Official Look Up Your birthday on Wikipedia thread!

[Zeep]

Post any interesting births, deaths, or events. Make sure to post whatever happened the exact year of your birth. you could, for instance, bold it.

# 1989 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia
# 1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
# 1991 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the internet.

that's right, i share my birthday with the internet.

No real interesting births deths, other than Peter Jennings (death, not birth).

[Rizon]

Events:
1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation
2006 - Disney agrees to purchase Pixar in an all-cash deal, making Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney.

Births:
1959 - Vic Reeves, English comedian
1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater) *ohhhhhhh yeh!*

Deaths:
1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1874)
2006 - Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)

[speed stick]

may 25th

1988 - Sean Daly, Australian Radio Presenter

No idea who he is but he has the same name (sean) as me and seems to be born on the same day.

[OnBake Platinum]

# 1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
# 1986 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.

[frosty]

45 BC - The Julian calendar first takes effect.
404 - Last known gladiator competition in Rome takes place.
630 - Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly.
990 - Kievan Rus' adopts the Julian calendar.
1259 - Michael VIII Palaeologus proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Lascaris.
1438 - Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
1600 - Scotland begins using the Julian calendar.
1651 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland.
1673 - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
1700 - Russia begins using the Julian calendar.
1707 - John V is crowned King of Portugal.
1738 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
1788 - First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
1797 - Albany replaces New York City as the capital of New York.
1801 - Legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom.
1801 - The first known asteroid, 1 Ceres, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
1804 - French rule ends in Haiti.
1808 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned.
1818 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published.
1861 - Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City.
1863 - American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
1863 - The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.
1875 - Midland Railway abolishes Second Class passenger facilities, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British Railway companies followed Midland's lead during the rest of the year. (Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956)
1880 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
1887 - Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.
1890 - The first Tournament of Roses is held in Pasadena, California.
1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States.
1893 - Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal, England, was officially opened to traffic.
1898 - New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
1899 - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
1901 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
1901 - The first official Mummers Parade is held.
1902 - The first Rose Bowl game is played in Pasadena, California, with the University of Michigan beating Stanford University by a score of 49-0.
1906 - British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time
1908 - For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
1909 - Drilling began on the Lakeview Gusher.
1911 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
1912 - The Republic of China is established.
1916 - German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
1926 - Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar.
1934 - Alcatraz Island becomes a U.S. federal prison.
1934 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
1935 - Bucknell University wins the first Orange Bowl 26-0 over the University of Miami.
1937 - The first Cotton Bowl game is played in Dallas, Texas.
1939 - The Vienna New Year's Concert is first held.
1942 - The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
1946 - First civil flight from Heathrow Airport.
1948 - British railways are nationalised to form British Rail.
1948 - After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan.
1949 - UN Cease-fire orders to operate in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
1956 - The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1958 - The European Community is established.
1959 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
1959 - Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.
1960 - The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1962 - Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
1964 - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
1966 - 12 day New York City transit strike begins.
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles, and Billy Cox are recorded live at the Fillmore East. The resulting album, Band of Gypsys, is the last Hendrix album to be released before his death.
1971 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
1973 - The Kingdom of Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community.
1978 - Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 explodes and crashes into the sea off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
1979 - Formal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America.
1981 - The Republic of Greece is admitted into the European Community.
1981 - The Republic of Palau achieves self-government; it is not yet independent from the United States.
1982 - Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
1984 - AT&T is broken up into twenty-two independent units.
1984 - The Sultanate of Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1985 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
1985 - The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
1986 - Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1986 - The Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are admitted into the European Community.
1988 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
1990 - David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first black mayor
1993 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.
1993 - A single market within the European Community is introduced.
1993 - Pakistan is elected member of the 15-nation UN Security Council.
1994 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
1994 - The European Economic Area comes into effect.
1995 - The World Trade Organization comes into effect.
1995 - The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union.
1995 - The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1995 - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
1996 - Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1997 - The Republic of Zaïre officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaïre.
1998 - The ESRB rating "K-A"(Kids to Adults) is replaced by the rating "E"(Everyone).
1999 - The Euro currency is introduced.
2000 - As the world celebrates, no major crisis arises from the dreaded Y2K computer 'millennium bug'.
2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.
2002 - Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
2002 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.
2006 - Sydney, Australia swelters in 45C heat, a record for the city.
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Births
766 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)
1431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
1484 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
1516 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
1557 - Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
1600 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
1614 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
1618 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1648 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
1655 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
1684 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
1704 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
1711 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
1735 - Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801)
1752 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
1774 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
1823 - Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian revolutionary (d. 1849)
1833 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
1848 - John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
1854 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)
