What happend the day you were born?

[Samtraff]

Well here is what you do.

1. Go on Wikipedia.
2. Search day and month you were born Eg. 1st January.
3. Scroll down to the year have a look.
4. Nothing? Search your year and month and choose closest thing!
5. Post yours just for fun?

Me:
25th April 1993: 300,000 gay, lesbian, transgender, and allied activists march on Washington, DC demanding freedom from discrimination.

[explosion]

1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
1715 - "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, UK for almost 900 years).
1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm.
1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
1815 - Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1837 - The University of Athens is founded. It is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean.
1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1901 - Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL.
1916 - Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin.
1921 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
1923 - Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly land their Fokker T-2 aircraft in San Diego, California. This is the first non-stop transcontinental flight. It took nearly 27 hrs.
1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber
1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1942 - Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 - World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in Lübeck Bay.
1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
1951 - The Festival of Britain opens.
1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1952 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole.
1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.
1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1960 - The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1971 - Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe begin four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher to become United Kingdom's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections.
1986 - Twenty-one people are killed and 41 injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 - A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1989 - Fenerbahce beats Galatasaray 4-3 coming back from 3-0.
1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak.
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
1999 - Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 - The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2004 - Ronnie O'Sullivan defeats Graeme Dott 18-8 to win the World Snooker Championship for a second time.
2005 - The first elected government in the history of Iraq is sworn in.
2006 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
2007 - Madeleine McCann goes missing from her apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, prompting a massive search.

May 3rd btw.

[dannyisnotamazing]

the day i was borned, what happened right is everyone made a fuss about me and then they played pass the parsel with me and then i got loads of kisses and stuff

[jesus]

what happened when i was born? the world became a better place.

[Nemo]

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army) declares a ceasefire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceasefire).


Diana, Princess of Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales), dies in a car crash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales) in Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris). 3 years after i was born. The joy of having a rememberance concert on all of my birthdays.

[Technologic]

963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1298 - The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.
1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a public Declaration of Independence is not formally printed for the masses until July 4.
1777 - Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1808 - Simon Fraser reaches Pacific near New Westminster.
1823 - "Bahia Independence Day" - the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the diehard Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
1863 - American Civil War: Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1917 - Forty-eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1941 - Nazi massacre of Jews in Lutsk, Ukraine. Jewish men were summoned for work, about 2000 of them were taken to the Lubart Fortress and murdered. German soldiers from rearguard units stationed in the city participated in the murder.
1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
1950 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
1950 - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan was burned down.
1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1966 - The French military explode their nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience break up.
1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
1983 - The Police release their final album, "Synchronicity", which would eventually spend 17 weeks at #1 on the U.S. album chart
1984 - National Flag and Anthem day in Curacao
1985 - Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
1990 - A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj.
1993- The Sivas Massacre
2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2003 - International Olympic Committee selects Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to host the 2010 Winter Olympics.
2004 - ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) accepts Pakistan as the 24th member.
2005 - Ten Live 8 concerts are held around the world in an attempt to force G8 countries to address poverty.

2nd july 1993


:l
1993- The Sivas Massacre

[sock]

350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.
474 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor
532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 - Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne to his son Emperor Qinzong
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.
1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.
1535 - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.
1562 - Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.
1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay.
1861 - American Civil War - Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in secession from the United States.
1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire, to the Germans, was known as The Second Reich
1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1912 - British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the South Pole only to find that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
1913 - A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1918 - World War I : Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech in front of Congress.
1919 - World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1944 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army
1955 - Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.
1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
1969 - United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.
1983 - The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
1990 - Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1991 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
1993 - For the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50 United States states.
1994 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1995 - In southern France near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc cave paintings and engravings over 17,000 years old discovered.
1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 - Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
2000 - The strange Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
2001 - The British digital television channel e4 (TV) was launched.
2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.
2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
2003 - A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 - A U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan begins.
2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England.

And Robert Green (West Ham) and Johan Djorou (Birmingham and Arsenal) have same bday's as me. :)

[Grindie]

1991 U.S.A.

8th March, 1991: New Jack City, a movie about Harlem street gangs, had aired on this day. Ice-T and Wesley Snipes had starred in this film.

At the same time as the opening of this production, violence broke out throughout the country at various theatres.

One theory explaining why these theatre violence incidences had occurred had to do with the violent theme of New Jack City.

cool, huh?

