1717 - Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1780 - James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 - Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico.
1851 - The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1875 - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded.
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1910 - Japan illicitly annexes Korea with the signing of the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name Joseon.
1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan).
1944 - World War II: Last transport of French Jews to concentration camps in Germany.
1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.
1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union.
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
1953 - The jail on Devil's Island is closed.
1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
1964 - Match Of The Day hits the air on BBC Two.
1966 - Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1969 - Elvis Presley begins performing live again in Las Vegas.
1970 - Neil Young released his album, After The Gold Rush.
1972 - Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State.
1978 - The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
1979 - Led Zeppelin releases their album, In Through The Out Door.
1988 - The Perth Mint issues the first platinum coin, the koala.
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1992 - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2006 - Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people, including 45 children and toddlers.
2006 - The International Astronomical Union votes to redefine the term "planet," officially excluding Pluto from planet status.

February 4


Events
211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.
362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the religions in the Roman Empire. cool
1454 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death. neat
1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1794 - The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. sweet
1801 - John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1810 - British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1825 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1836 - Dade County, Florida is formed.
1859 - Codex Sinaiticus discovered in Egypt.
1861 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form The Confederate States of America. crap
1862 - Bacardi, one of the world's largest spirits company, is founded as a small distillery in Santiago de Cuba in eastern Cuba.
1899 - The Philippine-American War begins. boo
1915 - Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target.
1927 - The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is released. sound
1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
1932 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - III Olympic Winter Games open in Lake Placid, New York.
1936 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1938 - Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens (New York City).
1938 - Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released, and it went on to become a major box-office success, making more money than any other motion picture in 1938.
1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.
1945 - World War II: The Yalta Conference begin .
1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1957 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logs her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
1960 - Lorraine, Quebec is founded.
1962 - Ian Fleming's The Living Daylights first published.
1966 - All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1968 - Bowie Kuhn becomes the fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball, replacing William Eckert.
1969 - Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1976 - In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1976 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games - XII Olympic Winter Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
1977 - Fleetwood Mac releases one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Rumours.
1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1984 - The Youth of the Left Socialists (VSU) founded in Denmark.
1991 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.
1996 - Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F. (-32°C)
1997 - O.J. Simpson is found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1997 - En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997 - After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
1999 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
2000 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with sabotage of German railway lines.
2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2006 - A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing at least 74.

1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death. neat
So... what happened to the 47th?

February 4


Events
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362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the religions in the Roman Empire. cool
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Yeah, but the next date for this one is ... 363, Roman Emperor Julian killed in battle on the retreat from Persia. Have you read Gore Vidal's Julian? It's very good.

* 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed.
* 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
* 1028 - Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
* 1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders.
* 1341 - Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo
* 1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
* 1632 - Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
* 1699 - Khalsa. Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi Calendar.
* 1775 - The first abolition society in the North America is established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
* 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
* 1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
* 1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
* 1849 - Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.
* 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
* 1864 - Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
* 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
* 1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
* 1881 - Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, Texas.
* 1890 - The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States at their meeting in Washington. Known originally as the International Bureau of American Republics, William Elleroy Curtis becomes its first director.
* 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies.
* 1912 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.
* 1915 - The Turks invade Armenia.
* 1927 - The first Volvo car premieres, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
* 1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
* 1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl.
* 1935 - Babe Ruth plays his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. In this year - his last year of pro ball in the major leagues - he is playing for the Boston Braves, not his old team the Red Sox. In this season, Ruth plays 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring.
* 1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later.
* 1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organisation that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April 6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation Castigo.
* 1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See: Bombay Explosion (1944).
* 1945 - Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascistic occupation.
* 1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex.
* 1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
* 1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1964 - A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3.
* 1968 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars.
* 1970 - One of Apollo 13's oxygen tanks explodes, causing a cancelled moon mission. The explosion occurrs on April 13th in several time zones.
* 1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people.
* 1986 - 2.2 lb (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
* 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II.
* 2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.


All in all, i'd say a rather good date in human history

I was born on the same day of the year as Morganatron -- Programmers' Day, the 256th day of the year -- except in 1989. I'll have to check why wikipedia didn't include me on that list.

