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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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* 1092 - Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England was consecrated. * 1901 - The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. * 1945 - End of World War II in Europe: The signing of a second German Instrument of Surrender, specifying the capitulation of the Wehrmacht to the Soviet Red Army, was announced. * 1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicated. * 1950 - Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology and Dianetics, was first published.
i feel emo
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May 10th
"Births 563 BCE - Siddhartha Gautama, later Buddha"
Cool
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1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution. 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war. 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
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FEBRUARY 18 * 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. * 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. * 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 China. * 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. * 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.
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October 30
Diego Maradona is born
:D
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June 29
1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din. 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground. 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec. 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
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Valhalla18444 Posts
Bruce Campbell shares my birthday
I think I win?
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On September 09 2006 01:07 Chibi[OWNS] wrote: 1941 - World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
Lol talk about having balls.
mine: 10th of March
1st place: 1997 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on the WB network. - HUBBA HUBBA!! 2nd place: 1964 - The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company. 3rd place: 1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
And then just a lot of bad stuff happening to France, military defeats and so on.
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On September 09 2006 01:08 Chibi[OWNS] wrote: there is a website called "this day in history" or some shit that all this shit is lynched from btw
Or maybe it searches the database for the date you're searching. Since it's.. you know... the largest encyclopedia on the net. Just a thought...
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December 8
1941 - World War II: Pacific War - After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress passes a declaration of war against Japan.
1941 - World War II: Pacific War - China officially declares war against Japan, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
1941 - World War II: Pacific War - The Netherlands issues a proclamation in which it declares war against Japan, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
1941 - World War II: Pacific War - The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since 1910.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Hong Kong - The Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong less than 8 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour.
1941 - Holocaust: Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Łódź in Poland.
1966 - The Greek ferry Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1969 - An Olympic Airways DC-6B crashes near Athens during a storm, killing 93 people. 1972 - United Airlines Flight 533 crashes near Chicago Midway Airport, killing 45 people.
1980 - John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City.
1981 - No. 21 Mine explosion in Whitwell, Tennessee kills 13.
1987 - The Queen Street Massacre: Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the offices of Australia Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself.
1998 - Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2004 - Guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott is murdered onstage by Nathan Gale at a Damageplan concert in Columbus, Ohio.
2005 - Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 slides off the runway at Chicago Midway Airport, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring 11 other people.
all I see is darkness...
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On September 09 2006 02:26 CubEdIn[SoD] wrote:Show nested quote +On September 09 2006 01:08 Chibi[OWNS] wrote: there is a website called "this day in history" or some shit that all this shit is lynched from btw Or maybe it searches the database for the date you're searching. Since it's.. you know... the largest encyclopedia on the net. Just a thought... owned
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1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
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may 22nd
1906 - Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
1960 - An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1990 - The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.
1992 - After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
2004 - The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also killed one local resident.
oh yea man look at this 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930) sherlock holmes anyone?
trivia May 22 is the least common birthday in the USA. okay..... trivia...
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September 13
1922 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 136.4 °F (58 °C). 1939 - Canada enters World War II. 1956 - The dyke around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. 1985 - Nintendo releases its smash-hit Super Mario Bros. 1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. (on the exact day of my birth!) Programmer's day
Libya should know better than to put the hottest temperature in the shade of the world on my birthday .
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July 14 ( )
1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France. 1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. 1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England. 1798 - The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. 1825 - The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct Patrick Henry Society in Room 7, West Lawn. 1827 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu. 1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta. 1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. 1940 - World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops. 1943 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American. 1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament. 1954 - The central region of the United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118° F (48° C) in Warsaw and Union, Missouri, and 117° F (47° C) in East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures. 1958 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader. 1965 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. 1966 - In Chicago, Illinois, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory. 1966 - A fire at a mental hospital in Guatemala City kills 225. 1967 - Eddie Mathews becomes the seventh member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. 1968 - Hank Aaron becomes the eighth member of the 500 home run club with a home run off Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants at Fulton County Stadium. 1969 - Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20. 1969 - Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use," leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency. [1] 1981 - MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country. 1984 - New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon. It was this government that introduced the world's first and only nuclear free legislation. 1988 - Volkswagen's automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States - closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen's Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the Golf and some Jetta models until its closing. 1989 - F-16 first kill by an Israeli Air Force pilot shooting down a Syrian MIG-21. 1992 - A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process. 1995 - The MP3 format was named. 2000 - George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason. 2002 - During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed. 2006 - The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all relegated. AC Milan were spared relegation. 2006 - Hezbollah declares war on Israel.