1860 - George Washington Carver, American educator (d. 1943)
1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French Olympic Games initiator(d. 1937)
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
1868 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (d. 1952)
1874 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (d. 1927)
1874 - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1878 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (d. 1929)
1879 - E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970)
1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1883 - Gabrielle Chanel, French Designer (d. 1971)
1887 - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
1890 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
1892 - Artur Rodziński, Croatian conductor (d. 1958)
1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
1900 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990)
1900 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat(d. 1986)
1902 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
1904 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
1904 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1905 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
1906 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
1909 - Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
1909 - Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1911 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1912 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
1917 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
1917 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
1918 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
1920 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1921 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (d. 1986)
1922 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
1925 - Stymie Beard, American actor (d. 1981)
1927 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1927 - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
1928 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (d. 1984)
1930 - Hossain Mohammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh
1933 - Frederick Lowy, Canadian medical educator
1933 - Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967)
1938 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
1940 - Frank Langella American actor
1942 - Martin Frost, American politician
1942 - Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
1942 - Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2005)
1943 - Don Novello, American actor
1943 - Jimmy Hart, Wrestling manager
1945 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1946 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1947 - Jon Corzine, American politician
1947 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1948 - Pavel Grachev, Russian general
1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist
1954 - Robert Menendez, American politician
1956 - Mark R. Hughes, American enterpeneur (d. 2000)
1957 - Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
1958 - Grandmaster Flash, Barbados-born musician
1959 - Azali Assoumani, Comorese president
1960 - Adelaide Ferreira, Portuguese singer
1961 - Mark Wingett, British actor
1964 - Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
1966 - Anna Burke, Australian politician
1966 - Embeth Davidtz, American actress
1967 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000)
1968 - Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor
1970 - Gabriel Jarret, American actor
1970 - Kimberly Page, American actress
1971 - Paul Luscher, singer/songwriter
1971 - Bobby Holik, Czech hockey player
1972 - Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress
1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
1975 - Joe Cannon, American soccer player
1975 - Robert Westerholt, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
1976 - Caleb Wyatt, American motocross rider
1977 - Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer
1978 - Nina Bott, German actress
1978 - Jared Fogle, American personality
1978 - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
1978 - Tarik O'Regan, British composer
1978 - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritual guru
1979 - Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers)
1979 - Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
1980 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
1980 - Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
1981 - Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver
1981 - Abdulkadir Kocak, Turkish boxer
1981 - Eden Riegel, American actress
1982 - David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
1984 - Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer
1984 - Jose Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
1985 - Steven Davis, Irish footballer
1985 - Don Paysan, Canadian professional wrestler
1992 - Martin Leung, Canadian trombone player
1996 - Mary Gibbs, American actress
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Deaths
379 - Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
404 - Saint Telemachus
874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
898 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
1204 - King Haakon III of Norway
1384 - King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (bc. 1500)
1559 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
1560 - Joachim Du Bellay, French poet (bc. 1522)
1617 - Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
1679 - Jan Steen, Dutch painter
1716 - William Wycherley, English dramatist (bc. 1640)
1730 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)
1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
1793 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
1869 - Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1786)
1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1894 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
1912 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian phsyicist (b. 1866)
1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
1921 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
1933 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)
1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
1960 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1911)
1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
1972 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1992 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
1994 - Lord Arthur Espie Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1996 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
1997 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944)
1998 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian-born political journalist
2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Joe Foss, American politician and fighter pilot (b. 1915)
2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
2005 - Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (b. 1956)
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Holidays and observances
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By Observance
Many countries around the world using Gregorian Calendar - New Year's Day; often celebrated at 0:01 with fireworks.
Last day of Kwanzaa
Public Domain Day in many countries. This is the day on which copyrights expire and works are put into the public domain.
World Day for Prayer for Peace
Z Day - People with last names beginning with the letter Z get to go first in line.
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By Faith
The seventh day of Christmas (and eighth night of same) in Western Christianity.
Catholicism - Feast of the Circumcision (Old calendar).
Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation in many countries. Final Day of Octave of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (New calendar).
Catholicism - National Migration Week begins (varying official support by the office of U.S. President, not strictly religious)
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By Country
Cuba Liberation Day.
Haiti Independence Day.
Scotland: First day of New Year public Holiday (the second being January 2). Most shops and businesses closed on this day.
Slovakia: Establishment of Slovak Republic.
Sudan Independence Day.
Taiwan Founding of Republic of China Day.
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By City
New Year’s Day Parade in London, United Kingdom.
Vienna New Year's Concert
Pasadena, California - The Tournament of Roses parade and, traditionally, the Rose Bowl football championship.
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Day of the week
The day of the week of New Year determines the days of the week of 1 March of the previous year through 28 February of the new year, without distinguishing common years and leap years. It is the day before "Doomsday" of the previous year.