Oh sure, all the GOOD things happen on your birthday. The only good things I've got going are porn, rebels, and thomas jefferson.Meh, I share a birthday with the Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop :(
But also Carl Friedrich Gauß! :)

Apparently, other memorable things that happened were Christopher Columbus getting a commission to do some travelling for the Spanish, George Washington taking some sort of oath of office as president or something, the Church of Satan was founded, and CERN created the World Wide Web.

Funny you should ask this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_7

March 21st

* 717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
* 1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
* 1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
* 1788 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
* 1800 - With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
* 1801 - The Battle of Alexandria was fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
* 1804 - Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.
* 1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
* 1849 - the Norwegian city of Hamar is reestablished by royal decree
* 1857 - Earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
* 1844 - The Baha'i calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baha'i calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baha'i Faith as the Baha'i New Year or Naw-Ruz.
* 1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
* 1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
* 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins.
* 1919 - The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee.
* 1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
* 1933 - Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
* 1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
* 1940 - Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1943 - Masacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
* 1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
* 1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio
* 1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
* 1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
* 1964 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" (I'm not old enough).
* 1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
* 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
* 1968 - Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
* 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
* 1970 - Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
* 1970 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dana wins the fifteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "All Kinds of Everything".
* 1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
* 1980 - On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
* 1985 - Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
* 1989 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations that tie baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
* 1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
* 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
* 2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
* 2002 - British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from school in Surrey.
* 2004 - In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
* 2005 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.

The HMS Coventry was sunk when I saw first light.

Hmm - on the 28th of December (only picked important events, and Iowa being declared a state doesn't count :p) -

-An earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily killing over 75,000.
-William E. Semple of Mt. Vernon, Ohio patents chewing gum.
-The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
-Israeli commando troops destroy 13 civilian aircraft at Beirut International Airport.
-Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
-Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
-Richard Whiteley, British television presenter (d. 2005) was born

Cool, eh?

No, I didn't think so, either.

I was born on the same day of the year as Morganatron -- Programmers' Day, the 256th day of the year -- except in 1989. I'll have to check why wikipedia didn't include me on that list.

Well howdy fellow birthday-er!

Nothing exciting happened in my birth year. :(

We'll have to write to the authors and fix these injustices.

Well howdy fellow birthday-er!

Nothing exciting happened in my birth year. :(

We'll have to write to the authors and fix these injustices.

Well, I was born, and since I am the earthly manifestation of Myself, I count as an important event. Anyone who suggests otherwise will be pelted with jelly beans, in flavours they don't like, until they surrender and agree to give up any cookies in their possession, as mandated in Mandate #91.

Besides, I was almost born on September 11 but decided not to. I guess I knew that my birthday would be afterwards associated with bad things like some big buildings falling over when an aeroplane crashed into them or something, and a lot of people dying and shit.

EDIT: You said birth year... whatever. I'm assuming by that it wasn't the same year as mine. Although nothing very exciting happened in mine either... -.-

February 10th

* 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).
* 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
* 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
* 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.
* 1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome and removes Pope Pius VI from power.
* 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
* 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
* 1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle the war
* 1863 - The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
* 1870 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
* 1897 - Freedom of religion in Madagascar
* 1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic engagement of Poland with the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
* 1929 - Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
* 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
* 1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
* 1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
* 1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
* 1949 - Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman premiered in New York City.
* 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
* 1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
* 1964 - The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
* 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified.
* 1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
* 1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
* 1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KO's Mike Tyson In what perhaps was one of the greatest upsets in sports history .
* 1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
* 1997 - The United States Army suspends CSM Gene C. McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
* 1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.
* 1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
* 1999 - Avalanches in the French Alps near Geneva kill at least 10.
* 2001 - The Southerner train service between Christchurch and Invercargill is axed after the New Zealand Government and Tranz Scenic fail to support the service.
* 2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
* 2005 - North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
* 2006 - The XX Olympic Winter Games open in Turin, Italy.

Well, on my birthday (4 April), I knew about MLK's death (1968), and the 'Nam chopper incident (my actual birthday in 75), but there's apparantly some other cool shiz-nit:

1975 - Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico

1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift - A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans. 172 people are killed.

