Mine has a few tragedies 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.[1] 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.[2] 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.[3] 1601–1900 1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.[4] 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.[5] 1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.[6] 1736 – Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica. 1738 – Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England.[7] 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.[8] 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.[9] 1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.[10] 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.[11] Three hours later, Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as President.[12] 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.[13] 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.[14] 1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.[15] 1901–present 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive. 1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy. 1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. 1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. 1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine. 1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people. 1942 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI. 1945 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. 1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. 1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. 1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. 1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. 1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam. 1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. 1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans. 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China. 1994 – Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted. 2002 – Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.[16] 2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others. 2013 – A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people. 2014 – In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals. 2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.[17]

867 - Adrian II becomes Pope. 872 - John VIII becomes Pope. 1287 - St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland. 1702 - The 47 Ronin (master less samurai), under the command of Ôishi Kuranosuke, avenged the death of their master, Asano Takumi no kami Naganori, by beheading Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka. Later the 46 surviving ronin would commit ritual suicide, seppuku (disembowelment), and would later achieve legendary status as the embodiments of the ideals of the samurai. 1751 - The Theresian Military Academy was founded as the first Military Academy in the world. 1769 - Dartmouth College is chartered by King George III of England. 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. 1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. 1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. 1902 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii. 1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It crashes, and 3 days later, after repairs, they get it to fly. 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. 1918 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne. 1939 - Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations. 1941 - German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issued an order, according to which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15.000 Jews were shot at Drobitsky Yar. 1942 - Ethiopia joins Declaration by United Nations 1946 - The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City. 1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. 1955 - Portugal joins the United Nations. 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first-ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. 1959 - The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy. 1962 - NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. 1962 - The Mona Lisa is assessed at US$100 million, the highest insurance valuance for a painting in history. 1964 - American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States - The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use its Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination. 1977 - Releasing of Saturday Night Fever film. 1981 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights. 1982 - Government of the 23rd Dáil first sits 1989 - Patricio Aylwin is elected President of Chile. 1995 - Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by President Slobodan Milošević, President Franjo Tuđman, President Alija Izetbegović, President Jacques Chirac, President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister John Major, Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. 1999 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announces his retirement. 2003 - The La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, rebuilt following arson, is reopened. 2003 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. 2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, spanning the valley of the River Tarn near Millau, France and designed by British architect Lord Foster in collaboration with French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux, is officially opened. 2005 - The Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales, Australia starts to issue NSW Photo Card 1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) 1503 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566) 1546 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (d. 1601) 1625 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695) 1631 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679) 1640 - (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689) 1678 - Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743) 1720 - Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794) 1775 - Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852) 1775 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860) 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898) 1866 - Roger Fry, British artist and art critic (d. 1934) 1870 - Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950) 1881 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and fim producer (d. 1956) 1884 - Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950) 1895 - Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952) 1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993) 1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995) 1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989) 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996) 1909 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) 1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965) 1913 - Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978) 1914 - Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992) 1914 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003) 1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965) 1918 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994) 1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate 1920 - Clark Terry, American trumpeter 1922 - Nikolay Basov, Soviet-born Russian physicist and Noble Prize laureate (d. 2001) 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer 1924 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988) 1925 - Sam Jones, baseball player (d. 1971) 1931 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002) 1932 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995) 1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991) 1938 - Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian 1946 - Jane Birkin, British-born actress 1946 - Patty Duke, American actress 1946 - Michael Ovitz, American film producer 1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player 1946 - Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete 1947 - Christopher Parkening, American guitarist 1947 - Linda Sutton, British artist 1949 - Bill Buckner, American baseball player 1949 - Cliff Williams, British-born bassist (AC/DC) 1949 - Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress 1951 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster 1953 - René Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer 1954 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d. 1993) 1954 - James Horan, American actor 1956 - Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier 1957 - Gary Ferris, American author 1958 - Mike Scott, British singer and songwriter (The Waterboys) 1958 - Spider Stacy (Peter Richard Stacy), British-born tin whistle player (The Pogues) 1960 - Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and -blam!- rights advocate 1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress 1963 - Cynthia Gibb, American actress 1965 - Craig Biggio, American baseball player 1965 - Ken Hill, baseball player 1966 - Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player 1966 - Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician 1967 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer 1969 - Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player 1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer 1972 - Marcus Jensen, baseball player 1973 - Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian international footballer 1973 - Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001) 1974 - Billy Koch, baseball player 1976 - Leland Chapman, Bounty Hunter, son of Duane "Dog" Chapman. 1977 - KaDee Strickland, American actress 1979 - Michael Owen, English international footballer 1979 - Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer 1980 - Tata Young, Thai-American singer 1981 - Johnny Jeter, Professional wrestler 1982 - Anthony Way, British singer and actor 1984 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer 1984 - Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer 1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh Rugby Union Player 1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress 1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player 1988 - Vanessa Anne Hudgens, American actress

June 30. I was born. The universe didn't exist prior to that.