[frosty]

January 1st FTW^

[Skull Kid]

lol frosty, I don't think he meant for people to paste everything.


March 17

Events

# 45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
# 1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
# 1845 - The rubber band is invented
# 1805 - The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
# 1861 - The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
# 1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
# 2002 - WrestleMania X8 from Skydome in Toronto

Births

* 1951 - Kurt Russell, American actor
* 1964 - Rob Lowe, American actor
* 1975 - Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian professional wrestler -- oh god
* 1979 - Samoa Joe, American professional wrestler

Deaths

* 493 - Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland

[OnBake Platinum]

Dumbass, you're only supposed to paste what happened your birth. Not all time....

[Alias]

Events

* 490 BC - After the Battle of Marathon, where the Greeks defeated the invading Persians, Pheidippides, who had already run 140 miles over 2 days and nights, ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of the victory. His last words before he collapsed and died, "Rejoice, we are victorious."
* 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
* 44 BC - The first of Cicero’s Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
* 31 BC - Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
* 1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
* 1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.
* 1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
* 1789 - The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
* 1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
* 1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
* 1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
* 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
* 1867 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
* 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
* 1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
* 1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
* 1901 - Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
* 1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
* 1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
* 1939 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
* 1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
* 1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
* 1946 - Ayn Rand begins writing Atlas Shrugged.
* 1958 - U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
* 1963 - CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
* 1967 - The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declares its independence.
* 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
* 1970 - NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation was re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
* 1987 - In Moscow, the trial begins of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna aircraft into Red Square in May 1987.
* 1990 - Transnistria unilaterally proclaimed as Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
* 1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
* 1995 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
* 1995 - Frank Bruno wins the WBC World Heavyweight Title from Oliver McCall at Wembley Stadium.
* 1996 - A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
* 1998 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
* 1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
* 1998 - The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
* 2001 - The adult-oriented television programming block, Adult Swim premieres on Cartoon Network.
* 2002 - WWE crowns its first World Heavyweight Champion when Eric Bischoff awarded the belt to Triple H, who was the original Number One Contender for the WWE Championship but his opponent Brock Lesnar refused to defend the belt of the Raw brand.
* 2003 - A ride accident at Disneyland in Anaheim, California kills one man riding the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
* 2006 - Waziristan War Ends.US and Pakistani Troops leave Waziristan mountain area. (2004-2006)

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Births

* 1243 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
* 1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
* 1661 - Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
* 1675 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
* 1805 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
* 1810 - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian
* 1830 - William P. Frye, American politician
* 1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
* 1850 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
* 1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
* 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
* 1854 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
* 1862 - Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
* 1862 - Heinrich Knirr, German painter (d. 1944)
* 1877 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
* 1878 - Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
* 1879 - An Jung-geun, Japanese assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
* 1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary (d. 1970)
* 1894 - Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
* 1914 - Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
* 1917 - Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1998)
* 1917 - Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1995)
* 1923 - Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
* 1924 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
* 1928 - Horace Silver, jazz pianist and composer
* 1929 - Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
* 1936 - Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
* 1937 - Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
* 1937 - Derek Fowlds, British Actor
* 1938 - Clarence Felder, American actor
* 1939 - Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
* 1941 - David Bale, South African-born activist (d. 2003)
* 1943 - Rosalind Ashford, American R&B singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
* 1943 - Glen Sather, National Hockey League player and executive
* 1943 - Joe Simon, American R&B singer
* 1944 - Al Matthews, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1946 - Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
* 1948 - Terry Bradshaw, American football player
* 1948 - Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
* 1950 - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
* 1950 - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
* 1951 - Mark Harmon, American actor
* 1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
* 1953 - John Zorn, American musician
* 1956 - Mario Tremblay, National Hockey League player and coach
* 1959 - Guy Laliberté, cofounder of Cirque du Soleil
* 1960 - Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
* 1960 - Rex Hudler, baseball player
* 1961 - Eric Dickerson, American football player
* 1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
* 1962 - Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
* 1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
* 1965 - Lennox Lewis, British-born boxer
* 1965 - Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
* 1966 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
* 1966 - Olivier Panis, French Formula One driver
* 1966 - Dino Cazares, American musician
* 1968 - Cynthia Watros, American actress
* 1969 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
* 1971 - Tommy Maddox, American football player
* 1971 - Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian alpine skier
* 1973 - Jason Blake, American ice hockey player
* 1973 - Pawan Kalyan, Indian film actor
* 1976 - Phil Lipscomb, American musician (Taproot)
* 1977 - Ramiro Muñoz, Colombian musician
* 1981 - Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
* 1981 - Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
* 1982 - Joey Barton, English footballer
* 1987 - Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
* 1990 - Monique Olsen, Brazilian fashion model