[-:Undertaker:-]

1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle.
1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
1616 - Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the Western Australian coast.
1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain
1813 - War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
1828 - The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 - The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1861 - The Toronto Stock Exchange was created.
1875 - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
1900 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1912 - Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos receives its debut performance at the Vienna State Opera.
1917 - The First Marxist revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.
1924 - The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
1935 - Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
1944 - Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich
1944 - The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by her own torpedo.
1944 - The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers' occupation.
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between Imperial Japanese Navy and US Third and Seventh Fleets.
1945 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1962 - Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba
1970 - The wreck of Confederate submarine Hunley was found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine to sink a ship in warfare.
1971 - The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
1972 - The Washington Post reports that White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman was the fifth person to control a secret cash fund designed to finance illegal political sabotage and espionage during the 1972 presidential election campaign (see also Watergate scandal)
1980 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague
1983 - Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d'état.
1991 - History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
1992 - Lithuania holds a referendum on its first post-Soviet constitution.Curtis Baker is born.
1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes Prime Minister of Canada with a massive majority for his Liberal Party in a general election in which the governing Progressive Conservatives, led by Kim Campbell, lost 149 of 151 seats in the parliament.
1996 - The "Days of Action", the largest one day strike in Ontario, Canada's history, as over 250,000 protesters converged on the Ontario Legislature and attempted to shut-down Toronto, in protest to the Mike Harris Government's budget cuts.
1997 - After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.

25th October.

[Grindie]

oh and number 1 in the UK:
"Do The Bartman" by The Simpsons

[&]

there alot.

but the terrorist attack on glasgow airport is one

[cocaine]

nothing .

[r3ppin2k7bl4d]

1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica.
1715 - "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, UK for almost 900 years).
1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Sejm.
1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
1808 - Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 - Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
1815 - Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1837 - The University of Athens is founded. It is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean.
1849 - The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
1860 - Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 - The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1901 - Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, FL.
1916 - Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin.
1921 - West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
1923 - Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly land their Fokker T-2 aircraft in San Diego, California. This is the first non-stop transcontinental flight. It took nearly 27 hrs.
1924 - Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber
1928 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1933 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1939 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1942 - Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 - World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in Lübeck Bay.
1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1951 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
1951 - The Festival of Britain opens.
1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1952 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the North Pole.
1956 - The judo World Championships are first held.
1957 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
1960 - The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1960 - The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1971 - Anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe begin four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher to become United Kingdom's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections.
1986 - Twenty-one people are killed and 41 injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 - A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1989 - Fenerbahce beats Galatasaray 4-3 coming back from 3-0.
1991 - The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1999 - Oklahoma City is slammed by an F5 tornado killing 42 people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak.
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
1999 - Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
2000 - The sport of Geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 - The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 - New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2004 - Ronnie O'Sullivan defeats Graeme Dott 18-8 to win the World Snooker Championship for a second time.
2005 - The first elected government in the history of Iraq is sworn in.
2006 - Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 - Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
2007 - Madeleine McCann goes missing from her apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, prompting a massive search.

May 3rd btw.

Same..

[Axel]

On the actual day I was born, not my birthday throughout the years...

1992 - The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota.

But on my birthday:

3114 BC - On this date in the proleptic Gregorian calendar begins our current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar.
2492 BC - Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
586 BC - The First Temple (originally built by King Solomon) is destroyed by the Babylonians in Jerusalem.
480 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium - The Persians achieve a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea. The Greek fleet holds its own against the Persians in three days of fighting but withdraws southward when news comes of the defeat at Thermopylae.
70 - The Second Temple is destroyed by the Roman army in Jerusalem.
355 - Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
1492 - Alexander VI is elected Pope.
1711 - The first race meeting was held at Ascot
1786 - Captain Francis Light established the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
1804 - Francis II assumed title of first Emperor of Austria
1828 - William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago.
1858 - First ascent of the Eiger.
1898 - Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1918 - World War I - Battle of Amiens ends
1919 - Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted
1920 - The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed.
1929 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 - Federal prison opened at Alcatraz Island.
1952 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan
1960 - Chad declares independence.
1965 - Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1968 - The last steam passenger train service ran in Britain. A British Rail steam locomotive made the 314-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returned to Liverpool before being dispatched to the Wrecking yard.
1970 - A trademark application by the Van Brode Milling Company for the word Spork was published by the USPTO.
1972 - Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit depart South Vietnam.
1975 - East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1984 - United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
1987 - Alan Greenspan becomes Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve.
1992 - The Mall of America, the biggest shopping mall in the country, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1999 - A total solar eclipse visible from Europe and Asia. <- I remember that.
Total solar eclipse observed from France.1999 - The exceptional Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 - Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2003 - A big heat wave in Paris had temperatures up to 112°F (44° C), with about 144 people dead.
2006 - The last software patent expired on the GIF format.
2006 - The largest string of firecrackers ever assembled is ignited in Buchanan, Wisconsin. It contains an estimated 10,500,000 firecrackers.

