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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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The ones I felt that were worthy of note: 1675 - King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Mass.) settlement. 1947 - Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born. (Which leads me to my old "[url=http://halo.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?postID=66770243&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=2]UFOs are actually PISS[/url]" (Partially Identified Skipping Sausages) topic) 1948 - The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.