[edit]

Deaths

* 490 BC - Pheidippides, Greek hero
* 421 - Constantius III, Roman Emperor
* 1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
* 1274 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
* 1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer
* 1540 - Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
* 1680 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
* 1688 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
* 1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
* 1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
* 1765 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
* 1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
* 1790 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
* 1813 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
* 1820 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
* 1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
* 1834 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
* 1865 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
* 1872 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
* 1898 - Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
* 1910 - Henri Rousseau, French naïve art painter (b. 1844)
* 1921 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
* 1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
* 1934 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
* 1934 - Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
* 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
* 1948 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
* 1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
* 1964 - Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
* 1964 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
* 1965 - Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
* 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
* 1973 - Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
* 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
* 1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
* 1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
* 1991 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
* 1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
* 1994 - Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
* 1997 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (b. 1902)
* 1997 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
* 1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
* 1998 - Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
* 2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 1905)
* 2000 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
* 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
* 2001 - Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
* 2002 - Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
* 2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
* 2005 - Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
* 2006 - Bob Mathias, American athlete and Congressman (b. 1930)

[edit]

Holidays and observances

* Also see September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* RC Saints - Saint Sophia.
* Mauritius - Ganesh Chaturthi.
* Transnistria - Independence day, note Transnistria is not an internationally recognized independent state.
* Sedan Day (Sedantag) - traditional national German holiday (see Sedan, France) that commemorates Prussia's victory over France in 1870, making the German Empire a reality.
* Vietnam - National Day (independence from France, 1945).

[frosty]

You're just mad because you got birthday pwned. Accept your pwnage and quit your crying.

[Alias]

Dumbass, you're only supposed to paste what happened your birth. Not all time....


Or you can do what the original creator of this topic did? :clown:

[Mathx]

Events:

2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid kill 192 people.

:woot:

Births:
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher and entrepreneur
1971 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
:rockon:

Deaths:
1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia

Holidays:
United States - Johnny Appleseed Day


HOLY CRAP!

[Spatula]

306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the only Roman Emperor.
1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.1922 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government with the assistance of the Catholic Church; pope Pius XI declares that "Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence."
Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.


Oh, 306...I remember it like it was just yesterday..

[The Dude]

1946 - Ayn Rand starts writing Atlas Shrugged

Wow, that book influenced me in so many ways, its creepy she started writing it on my birthday all those years ago.

[Colin™]

Franz Ferdinand got a hot one in him.

[Spatula]

rofl wwi

[Phoenix]

1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt born.
1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1941 - Dick Cheney born.
1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1976 - Andy Milonakis born.
1990 - I was born. Despite rumors of the second coming of Christ, it turned out that I was just awesome. Not Jesus.

[Negativity]

306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.

Oh, 306...I remember it like it was just yesterday..

I as well, strangely.