[MattyBoy]

The day i was born, the aliens outer space died and never seen again (1994)

[mat64]

Aren't people missing the point here? What happened on the day you were born, and this is presuming you were only born once not periodically on the same day every couple of years like some have been posting everything that happened on that day in the years before and after their birth. Anyways, 29th September 1991:

1991 - Military coup in Haiti.

[Jordan,]

# 1993 - The World Wide Web was born at CERN.
# 1993 - During a tennis match between #1 female tennis player Monica Seleš and Magdalena Maleeva, Günter Parche plunged a steak knife between Seleš's shoulderblades. Seleš did not return to competitive tennis for over two years.
# 1993 - Virgin Radio (then Virgin 1215) launches in the UK at 12:15pm.

[Samtraff]

Everything that has happend on my birthday since I was born :D

1993 - 300,000 gay, lesbian, transgender, and allied activists march on Washington, DC demanding freedom from discrimination.
2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union.
2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2007 - The Dow Jones Industrial hit 13,000 for the first time in history, closing at 13,089.89

[OmgitsAmanda]

October 29th ;)

* 529 BC - The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
* 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
* 969 - Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
* 1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
* 1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
* 1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
* 1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
* 1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
* 1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
* 1665 - Battle of Ambuila.
* 1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
* 1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
* 1792 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
* 1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco.
* 1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
* 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
* 1881 - The Judge (US magazine) first published.
* 1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
* 1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
* 1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
* 1913 - Floods in El Salvador kill thousands.
* 1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
* 1921 - Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.
* 1921 - The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
* 1922 - The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
* 1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
* 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday," ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
* 1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
* 1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
* 1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
* 1948 - Safsaf massacre
* 1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
* 1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
* 1956 - Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
* 1957 - Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
* 1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
* 1961 - Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
* 1964 - Tanganika and Zanzibar join to form the Republic of Tanzania.
* 1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves including Jack Murphy from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
* 1967 - London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
* 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
* 1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966).
* 1980 - Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
* 1983 - An earthquake in Turkey kills 1,300.
* 1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
* 1986 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
* 1988 - Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh, following the efforts by President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.
* 1989 - After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
* 1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
* 1992 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
* 1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
* 1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
* 1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
* 1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
* 1998 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
* 2002 - Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
* 2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
* 2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
* 2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
* 2005 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.

[mangle]