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Events * 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe. * 1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work. * 1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War. * 1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod. * 1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made). * 1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins. * 1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun. * 1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France. * 1776 - American Revolution: Virginia convention instructs its delegates to propose a declaration of independence from Great Britain. * 1795 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph. * 1811 - Paraguay declares independence from Spain. * 1829 - According to LDS teaching, John the Baptist confers the Aaronic Priesthood onto Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery. * 1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse. * 1849 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily. * 1851 - Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand. * 1858 - The third Royal Opera House officially opens in London. * 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed USDA). * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends. * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley. * 1869 - Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. * 1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in Greco-Turkish War * 1902 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). * 1905 - Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. * 1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Lake Elsinore Fault. * 1911 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved. * 1914 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. * 1918 - Finnish Civil War ends. * 1918 - The US Post Office Department (later renamed the USPS) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC). * 1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike began. By 11:00, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job. * 1919 - Greek invasion of Izmir, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of Turks by the Greek army. Hasan Tahsin fired the first gun of the Turkish War of Independence. * 1928 - Release of the animated short "Plane Crazy", featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. * 1929 - A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123. * 1930 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago. * 1932 - The May 15 Incident. In an attempted coup the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed. * 1934 - The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger. * 1934 - Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia. * 1940 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States. * 1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops have to surrender to -blam!- Germany, marking the beginning of 5 years of occupation. * 1941 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak. * 1940 - McDonald's is founded. * 1942 - World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. * 1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). * 1945 - Last skirmish of the Second World War in Europe fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. * 1948 - Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel. * 1951 - The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum. * 1951 - The cartoon Rabbit Fire is released * 1955 - Austrian Independence Treaty signed. * 1955 - First ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain. * 1957 - Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. * 1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. * 1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4. * 1963 - Mercury program: America launches the last mission of the program, Mercury 9 (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb told Congress the program was complete). * 1964 - The Smothers Brothers give their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City. * 1970 - The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released in the United States. * 1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals. * 1970 - Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests. * 1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control. * 1972 - In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while Wallace is campaigning to be American President. * 1978 - Lagumot Harris, having only been elected President less than a month before, is replaced as the leader of the republic of Nauru. He is succeeded by Hammer DeRoburt. * 1987 - Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform, which failed to reach orbit. * 1988 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. * 1990 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time. * 1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister. * 2004 - The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 224036583 − 1, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort. * 2004 - Arsenal complete a whole English Premiership season, 38 games, unbeaten.

Feb 29 Events 1504 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies. 1704 - Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans attack and destroy Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children. 1712 - February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style. 1720 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I. 1864 - American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid fails - Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted. 1892 - St. Petersburg, Florida incorporated. 1916 - Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old. 1932 - TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States. 1936 - Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. 1940 - For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. 1940 - Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations 1940 - In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California due to the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives his 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from the Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. 1944 - World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in the American General Douglas MacArthur-led Operation Brewer. 1952 - The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. 1956 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term. (He defeats Adlai E. Stevenson that November 6, in a rematch of the 1952 election.) 1960 - An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country. 1964 - In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds). 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. 1972 - Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract. 1984 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader. 1988 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town 1996 - Novelist Joan Collins awarded US $1 million from Random House for breach of contract. 1996 - A Peruvian Boeing 737 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people. 2000 - Six year old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills Kayla Rolland, also six years old, at Theo J. Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan. Rolland is currently the youngest victim of a school shooting[1] 2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as President of Haiti following popular rebel uprising. 2004 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins the Best Picture Oscar, along with 10 other awards, at the 76th Annual Academy Awards. Births 1468 - Pope Paul III (d. 1549) 1692 - John Byrom, English poet (d. 1763) 1736 - Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers (d. 1784) 1792 - Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868) 1840 - John Philip Holland, Irish inventor (d. 1914) 1852 - Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936) 1860 - Herman Hollerith, American statistician (d. 1929) 1896 - Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (d. 1995) 1896 - William A. Wellman, American film director (d. 1975) 1904 - Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1957) 1904 - Pepper Martin, baseball player (d. 1965) 1908 - Balthus, French-Polish painter (d. 2001) 1908 - Dee Brown, American writer and historian (d. 2002) 1908 - Alf Gover, English cricketer (d. 2001) 1916 - Dinah Shore, American singer (d. 1994) 1920 - James Mitchell, American actor 1920 - Michèle Morgan, French actress 1920 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (d. 1991) 1924 - Al Rosen, baseball player 1928 - Joss Ackland, English actor 1928 - Tempest Storm, actress and burlesque performer 1932 - Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist 1936 - Jack Lousma, astronaut 1936 - Henri Richard, Canadian hockey player 1936 - Alex Rocco, American actor 1940 - Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople 1944 - Phyllis Frelich, deaf American actress/Tony Winner 1944 - Dennis Farina, American actor 1944 - Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian illustrator 1944 - Ene Ergma, Estonian politician 1952 - Tim Powers, American writer 1952 - Raisa Smetanina, Russian cross-country skier 1952 - Bart Stupak, American politician 1956 - Jonathan Coleman, Anglo-Australian radio and television personality 1956 - Bob Speller, Canadian politician 1956 - Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002) 1956 - J. Randy Taraborrelli, American celebritiy journalist 1960 - Ian McKenzie Anderson, British musician and record producer 1960 - Richard Ramirez, American serial killer 1960 - Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker 1964 - Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player 1968 - Chucky Brown, American basketball player 1968 - Pete Fenson, American curler 1968 - Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist and filmmaker 1968 - Bryce Paup, American football player 1972 - Antonio Sabato Jr., Italian-born actor 1972 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d. 2002) 1972 - Pedro Zamora, Cuban-born American AIDS activist (d. 1994) 1976 - Ja Rule, American rapper and actor 1980 - Simon Gagné, Canadian hockey player 1980 - Taylor Twellman, American soccer player 1984 - Darren Ambrose, English footballer 1984 - Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player Deaths 1528 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1504) 1592 - Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer 1604 - John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1530) 1744 - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher (b. 1683) 1820 - Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743) 1868 - Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786) 1940 - Edward Frederic Benson, American writer (b. 1867) 1944 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861) 1956 - Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (b. 1890) 1968 - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (b. 1886) 1980 - Gil Elvgren, American artist (b. 1914) 1992 - Ruth Pitter, English poet (b. 1897) 2004 - Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (b. 1915) Holidays and observances Bahá'í Faith - Day 4 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) (in leap years only) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving. Discordianism - St. Tib's Day.

