Report, edit, etc...Posted by Killer_Kow(MM) on 2007-01-24 at 11:19:20
Looking through events on my birthday (Jan. 29) on wikipedia, I found some interesting things.
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1863 - Bear River Massacre.
1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
1959 - Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based upon a fairy tale, is released.
1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
1979 - Brenda Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
2004 - A whale explodes (ROFL) in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2006 - ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
Births:
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, and publisher (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
Deaths:
1119 - Pope Gelasius II
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar
1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
What are some interesting events of your own birthday?
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1863 - Bear River Massacre.
1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
1959 - Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by Walt Disney based upon a fairy tale, is released.
1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
1979 - Brenda Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
2004 - A whale explodes (ROFL) in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2006 - ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
Births:
1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, and publisher (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
Deaths:
1119 - Pope Gelasius II
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar
1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
What are some interesting events of your own birthday?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CheatEnabled on 2007-01-24 at 11:26:09
#324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
# 987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
# 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
# 1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
# 1754 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
# 1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
# 1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
# 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
# 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
# 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria.
# 1819 - The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.
# 1839 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
# 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
# 1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands).
# 1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
# 1852 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
# 1863 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
# 1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
# 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
# 1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
# 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
# 1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Army in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
# 1928 - First color television broadcast in London.
# 1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
# 1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
# 1952 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
# 1962 - The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
# 1970 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
# 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.
# 1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
# 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
# 1985 - Back to the Future debuts in theaters all over the U.S.
# 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
# 1988 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
# 2001 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
# 2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
# 2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
# 2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies by Earth's atmosphere.
That's a lot of stuff.
# 987 - Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
# 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
# 1608 - Quebec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
# 1754 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
# 1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
# 1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
# 1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
# 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
# 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria.
# 1819 - The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.
# 1839 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
# 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
# 1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands).
# 1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
# 1852 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
# 1863 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
# 1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
# 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
# 1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
# 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
# 1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Army in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
# 1928 - First color television broadcast in London.
# 1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph).
# 1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
# 1952 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
# 1962 - The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
# 1970 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
# 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.
# 1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
# 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
# 1985 - Back to the Future debuts in theaters all over the U.S.
# 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
# 1988 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
# 2001 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
# 2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
# 2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
# 2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies by Earth's atmosphere.
That's a lot of stuff.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)Blu on 2007-01-24 at 11:26:54
(december 19)
324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.
1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1828 - Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1835 - The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.
1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.
1910 - Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States.
1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .
1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
1920 - King Constantine I restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebescite.
1941 - Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army
1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
1963 - Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom, to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.
1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria.
1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
1972 - Project Apollo: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller is sworn in as the 41st Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford.
1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1988 - Lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1997 - The film Titanic is released.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 - The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.
2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl in Mongolia.
2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2006 - The first steel supports were put in place for the Freedom Tower, successor of the World Trade Center.
(Births)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1778 - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
1813 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
1817 - James Archer, Confederate general (d. 1904)
(Deaths)
401 - Pope Anastasius I
1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.
1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1828 - Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1835 - The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.
1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.
1910 - Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States.
1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .
1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
1920 - King Constantine I restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebescite.
1941 - Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army
1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
1963 - Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom, to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.
1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria.
1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
1972 - Project Apollo: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller is sworn in as the 41st Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford.
1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1988 - Lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1997 - The film Titanic is released.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 - The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.
2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl in Mongolia.
2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2006 - The first steel supports were put in place for the Freedom Tower, successor of the World Trade Center.