Other things I find interesting:

1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time.

1818 - The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States as having 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 stars) with additional stars to be added whenever a new state is added to the Union.

1865 - American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.

1905 - In India, an earthquake near Kangra kills 370,000.

1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme ends.

1939 - Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.

1945 - World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf death camp in Germany.

1945 - World War II: Soviet Army liberates Hungary.

1949 - Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.

1973 - The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.

1984 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.

1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.

BIRTHDAYS:

1915 - Muddy Waters, American musician (d. 1983)

1928 - Maya Angelou, American writer

1973 - David Blaine, American illusionist

1991 - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress (OMG-Britney's sister!!11!!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_21

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14

I think the most important thing about my birthday is that, in America, it's National Creamsicles Day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14

I think the most important thing about my birthday is that, in America, it's National Creamsicles Day. I don't even know what a creamsicle is.

I don't even know what a creamsicle is.

Does popsicle, uh, ring more of a bell?

Does popsicle, uh, ring more of a bell?
Was I asking about popsicles? No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_27#Events

Was I asking about popsicles? No.

It's a popscicle with a frozen cream center.

Or an innuendo. Depends.

It's a popscicle with a frozen cream center. Thanks. And ewww.

Or an innuendo. Depends. You had to go there, didn't you?

29th of October

437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
969 - Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
1061 - Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.
1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 - Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1881 - The Judge (US magazine) first published.
1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1921 - The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or Black Tuesday, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1948 - Safsaf massacre
1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 - Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1957 - Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves including Jack Murphy from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).
1980 - Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1986 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1989 - After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1992 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2005 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
2006 - Aviation Development Company Flight 53 crashes shortly after take off in Nigeria.
2006 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the run-off elections and was re-elected for another term as President of Brazil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_3

March 4

I'll link to the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_4) entry, but, I'm posting what I found interesting.

# 1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.

# 1962 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine R. Wilson dies at 77; first Canadian female senator appointed

Also born on March 4th...
# 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
# 1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress

January 22 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_22)

"1901 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies."

"1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade striking down state laws restricting abortion during the first six months of pregnancy."

"1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_26

On my actual birthday the only thing listed is
Deaths
1985 - Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (b. 1932)


Exciting.

On the exact day I was born, east germany opened travel to west berlin, and the berlin wall was torn apart (partially, that is). That must mean something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10

1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.

1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.

1998 - A college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace.

On the exact day I was born, east germany opened travel to west berlin, and the berlin wall was torn apart (partially, that is). That must mean something.
It means you're really, really young. >.<

1987 - Les Misérables opens on Broadway.

My birthdate. What could this mean?!?!!? :eek:

I share my birthday with a few football players and Francis Xavier, but the deaths are most important

30 - Jesus according to the Bible

and it is World Health Day.

and de la Salle's feast day for Catholics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_7

* 1902 - Archaeologist Spyridon Stais finds the Antikythera mechanism. What is it with this thing this week?bb
A message from God. :D

2005 - A chemical plant explosion happened at the EQ Recovery Plant in Romulus, Michigan, forcing residence within 1 to 1.5 mile radius from the plant to evacuate. You could see the smoke form my house.

2001 - In Jerusalem, 15 people die and 130 are wounded in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing.

1987 - 9 people are shot dead and 17 more injured as 19-year old Julian Knight opens fire at random in the Hoddle Street Massacre in Clifton Hill

1974 - As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles.

1965 - Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.

1945 - World War II: An atomic bomb, codenamed Fat Man, is dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan killing an estimated 70,000-90,000 people.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Savo Island - Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