Can we limit it to interesting events? Lists are gettin' too flippen long.

January 28(I only posted the more well-known stuff, and interesting facts.) [B]Events[/b] Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard, including Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space. Failure blamed on leaking Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. [B]Births[/b] Elijah Wood, American actor Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys) Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC) [b]Deaths[/b] Pope Paul V King Henry VIII of England [b]Holidays[/b] Nothing Interesting.

september 25 > your birthday 275 - Marcus Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the Senate. 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France. 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era. 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis. 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as the Pacific Ocean. 1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League. 1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time. 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver. 1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey. 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California. 1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control. 1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York. 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible. 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops. 1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. 1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9. 1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years. 1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership. 1976 - The rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home. 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people. 1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul. 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office. 1988 - Monty Python member Michael Palin sets out from London's Reform Club to start his BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Days. 1988 - Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ, Aa! Megami-sama!) is first published. 1991 - Mattan Biton was born (number 1 Montreal Canadiens fan) 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland. 2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia. 2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan. 2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion. 2006 - The Louisiana Superdome reopens after 13 months of reconstruction due to Hurricane Katrina as the New Orleans Saints defeat division rivals Atlanta Falcons 23-3 in front a cheerful home crowd. [edit] Births 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408) 1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584) 1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667) 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710) 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764) 1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754) 1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799) 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804) 1738 - Nicholas Van -blam!-, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789) 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793) 1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822) 1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856) 1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801) 1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824) 1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875) 1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874) 1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904) 1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952) 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1945) 1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936) 1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930) 1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990) 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962) 1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980) 1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999) 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970) 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975) 1916 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball player and announcer 1917 - Johnny Sain, baseball player 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994) 1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992) 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992) 1926 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991) 1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor 1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005) 1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster 1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999) 1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982) 1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain 1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster 1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996) 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland 1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency 1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer 1944 - Doris Matsui, U.S. Congresswoman from California 1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player 1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model 1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004) 1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director 1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees) 1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer 1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor 1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer 1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host 1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model 1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress 1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actresses (seiyū) 1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman (Saputo) and sports executive (Montreal Impact) 1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player 1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002) 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress 1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel 1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween) 1971 - John Lynch, American football player 1971 - Hal Sparks, American actor 1973 - Bridgette Wilson, American actress 1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer 1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter 1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player 1976 - Chauncey Billups, American basketball player 1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer 1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model 1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer 1980 - T.I., rapper 1981 - Jason Bergmann, baseball pitcher 1982 - Hyun Bin, South Korean actor 1991 - Emmy Clarke, American actress

Mine. Nov. 9, 1977 1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. 1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal). 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. 1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect. 1990 - Mary Robinson elected Ireland's first woman President and the first from the Labour Party. 2006 - United States Congress - The Democratic Party finishes the takeover of both houses of Congress after Senator George Allen concedes defeat. It is the first time since 1994 that the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. And I saved the best for last... 2004 - Halo 2 is released by the Microsoft Corporation. The sci-fi action shooter smashes entertainment records, grossing $125 Million on its opening day.

may 30 i got board so i just added my name to the births

No-one reads these, do they?