[Delirious]

March 8th

Events
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1702 - Very unexpectedly, Anne Stuart, the sister of the childless Mary II, becomes Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland after the death of William III of Orange.
1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio had their skulls crushed with a mallet by Pennsylvanian militiamen.
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1884 - Susan B. Anthony testifies before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
1899 - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for Eintracht Frankfurt is founded
1906 - Moro Crater Massacre: U.S. troops occupying the Philippines massacre about 600 men, women and children taking refuge in a crater.
1911 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time.
1917 - The February Revolution breaks out in Russia (February 23 O.S.).
1917 - The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule in order to limit filibusters.
1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1942 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
1950 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
1952 - Antoine Pinay becomes Prime Minister of France.
1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
1965 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
1966 - Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam.
1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in the first of three epic bouts. Frazier defends the world Heavyweight title in a star-studded Madison Square Garden.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire.
1985 - A car-bombing in Beirut in front of the mosque kills 85 people and injures 175.
1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
2000 - A collision between two Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2005 - Large pro-Syrian rally in Riad Al Solh square in Beirut mainly organized by Hezbollah.
[edit]
Births
1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1545 - Yi Sun Sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
1560 - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
1659 - Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (d. 1738)
1712 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)
1726 - Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
1746 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
1748 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic
1799 - Simon Cameron, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)
1814 - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
1830 - João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)
1856 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
1856 - Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)
1859 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)
1865 - Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)
1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)
1879 - Otto Hahn, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
1902 - Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
1907 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
1909 - Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
1911 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1914 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
1916 - John Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer (d. 2004)
1918 - Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
1921 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
1922 - Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and mangaka
1925 - Warren Bennis, American educator and author
1927 - Dick Hyman, American pianist, conductor, and composer
1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
1930 - Bob Grim, baseball player (d. 1996)
1931 - John McPhee, American writer and professor
1931 - Neil Postman, American cultural critic
1936 - Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)
1937 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
1938 - Pete Dawkins, American football player
1939 - Jim Bouton, baseball player, author, and entrepreneur
1939 - Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater
1939 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor
1940 - Susan Clark, Canadian actress
1942 - Dick Allen, Baseball player
1943 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress
1944 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
1944 - Pepé Romero, Spanish guitarist
1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician
1945 - Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)
1945 - Anselm Kiefer, German painter
1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)
1947 - Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)
1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
1952 - George Felix Allen, U.S. Senator from Virginia
1954 - Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
1956 - John Kapelos, Canadian actor
1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist
1958 - Gary Numan, British singer
1959 - Aidan Quinn, American actor
1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress
1961 - Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Kathy Ireland, American model and actress
1963 - Lorelei, American fetish model, photographer
1965 - Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
1968 - Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1968 - Shawn Mullins, American musician
1969 - Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer
1970 - Jason Elam, American football player
1972 - Angie Hart, Australian pop singer
1972 - Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
1973 - Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model
1976 - Hines Ward, American football player
1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
1976 - Juan Encarnacion, baseball player
1976 - Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass)
1977 - James Van Der Beek, American actor
1977 - Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
1979 - Nick Zano, American Actor
1981 - Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
1983 - Charles Coventry, Zimbabwean cricketer
1991 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor
1992 - Charlie Ray, American actress
[edit]
Deaths
1126 - Queen Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
1144 - Pope Celestine II
1202 - King Sverre of Norway
1223 - Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
1702 - King William III of England (b. 1650)
1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
1844 - King Charles XIV of Sweden, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, French Napoleonic general (b. 1763)
1869 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813)
1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (b. 1820)
1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (b. 1803)
1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)
1941 - Sherwood Anderson, American author, (b. 1876)
1942 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
1971 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
1972 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899)
1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
1975 - George Stevens, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1904)
1976 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
1983 - William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
1985 - Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
1988 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)
1988 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
1993 - Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, baseball player (b. 1914)
2001 - Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2003 - Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
2005 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)

[Chris]

October 30th:

Events:

1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.

Why that little son of a bitch.

1966 - The Zodiac Killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, California

And he still hasn't been caught.

1974 - "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship

Float like a butterfly sting like a bee fuckers.

Births:

1735 - John Adams, American revolutionary leader and President of the United States
1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor
1965 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician


Deaths:

2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (murdered)

That sucked.


Well, that's pretty much the only births and deaths that anybody would recognize that I saw. And pretty much nothing cool happened on my birthday either, how gay.

[Greg]

Events:
1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1862 - American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Births:
1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist

[Negativity]

1990 - "Sexy" and all associated words entered the dictionary.

[Milly]

October 12
Events
1609 - "Three Blind Mice" published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft
1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
1823 - Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat.
2002 - Bali bombing: In Bali, terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, killing 202 and wounding over 300
Births
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor
1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer
1979 - Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory)

[HolyPaladin]

Events:
• 619 - Boniface V becomes Pope.
• 1783 - George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
• 1888 - Vincent Van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear, takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel.