16,000,000,000 BC - The Big Bang For all you non believers.....
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1811 - Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1848 - U.S. presidential election, 1848: Zachary Taylor is elected president in the first US presidential election held in every state on the same day.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
1874 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party
1885 - In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.
1893 - Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1914 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1916 - U.S. presidential election, 1916: Democrat Woodrow Wilson is re-elected President of the United States by defeating Republican Charles Evans Hughes. Meanwhile, Jeannette Rankin of Montana, running as a Progressive Republican, becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date).
1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1929 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1932 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.
1933 - Fiorello H. LaGuardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1934 - Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
1940 - In Tacoma, Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1941 - Soviet hospital ship Armenia sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1941 - Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: German fascists murder 2580 Jews. Earlier in September, 1941 2,400 Jews were shot by German Nazis at the brickworks near Nemyriv.
1944 - U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins re-election over challenger Thomas E. Dewey, to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term. YAY!!
1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1962 - Richard M. Nixon loses the gubernatorial election in the U.S. state of California. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more".
1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
1967 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 - U.S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern. BOO!!
1973 - The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1983 - 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building.
1987 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
1989 - Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1989 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
1989 - East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
1991 - Basketball player Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) and that he is retiring.
1992 - The Party for Socialist Turkey is founded.
1996 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
1996 - A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143.
2000 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Democratic Vice President Al Gore wins the popular vote against Republican Texas Governor George W. Bush, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida. BOO!!
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win a public office in the United States. YAY!!
2001 - Bankruptcy of Belgium's SABENA Airlines.
2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 - War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2006 - A deadly tornado strikes Japan.
2006 - Democrats gain control of both houses of Congress in the midterm elections for the first time since 1994. YAY!!
2006 - In the U.S. midterm elections, Democrat Keith Ellison of Minnesota becomes the first Muslim elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Is it bad if I actually was looking for Marquis De Sade and Gilles de Rais?

1987 - Les Misérables opens on Broadway.

My birthdate. What could this mean?!?!!? :eek:

It means you are doomed.

My birthday is Dec. 1, 1973. Here's the wiki entry for that day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1

The (few) things that happened on my actual birthday are:

Events
- Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia

Births
- Kate Rusby, English folk singer

Deaths
- David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)


One significant historical event that happened on Dec.1 (in 1955) is:

In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

I was born. Anything else is just trivia.

I selected the more interesting events that happened on my date of birth

1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

1801 - Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the thrown.

1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. Also, Henry Jones invented self-raising flour on this day.

1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.

1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.

1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.

1900 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.

1917 - Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Maude.

1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.

1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.

1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.

1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.

1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.

1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.

1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.

1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 192 people.

A few of the more interesting birthdays

1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)

1903 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)

1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)

1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur

As well as a couple of interesting deaths

222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)

1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)

1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho

1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)

2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (b. 1941)

I was born.

Some Greeks got angry and started a terrorist organisation.
November 17th.

I don't even know what a creamsicle is.
Me neither when I posted that. But thanks to...erm...y'know, you who posted it. Yeah, you. *points* (damn my bad memory)

1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1822 - Florida Territory created in the United States.
1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 - One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 - Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas - "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1858 - Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
1870 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1940 - Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 - The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1964 - Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! makes its debut on television. Art Fleming hosts the first episode on NBC.
1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 - Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1979 - Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The INLA claims responsibility.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
2006 - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
2006 - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.

[edit] Births
1135 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 - John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
1746 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
1750 - John Stafford Smith, English composer (d. 1836)
1820 - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1880 - Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1892 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1894 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)
1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975)
1902 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist
1903 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
1904 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1913 - Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)
1913 - Frankie Laine, American singer
1913 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur
1927 - Peter Marshall, American game show host
1928 - Robert Badinter, French politician
1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor
1930 - John Astin, American actor
1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
1932 - Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
1935 - Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
1941 - Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues)
1941 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer
1949 - Lene Lovich, American singer
1949 - Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman
1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1952 - Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
1956 - Bill Butler, Scottish politician
1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor
1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1959 - Peter Ellis, convicted child abuser
1962 - MC Hammer, American rapper
1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
1964 - Tracy Chapman, American singer
1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor
1964 - Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player
1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)
1967 - Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese voice actress and singer
1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
1968 - Celine Dion, Canadian singer
1970 - Mark Consuelos, American actor
1970 - Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
1973 - Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1976 - Jessica Cauffiel, American actress
1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete
1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1978 - Fabian Basabe, American reality series star
1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
1979 - Simon Webbe, English singer
1980 - Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
1980 - Paul Wall, American rapper
1983 - Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer
1983 - Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
1984 - Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter
1984 - Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
1986 - Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
1986 - Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer
1988 - Stephen McLeod Blythe, Scottish singer songwriter The RipOffs

[edit] Deaths
1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish oper singer (b. 1895)
1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist
1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929).
1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908)
1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899
1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)
2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)
2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)




[edit] Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus.
Land Day.
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day - Public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago.
National Doctors' Day - observed in the USA.

