there alot.
but the terrorist attack on glasgow airport is one
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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.
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The day i was born, the aliens outer space died and never seen again (1994)
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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.
Matt lurvs Jay
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# 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.Lets make the map red again
T4 on the beach 2009 woo
Need help PM me Im always happy to help, more then the guys at Asda
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Everything that has happend on my birthday since I was born
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
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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.
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- 657 - Battle of Siffin.
- 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
- 920 - Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
- 1139 - Afonso, then a count, is proclaimed first king of Portugal and declares independence from Leon.
- 1309 - Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
- 1469 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
- 1581 - Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
- 1775 - The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department was established by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1788 - New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
- 1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
- 1822 - José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
- 1847 - Liberia declares independence.
- 1861 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends - At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
- 1878 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
- 1882 - Premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at Bayreuth.
- 1887 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language".
- 1891 - France annexes Tahiti.
- 1908 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
- 1914 - Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
- 1934 - Assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
- 1936 - The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1937 - End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1941 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
- 1944 - World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation.
- 1944 - The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
- 1945 - The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
- 1945 - The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
- 1947 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
- 1948 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
- 1948 - André Marie becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1952 - King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favour of his son Fuad.
- 1953 - Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
- 1953 - Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
- 1956 - Following the World Bank's decline to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
- 1957 - Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
- 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
- 1963 - Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
- 1963 - Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) - 1100 dead
- 1963 - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
- 1965 - Full independence was granted to the Maldives.
- 1966 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
- 1971 - Apollo Program: Apollo 15 Mission - Launch of Apollo 15.
- 1974 - Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- 1975 - Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal.
- 1977 - The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
- 1989 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
- 1991 - Paul Reubens, ("Peewee Herman"), is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for exposing himself.
- 1993 - Italian Democrazia Cristian changes its name to People's Party.
- 1994 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.
- 1998 - Legislative elections in Cambodia
- 2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
- 2005 - Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
Oh and i have the same birthday as Sandra Bullock!
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