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What are some important or interesting events that happend on your birthday?
You can check them out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Type in the month and day in the search bar, to the left. <hr> Example: August 23 1305 - William Wallace is executed. 1839 - The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong. 1889 - First wireless message from a ship to the shore received. 1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite. 1989 - All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. 1990 - West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
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December 12 1988 - I came into the world.
i believe this is also mondi's bday
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October 25
1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
2001 - Windows XP is offically released. T_T
2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8th.
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july 12 * 1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers. * 1543 - King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace. * 1573 - Spanish forces under the Duke of Alba capture Haarlem after a seven month siege. * 1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published. * 1690 - Williamite war in Ireland: Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) - The army of William III of England defeats that of the deposed King James VII of Scotland and II of England. * 1691 - Williamite war in Ireland: Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) - The decisive victory of William's forces in Ireland. * 1759 - Seven Years' War - French and Indian War: British cannons start firing on French at Quebec City, from Lévis, Quebec. * 1806 - Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine. * 1812 - War of 1812: The United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario. * 1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress. * 1892 - A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais. * 1932 - Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom. * 1932 - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm. * 1933 - Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour. * 1943 - World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time. * 1950 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France. * 1960 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded. * 1960 - Etch A Sketch, the drawing toy goes on sale. * 1967 - Six days of race riots begin in Newark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people. * 1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. * 1975 - São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal. * 1979 - Disco Demolition Night takes place in Chicago. * 1979 - The island nation of Kiribati declares independence from Great Britain. * 1993 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri. * 2002 - Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages. * 2004 - Pedro Santana Lopes is officially appointed Prime Minister of Portugal. * 2005 - Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco. * 2005 - Thunder Horse, the largest semi-submersible oil platform in the world, is found listing badly after Hurricane Dennis. * 2006 - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
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kennedy was shot in da hed. 11/22/63
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April 12th
* 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire * 1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain. * 1633 - The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins. * 1776 - North Carolina's Provincial Congress authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence by issuing the Halifax Resolves. * 1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. * 1864 - American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre -- Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. * 1865 - American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. * 1877 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. * 1937 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England. * 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd President of the United States. * 1954 - Bill Haley and His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. Initially unsuccessful, the recording would help launch the rock and roll revolution a year later. * 1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. * 1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space. * 1968 - Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah. * 1980 - Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country. * 1980 - Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" by dipping his artificial leg into the Atlantic at St. John's, Newfoundland. * 1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission. * 1994 - Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam. * 1996 - Yahoo! has its initial public offering, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each. * 1998 - Catastrophic earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale near the town of Posočje. * 1999 - American President Bill Clinton was cited for contempt of court by federal district judge Susan Webber Wright for giving "intentionally false statements" in sworn testimony during his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil lawsuit. Clinton was fined $90,000.[1] * 2002 - Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002, a military coup against Hugo Chávez.
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March 17 -I was born and...
* 1513 - (not 1512 as often cited) - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island. * 1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. * 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * 1794 - The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. * 1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact. * 1814 - War of 1812: In central Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. * 1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas. * 1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas. * 1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley. * 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia. * 1868 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York. * 1871 - First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. * 1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200. * 1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba. * 1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia annexed to Romania. * 1923 - FART construction completed. * 1938 - Battle of Tai er zhuang. * 1942 - World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France. * 1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. * 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. * 1963 - Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe. * 1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. * 1969 - Mariner 7 is launched. * 1971 - SS Texaco Oklahoma breaks in half and sinks off Cape Hatteras, killing 31 of 44 aboard. * 1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened. * 1977 - Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583. * 1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. * 1980 - Silver Thursday market crash. * 1986 - Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer, Angela Taylor, and injuring 21 people. * 1988 - Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh. * 1990 - Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba. * 1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. * 1993 - Albert Zafy becomes President of Madagascar. * 1993 - Mahamane Ousmane becomes President of Niger. * 1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90. * 2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel. * 2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. * 2006 - The UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
Wow alot happened actually!!!