(Births)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1778 - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)
1813 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
1817 - James Archer, Confederate general (d. 1904)
(Deaths)
401 - Pope Anastasius I
1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)
1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Minority on 2007-01-24 at 11:44:41
January 24:
1337 - Whale explodes, religion started
1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
Births:
1965 - Mike Awesome, American wrestler
1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian (
)
1983 - Scott Speed, American racecar driver
1337 - Whale explodes, religion started
1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
Births:
1965 - Mike Awesome, American wrestler
1966 - Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian (
)1983 - Scott Speed, American racecar driver
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Killer_Kow(MM) on 2007-01-24 at 11:58:12
Don't copy all of it, just things that seem interesting, like a whale exploding.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Pyro-Fire on 2007-01-24 at 12:01:32
Events
* 619 - Boniface V becomes Pope.
* 1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
* 1783 - George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
* 1823 - The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel.
* 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.
* 1913 - The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
* 1916 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
* 1921 - Visva-Bharati University inaugurated.
* 1936 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1937 - First flight of the Vickers wellington bomber.
* 1941 - World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupied Wake Island.
* 1947 - The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
* 1948 - Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
* 1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1958 - Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
* 1970 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world.
* 1972 - Pro Football Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris makes the Immaculate Reception, perhaps the most famous play in American football history.
* 1972 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000.
* 1972 - The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannabalism.
* 1979 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
* 1982 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
* 1986 - Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California and becomes the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world.
* 1990 - History of Slovenia: 88% of Slovenia's population vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum.
* 2004 - Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.
* 2005 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
* 2005 - Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adre, which left about 100 people dead.
* 2006 - Texas Tech University basketball head coach Bob Knight ties Dean Smith for the most Division-1 wins as a head coach.
Births
* c. 245- Zenobia, the queen of Palmyra (d. ?)
* 1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
* 1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
* 1582 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (d. 1663)
* 1597 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
* 1613 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
* 1621 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
* 1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
* 1689 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
* 1732 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
* 1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
* 1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
* 1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
* 1790 - Jean François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
* 1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
* 1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1844)
* 1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
* 1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
* 1843 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
* 1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
* 1867 - Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon(d. 1919)
* 1878 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
* 1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
* 1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
* 1902 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
* 1907 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
* 1908 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born, Canadian portrait photographer (d. 2002)
* 1911 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
* 1911 - James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
* 1918 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
* 1921 - Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
* 1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
* 1923 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
* 1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
* 1923 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral (d. 2005)
* 1926 - Robert Bly, American poet
* 1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
* 1931 - Ronnie Schell, American actor
* 1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
* 1935 - Paul Hornung, American football player
* 1935 - Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
* 1936 - Frederic Forrest, American actor
* 1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
* 1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, American musician
* 1940 - Robert Labine, former mayor of old city of Gatineau, Quebec
* 1940 - Eugene Record, American singer (The Chi-Lites) (d. 2005)
* 1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
* 1942 - John Peterman, American fashion designer
* 1943 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
* 1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor
* 1943 - Ron Allen, Baseball player
* 1943 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
* 1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
* 1944 - Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
* 1945 - Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
* 1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
* 1946 - Susan Lucci, American actress
* 1948 - Jack Ham, American football player
* 1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
* 1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
* 1951 - Anthony Phillips, British guitarist (Genesis)
* 1952 - William Kristol, American political commentator
* 1956 - Dave Murray, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
* 1956 - Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
* 1957 - Dan Bigras, Quebec rock singer
* 1958 - Victoria Williams, American singer
* 1958 - Joan Severance, American actress
* 1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
