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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.
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November 11th 308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire. 1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ. 1500 – Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them. 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. 1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery. 1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used. 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x). 1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. 1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent. 1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity. 1778 – Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers. 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force. 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign. 1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. 1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia. 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south. 1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company. 1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations. 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol. 1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed. 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham. 1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States. 1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919. 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence. 1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power. 1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. 1919 – Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence. 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery. 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened. 1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto. 1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan. 1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest. 1942 – World War II: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] Germany completes its occupation of France. 1944 – Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy. 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed. 1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity. 1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. 1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence. 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12. 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden. 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. 1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives. 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam. 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December. 1975 – Independence of Angola. 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations. 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. 1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage. 2000 – Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria. 2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in. 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington. 2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later. 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army. 2008 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
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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.
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Edited by BritLemon: 5/17/2013 3:30:33 PM7th of June Events: 1099 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. 1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends. Births: 1837 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler Deaths: 1329 – Robert the Bruce, Scottish king
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July 16th 1969 - Apollo 11 was launched 1945 - The first successful Atomic Bomb test
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9th of June 1963 - Johnny Depp born 1870 - Charles Dickens died 1934 - Donald Duck born that's all i know off by heart