657 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/657) - Battle of Siffin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Siffin).
811 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/811) - Battle of Pliska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pliska); Byzantine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine) emperor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor) Nicephorus I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicephorus_I) is slain, his heir Stauracius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stauracius) is seriously wounded.
920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/920) - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarre) and Léon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n%2C_Spain) against the Muslims at Pamplona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamplona).
1139 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1139) - Afonso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_I_of_Portugal), then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal) and declares independence from Leon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Leon).
1309 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1309) - Henry VII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VII%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor) is recognized King of the Romans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Romans) by Pope Clement V (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_V).
1469 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1469) - Wars of the Roses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses): Battle of Edgecote Moor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Edgecote_Moor) - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neville%2C_16th_Earl_of_Warwick) against those of King Edward IV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward_IV).
1581 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1581) - Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Abjuration). The declaration of independence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_independence) of the northern Low Countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Countries) from the Spanish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain) king, Philip II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain).
1775 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775) - The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_Department) was established by the Second Continental Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress).
1788 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1788) - New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York) ratifies the United States Constitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution) and becomes the 11th state of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States).
1803 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1803) - The Surrey Iron Railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey_Iron_Railway), arguably the world's first public railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway), opens in south London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London).
1822 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1822) - José de San Martín (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn) arrives in Guayaquil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayaquil), Ecuador (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador), to meet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayaquil_conference) with Simón Bolívar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar).
1847 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1847) - Liberia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia) declares independence.
1861 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861) - American Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War): George B. McClellan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan) assumes command of the Army of the Potomac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Potomac) following a disastrous Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run).
1863 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1863) - American Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War): Morgan's Raid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan%27s_Raid) ends - At Salineville, Ohio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salineville%2C_Ohio), Confederate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America) cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunt_Morgan) and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) forces.
1878 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1878) - In California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California), the poet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet) and American West (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_West) outlaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw) calling himself "Black Bart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bolles)" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo) stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poem) inside.
1882 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882) - Premiere of Richard Wagner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner)'s Parsifal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal_%28opera%29) at Bayreuth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth).
1887 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887) - L. L. Zamenhof (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof) publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unua_Libro).
1891 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891) - France annexes Tahiti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti).
1908 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908) - United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) Attorney General (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General) Charles Joseph Bonaparte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte) issues an order to immediately staff the Office (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office) of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation)).
1914 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914) - Serbia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia) and Bulgaria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria) interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1934 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934) - Assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss).
1936 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936) - The Axis Powers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers) decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War).
1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937) - End of the Battle of Brunete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunete) in the Spanish Civil War.
1941 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941) - World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II): In response to the Japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) occupation of French Indo-China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indo-China), US President (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States) Franklin D. Roosevelt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt) orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States).
1944 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944) - World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II): Soviet army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_army) enters Lviv (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv), major city of western Ukraine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine), liberating it from the Nazis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis). Only 300 Jewish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish) survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews) in Lviv (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv) prior to Nazi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi) occupation.
1944 - The first German V-2 rocket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket) hits Great Britain.
1945 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945) - The Labour Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Labour_Party_%28UK%29) wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election%2C_1945) by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill) from power.
1945 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945) - The Potsdam Declaration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration) is signed in Potsdam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam), Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany).
1947 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947) - Cold War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War): U.S. President Harry S. Truman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman) signs the National Security Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947) into United States law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_law) creating the Central Intelligence Agency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency), Department of Defense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense), Joint Chiefs of Staff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff), and the National Security Council (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council).
1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948) - U.S. President Harry S. Truman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman) signs Executive Order 9981 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981) desegregating the military of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_United_States).
1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948) - André Marie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Marie) becomes Prime Minister of France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France).
1952 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952) - King Farouk of Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_I_of_Egypt) abdicates in favour of his son Fuad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuad_II_of_Egypt).
1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953) - Fidel Castro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro) leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncada_Barracks), thus beginning the Cuban Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution).
1953 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953) - Arizona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona) Governor John Howard Pyle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_Pyle) orders an anti-polygamy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy) law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_City%2C_Arizona), which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Creek_Raid).
1956 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956) - Following the World Bank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank)'s decline to fund building the Aswan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan) High Dam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Dam), Egyptian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt) leader Gamal Abdel Nasser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser) nationalises the Suez Canal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal) sparking international condemnation.
1957 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957) - Carlos Castillo Armas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castillo_Armas), dictator of Guatemala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala), is assassinated
1958 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958) - Explorer program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_program): Explorer 4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_4) is launched.
1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963) - Syncom 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncom_2), the world's first geosynchronous satellite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_satellite), is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963) - Earthquake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake) in Skopje (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje), Republic of Macedonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia) (formerly part of Yugoslavia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia)) - 1100 dead
1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963) - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_Economic_Cooperation_and_Developm ent) votes to admit Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan).
1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965) - Full independence was granted to the Maldives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives).
1966 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966) - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_Statement) in the House of Lords (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords) stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent).
1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968) - Vietnam War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War): South Vietnamese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam) opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Truong_Dinh_Dzu&action=edit) is sentenced to five years hard labor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_labor) for advocating the formation of a coalition government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_government) as a way to move toward an end to the war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War).
1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971) - Apollo Program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Program): Apollo 15 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15) Mission - Launch of Apollo 15.
1974 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974) - Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Constantin_Caramanlis&action=edit) forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1975 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975) - Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal).
1977 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977) - The National Assembly of Quebec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec) imposes the use of French (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language) as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989) - A federal grand jury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury) indicts Cornell University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University) student Robert T. Morris, Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris%2C_Jr.) for releasing the Morris worm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm), thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986) Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act).
1991 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991) - Paul Reubens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens), ("Peewee Herman"), is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for exposing himself.
1993 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993) - Italian Democrazia Cristian (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democrazia_Cristian&action=edit) changes its name to People's Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_People%27s_Party_%281994%E2%80%932002%29).
1994 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin) orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia).
1998 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998) - Legislative elections in Cambodia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia)
2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005) - Space Shuttle program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program): STS-114 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-114) Mission - Launch of Discovery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery), NASA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA)'s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster) in 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003).
2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005) - Mumbai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai), India (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) receives 99.5cm of rain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Maharashtra_floods) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.26th July btw :)