MP3 format and french independence day woohoo !
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On September 09 2006 01:07 Chibi[OWNS] wrote:
1964 - Matsumoto Hideto, Japanese guitarist and singer (X-Japan)
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21 july
356 BC - A young man called Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1969 - Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon.
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20 November
Picked interesting stuff on random mostly.
1700 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America.
1902 - Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris.
This one is interesting since I'm a cyclist and think that the tour the france blows pretty much compared to the other big tours who are better in every way ecept price money. The tour sucks.
1945 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (in 1995 localized fighting resumed).
I have to friends that lived in zambia for a couple of years.
2003 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation.
TL.net style.
Notable births:
1937 - Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier
1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician.
Deaths:
1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892)
20th november is also the "Transgender Day of Remembrance" whoo hoo.
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1853 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine. 1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
And some others..
WOW Edit; My birthdays on national hugging day :D
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29 oct 1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
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.
1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
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).
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.
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* 1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri. * 1934 - US: Anarchist conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11 * 1948 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. * 1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. * 1971 - Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. * 1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted. * 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony. * 2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space. * 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours. * 2006 - Chelsea FC captain John Terry is named as the new successor to David Beckham as the England captain.
FA = Has decapitated son?
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* 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. * 1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. * 1547 - Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. * 1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland. * 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity. * 1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. * 1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia. * 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. * 1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast. * 1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. * 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway. * 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: France surrenders, ending the war. * 1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States. * 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. * 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. * 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. * 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard. * 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. * 1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa. * 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco. * 1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground. * 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I. * 1932 - Japan occupies Shanghai. * 1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and by a group of Cambridge University Students and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement of the formal Indian Independence Act 1947 during WWII * 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion. * 1938 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont. * 1938 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195. * 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road. * 1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef. * 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister. * 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades. * 1986 - Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard, including Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space. Failure blamed on leaking Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. * 1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. * 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines. * 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92. * 2004 - September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.
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Births
* 1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509) * 1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) * 1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621) * 1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669) * 1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) * 1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687) * 1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691) * 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774) * 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775) * 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761) * 1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774) * 1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749) * 1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830) * 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860) * 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892) * 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885) * 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904) * 1853 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895) * 1857 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (d. 1898) * 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954) * 1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940) * 1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953) * 1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970) * 1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962) * 1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973) * 1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982) * 1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963) * 1891 - Bill Doak, baseball player (d. 1954) * 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947) * 1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986) * 1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973) * 1910 - Arnold Moss, American character actor (d. 1989) * 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956) * 1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993) * 1923 - Ivo Robić, Croatian singer (d. 2001) * 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996) * 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001) * 1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist * 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist * 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970) * 1935 - David Lodge, English author * 1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer * 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director * 1938 - Leonid Zhabotinsky, Russian weightlifter * 1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985) * 1944 - John Tavener, English composer * 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician * 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer * 1948 - Charles Taylor, former leader of Liberia * 1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress * 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain * 1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician * 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut * 1954 - Rick Warren, pastor and author * 1959 - Randi Rhodes, American personality * 1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm) * 1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker * 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer * 1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer * 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter * 1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill) * 1968 - Rakim, American rapper * 1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress * 1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician * 1969 - Mo Rocca, Writer and comedian * 1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer * 1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player * 1974 - Jermaine Dye, baseball player * 1975 - David Zingler, American writer * 1975 - Junior Spivey, Baseball player * 1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player * 1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot) * 1976 - Emiko Kado, wrestler (d. 1999) * 1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player * 1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC) * 1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira) * 1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese formula one driver * 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer * 1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer * 1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer * 1979 - Pixie, English model * 1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder * 1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys) * 1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player * 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor * 1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player * 1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