April 23rd: [u]Events[/u] 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. 1014 - Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle. 1343 - St. George's Night Uprising 1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George's Day. 1521 - Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros. 1533 - The Church of England annuls the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII of England. 1597 - Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance. 1660 - Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland. 1661 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1827 - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays. 1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine which shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel. 1920 - The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. 1923 - Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter. 1932 - The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down. 1935 - Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted. 1940 - Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi kills 198 people. 1941 - World War II: Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the attacking Wehrmacht. 1942 - World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck. 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Palestinian forces. 1961 - Algiers putsch by French generals. 1961 - Judy Garland performs at Carnegie Hall. 1967 - A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS). 1968 - The United Kingdom produces its first decimalised coins, a 5p and a 10p coin. 1968 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. 1974 - A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali, Indonesia, killing 107. 1979 - Fighting in London between the Anti--blam!- League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach. 1990 - Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 1993 - Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum. 1994 - Physicists discover the top quark subatomic particle. 1997 - Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed. 2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus. [u]Births[/u] 1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223) 1484 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian philosopher (d. 1558) 1500 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565) 1516 - Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571) 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright [uncertain] (d. 1616) 1598 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653) 1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704) 1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751) 1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797) 1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic|Catholic saint (d. 1755) 1775 - William Turner, English ornithologist (d. 1851) 1791 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868) 1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882) 1805 - Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879) 1813 - Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. 1861) 1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861) 1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (d. 1919) 1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) 1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (d. 1936) 1865 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943) 1867 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928) 1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925) 1880 - Michel -blam!-ine, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1942) 1882 - Albert Coates, British composer (d. 1953) 1889 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942) 1893 - Frank Borzage, American film director (d. 1952) 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969) 1895 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982) 1897 - Lucius Clay, American general (d. 1978) 1897 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1972) 1899 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1979) 1900 - Joseph Green, Polish-born actor and director (d. 1996) 1900 - Jim Bottomley, Baseball player (d. 1959) 1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988) 1902 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) 1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spanish-American actor (d. 1985) 1907 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975) 1910 - Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005) 1918 - Maurice Druon, French author 1921 - Warren Spahn, baseball player (d. 2003) 1923 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas 1923 - Avram Davidson, American writer (d. 1993) 1923 - Antonino Rocca, Professional wrestler 1924 - Chuck Harmon, baseball player 1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician 1932 - Jim Fixx, American athlete and writer (d. 1984) 1932 - Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990) 1935 - Bunky Green, American musician 1935 - Ray Peterson, American singer (d. 2005) 1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988) 1939 - Lee Majors, American actor 1941 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer 1941 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003 1942 - Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005) 1943 - Tony Esposito, Canadian hockey player 1943 - Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter 1943 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993) 1947 - Bernadette Devlin, Irish politician 1947 - Glenn Cornick, British rock bassist (Jethro Tull) 1948 - Pascal Quignard, French author 1949 - David Cross, British violinist (King Crimson) 1949 - Joyce DeWitt, American actress 1952 - Narada Michael Walden, Grammy Award-winning musician and producer 1954 - Michael Moore, American filmmaker 1955 - Judy Davis, Australian actress 1955 - Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001) 1958 - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer 1958 - Tove Jensen, Swedish -blam!- actress 1958 - Ryan Walter, Canadian ice hockey player 1960 - Valerie Bertinelli, American actress 1960 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991) 1961 - George Lopez, American actor and comedian 1961 - Terry Gordy, Professional wrestler (d. 2001) 1963 - Paul Belmondo, French racing driver 1967 - Melina Kanakaredes, American actress 1967 - Rheal Cormier, baseball player 1968 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001) 1969 - Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast 1972 - Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer 1972 - Pierre Labrie, poet from Quebec 1974 - Carlos Dengler, American musician, Interpol 1975 - Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer 1977 - John Cena, American professional wrestler and rapper 1977 - Andruw Jones, American baseball player 1979 - Jaime King, American Actress 1981 - Chris Sharma, American rock climber/boulderer 1983 - Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player 1984 - Lil Eazy-E, American rapper 1984 - Yana Gupta, Indian Actress & Model 1985 - Angel Locsin, Filipina TV and movie actress 1986 - Sven Kramer, Dutch speedskater and olympic medal winner 1986 - Jessica Stam, Canadian supermodel 1989 - Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player 1990 - Matthew Underwood, American actor