Births:
• 1537 - King John III of Sweden
• 1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
• 1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia
• 1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
• 1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)

Deaths:
Nobody that leaps out at me.

[Shadow19]

1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain.

1654 - The Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War, is signed.

1792 - U.S. President George Washington vetoes a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This was the first time the presidential veto had been used in the United States.

1804 - The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown. The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.

1874 - Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, was opened in Birkenhead.

1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts production of balloon-tires.

1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.

1936 - Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: An F5 tornado slams into the north side of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 233. It is the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

1942 - Second World War: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.

1945 - Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the USSR allowing "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory."

1949 - Fireside Theater debuts on television.

1949 - A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, United States, kills 77 people resulting in nationwide fire code improvements.

1956 - Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.

1969 - Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations are held in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and other cities around the United States.

1973 - Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France.

1991 - ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, killing all 23 aboard.

1992 - Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C

1994 - Lead Singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain commits suicide. Found three days later (April 8th).

1996 - Rajwar Ghakal and eight members of her family were murdered in Vernon, BC by her estranged husband Mark Chahal. The Slayings are the second worse in Canadian History, next to the incident at École Polytechnique de Montréal.

1998 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.

1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

2002 - Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley dies of a heroin overdose.

2005 - Peter Jennings informs his viewers that he has Lung Cancer. This was his final broadcast.

2006 - The first case of H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in the UK after tests on a dead swan found in Cellardyke, Fife.

Births:
1856 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)
1935 - Peter Grant, British manager (Led Zeppelin, Bad Company) (d. 1995)
1965 - Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1965 - Cris Carpenter, baseball player
1968 - Paula Cole, American musician
1973 - Pharrell Williams, American producer (The Neptunes)
1976 - Ross Gload, professional baseball player
1976 - Ryan Drese, Baseball player
1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1980 - Matt Bonner, NBA player
1985 - Lastings Milledge, Baseball player
1989 - Alexandra Dehoff, Professional Ninja

Deaths:
1994 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (b. 1967)
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)

Other:
The last day of the tax year in the United Kingdom.

[AntiRealityHero]

Events
# 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
# 1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
# 1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
# 1989 (actual birthday) - At 1:23:45 the time and date was 123456789.

Holidays
# United States - National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

[dork]

Nothing happened on my birthday.

[Crosman]

December 3rd.

1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1917 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
1937 - The Dandy, the world's longest-running comic, is first published.
1976 - Attempted assassination of Bob Marley at 56 Hope Road. In the shooting, Bob Marley received two gunshot wounds; however his manager Don Taylor took a majority of the bullets. Both lived.
1979 - In Cincinnati, Ohio, eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before a Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum.


Births

1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, British singer
1960 - Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player (Redwings baby)
1968 - Brendan Fraser, American actor
1972 - Bucky Lasek, professional skateboarder
1973 - Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler (awesome)
1978 - Trina, rapper
1979 - Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer
# 2005 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway

Deaths

Alot I cant recall.

[venomv]

January 20th.....

1265 - In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the "Houses of Parliament".
1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
1920 - American Civil Liberties Union founded.
1929 - In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking film filmed outdoors, is released.
# 1937 - The coldest temperature in California is recorded by Boca station at -45° Fahrenheit. (lol)
# 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4.
1964 - Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.
1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

Births: (just the names I recognize)
1855 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1930 - Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., astronaut
1960 - Will Wright, American computer game designer
1975 - David Eckstein, baseball player
1986 - OnBake Platinum, Forum Crawler

Deaths:
1745 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697)
1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1993 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929)

Holidays and Observances:
* Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
o Sebastian
o Saint Fabian
o Euthymus
o Desiderius
o Meinrad
o Epiphanius of Pavia
* The Eve of St. Agnes.
* Presidential Inauguration Day in the United States.
* Astrology: First day of sun sign Aquarius.