* 1962 - Keiji Muto, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1963 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
* 1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
* 1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)
* 1968 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model, songwriter and singer
* 1969 - Martha Byrne, American actress
* 1970 - Yvonne Godfrey, elderly lover
* 1970 - Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater
* 1970 - Raymont Harris, American football player
* 1971 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor
* 1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
* 1974 - Agustín Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
* 1976 - Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
* 1976 - Brad Lidge, American baseball player
* 1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
* 1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
* 1978 - Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
* 1978 - Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
* 1978 - Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
* 1978 - Jodie Marsh, British adult model
* 1979 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
* 1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
* 1983 - Michael Chopra, English footballer
* 1985 - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
* 1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
* [Removed By Me] - MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Deaths
* 910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
* 913 - Conrad of Franconia
* 1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
* 1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
* 1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
* 1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (b. 1531)
* 1588 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550)
* 1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
* 1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
* 1652 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)
* 1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
* 1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
* 1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
* 1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
* 1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
* 1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (b. 1712)
* 1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
* 1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
* 1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
* 1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
* 1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
* 1902 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
* 1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
* 1931 - Wilson Bentley, Discovered that no two snowflake are the same
* 1939 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)
* 1946 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
* 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (b. 1884)
* 1948 - Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (b. 1883)
* 1953 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (b. 1899)
* 1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
* 1970 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
* 1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888)
* 1973 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (b. 1892)
* 1973 - Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (b. 1901)
* 1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
* 1982 - Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1920)
* 1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
* 1992 - Vincent Fourcade, French American interior designer and socialite (b. 1934)
* 1992 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950)
* 1994 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
* 2000 - Noor Jehan, Mallika-e-Tarranum (Queen of Melody) (b. 1926)
* 2000 - Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
* 2000 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
* 2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
* 2005 - Norman D. Vaughan, polar explorer and dogsled driver (b. 1905)
* 2005 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1914)
* 2006 - Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
Holidays and observances
* Roman festivals - Larentalia, a festival in honour of Larenta
* R.C. Saints - O Emmanuel, John Cantius ; Thorlac Thorhallsson, patron saint of Iceland
* Japan - The Emperor's Birthday - Birthday of Akihito, the current Emperor of Japan
* Jämtland – Sjursmäss ("Sigurd's Mass"), a local holiday
* Ancient Latvia - Ziemassvētki held
* Sweden - Birthday of Queen Silvia, an official flag day
* Oaxaca - Night of the Radishes
* Secular humanism (American) - HumanLight observed
* Festivus - A holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld. A Festivus For The Rest Of Us!
HAPPY FESTIVUS!
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* 619 - Boniface V becomes Pope.
* 1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
* 1783 - George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
* 1823 - The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel.
* 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.
* 1913 - The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.
* 1916 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
* 1921 - Visva-Bharati University inaugurated.
* 1936 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1937 - First flight of the Vickers wellington bomber.
* 1941 - World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupied Wake Island.
* 1947 - The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
* 1948 - Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
* 1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1958 - Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
* 1970 - The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world.
* 1972 - Pro Football Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris makes the Immaculate Reception, perhaps the most famous play in American football history.
* 1972 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua is struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake, killing more than 10,000.
* 1972 - The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannabalism.
* 1979 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
* 1982 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
* 1986 - Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California and becomes the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world.
* 1990 - History of Slovenia: 88% of Slovenia's population vote for independence from Yugoslavia in a referendum.
* 2004 - Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.
* 2005 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
* 2005 - Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adre, which left about 100 people dead.
* 2006 - Texas Tech University basketball head coach Bob Knight ties Dean Smith for the most Division-1 wins as a head coach.
Births
* c. 245- Zenobia, the queen of Palmyra (d. ?)