[u] [b] Events [/b] [/u] 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. 684 - Benedict II becomes Pope. 1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away. 1409 - Western Schism: The Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. 1483 - Richard III becomes king of England. 1541 - Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Diego is later caught and executed. 1718 - Peter the Greats son Aleksi mysteriously dies after being sentanced to death by his father for plotting against him. 1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians. 1807 - Lightning hits a warehouse in Luxembourg, killing 230 people. 1819 - The bicycle is patented. 1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. 1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. 1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. 1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. 1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. 1934 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. 1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina. 1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco. 1948 - The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin. 1959 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships. 1960 - Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence 1963 - John F. Kennedy spoke the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin. 1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. 1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio 1975 - Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India. 1975 - FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler and American Indian Movement member Joseph Stuntz were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala, South Dakota. 1976 - The CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened. 1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute. 1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died. 1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait. 1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment. 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based -blam!- laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations. [u] [b] Births [/b] [/u] 1681 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708) 1689 - Edward Holyoke, American President of Harvard University (d. 1769) 1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (d. 1768) 1702 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (d. 1751) 1703 - Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (d. 1767) 1819 - Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (d. 1893) 1824 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907) 1854 - Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1937) 1865 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959) 1866 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923) 1869 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954) 1892 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) 1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978) 1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) 1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951) 1904 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1964) 1906 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (d. 1974) 1906 - Viktor Schreckengost, Father of industrial design 1907 - Debs Garms, baseball player (d. 1984) 1909 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997) 1911 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete and golfer (d. 1956) 1912 - Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980) 1919 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003) 1922 - Eleanor Parker, American actress 1923 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955) 1925 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970) 1933 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor 1933 - Gene Green, baseball player (d. 1981) 1934 - Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965) 1934 - Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist and composer 1936 - Robert Maclennan, British politician 1936 - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal 1937 - Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor 1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1941 - Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist 1942 - Gilberto Gil, singer, songwriter, and first Minister of Culture of Brazil 1943 - John Beasley, American actor 1943 - Georgie Fame, British singer 1945 - Dwight York, American cult leader and convicted child molester 1951 - Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer 1954 - Steve Barton, American actor, singer, and dancer 1955 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite) 1956 - Chris Isaak, American singer 1957 - Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal) 1959 - Mark McKinney, Canadian actor 1961 - Greg Lemond, American cyclist 1961 - Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin) and actress 1963 - Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman 1964 - Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish rally driver 1968 - Rich Eisen, sports broadcaster 1968 - Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer 1968 - Shannon Sharpe, American football player and commentator 1969 - Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead) 1970 - Chris O'Donnell, American actor 1970 - Sean Hayes, American actor 1970 - Irv Gotti, American record producer 1970 - Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker 1970 - Nick Offerman, American actor 1972 - Garou, Canadian singer 1973 - Gretchen Wilson, American singer 1974 - Matt Striker, American professional wrestler 1974 - Derek Jeter, American baseball player 1974 - Jason Kendall, American baseball player 1976 - Ed Jovanovski, NHL hockey player 1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player 1976 - Joe Landon, American pornographic actor 1977 - Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist 1980 - Jason Schwartzman, American actor 1980 - Michael Vick, American football player 1980 - Chris Shelton, American baseball player 1985 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader 1990 - Ryan Ward, American actor 2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands [u] [b] Deaths[/b] [/u] 363 - Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331) 1291 - Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England 1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered) 1688 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617) 1784 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728) 1793 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720) 1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor of the hot air balloon (b. 1740) 1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760) 1917 - Joseph Acton, Professional wrestler 1918 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843) 1922 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848) 1939 - Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873) 1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868) 1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870) 1956 - Clifford Brown, American Jazz trumpeter (b. 1930) 1957 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878) 1958 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873) 1958 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888) 1964 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888) 1967 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942) 1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902) 1984 - Michel Foucault, French literary theorist (b. 1926) 1993 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920) 1993 - Roy Campanella, Major League baseball player (b. 1921) 1996 - Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958) 1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959) 2002 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913) 2002 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914) 2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975) 2003 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902) 2003 - Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915) 2004 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929) 2005 - Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)

1955 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer 1956 - Tom Leykis, American radio personality 1958 - Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor 1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard) 1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy) 1960 - Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and film critic 1962 - Robert Clift, British field hockey player 1963 - Coolio, American rapper 1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director 1967 - Gregg Jefferies, baseball player 1969 - Kevin Jarvis, baseball player 1970 - David James, English footballer 1972 - Devon Hughes, US professional wrestler 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress 1976 - Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer 1976 - Kevin Joseph, baseball player 1977 - Marc Denis, NHL Hockey player - Goaltender 1978 - Edgerrin James, American football player 1978 - Dhani Harrison, musician 1979 - Junior Agogo, footballer 1980 - Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini, Brazilian footballer 1981 - M. Shadows, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) 1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, American musician, formerly of (O-Town) 1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer [edit] Deaths 371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283) 527 - Emperor Justin I (b. c. 450) 1137 - King Louis VI of France (b. 1081) 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179) 1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341) 1457 - Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406) 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386) 1541 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) 1546 - Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506) 1557 - Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490) 1580 - Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524) 1589 - Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567) 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665) 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696) 1796 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720) 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753) 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763) 1851 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775) 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790) 1917 - Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879) 1918 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854) 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856) 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934) 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941) 1967 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900) 1970 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913) 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883) 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882) 1977 - Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929) 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923) 1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937) 1990 - Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897) 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947) 1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940) 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897) 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915) 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897) 2001 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974) 2003 - Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922) 2003 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962) 2004 - Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913) 2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928) 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923) 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920) 2005 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918) 2006 - Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924) [edit] Holidays and observances Angola - Armed Forces Day. Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day. Benin - National Day. People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army. Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day Horses' Birthday - In the southern hemisphere, all thoroughbreds enjoy their birthday on August the 1st. Nicaragua - Fiesta Day. Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery. Switzerland - National Day. Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar. Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland. Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas. Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh). Yorkshire, England - Yorkshire Day. World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting. [edit] Liturgical feasts Orthodox Christianity Procession of the Cross. Roman Catholicism Saint Alphonso Maria de' Liguori, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 1787) Saint Archadius, bishop of Bourges [Bourges] Saint Bandarid, bishop of Soissons [Soissons] Saint Bertharius, bishop of Chartres [Chartres] Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, bishop of Winchester, confessor [common; England] Saint Ethelwolf Saint Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr [Geneva, Lausanne, France; Paris] Saint Exuperius, bishop of Bayeux [northern France; Paris] Saint Felix, martyr at Gerona [southern France] Saint Jonatus Saint Maccabees, martyrs [common] Saint Nectarius, bishop of Vienne [Vienne] Saint Peregrinus, hermit / Pellegrini Saint Peter "in Chains" = St. Peter's chains [common; Paris, Bruges, in red] Saint Peter Julian Eymard (Pierre-Julien Eymard, died 1868) Saints Sophia, widow, and daughters (Faith, Hope, and Charity, virgins), martyrs [Paris] Saints Spes and Fides of Rome Saint Sativola, virgin [Exeter] [edit] External links