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Deaths
* 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742) * 1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031) * 1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247) * 1443 - Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France * 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491) * 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier * 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547) * 1613 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545) * 1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550) * 1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619) * 1672 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588) * 1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611) * 1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator * 1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia, (b. 1672) * 1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684) * 1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769) * 1864 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799) * 1903 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847) * 1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819) * 1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846) * 1918 - John McCrae Canadian poet, "In Flander's Fields" (b. 1872) * 1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859) * 1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driber (b. 1909) * 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865) * 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908) * 1950 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883) * 1953 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876) * 1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891) * 1963 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884) * 1965 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888) * 1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867) * 1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896) * 1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910) * 1983 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890) * 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: o Greg Jarvis (b. 1944) o Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) o Ronald McNair (b. 1950) o Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946) o Judith Resnik (b. 1949) o Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939) o Michael J. Smith (b. 1945) * 1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911) * 1991 - Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903) * 1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916) * 1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1940) * 1996 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914) * 1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918) * 1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908) * 2001 - Curt Blefary, baseball player (b. 1943) * 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907) * 2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927) * 2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923) * 2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923) * 2004 - Don Stansauk, professional wrestler (b. 1936) * 2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944) * 2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973) * 2006 - Yitzchak Kadouri, Jewish rabbi (b. around 1900) * 2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
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* 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land. * 1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag. * 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. * 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence. * 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. * 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez. * 1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed * 1821 - Panama Independence Day. Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia. * 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. * 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates. * 1895 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours. * 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland. * 1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. * 1912 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. * 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading. * 1919 - Lady Astor is elected to be the first female to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.She was not the first to be elected.That was Countess Markievicz. * 1920 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens. * 1920 - Kilmichael Ambush Battle of the Irish War of Independence * 1925 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM. * 1942 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people. * 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy. * 1944 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans. * 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community. * 1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France. * 1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars. * 1964 - Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam. * 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam. * 1969 - The final episode of BBC soap-opera The Newcomers is broadcast. * 1969 - The Rolling Stones release the album Let It Bleed. * 1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal. * 1975 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes. * 1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board. * 1979 - Billy Smith becomes the first goalie in NHL history to score a goal in a game. * 1980 - Mark Morris, choreographer, puts on the Mark Morris Dance Group's first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios. * 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade. * 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made honorary citizens of the United States. * 1987 - South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board. * 1987 - Tawana Brawley is allegedly raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in Wappingers Falls, New York. * 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power. * 1990 - Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to The Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time. John Major is elected her successor. * 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994). * 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium. * 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit. * 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo. * 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. * 2000 - The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment. * 2002 - 13 people are killed in a hotel bombing in Mombasa. * 2004 - Male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it could breed, making the species most in all probability extinct. * 2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Québécois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election.
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* 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. * 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 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.
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1997 - The Pokémon episode Electric Soldier Porygon triggers attacks of photosensitive epilepsy in hundreds of Japanese children.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina1381 Posts
On September 09 2006 07:04 MyCube wrote: I posted this post.
Haooy Birthday GTR!
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December 15th
* 1290 BC - Seti I, Pharaoh of Egypt dies. Ramesses II becomes Pharaoh of Egypt. * 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron. * 687 - St. Sergius I becomes Pope. * 1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia. * 1791 - The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia legislature. * 1818 - Irwin County, Georgia is created. * 1891 - James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players. * 1913 - Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. * 1939 - Gone with the Wind premiers in Atlanta, Georgia. * 1945 - Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan. * 1960 - King Baudouin of Belgium marries Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón in Brussels. * 1961 - In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. * 1965 - Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Also the release of The Sound of Music. * 1976 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN. * 1993 - History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. * 1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released. * 1994 - Palau becomes a member of the UN. * 1995 - The European Communities Court of Justice passes the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another. * 1997 - A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85. * 2002 - The digital radio station BBC7 is launched by the comedian Paul Merton. * 2005 - The 43rd known Mersenne prime is discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper & Dr. Steven Boone of USA, participants of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search distributed computing project. The prime number is the largest known Mersenne prime at the time of its discovery, and is more than nine million digits long. * 2005 - Latvia edits its constitution to ban equal marriage rights to gays and lesbians. * 2005 - Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the cancellation of the external debt to the IMF.
