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Obviously not sharing the same year most likely, but any events that occurred on the same month and day
Mine: August 23rd
79: Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire
406: Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho
1305: Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London
1784: Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years
1904: Automobile tire chain patented
1942: Battle of Stalingrad started
1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon
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1049 - Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX 1111 - German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome 1130 - Pope Innocent II elected 1502 - Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism 1502 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India. 1528 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power 1541 - Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24) 1577 - Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict" 1624 - English parliament comes together 1700 - The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe. 1709 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe") 1719 - The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded. 1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah 1762 - English fleet occupies Martinique 1763 - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1771 - Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden. 1772 - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India 1793 - 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves 1797 - Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna 1821 - Mercantile Library of City of NY opens 1825 - Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826 1832 - Ecuador annexes Gal pagos Islands 1839 - Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick 1840 - Housatonic Railroad opens 1848 - Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan 1850 - Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300 1855 - Michigan State University was established. 1861 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK 1865 - Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps 1870 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada 1873 - Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins 1874 - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit US 1876 - Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop 1877 - 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass 1877 - US railroad builders strike against wage reduction 1878 - Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358) 1879 - 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC) 1879 - News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London 1880 - National Croquet League organizes (Phila) 1882 - Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam 1885 - Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society 1886 - 2nd British government of Salisbury forms 1889 - Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres 1889 - Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo 1894 - Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20. 1899 - -47°F (-44°C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record) 1899 - 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC 1901 - Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed 1906 - George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC 1908 - Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female 1908 - NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel 1909 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms 1909 - Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop) 1909 - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) 1912 - China adopts Gregorian calendar 1912 - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates 1914 - In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. 1915 - Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC 1916 - 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps" 1920 - -Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike 1920 - NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission 1921 - Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours) 1924 - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (NYC) 1924 - George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in NYC 1924 - President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech 1925 - 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress 1925 - E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo 1925 - Estonia forbids communist Party 1926 - Barendrecht soccer team forms 1927 - British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai 1929 - Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30) 1931 - Vatican Radio begins broadcasting with the callsign HVJ 1932 - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees 1933 - German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] 1934 - Export-Import Bank incorporates 1934 - France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists 1935 - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean 1937 - Cleveland (now St Louis) Rams granted an NFL franchise 1938 - Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden 1938 - German troops entered Austria 1941 - Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen 1941 - Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" 1942 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany 1943 - General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa 1944 - Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race 1945 - SF selected for site of UN Conference 1946 - World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats. 1947 - Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia 1947 - Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands 1948 - 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps 1949 - "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs 1949 - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio 1949 - Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey 1949 - Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem 1950 - Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1953 - USSR breaks relations with Israel 1955 - McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks 1955 - Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam 1955 - Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan 1955 - WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting 1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open 1957 - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed 1958 - Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101 1958 - Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala 1960 - Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers 1961 - Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open 1961 - Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days 1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus 1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia 1963 - Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron 1964 - Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall) 1964 - End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career 1964 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming 1964 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen Basketball Player Bill Russell 1965 - KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting 1965 - Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean 1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater 1967 - Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs 1967 - Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting 1970 - Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth," premieres in NYC 1971 - Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England 1973 - 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1977 - Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 1978 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs 1978 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic 1978 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne 1978 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner 1979 - Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched 1980 - "Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances 1980 - NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets 1980 - Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117 1981 - Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA 1981 - Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent 1981 - Cape Verde amends its constitution 1981 - Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m 1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site NHL all-time top scorer Wayne Gretzky 1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record 1984 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic 1984 - Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH 1984 - Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics 1984 - West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality & gold medal 1985 - 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary 1985 - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup I would post more, but apparently there's a character limit.