august first =:p Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. 527 - Justinian I becomes the only ruler of the Byzantine Empire. 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). 1203 - Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran Fourth Crusade. 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed. 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain. 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela. 1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. 1664 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár. 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley. 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers in an unusual night action. 1800 - The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens. 1831 - London Bridge opens. 1832 - The Black Hawk War ends. 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire. 1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated. 1864 - The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois. 1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France. 1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island. It was set up on July 29th and ran until August 9th. 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. 1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. 1936 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin. 1937 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. 1941 - The first Jeep is produced. 1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary. 1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the -blam!- occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. 1945 - Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a Home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York. 1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed. 1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded. 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). 1960 - Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. 1960 - Communist PAI is banned in Senegal. 1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. 1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens. 1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg. 1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police. 1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem. 1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival. 1971 - Concert for Bangladesh. 1975 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. 1977 - Frank H.T. Rhodes is elected President of Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years. 1981 - MTV broadcasts its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles. 1988 - Rush Limbaugh was syndicated nationally as a two hour radio show. 1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier. 1996 - Olympic Games: 1996 Summer Olympics - Michael Johnson wins the 200-meter dash in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds. 1996 - MTV2 makes its first broadcasts. The first video played was Beck Hansen's "Where It's At". 2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia. 2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency. 2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office. 2004 - A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay. 2004 - A bomb attack in front of Prague's Casino Royal. 2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented. [edit] Births 10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54) 126 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193) 1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364) 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433) 1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622) 1555 - Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597) 1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644) 1630 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673) 1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780) 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782) 1738 - Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794) 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829) 1770 - William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838) 1779 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843) 1779 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851) 1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882) 1818 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889) 1819 - Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891) 1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of Pres. Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, United States Secretary of War (d. 1926) 1858 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884) 1885 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1966) 1881 - Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940) 1889 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979) 1891 - Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968) 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927) 1910 - James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974) 1921 - Jack Kramer, American tennis player 1922 - Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990) 1924 - Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate 1925 - Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000) 1927 - Raymond Leppard, English conductor 1930 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002) 1930 - Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999) 1930 - Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991) 1932 - Meir Kahane, American orthodox rabbi and founder of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) (d. 1990) 1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer 1937 - Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York 1942 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist, and singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995) 1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate 1946 - Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show 1946 - Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist 1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan 1950 - Jim Carroll, American poet and actor 1951 - Tommy Bolin, Amercian guitarist 1951 - Pete Mackanin, Amercian baseball player 1952 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003) 1953 - Robert Cray, American singer Orthodox Christianity i cant psot the rest over character limit lol..

I have the same birthday as Saddam Hussein and Jay Leno, April 28th. Also, Mussolini and his mistress were killed by firing squad in '45. [Edited on 11/9/2006]