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Korea (South)11558 Posts
On September 09 2006 07:04 MyCube wrote: I posted this post. Happy Birthday
1547 - Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
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January 20
2001 - George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States.
and so forth, for alot of the previous US presidents, i guess this day is the traditional day when they are "inaugurated"
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yea wtf just the intresting ones you tards.
june 1st
1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress
1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor ( my favorite actor )
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October 25th has an interesting one for me...
1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
which is odd since one of my hobbies is target archery, go figgure.
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saddam and jessica alba were born on my birthday
fucking sweet
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* 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. * 672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope. * 847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope. * 1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei. * 1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily. * 1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus. * 1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno. * 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31. * 1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703. * 1785 - The University of Georgia is founded. * 1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." * 1870 - The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University. * 1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. * 1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded. * 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined. * 1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway. * 1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti. * 1926 - John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast. * 1939 - United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France. * 1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna. * 1943 - World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven. * 1944 - World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted. * 1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp. * 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats. * 1967 - Project Apollo: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center. * 1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space. * 1969 - The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000KVA was completed and placed in operation. * 1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War, Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. * 1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. * 1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump. * 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. * 1996 - Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day. * 1997 - It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis. * 1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. * 2001 - Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado. * 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
everyone copying and pasting everything that wikipedia says for their birthday is pretty pointless and not cool and makes a horrible thread.
no ?
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September 27th
* 1540 - The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III. * 1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history. * 1787 - The United States Constitution is delivered to the states for ratification. * 1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain. * 1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone. * 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" in Annalen der Physik. This paper revealed the relationship between energy and mass. * 1928 - The Republic of China is recognized by the United States. * 1937 - Last Balinese Tiger killed * 1949 - The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China. * 1954 - The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC. * 1964 - The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy. * 1983 - Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system. * 1995 - The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center. * 1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. * 1997 - Communications are lost with the Mars Pathfinder for unknown reasons. * 1998 - Google is first established
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november 2nd
some stuff i found interesting:
1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day, the only current national holiday honoring an individual American. 1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. 1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
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August 5th
# Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia. # 1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. # 1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution. # 1388 - Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England. # 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland. # 1620 - The Mayflower departs Southampton, England. # 1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France. # 1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run. # 1772 - First Partition of Poland begins. # 1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat. # 1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month. # 1860 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim. # 1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872). # 1861 - The United States Army abolished flogging. # 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city. # 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports. # 1874 - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England. # 1882 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established. # 1882 - Martial law is enacted in Japan. # 1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. # 1888 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip. # 1901 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years. # 1912 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo. # 1914 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed. # 1944 - World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia. Most are killed but many escape and later commit suicide. Five Australian guards also die. # 1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. # 1949 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000. # 1957 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network. # 1960 - Burkina Faso, then known as "Upper Volta", becomes independent from France. # 1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990. # 1963 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty. # 1964 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. # 1969 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers). # 1974 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam. # 1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work. # 1993 - Popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering is released. First trading card game to date. # 1995 - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory ("Homeland Thanksgiving Day") in Croatia. # 1999 - Mark McGwire becomes the 16th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. # 2001 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in a record-setting game known as the Impossible Return. # 2003 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
+ a long list of famous people who were born or died that day (which I don't intend to post)
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April 17th:
1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts. 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings. 1895 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan. 1924 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company 1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. 1975 - Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
Births: 1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971) 1897 - Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d. 1975) 1957 - Nick Hornby, English author 1959 - Sean Bean, English actor 1972 - Jennifer Garner, American actress
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Janet Jackson exposed her nipple. Feb 1st fucking sucks.