Oh and i have the same birthday as Sandra Bullock!

[Jazza]

The exact day and year:

ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, killing all 23 aboard.
Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947) Dies
John Tower, American politician (b. 1925) Dies

[Vulnerable]

Freddie Mercury died on mine.

November 24th, '91.

[drama]

Robbie williams celebrated his birthday.

[Wootzeh]

* 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
* 1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
* 1491 - An auto de fe, held in Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
* 1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
* 1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
* 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
* 1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States).
* 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern - Russian force under Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
* 1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
* 1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
* 1857 - Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24).
* 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
* 1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
* 1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York.
* 1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
* 1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.
* 1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
* 1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
* 1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
* 1920 - Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) and Avianca are older.
* 1932 - New York City's Palace Theatre fully coverted to a cinema, which is considered the final death knell of vaudeville as a popular entertainment in the United States.
* 1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
* 1934 - James J. Braddock won one of the most important fights of his career against then future heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis
* 1940 - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
* 1940 - Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
* 1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
* 1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.
* 1944 - Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied aerial bombers.
* 1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.
* 1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
* 1959 - The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
* 1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
* 1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
* 1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
* 1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.
* 1979 - The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
* 1981 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
* 1984 - Queen Elizabeth II visited Uppingham School, Rutland, UK on the occasion of its Quatercentenary.
* 1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
* 1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
* 1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
* 1989 - Devastating tornado strikes Huntsville, Alabama.
* 1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
* 1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
* 1996 - The Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.
* 1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
* 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
* 2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.

[cocaine]

Events

* 1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
* 1698 - The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama.
* 1771 - Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
* 1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
* 1790 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
* 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 at the University of Virginia.
* 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.
* 1865 - First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom died on the descent.
* 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, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory.
* 1966 - A fire at a mental hospital in Guatemala City kills 225.
* 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.
* 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.
* 2005 - Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom
* 2006 - The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus were relegated, Lazio, Fiorentina and AC Milan were spared relegation.
* 2007 - Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

[GhostFace-]

The Smash Tour was punk rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock) band The Offspring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Offspring)'s concert tour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_tour) to promote their third album Smash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_%28album%29), which lasted only two years, making it the first time they would tour that long.

the 7th or sumtin 1 of that ws on my birfday

[Energizer]

* 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.
* 362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the religions in the Roman Empire.
* 1454 - In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
* 1703 - In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
* 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
* 1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
* 1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
* 1794 - The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
* 1801 - John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
* 1810 - British Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
* 1825 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
* 1859 - Codex Sinaiticus discovered in Egypt.
* 1861 - American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form The Confederate States of America.
* 1899 - The Philippine-American War begins.
* 1915 - Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target.
* 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
* 1936 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
* 1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
* 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends.
* 1945 - World War II: The Yalta Conference begin .
* 1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
* 1957 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logs her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
* 1966 - All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
* 1969 - Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
* 1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
* 1976 - In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
* 1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
* 1991 - The Baseball Hall of Fame votes to ban Pete Rose.
* 1992 - A Coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
* 1996 - Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F (-22°C).
* 1997 - En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
* 1997 - After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
* 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
* 1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
* 1999 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
* 1999 - The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon
* 2000 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
* 2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
* 2006 - A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 88..

FEB 4TH!!!