[bobo_ess]

March 21st

Events
717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 - With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
1801 - The Battle of Alexandria was fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 - Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law. (Yay for guy i guess, bad for girls)
1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1857 - Earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1844 - The Baha'i calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baha'i calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baha'i Faith as the Baha'i New Year or Naw-Ruz.
1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1919 - The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee.
1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 - Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
1940 - Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France.
1943 - Masacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio
1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1964 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" (I'm not old enough).
1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 - The Israeli Defense Forces attack the village of Karameh in Jordan.
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
1970 - Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
1970 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dana wins the fifteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "All Kinds of Everything".
1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 - On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
1985 - Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1989 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations that tie baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2002 - In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2004 - In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
2005 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
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Births
1521 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)
1527 - Hermann Finck, German composer (d. 1558)
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
1763 - Jean Paul, German writer (d. 1825)
1768 - Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830)
1806 - Benito Juárez, Mexican statesman and national hero (d. 1872)
1839 - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881)
1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theater producer (d. 1932)
1876 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
1880 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1895 - Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (d. 1955)
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958)
1902 - Son House, American musician (d. 1988)
1904 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1906 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1913 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991)
1914 - Paul Tortelier, French cellist (d. 1990)
1920 - Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975)
1921 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
1922 - Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)
1923 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga
1923 - Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
1925 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
1927 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician
1932 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor
1930 - James Coco, American actor (d. 1987)
1934 - Al Freeman, Jr., American actor
1935 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (d. 2004)
1936 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
1936 - Mike Westbrook, British Jazz Composer, Bandleader and Pianist
1940 - Solomon Burke, American singer
1943 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician, artist, actor, writer, Bonzo Dog Band (d. 1995)
1943 - István Gyulai, Hungarian General Secretary of the IAAF (d. 2006)
1945 - Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 - Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
1949 - Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic
1949 - Eddie Money, American musician
1950 - Roger Hodgson, musician, former member from Supertramp
1956 - Ingrid Kristiansen, Norwegian runner
1958 - Sabrina Le Beauf, American actress
1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor
1959 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
1960 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1994)
1961 - Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
1961 - Shawn Lane, American guitar virtuoso
1962 - Mark Waid, American comic book writer
1962 - Matthew Broderick, American actor
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, actress, talk show host, and publisher
1963 - Ronald Koeman, Dutch footballer and football manager
1963 - Shawon Dunston, baseball player
1964 - Jesper Skibby, Danish professional cyclist
1967 - Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish musician (Ace of Base)
1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy)
1968 - DJ Premier, Hip Hop Producer (Preemo)
1972 - Chris Candido, Professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1975 - Justin Pierce, British actor (d. 2000)
1975 - Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player
1975 - Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player, playing for San Antonio Spurs
1976 - Liza Harper, French actress
1978 - Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
1978 - Cristian Guzmán, Baseball player
1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian current international footballer
1980 - Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41)
1982 - Aaron Hill, American baseball player
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Deaths
1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
1556 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake) (b. 1489)
1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
1656 - James Ussher, Irish Catholic archbishop (b. 1581)
1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
1729 - John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
1801 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
1843 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
1910 - Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
1934 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
1936 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
1958 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
1975 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
1985 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, American musician (b. 1951)
1987 - Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
1991 - Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer (b. 1909)
1994 - Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
1994 - Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)
1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
2001 - Chung Ju-young, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2001 - Norma Macmillan, voice actress (b. 1921)
2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
2002 - Amanda Dowler, Missing British schoolgirl (b. 1988)
2005 - Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)
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Holidays and observances
Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz): (also celebrated in many other countries of Asia) Iranian calendar.
Harmony Day in Australia.
Earth Day.
China: Chunfen.
Egypt: Mother's Day
Japan: Vernal Equinox Day (public holiday).
Namibia: Independence Day.
Benito Juárez Day, a Fiesta Patria in Mexico.
South Africa: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Traditional date of vernal equinox, used for reckoning Easter. The real equinox usually occurs one day earlier.
Astrology: First day of star sign Aries.
The third day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
New Year of the Bahá'í Calendar.
Bahá'í Faith - End of the 19-day sunrise-to-sunset.fast.
Ostara - Neopagan festival of Ostara.
World Poetry Day - by UNESCO.
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - by United Nations. (Yea Boy!i!)
World Down Syndrome Day (merely a coincidence)
Lebanon: Mother's Day

[Jesus]

1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
1965 - Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.
1978 - Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an Early Day Motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.
1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.

Births:

1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
1931 - William Shatner, Canadian actor
1943 - Keith Relf, British musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)

Deaths:

No-one who mattered

Holidays:

World Water Day

[Phoenix]

Don't just copy the whole page, no one wants to read that. Just post the ones that people care about.

[Gummy]

Meh, I'll just post one.

1988
April 12 - Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.

[Crosman]

Bruce Lee died on my brothers birthday. 0_0