* 1513 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)
* 1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592)
* 1582 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (d. 1663)
* 1597 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
* 1613 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (d. 1676)
* 1621 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
* 1621 - Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)
* 1689 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
* 1732 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
* 1743 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
* 1750 - King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
* 1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (d. 1825)
* 1790 - Jean François Champollion, French Egyptologist (d. 1832)
* 1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
* 1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., American founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1844)
* 1819 - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
* 1822 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
* 1843 - Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (d. 1924)
* 1864 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (d. 1890)
* 1867 - Madam C.J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon(d. 1919)
* 1878 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
* 1885 - Pierre Brissaud, French artist (d. 1964)
* 1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
* 1902 - Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990)
* 1907 - Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)
* 1908 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born, Canadian portrait photographer (d. 2002)
* 1911 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
* 1911 - James Gregory, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
* 1918 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
* 1921 - Guy Beaulne, French Canadian actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
* 1922 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
* 1923 - Günther Schifter, Austrian music journalist
* 1923 - Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
* 1923 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral (d. 2005)
* 1926 - Robert Bly, American poet
* 1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
* 1931 - Ronnie Schell, American actor
* 1933 - Akihito, Emperor of Japan
* 1935 - Paul Hornung, American football player
* 1935 - Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
* 1936 - Frederic Forrest, American actor
* 1938 - Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
* 1940 - Jorma Kaukonen, American musician
* 1940 - Robert Labine, former mayor of old city of Gatineau, Quebec
* 1940 - Eugene Record, American singer (The Chi-Lites) (d. 2005)
* 1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
* 1942 - John Peterman, American fashion designer
* 1943 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
* 1943 - Harry Shearer, American actor
* 1943 - Ron Allen, Baseball player
* 1943 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
* 1943 - Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden
* 1944 - Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
* 1945 - Ron Bushy, American drummer (Iron Butterfly)
* 1946 - Edita Gruberova, Slovak operatic soprano
* 1946 - Susan Lucci, American actress
* 1948 - Jack Ham, American football player
* 1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
* 1950 - Michael C. Burgess, American politician
* 1951 - Anthony Phillips, British guitarist (Genesis)
* 1952 - William Kristol, American political commentator
* 1956 - Dave Murray, English guitarist (Iron Maiden)
* 1956 - Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001)
* 1957 - Dan Bigras, Quebec rock singer
* 1958 - Victoria Williams, American singer
* 1958 - Joan Severance, American actress
* 1961 - Carol Smillie, British television personality
* 1962 - Keiji Muto, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1963 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
* 1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
* 1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam)
* 1968 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model, songwriter and singer
* 1969 - Martha Byrne, American actress
* 1970 - Yvonne Godfrey, elderly lover
* 1970 - Catriona LeMay Doan, Canadian speed skater
* 1970 - Raymont Harris, American football player
* 1971 - Corey Haim, Canadian actor
* 1971 - Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite
* 1974 - Agustín Delgado, Ecuadorian footballer
* 1975 - Sky Lopez, American actress
* 1976 - Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
* 1976 - Brad Lidge, American baseball player
* 1977 - Alge Crumpler, American football player
* 1978 - Andra Davis, American football player
* 1978 - Esthero, Canadian musician and singer
* 1978 - Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
* 1978 - Estella Warren, Canadian model and actress
* 1978 - Jodie Marsh, British adult model
* 1979 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
* 1981 - Beth, Spanish singer
* 1983 - Michael Chopra, English footballer
* 1985 - Harry Judd, British drummer (McFly)
* 1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress, model, and singer
* [Removed By Me] - MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Deaths
* 910 - Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
* 913 - Conrad of Franconia
* 1230 - Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England
* 1556 - Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)
* 1568 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England
* 1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (b. 1531)
* 1588 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (b. 1550)
* 1631 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
* 1646 - François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)
* 1652 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1585)
* 1675 - Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)
* 1722 - Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)
* 1771 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
* 1761 - Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy
* 1779 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)
* 1789 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (b. 1712)
* 1793 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
* 1795 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
* 1805 - Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)
* 1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
* 1846 - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)
* 1902 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1821)
* 1912 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
* 1931 - Wilson Bentley, Discovered that no two snowflake are the same
* 1939 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)
* 1946 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (b. 1873)
* 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (b. 1884)
* 1948 - Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (b. 1883)
* 1953 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (b. 1899)
* 1954 - René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897)
* 1970 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886)
* 1972 - Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer (b. 1888)
* 1973 - Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder (b. 1892)
* 1973 - Irna Phillips, American television writer, director, and producer (b. 1901)
* 1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
* 1982 - Jack Webb, American actor, producer, and director (b. 1920)
* 1983 - Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
* 1992 - Vincent Fourcade, French American interior designer and socialite (b. 1934)
* 1992 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950)
* 1994 - Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
* 2000 - Noor Jehan, Mallika-e-Tarranum (Queen of Melody) (b. 1926)
* 2000 - Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
* 2000 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
* 2004 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
* 2005 - Norman D. Vaughan, polar explorer and dogsled driver (b. 1905)
* 2005 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1914)
* 2006 - Charlie Drake, English comedian (b. 1925)
Holidays and observances
* Roman festivals - Larentalia, a festival in honour of Larenta
* R.C. Saints - O Emmanuel, John Cantius ; Thorlac Thorhallsson, patron saint of Iceland
* Japan - The Emperor's Birthday - Birthday of Akihito, the current Emperor of Japan
* Jämtland – Sjursmäss ("Sigurd's Mass"), a local holiday
* Ancient Latvia - Ziemassvētki held
* Sweden - Birthday of Queen Silvia, an official flag day
* Oaxaca - Night of the Radishes
* Secular humanism (American) - HumanLight observed
* Festivus - A holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld. A Festivus For The Rest Of Us!