November 8th Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god. 1520 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people. 1576 - Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent - The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation. 1602 - The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public. 1620 - The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. 1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum. 1837 - Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which would later become Mount Holyoke College 1861 - American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. 1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864: Abraham Lincoln is reelected in an overwhelming victory over George McClellan. 1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. 1895 - While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays. 1899 - The Bronx Zoo opens 1917 - People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the -blam!-s in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. 1933 - Great Depression: New Deal - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed. 1935 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism. 1935 - Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France 1937 - The -blam!- exhibition Der ewige Jude ("the eternal Jew") opens in Munich. 1937 - The Chinese Youth Journalist Association was created in Shanghai. The day has become Chinese Journalist Day. 1939 - Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. 1939 - In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. 1941 - Albanian Communist Party founded. 1942 - Holocaust: In Ternopil, western Ukraine, German SS deport about 2,400 Jews from Ternopil ghetto to the Belzec death camp, so called "Second Aktion". When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city. 1942 - World War II: Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa. 1942 - World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole French North Africa. 1950 - Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. 1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican"[1] 1965 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. 1965 - The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War. 1965 - The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC in the United States. 1966 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate. 1966 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. 1971 - The fourth album of British rock group Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV) is released, including one of the group's most well known songs, "Stairway to Heaven". 1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD. 1974 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy. 1979 - Foundation of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action). 1987 - Remembrance Day Bombing: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people. 1997 - US president Bill Clinton speaks at a dinner sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, the USA's largest -blam!- rights organisation. 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". 2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Births 35 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98) 1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544) 1622 - King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660) 1656 (N.S.) - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742) 1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772) 1710 - Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768) 1715 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797) 1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786) 1836 - Milton Bradley, American lithographer and game manufacturer (d. 1911) 1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907) 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912) 1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925) 1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919) 1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941) 1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942) 1869 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945) 1883 - Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953) 1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922) 1885 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951) 1885 - Tomoyuki Yama-blam!-a, Japanese general (d. 1946) 1893 - Clarence Williams, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 1965) 1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941) 1896 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977) 1897 - Dorothy Day, social activist (d. 1980) 1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937) 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949) 1900 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943) 1904 - Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990) 1908 - Martha Gellhorn, American writer and journalist (d. 1998) 1916 - June Havoc, American actress 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer 1919 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000) 1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998) 1920 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian Catholic churchman and currently longest-serving cardinal 1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001) 1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996) 1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2005) 1924 - Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974) 1927 - Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam 1927 - Patti Page, American singer 1929 - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese legal philosopher 1931 - Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979) 1931 - Morley Safer, Canadian journalist 1935 - Alain Delon, French actor 1942 - Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey 1943 - Martin Peters, English footballer 1944 - Bonnie Bramlett, American blues-rock singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends) 1945 - Don Murray, American drummer (The Turtles) 1946 - Guus Hiddink, Dutch/Korean/Australian football (soccer) coach 1946 - Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra) 1947 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979) 1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer 1950 - Mary Hart, American television personality 1952 - Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist 1952 - Christie Hefner, CEO of Enterprises; daughter of Hugh Hefner 1952 - John Denny, baseball player 1953 - Alfre Woodard, American actress 1954 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director 1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author of Japanese origin 1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, American singer and composer 1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk) 1956 - Richard Curtis, British screenwriter 1958 - Don Byron, American clarinetist 1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor 1961 - Leif Garrett, American singer and actor 1965 - Jeff Blauser, Major League Baseball player 1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef 1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress 1967 - Henry Rodriguez, Major League Baseball player 1968 - Parker Posey, American actress 1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress 1970 - José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer 1970 - Diana King, Jamaican r&b/reggae singer 1971 - Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director 1972 - Gretchen Mol, American actress 1974 - Masashi Kishimoto,Japanese mangaka 1975 - Tara Reid, American actress 1976 - Brett Lee, Australian cricketer 1977 - Flo Jalin, import car model 1977 - Bucky Covington, American Idol finalist 1978 - Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer 1979 - Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer 1981 - Joe Cole, English footballer 1983 - Kat Shoob, British television presenter 1983 - Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper 1985 - Jack Osbourne, American TV-star, son of Ozzy Osbourne 2003 - Lady Louise Windsor, British royalty

April 1: [*][b]1826[/b] Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. [*][b]1891[/b] The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois. [*][b]1893[/b] The United States Navy rank of Chief Petty Officer is created. [*][b]1918[/b] The Royal Flying Corps is replaced by the Royal Air Force. [*][b]2001[/b] An EP-3E United States Navy plane collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People's Republic of China and is detained. See Hainan Island incident. [*]April 1 is known as April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries. :D

why would I write a book report on crap like that?

* 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I * 1241 - Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi. * 1512 - War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix was victorious in the Battle of Ravenna. * 1713 - War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht. * 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany. * 1828 - Foundation of Bahia Blanca * 1856 - In Rivas, Nicaragua, Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up. * 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech. * 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan. * 1876 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. * 1888 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. * 1899 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States. * 1905 - Einstein reveals Theory of Relativity. * 1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp. * 1919 - International Labour Organization founded. * 1921 - First sports broadcast on the radio. * 1921 - The Emirate of Transjordan is created. * 1945 - World War II: United States forces liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. * 1951 - Korean War: President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. * 1955 - The Air India Kashmir Princess downs in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the KMT. * 1957 - Britain agrees to Singapore self rule. * 1961 - Bob Dylan makes his singing début in New York City. * 1965 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing 256 people. * 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. * 1968 - German student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot in Berlin. * 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched. * 1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. * 1981 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. * 1984 - "Advance Australia Fair" becomes the National Anthem of Australia * 1987 - The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. * 2001 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released. * 2001 - Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying game, an international record. * 2002 - The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia. * 2002 - An attempted coup d'état in Venezuela against President Hugo Chávez began. * 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium. Well, I was born on April 11, the date when the president of Iran says that they enriched uranium..