[edit] Liturgical feasts
Saint John Climacus (died 649)
Saint Quirinus (d. 117)
Saint Veronus
Blessed Amadeus IX of Savoy

335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 - In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French.
1692 - Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1777 - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1796 - George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price at Iuka, Mississippi.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1893 - Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote, beginning with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
1928 - Walt Disney releases Steamboat Willie, the best known of the early short films to feature Mickey Mouse.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh III.
1942 - Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: Approximately 2,500 Jews of Brody had been deported by German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec.
1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.
1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1952 - The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England.
1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.
1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino".
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland. :D
1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden.
1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155.
1981 - Simon and Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York City's Central Park.
1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1985 - A strong earthquake hits Mexico City and other parts of Mexico, killing thousands and demolishing about 400 buildings.
1985 - Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1988 - Greg Louganis suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals.
1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.
1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2001 - Commencement of combat activities in Afghanistan (the date designated by U.S. President George W. Bush in Executive Order 13239 of December 12, 2001).
2006 - The Thai military stages a coup, with tanks rolling through the city of Bangkok. Constitution revoked; martial law declared.

October 23

1911 - First use of aircraft in war: an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1929 - Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow, New York.
1973 - The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations about the scandal.
2001 - Apple Computer releases the first iPod.

Births:
1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist

December 18

218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
1352 - Innocent VI is elected Pope.
1642 - Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand
1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by Frech royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1892 - The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
1900 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia opened for traffic.
1926 - The first performance of Leoš Janáček's opera The Makropulos Affair is held in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
1935 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Sri Lanka.
1961 - Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1969 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to remove the limit on the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, which suspended the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland for all crimes, except treason, piracy with violence, and certain crimes under the jurisdiction of the armed forces for a period of five years, is carried by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
1973 - Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2001 - The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, New York City, is damaged by fire.
2002 - 2003 California recall: Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

June 27th

1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.

1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., murdered along with his brother, Hyrum, at the Carthage, Illinois jail.

1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.

Hm... Lots of bad stuff I see.

December the 31st (YAY GO ME!)

* 406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
* 535 - Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year.
* 1229 - James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (nowadays Palma de Mallorca, Spain) thus consuming the Christian conquest of the island of Mallorca.
* 1600 - British East India Company is chartered.
* 1660 - James II of England is created Duke of Normandy by King Louis XIV.
* 1687 - The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
* 1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
* 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold.
* 1831 - Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
* 1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, as the capital of Canada.
* 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two).
* 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
* 1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time.
* 1891 - A new immigration depot is opened on Ellis Island, New York.
* 1904 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
* 1909 - Manhattan Bridge opens.
* 1916 - The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the United States at the time, burns to the ground.
* 1923 - The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
* 1929 - Guy Lombardo performs Auld Lang Syne at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City for the first time.
* 1944 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.
* 1946 - President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
* 1955 - General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over USD $1 billion in a year.
* 1956 - On December, 31st. in Romania was launched the first TV program.
* 1960 - The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
* 1961 - The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than USD $12 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
* 1963 - The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
* 1968 - Marien Ngouabi assumed the presidency of the Republic of the Congo.
* 1983 - The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
* 1986 - A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
* 1988 - Mario Lemieux became the first player in National Hockey League history to score one each of the five types of goals in a single game: an even-strength goal, a power-play goal, a short-handed goal, a penalty shot and an empty-net goal.
* 1990 - Garry Kasparov holds his title by winning the World Chess Championship match against his countryman Anatoly Karpov. So, as I was born, some guy beat another at chess, smooth, real smooth =p
* 1991 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is officially dissolved.
* 1991 - The civil war in El Salvador ends.
* 1992 - In the last of the great ITV franchise renewals, Thames Television, Television South West and Television South cease broadcasting, replaced by Carlton Television, Westcountry Television and Meridian Television respectively.
* 1994 - This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
* 1995 - The last strip of the popular comic Calvin and Hobbes is published.
* 1997 - Quaker Oats settles a lawsuit involving the immoral use of child subjects in radioactivity experiments circa 1945-56.
* 1999 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
* 1999 - Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
* 1999 - The United States Government handed Panama Canal control over to Panama
* 2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
* 2005 - AT&T and SBC Communications merge, SBC name is dropped. A new AT&T is formed.