HAPPY FESTIVUS!
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1014 - Byzantine-Bulgar Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
1030 - Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad - King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1830 - Abdication of Charles X of France.
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1899 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
1920 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1932 - Great Depression: In Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1958 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1959 - First congressional elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1966 - Musician Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph motorcycle in upstate New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically.
1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1967 - At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
1987 - British PM Margaret Thatcher and French president François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987 - Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issue.
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
2004 - U.S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris, a possible tenth planet.
[edit] Births
1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1605 - Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1763 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
1869 - Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian minister and politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
1878 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
1892 - William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist,pioneer aviator (d. 1993)
1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian.
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitar virtuoso (d. 1942)
1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1918 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Elizabeth Short, Victim in the Black Dahlia murder case (d. 1947)
1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
1925 - Ted Lindsay, professional ice hockey player
1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
1932 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
1936 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
1941 - David Warner, Canadian actor
1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1951 - Dan Driessen, baseball player
1953 - Ken Burns, American producer and director
1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician(Rush)
1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1957 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1955 - Dave Stevens, Illustrator
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 - Dave LaPoint, baseball player
1962 - Scott Steiner, US professional wrestler
1963 - Graham Poll, English referee
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1965 - Luis Alicea, gay porno star
1966 - Martina McBride, American singer
1969 - Adele Stevens, English model and erotic actress
1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor
1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1976 - Josh Radnor, American actor
1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver
1981 - Benjamin Mark Gregson, Australian legend
1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
1988 - Marc Bowser, American Politician
[edit] Deaths
238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor
238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor
1030 - Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
1099 - Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
1108 - Philip I of France (b. 1052)
1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1644 - Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral
1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
1857 - Thomas Dick, a Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774).
1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
1913 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1951 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (b. 1883)
1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1964 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1975 - James Blish, American writer (b. 1921)
1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1979 - Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1981 - Robert Moses, New York public works official (b. 1888)
1982 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
1983 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
1983 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1983 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
1984 - Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910)
1994 - Megan Kanka, rape victim, basis of Megan's Law (b. 1986)
1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1996 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choregrapher (b. 1918)
2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951)
2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1923)
I wonder who's actually gonna read all that.
1030 - Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad - King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1830 - Abdication of Charles X of France.
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1899 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
1920 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1932 - Great Depression: In Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1958 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1959 - First congressional elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1966 - Musician Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph motorcycle in upstate New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically.
1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1967 - At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
1987 - British PM Margaret Thatcher and French president François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987 - Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issue.
1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
2004 - U.S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris, a possible tenth planet.
[edit] Births
1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1605 - Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1763 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
1869 - Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian minister and politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
1878 - Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
1892 - William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist,pioneer aviator (d. 1993)
1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 - Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian.