[Geraint]

1002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1002) - English king Ethelred (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelred_II_of_England) ordered killing of all Danes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane) in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Brice%27s_Day_massacre).
1642 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1642) - At the Battle of Turnham Green (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Turnham_Green) of the First English Civil War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War) the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London).
1775 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775) - American Revolutionary War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War): Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen) attack Montreal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal%2C_Quebec) defended by British General Guy Carleton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Carleton%2C_1st_Baron_Dorchester). Allen and his troops were disorganised and soundly defeated; however, U.S. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Montgomery)'s force entered Montreal unopposed.
1841 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1841) - James Braid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Braid_%28physician%29) first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis).
1851 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1851) - The Denny Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Party) lands at Alki Point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alki%2C_Seattle%2C_Washington), the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%2C_Washington).
1887 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887) - Bloody Sunday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281887%29) clashes in central London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London)
1909 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909) - Collier's magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier%27s_magazine) accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_the_Interior)Richard Ballinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ballinger) of questionable dealings in Alaskan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska)coal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal) fields.
1916 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916) - Prime Minister of Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia)William Morris Hughes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hughes) is expelled from the Labor Party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party) over his support for conscription (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription).
1941 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941) - World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II): The aircraft carrier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier)HMS Ark Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_%2891%29) is torpedoed by U 81 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterseeboot_81), she sinks on November 14 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_14).
1942 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942) - World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal) - U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guadalcanal)
1950 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950) - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Delgado_Chalbaud) is assassinated in Caracas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracas).
1954 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954) - Great Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_national_rugby_league_team) defeated France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_rugby_league_team) to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_League_World_Cup) in Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris) in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956) - United States Supreme Court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court) declared Alabama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama) and Montgomery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery%2C_Alabama) laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott).
1961 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961) - Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Yefimovich_Semichastny) succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nikolayevich_Shelepin) as head of the KGB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB).
1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965) - The SS Yarmouth Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Yarmouth_Castle) burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau%2C_Bahamas) with the loss of 90 lives.
1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969) - Vietnam War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War): Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_DC) stage a symbolic "March Against Death (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March_Against_Death&action=edit)."
1970 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970) - Bhola cyclone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bhola_cyclone): A 150-mph tropical cyclone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone) hits the densely populated Ganges Delta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_Delta) region of East Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pakistan) (now Bangladesh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh)), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night (this is regarded as the 20th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century)'s worst natural disaster).
1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971) - The American space probe, Mariner 9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_9), has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.
1982 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982) - A boxing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing) match held in Las Vegas, Nevada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas%2C_Nevada) ends when Ray Mancini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mancini) defeats Kim Duk Koo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duk_Koo_Kim). Kim's death on November 17 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_17) led to significant changes in the sport.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial) is dedicated in Washington D.C. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_D.C.) after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War) veterans.
1985 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985) - The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevado_del_Ruiz) erupts and melts a glacier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier), causing a lahar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahar) (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armero%2C_Colombia), killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 - Xavier Suarez (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Suarez) is sworn in as Miami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami%2C_Florida)'s first Cuban-born mayor.
1990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990) - The World Wide Web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web) first began.
1994 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994) - Voters in Sweden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden) decide to join the European Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union) in a referendum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referenda_in_Sweden).
1995 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995) - A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian_National_Guard) training center in Riyadh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh), killing five Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) and two Indians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India). A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility for the attack.
2001 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001) - Doha Round (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Round): The World Trade Organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization) ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha), Qatar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar).
2001 - Philippine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines) House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Villar) passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_President)Joseph Estrada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Estrada).
2001 - War on Terrorism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism): In the first such act since World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), US President George W. Bush (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) signs an executive order (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order_%28United_States%29) allowing military tribunals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_tribunal) against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States).
2002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002) - Iraq disarmament crisis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_disarmament_crisis): Iraq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq) agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_1441).
2002 - The oil tanker Prestige (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_%28ship%29) sinks off the Galician (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_%28Spain%29) coast and causes a huge oil spill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spill).

November 13th

[Metric.]

Some guy was murdered the day I died. I watched some program on it.

[le harry]

1985 - 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.