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* 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration. * 1244 - Battle of La Forbie: Crusaders are defeated by Khwarezmians and Egyptians. * 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. * 1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army lead by John Hunyadi fought an Ottoman army lead by Murad II. * 1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. * 1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkerque to France for 40,000 pounds. * 1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga. * 1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia. * 1800 - England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. * 1806 - Former leader of the Great Slave Rebellion of 1791, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule. * 1860 - First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open) * 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). * 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. * 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I * 1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion. * 1933 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US. * 1937 - Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appear in a newspaper comic strip. * 1941 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. * 1945 - A massive number of people, headed for CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty) or San Perón (Saint Perón). It's considered the birthday of Peronism. * 1961 - Approximately 200 Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police * 1965 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event. * 1966 - A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters. * 1967 - The musical Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway. * 1970 - Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group. * 1973 - OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria * 1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize * 1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the United States Department of Education and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Both replace the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. * 1989 - Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area. * 1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992. * 1994 - Draft peace treaty between Israel and Jordan * 1994 - Peace treaty between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels. * 2003 - Carlos Mesa becomes President of Bolivia. * 2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 106-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise. * 2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics. * 2004 - Approximately 10,000 people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the Million Worker March, a pro-labor and anti-war demonstration.
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July 24th
* 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. * 1216 - Cencio Savelli is consecrated as Pope Honorius III. * 1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil. * 1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer. * 1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King Francis I of France. * 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son King James VI. * 1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit. * 1814 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders. * 1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile * 1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass. * 1847 - After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown - Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley. * 1866 - Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War. * 1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. * 1910 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News. * 1911 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas". * 1915 - Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, Illinois, with the loss of 845 lives. * 1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War. * 1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. * 1929 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers). * 1931 - A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people. * 1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. * 1935 - The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. * 1937 - Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys." * 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. * 1956 - At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946. * 1956 - Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum. * 1959 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate." * 1964 - One criticality (nuclear) accident at Charlestown in Rhode Island (US), killing one. See List of civilian nuclear accidents. * 1965 - Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage. * 1966 - Michael Pelkey made the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping is now been banned from El Cap. * 1967 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians. * 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. * 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. * 1974 - After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored. * 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th career home run off of Oakland A's Mike Morgan at Fenway Park. * 1983 - George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident". * 1990 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border. * 1991 - Government of India announces the New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms. * 1998 - Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial. * 2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office. * 2001 - The Taiwan Solidarity Union is established. * 2001 - Larry A. Silverstein signs a $3.2billion, 99 year lease on the entire WTC complex, 7 weeks before 9/11. In it is an insurance policy which specifically covers acts of terrorism. * 2002 - James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1. * 2002 - Alfred Moisiu becomes President of Albania. * 2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
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I just found out Snoop Dogg and I share the same birthday.
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the first internet website opened on my birthday ^____________^
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December 11th
1984 - Testie is born dwarfing all other events on this day in history.
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september 28th
# 1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval. # 1820 - The tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts. # 1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario. # 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island. 1987 - Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode of TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation airs.
Births: 551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC) 1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929) 1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953) # 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian # 1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress 1968 - Naomi Watts, English-born actress 1979 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder # 1987 - Hilary Duff, American actress
Deaths: 48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC) # 1891 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819) # 1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822) 1964 - Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888) 1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
quite a few notable historical people born on my birtday.
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September 10th
1988 - At his residence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden launches al Qaeda
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October 28th
1981 - The heavy metal band Metallica is founded in San Francisco.
Damn right bitches !
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August 27, 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended.
Damned right!
What was that Mardonius? You were saying that Xerxes would overrun the Greeks, because they fought in the most absurd manner - selecting a level, open plain, and clashing, so that the winner sustains heavy casualties, and the loser is totally destroyed?
Armies drawn from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, all under one banner, invade Greece, and are annihilated.
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On September 08 2006 22:15 IntoTheWow wrote: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.
wow thats alot of fucked up things that happened on your bday. which is worse, hitler or windows XP?