May 30th.....National Potato Day in Peru! 1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. 1431 - In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. May 30 is now her feast day as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. There were a bunch more, but I found these three the most interesting! [Edited on 11/9/2006]

1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. 1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. 1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification. 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy. 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress. 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoe. 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him). 1827 - The Delta Phi Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, NY. 1839 - Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan. 1856 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase. 1858 - Modified Julian Day zero. 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege. 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony. 1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York. 1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people. 1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). 1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaimed Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey. 1922 - Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI went on exile in Italy. 1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored). 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen. 1962 - In Washington, DC, US President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport. 1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." 1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with Heidi, prompting an outrage amongst sport fans. 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta. 1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. 1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70. 1970 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre. 1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse. 1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook". 1973 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece. 1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l). 1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS. 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded. 1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence. 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). 1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan became active again and erupted. 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants). 2000 - Catastrophical landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophies in Slovenia in the past 100 years. 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. 2000 - Grand opening of the first free-standing Khaneghah (Sufi center) outside of a majority Muslim country, in Falls Church, VA by Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi. 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated Governor of California. 2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation. 2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.

june 12th all u need to know is this is the day oj "allegedly" killed nicole brown simpson and ronald goldman. holla

* 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. * 235 - Anterus is elected Pope. * 1272 - Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England. * 1783 - In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight. * 1789 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state. * 1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic. * 1861 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war. * 1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound. * 1905 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the famous equation e=mc². * 1916 - The HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after an explosion from an unknown object, killing 30 people. * 1920 - Bloody Sunday during the Anglo-Irish War * 1922 - Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator. * 1927 - Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners were allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. * 1934 - Ella Fitzgerald makes her singing debut at age 16 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. * 1941 - The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it would later become the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program). * 1942 - The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943, however). * 1953 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax. * 1962 - The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War. * 1964 - The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge). * 1964 - Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. * 1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." * 1969 - The first ARPANET link is established. * 1969 - US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, DC on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free. * 1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there. * 1971 - Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeated the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. * 1974 - The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA killed 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for this and subsequently acquitted. * 1974 - George W. Bush is honourably discharged from the US Air Force Reserve. * 1977 - Minister of Internal Affairs Hon Allan Highet announced that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem 'God Save The Queen' and the poem 'God Defend New Zealand', written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion'. * 1979 - The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set alight, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan) * 1980 - A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history. * 1980 - Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine; water flowing down into the mine eroded the edges of the hole. The whirlpool created sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit. * 1980 - Who Shot JR? - The Dallas Episode "Who Done It?" aired on US television. It was one of the highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired. * 1985 - United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard is arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison). * 1986 - Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. * 1990 - Charter of Paris for a New Europe refocusses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues. The successor to the Family Computer; the Super Famicom was released in Japan. * 1991 - "The Apple of God's Eye", an undercover investigative journalism piece exposing the fundraising practices of American televangelist Robert Tilton, airs on ABC's Primetime Live newsmagazine show for the first time. * 1995 - The Dayton Peace Agreement was initialled in the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement was formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year. * 1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. * 1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time. * 2002 - NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members. * 2004 - The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy with regards to the election's integrity. * 2004 - The island of Dominica is hit by its most destructive earthquake in history; the northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially in the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighbouring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed as a result. * 2004 - The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt. *reloads*

It goes on. with 4000 more chars still: Deaths 1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204) 1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236) 1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455) 1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477) 1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491) 1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514) 1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510) 1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553) 1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch cartoonist and painter (b. 1603) 1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657) 1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688) 1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705) 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718) 1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762) 1805 - Noble Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723) 1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750) 1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798) 1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808) 1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801) 1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799) 1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820) 1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812) 1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830) 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832) 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840) 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853) 1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844) 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888) 1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896) 1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899) 1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866) 1939 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880) 1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903) 1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893) 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867) 1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876) 1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891) 1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897) 1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901) 1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922) 1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906) 1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879) 1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919) 1987 - Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905) 1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898) 1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907) 1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910) 1993 - Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1904) 1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927) 1995 - Peter Cook, British actor. satirist, writer, and comedian (b. 1937) 1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909) 1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909) 1997 - Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917) 1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918) 2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909) 2001 - Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (b. 1926) 2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935) 2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925) 2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian KTM motorcyclist (b. 1964), during the 9th stage Dakar Rally 2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937) [edit] Holidays and observances Martyrs' Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone Roman Catholic - Feast of Saint Adrian Eastern Orthodox - Feast of Saint Theophan the Recluse Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines Balloon Ascension Day[citation needed] Stepfather's Day That's it. So I guess my b-day pwns everyone elses b-day. 14000 chars++ reached. [Edited on 11/9/2006]