[Galaxay1]

362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1236 - Lithuanians and Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword at the Battle of Schaulen/Saule.
1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1692 - Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States.
1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1784 - Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1792 - French Revolution: the first Republic is proclaimed.
1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 - The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1866 - Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
1875 - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera).
1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

October 22 page from a 1935 Soviet revolutionary calendar with six-day weeks.1935 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
1943 - World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
1946 - Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania.
1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb.
1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1960 - Independence of Mali from France.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
1964 - Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
1965 - End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan.
1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia.
1972 - Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime
1976 - Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
1981 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
1981 - The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
1983 - Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1986 - WNBC traffic reporter Jane Dornacker is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the Hudson River.
1987 - John Adams's opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.
1987 - The pinnacle rock "Gendarme" falls at Seneca Rocks.
1991 - Dimitrios Arhondonis, metropolitan of Chalcedon elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox church.
1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2005 - Crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in Nigeria kills all 117 on board.
2005 - The first phase of Transantiago, the new public transport system of Santiago de Chile is implemented.
2006 - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
2006 - Michael Schumacher drives his last Formula 1 Race. The very same day the Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the 8th and youngest driver to win it twice in a row to emulate the achievements of Mika Häkkinen, Michael Schumacher and five other drivers.

Births
1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
1558 - Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
1592 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
1692 - Elizabeth Farnese, second queen of King Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)
1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
1818 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894)
1821 - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian Metis Political Leader (d. 1885)
1858 - German Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II (d. 1921)
1865 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)
1870 - Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1873 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1886 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
1887 - John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
1891 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor
1894 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
1900 - James Hall, American actor
1903 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
1903 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
1904 - Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 - Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1969)
1907 - Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (d. 1967)
1908 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
1912 - Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
1913 - Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
1913 - Robert Capa, American war photographer (born in Hungary) (d. 1954)
1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
1917 - Joan Fontaine, British actress
1918 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer
1920 - Timothy Leary, American writer and professor (d. 1996)
1921 - Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)
1921 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
1923 - Bert Trautmann, German former footballer
1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, American painter, sculptor, and graphic artist
1925 - Dory Previn, American songwriter
1927 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d. 2005)
1929 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
1935 - Ann Rule, American true-crime writer
1936 - Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
1937 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
1938 - Derek Jacobi, English actor
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
1939 - George Cohen, English footballer
1939 - Tony Roberts, American actor
1942 - Annette Funicello, American actress
1942 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
1943 - Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
1943 - Allen Coage, American professional wrestler
1945 - Leslie West, American musician
1945 - Sheila Sherwood, British long jumper
1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
1946 - Claude Charron, French Canadian politician and TV personality
1946 - Eddie Brigati, American singer (The Rascals)
1947 - Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman
1948 - Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
1949 - Arsène Wenger, French football manager
1952 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
1956 - Frank DiPino, American baseball player
1959 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
1959 - Marc Shaiman, American composer
1960 - Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
1960 - Cris Kirkwood, American musician (Meat Puppets)
1961 - Robert Torti, American actor
1962 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
1963 - Brian Boitano, American figure skater
1964 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
1964 - Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
1965 - John Wesley Harding, American musician
1965 - Otis Smith, American football player
1966 - Valeria Golino, Italian actress
1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
1967 - Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994)
1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician
1968 - Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)
1969 - Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
1969 - Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
1969 - Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
1972 - D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler
1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Tim Kinsella, American musician
1974 - Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
1975 - Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
1976 - Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
1978 - Owais Shah, English cricketer
1978 - Dion Glover, American basketball player
1978 - Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
1980 - Garrett Tierney, American musician (Brand New)
1981 - Olivier Pla, French racing driver
1982 - Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
1985 - Zachary Hanson, American musician (Hanson)
1986 - Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player
1987 - Jake Richardson, English footballer
1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
1992 - Sofia Vassilieva, American actress

Deaths
741 - Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (b. 686)
1383 - King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
1708 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
1751 - William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
1859 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1876)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
1952 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss nazi physician (b. 1874)
1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
1973 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
1985 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
1986 - Jane Dornacker, musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio.
1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
1987 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (b. 1919)
1989 - Ewan MacColl, English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (b. 1915)
1992 - Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)
1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i, aka Yokozuna, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
2005 - Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
2005 - Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
2006 - Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)

[L!!nK]

the day i was borned, what happened right is everyone made a fuss about me and then they played pass the parsel with me and then i got loads of kisses and stuff

lol

we done that with are younger cousin round the table :) at a wedding

[Hoodstar]

Feb 28th;