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August 28th
* 475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place. * 489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy. * 1521 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade. * 1542 - Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed. * 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States. * 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. * 1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. * 1830 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States. * 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue. * 1849 - After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria. * 1850 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany. * 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas. * 1867 - The United States occupies Midway Island. * 1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British. * 1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made. * 1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola". * 1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington. * 1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague. * 1914 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. * 1916 - Germany declares war on Romania. * 1916 - Italy declares war on Germany. * 1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House. * 1918 - PFC Spartak Varna founded. * 1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. * 1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started. * 1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated. * 1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. * 1955 - Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby. * 1961 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes. * 1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech. * 1964 - The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time. * 1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins. * 1965 - Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in New York for playing an electric guitar. * 1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. * 1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time. * 1972 - During the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events. * 1975 - Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists. * 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels. * 1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS. * 1986 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia. * 1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union. * 1988 - Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 69 are killed. * 1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. * 1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people. * 1991 - A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens. * 1993 - A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die. * 1993 - 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan. * 1994 - First Japanese gay pride march. * 1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. * 1996 - Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced. * 1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. * 2005 - A mandatory evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moves nearer to Louisiana.
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On September 08 2006 22:05 PuertoRican wrote: 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.
to Everybody: follow the fucking example. dont copy paste the entire fucking day. if i wanted to see everything that happened on any given day of the year, i'd fucking do it myself. i want to see the highlights. you dont see him posting the entire page.
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November 10th
* 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed. * 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. * 1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England. * 1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). * 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy. * 1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone. * 1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. * 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" * 1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12). * 1926 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, Mrs. William Edmonds. * 1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan * 1938 - Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time. * 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives". * 1942 - World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. * 1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. * 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery. * 1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street. * 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia. * 1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched. * 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes. * 1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro. * 1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. * 1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991). * 1989 - After ruling for 33 years , Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by foreign minister Petar Mladenov, who in 1990 changes the party's name to Bulgarian Socialist Party. * 1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces. * 1997 - WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). * 1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993. * 1997 - The conviction of 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward reduced from second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter and her sentence reduced from life in prison to time served. She had been found guilty less than two weeks earlier in a baby-shaking death. * 2001 - The National Alliance holds a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D. C. concerning the attacks of September 11, 2001. * 2002 - A tornado outbreak hits the Upper Ohio Valley leading to several deaths. * 2004 - Mozilla Firefox is released.
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On September 09 2006 16:16 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: November 10th * 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. * 1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone. * 1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. * 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" * 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives". * 1997 - The conviction of 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward reduced from second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter and her sentence reduced from life in prison to time served. She had been found guilty less than two weeks earlier in a baby-shaking death. * 2004 - Mozilla Firefox is released.
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October 1st:
331 BC - Greek Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. 965 - John XIII becomes Pope. 1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Vietnam. 1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly. 1795 - Belgium is conquered by France. 1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso. 1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring. 1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia. 1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools. 1843 - News of the World began publication in London. 1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. 1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing. 1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards. 1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band. 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison. 1885 - United States begins special-delivery mail service. 1886 - The U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada, closes. 1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire. 1890 - The Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress. 1891 - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors. 1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town. 1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews from major Russian cities. 1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie. 1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. 1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905. 1908 - Ford introduces the Model T car. 1910 - A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21. 1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus. 1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan. 1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens. 1931 - The original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York. 1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain. 1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland. 1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city. 1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic. 1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong 1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers. 1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials. 1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong. 1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency. 1958 - NASA created to replace NACA. 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon. 1961 - Baseball: Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season with 61, surpassing Babe Ruth's previous mark of 60. 1962 - Johnny Carson begins a 30-year run as the host of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson at NBC. 1963 - California State Board of Education created. 1964 - The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. 1964 - Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka. 1965 - Apostasia, a political move in Greece designed by the former King of Greece Constantine II and executed by a group of politicians (led by the later PM of Greece Constantine Mitsotakis) who have betrayed and overthrown the Prime Minister George Papandreou in Greece in favour of the formerly King of Greece. 1965 - General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia. 1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS). 1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time. 1971 - Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States. 1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu. Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. 1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires. 1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded. 1979 - The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama. 1979 - Activision founded 1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence. 1982 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World in Florida, United States. 1983 - Horizons opens at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World in Florida, United States. 1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis. 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet. 1992 - Cartoon Network debuts. 1993 - Polly Klaas is kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis during a slumber party at her Petaluma, California, home; Davis will be sentenced to death for her murdering Klaas. 2001 - Victoria Beckham's debut solo album is released. 2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record. 2005 - Almost exactly three years after a similar event, a bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
What bizarre things i picked to bold out lol.