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April 13th:
* 1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope. * 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter. * 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople * 1250 - The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured. * 1256 - The Grand Union of the Augustinian order when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. * 1598 - Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. * 1742 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. * 1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics. * 1849 - Hungary becomes a republic. * 1861 - American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to rebel forces. * 1873 - Colfax Massacre. * 1883 - Alferd Packer is convicted of murder. * 1902 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. * 1919 - The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. * 1919 - Amritsar massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. * 1921 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party. * 1939 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British. * 1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. * 1943 - World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners-of-war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre was announced in Germany, driving a wedge between the Western Allies, the Polish government-in-exile in London, and the Soviet Union. * 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. * 1945 - German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. The atrocity is discovered two days later by American forces. * 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew into deadly peril. The explosion occurred on April 14th in several time zones. * 1972 - The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. * 1974 - Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the USA's first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. * 1975 - An attack by Palestinians on a church in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon marks the beginning of a 15 year civil war. * 1983 - Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history. * 1984 - Pete Rose becomes the first player in National League history to collect 4,000 hits. * 1985 - Enver Hoxha is succeeded by Ramiz Alia as the leader of Albania. * 1987 - Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999. * 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win golf's Masters Tournament. * 2002 - The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 ends. President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela returns * 2006 - Tiara Air , a new airline has begin flights to Curacao and Bonaire.
Some of those are really freacking ugh.
Mostly massacres and accidents in those dates.
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* 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. * 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick. * 1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg. * 1668 - Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge. * 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton * 1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.' * 1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore. * 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition. * 1846 - Mexican War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California. * 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100 * 1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged. * 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. * 1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. * 1917 - Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II. * 1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). * 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China. * 1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany. * 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. * 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. * 1947 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident. * 1954 - In Memphis, Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley record. * 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. * 1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. * 1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government. * 1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom. * 1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov *1987- SweeTLemonS[TPR] is born. * 1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. * 1994 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen. * 2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader. * 2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed. * 2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired. * 2005 - A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers. * 2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010. _________
Not a whole lot... nothing cool, anyway... except me being born of course.
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September 02
1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
The world knows better than to fight on my birthday! This day, I'm the one pwning!
Also, special mention goes to:
490 BC - After the Battle of Marathon, where the Greeks defeated the invading Persians, Pheidippides, who had already run 140 miles over 2 days and nights, ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of the victory. His last words before he collapsed and died, "Rejoice, we are victorious."
I notice a pattern here. Poor guy, he wanted to be there on my birthday party so he ran all the way.
Edit: Way to spammy folks.
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September 20th
Nothing very interesting..
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January 10th
* 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 United States. * 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 premiers. * 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 U.S. 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 United States 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 it's pilot episode at 9 pm on the HBO channel * 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. * I was born
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On September 08 2006 22:26 Cloud wrote: April 13th:
My birthday too . Surely most of these things were on fridays too!
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1889 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German dictator (d. 1945) - born
1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
1972 - Carmen Electra, American actress ( bonus points?)
<(also considered national pot day [( the plant ) not officially]>
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June 2 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. The Pope <3 commies
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My B-Day is 9/11, what do you think?
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August 9th * 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. * 378 - Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople - A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with ⅔ of his army. * 681 - Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta. * 1048 - Pope Damasus II dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days. * 1173 - Construction of the (Leaning) Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete. * 1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel * 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. * 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope. * 1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army. * 1892 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. * 1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom. * 1936 - Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympic Games. * 1942 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement. * 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. * 1944 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. * 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. * 1965 - Singapore seceded from the newly-formed Federation of Malaysia. * 1965 - Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers. * 1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley. * 1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles. * 1969 - Popular attraction The Haunted Mansion opens in Disneyland. * 1974 - As a direct result of the scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. * 1983 - Peter Jennings hosts his first broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight as sole anchor. * 1986 - The Headington Shark is erected in Oxford. * 1986 - Knebworth Park, Stevenage, UK sees the final live performance of rock band Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury. * 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 * 1988 - Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in hockey history. * 1988 - Baseball's all-day-game era officially came to an end when the Cubs beat the Mets 6-4 in Wrigley Field's first night game. * 1989 - Kaifu Toshiki becomes Prime Minister of Japan. * 1993 - The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership. * 1993 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office. * 1994 - Dilbert is drawn with his necktie down, signifying that he "lost his innocence" with Liz. * 1995 - Netscape launches IPO. * 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. * 1999 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem. * 2000 - A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11 * 2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells. * 2001 - In Jerusalem, 15 people die and 130 are wounded in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing. * 2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery successfully lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California. * 2006 - Mexican fishermen get rescued near the Marshall Islands after being lost nine months in the sea, eating raw fish and birds.
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