1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1394 - King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France.
1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
1577 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1859 - Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States.
1862 - American Civil War: George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 - National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
1924 - The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
1941 - A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, was issued
1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
1948 - Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
1951 - Robert A. Lovett was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Defense of United States.
1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
1961 - The Minnesota Vikings play their first NFL game, defeating the Chicago Bears 37-13, with Fran Tarkenton throwing 4 touchdowns and running for 1 touchdown.
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
1972 - The first episode of M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA. In keeping with its namesake, the cast of Star Trek came to see Enterprise's unveiling.
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
1984 - Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
1984 - Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
1988 - Opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.
1988 - Reliever Jeff Reardon of the Minnesota Twins picks up his 40th save of the season by pitching the ninth inning of a 3-1 win over the Chicago White Sox, becoming the first pitcher to save 40 games in both the American League and the National League. Reardon had previously saved 41 games while pitching with the Montreal Expos in 1985.
1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
2001 - The Late Show with David Letterman is the first TV talk show to return to the airwaves six days after terrorists attack the United States in New York City and Washington D.C.
2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average opens for the first time after the September 11 attacks. The stocks plummet throughout the trading session and posts its biggest point drop in its history closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India.
2006 - The WB Television Network went off-the-air after eleven and a half years. The CW Television Network launched the following day.
2006 - The Swedish general election was held this day.

Bolded any important things or things to do with Russia. And now briths:

64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
1826 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
1860 - Billy the Kid (d. 1881)
1869 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1883 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
1890 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1901 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
1903 - Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American Environmentalist
1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress, comiedienne
1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
1926 - Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
1927 - George Blanda, American football player
1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
1930 - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
1933 - Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
1944 - Reinhold Messner, Austrian mountain climber
1945 - David Emerson, Canadian politician
1945 - Phil Jackson, NBA Coach, (formerly of the Chicago Bulls, currently of the Los Angeles Lakers)
1946 - Billy Bonds, English footballer
1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
1948 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
1951 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
1959 - Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
1960 - John Franco, American baseball player
1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
1963 - Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
1968 - Anastacia, American singer
1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
1974 - Mirah, American musician
1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American Idol Finalist
1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian Ice Hockey player
1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 - Danny Haren, baseball player
1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivory Coast Footballer
1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
1991 - Jordan McCoy, American Juniors Finalist
1994 - Taylor Ware, America's Got Talent finalist and yodeler

And finally deaths:

1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria.
1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)

*Whistles*

Bah. Nothing of any importance happened on my birthday. :(

17 May:

1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.

1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed.

1809 - Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.

1915 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.

1918 - Almost the entire leadership of Sinn Féin are arrested.

1940 - World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.

1983 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

1995 - After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.

2000 - Beverly Hills 90210 airs its last episode.

2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first state in the United States to legalize Same-sex marriage

I was born.

* 1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
* 1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
* 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
* 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
* 1822 - Florida Territory created in the United States.
* 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
* 1844 - One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
* 1855 - Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas - "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
* 1856 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.
* 1858 - Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
* 1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
* 1870 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
* 1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
* 1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
* 1940 - Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
* 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
* 1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
* 1954 - The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
* 1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
* 1964 - Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! makes its debut on television. Art Fleming hosts the first episode on NBC.
* 1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
* 1972 - Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
* 1979 - Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The INLA claims responsibility.
* 1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
* 2006 - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
* 2006 - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.

July 10

1778 - France declares war on the United Kingdom
1890 - Wyoming becomes the 44th US state
1940 - Battle of Britain begins
1962 - Telstar is launched
1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency
1973 - The Bahamas gains independence
1978 - CBS "World News Tonight" premiers
1992 - Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years

Meh, read it yourself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29

all the U.S elections (I think), Russian revolution* and Tuesday!!!


*called the October revolution because my birthday was far too important for any revolutionary activity