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Please stop posting the entire page, nobody is going to bother reading all the events. :/
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I read the entire thread.
No just kidding I read two lines.. Seriously these threads are the worst
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April 11th
1241 - Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi. 1512 - War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix was victorious in the Battle of Ravenna. 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany. 1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca 1856 - Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel were William Walker's filibusters were. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech. 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan. 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. 1905 - Einstein reveals Theory of Relativity. 1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp. 1919 - International Labour Organization founded. 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio. 1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created. 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess downs in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the KMT. 1957 - Britain agrees to Singapore self rule. 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing début in New York City. 1965 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing 256 people. 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin. 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched. 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. 1981 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1983 - The film 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars 1984 - Advance Australia Fair becomes the National Anthem of Australia 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 2001 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released. 2001 - Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying game, an international record. 2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. 2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez began. 2005 - Chelsea Cooley becomes Miss USA 2005 after winning the title out of 50 other states. She is the first ever winner from the state of North Carolina. 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
1930 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan
Edit:Also,the best iron Maiden album,Seventh Son of a Seventh Son was realesed on April 11th
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August 13. Fidel Castro is born -.-
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* 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon. * 1494 - Family de' Medici become rulers of Florence. * 1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. * 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. * 1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect. * 2005 - Muriel Degauque becomes the first Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq. (I actually found this funny, never hear about Belgian suicide bombers)
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what the fuck is so hard about NOT posting the entire page you stupid scrubs.
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May 26th =]
1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1917 - A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 persons and injuring 689. It was the world's longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 - George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1978 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
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Probably the best one of all....
September 4
Death 2006 - Steve Irwin - Australian naturalist and TV personality. (b. 1962)
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On September 08 2006 23:46 {88}iNcontroL wrote: My B-Day is 9/11, what do you think? umm wasnt ur bday a few days ago? i recall seeing the birthday icon next to ur name
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July 27th
* 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. * 1549 - Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan. * 1663 - The British Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. * 1689 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends. * 1694 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England. * 1714 - The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Gangut. * 1778 - American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant - British and French fleets fight to a standoff. * 1789 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State). * 1794 - French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution." (See 9 Thermidor.) * 1865 - Welsh settlers arrive in Argentina at Chubut Valley. * 1866 - The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time. * 1880 - Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand - In a a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces lead by Ayub Khan defeated the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan. * 1914 - Felix Manalo establishes the modern-day Iglesia ni Cristo by registering it with the Filipino government. * 1921 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin. * 1928 - Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July. * 1940 - Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare. * 1941 - Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China. * 1949 - Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. * 1953 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice. * 1955 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945). * 1964 - Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000. * 1968 - Pink Floyd releases the album A Saucerful of Secrets in the USA. * 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice. * 1976 - Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed scandal. * 1981 - British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event, with massive viewer numbers earned for the show. * 1990 - The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day was celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus. After a referendum held that year the celebration of Independence day was transferred to June 3. * 1990 - The Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d'état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days. * 1990 - The last Citroen 2CV rolled off the production line at Mangualde, Portugal. * 1995 - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated. * 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, killing one and injuring 111. * 1996 - In Atlanta, Georgia, Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey set the 100m world record of 9.84s +0.7 m/s wind during the 1996 Summer Olympics. * 1997 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed. * 1999 - Twenty-one die in a canyoning disaster near Interlaken, Switzerland. * 2002 - Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history. * 2005 - STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft. * 2006 - The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it's illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
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