* 364 - Valentinian I is elevated as Roman Emperor.
* 870 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
* 1700 - Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
* 1710 - In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
* 1784 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
* 1787 - Charter granted establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh.
* 1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
* 1838 - Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaim the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)
* 1844 - A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others.
* 1849 - Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 21 days after leaving New York Harbor.
* 1850 - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
* 1854 - The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
* 1861 - Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
* 1870 - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
* 1883 - The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1885 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
* 1897 - Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch in Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.
* 1900 - The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
* 1922 - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.
* 1933 - Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
* 1935 - Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers.
* 1939 - The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik was published.
* 1939 - The word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
* 1940 - Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
* 1942 - The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed.
* 1947 - 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down at a loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
* 1953 - James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; formal announcement April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
* 1960 - The United States defeats Czechoslovakia 9-4 in ice hockey to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.
* 1972 - Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
* 1974 - After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
* 1975 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
* 1983 - The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106–125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source).
* 1985 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
* 1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
* 1991 - First Gulf War ends.
* 1993 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
* 1997 - The North Hollywood shootout takes place.
* 1998 - Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
* 2001 - The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
* 2001 - Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
* 2002 - At least 55 are killed in Ahmadabad, India when Hindus burn Muslim homes.
* 2004 - Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
* 2005 - Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
* 2005 - A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
* 2007 - Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.

Alot of deaths.. :x

[Orangeesh]

the day i was born
a volcano erupted in japan
killing 43 people.
all researchers or journalists.

funny thing is.. i want to be a journalist =s

[arouse]

15th October.

1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
Worst storm in England, supposedly.

[Stitch]

Nothing happened the day i was born :(

But all this happened on 7th june

1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. See United States Declaration of Independence.
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 - During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1880 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign) .
1892 - Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden.
1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.
1936 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
1938 - The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter.
1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy.
1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1955 - Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1965 - The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1966 - Former movie star, Ronald Reagan, becomes the 33rd governor of the state of California.
1967 - The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
1971 - The US Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1986 - Washington Metroraill "Vienna-Fairfax GMU" opens.
1989 - A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
1990 - Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida opens up its new 3 soundstages and begins production at Universal Studios Florida .
1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
1998 - James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.

[whiziz]

are you dumb he said year aswell

anyway no events but a birth

1992 - Darian Weiss, American actor

[adidas™]

455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1357 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
1540 - Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1541 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
1755 - French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.
1789 - In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund -In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1793 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France.
1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1846 - By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia.
1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.
1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson ends.
1867 - An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young set out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish Missionary and explorer).
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
1887 - Reportedly paper napkins were used for the first time by John Dickinson (stationery manufacturers) at the company's annual dinner.
1900 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
1918 - Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1921 - Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar delivered his famous speech at Khilafat Conference, Karachi.
1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - Americans take Saipan.
1948 - Pakistan issued first set of Postage stamp, having image of Constituent Assembly, Jinnah International Airport (Quaid-e-Azam International Airport), Shahi Fort.
1955 - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was released by Bertrand Russell in London.
1967 - A team of mountaineers successfully climb the Old Man of Hoy, the expedition is televised by BBC television in a unique live outside broadcast.
1975 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system.
1979 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1981 - Senegalese political parties Party of Independence and Work (PIT) and Democratic League - Movement for the Labour Party (LD-MPT) legally recognized.
1982 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1982 - A man breaks into Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom in what became known as the Michael Fagan incident
1984 - York Minster was struck by a lightning bolt, the resulting fire rampaged through most of the building. However the cathedral valuables were rescued by clergymen and the "Rose Window" was not affected.
1986 - The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1991 - International Federation of Human Rights cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.
1991 - South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
1995 - Musical group The Grateful Dead perform the last concert of their 30-year career at Soldier Field, Chicago.
1999 - Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran.
2002 - The African Union was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman was Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
2004 - After José Manuel Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form government.
2006 - At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions.

[Xarea]

1984 - £1 notes are replaced by £1 coins.
2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

^_^

[benjamin]

30th sept 1991 -

Ben Palmer was born.

omg???

[patrick.]

363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which will bring about his own death.
1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1496 - England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands.
1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1868 - Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1915 - World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1916 - Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca is founded.
1917 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
1924 - Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1936 - First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1945 - World War II: "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.
1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.
1958 - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 - Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
1964 - Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
1966 - A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1966 - In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
1966 - Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
1973 - Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1976 - British pound falls below $2 U.S. for the first time.
1978 - Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
1983 - Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
1994 - A gunman takes 8 people hostage in the Salt Lake City Public Library Hostage Incident.
1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2001 - In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2004 - The Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL set a record for most penalty minutes in one game with 419.
2005 - The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its 1st National Convention
2006 - Three 6 Mafia become the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony.

Same birthage as Hotty eva mendes and Matt lucas
March 5th