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitar virtuoso (d. 1942)
1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1918 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968)
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Elizabeth Short, Victim in the Black Dahlia murder case (d. 1947)
1925 - Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
1925 - Ted Lindsay, professional ice hockey player
1927 - Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 - Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
1932 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1935 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
1936 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
1941 - David Warner, Canadian actor
1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1951 - Dan Driessen, baseball player
1953 - Ken Burns, American producer and director
1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician(Rush)
1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1957 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1955 - Dave Stevens, Illustrator
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 - Dave LaPoint, baseball player
1962 - Scott Steiner, US professional wrestler
1963 - Graham Poll, English referee
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1965 - Luis Alicea, gay porno star
1966 - Martina McBride, American singer
1969 - Adele Stevens, English model and erotic actress
1972 - Wil Wheaton, American actor
1973 - Stephen Dorff, American actor
1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1976 - Josh Radnor, American actor
1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver
1981 - Benjamin Mark Gregson, Australian legend
1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
1988 - Marc Bowser, American Politician
[edit] Deaths
238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor
238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor
1030 - Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
1099 - Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
1108 - Philip I of France (b. 1052)
1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1644 - Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral
1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
1857 - Thomas Dick, a Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774).
1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
1913 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1951 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (b. 1883)
1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1964 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1975 - James Blish, American writer (b. 1921)
1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1979 - Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1981 - Robert Moses, New York public works official (b. 1888)
1982 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
1982 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
1983 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
1983 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1983 - David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
1984 - Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910)
1994 - Megan Kanka, rape victim, basis of Megan's Law (b. 1986)
1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1996 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choregrapher (b. 1918)
2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951)
2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1923)
I wonder who's actually gonna read all that.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CheatEnabled on 2007-01-24 at 12:10:00
People should stop posting all deaths and births, that's no good.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Killer_Kow(MM) on 2007-01-24 at 12:17:35
QUOTE(Killer_Kow(MM) @ Jan 24 2007, 12:58 PM)
Don't copy all of it, just things that seem interesting, like a whale exploding.
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Report, edit, etc...Posted by EcHo on 2007-01-24 at 12:30:44
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June 19 2008 - The world ends
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June 19 2007 - Aids is cured
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June 19 2006 - EcHo was born
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Nintendo_Confed on 2007-01-24 at 12:53:56
August 17th
1427 - First band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1862 - Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1863 - American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville - Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1877 - After he is fatally wounded, Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill becomes the first person killed by Billy the Kid.
1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Quisqueyanos valientes.
1914 - World War I: Battle of Stalluponen - The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1915 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1933 - New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig played his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking Everett Scott's record. He would continue the streak until 1939.
1942 - U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
1943 - World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
1943 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1943 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1945 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1960 - Gabon gains independence from France.
1962 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. He thus became the first victim of the wall.
1963 - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
1969 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
1970 - Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1978 - Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1979 - Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156
1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1991 - Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre.
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
Births
1473 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
1562 - Hans Leo Hassler (baptised), German composer (d. 1612)
1578 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1629 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1768 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1866 - Julia Marlowe, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950)
1873 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican leader, Rastafari prophet (d. 1940)
1887 - Emperor Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1890 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)
1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player (d. 1995)
1913 - W. Mark Felt, FBI associate director and Watergate informant
1913 - Rudy York, baseball player (d. 1970)
1914 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
1920 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
1926 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China
1929 - Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1930 - Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993)
1930 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1938 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1943 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues guitarist (d. 2002)
1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
1951 - Alan Minter, boxer
1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Formula One driver
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1953 - Judith Regan, American book publisher
1954 - Eric Johnson, guitarist
1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir
1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1957 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer
1958 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
1960 - Sean Penn, American actor, director
1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses
1964 - Colin James, blues musician
1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966 - William E. Dudley, American poet
1968 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
1970 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
1970 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
1970 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1971 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer (Nightwish)
1977 - William Gallas, French footballer
1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Akisha Samia, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1982 - Melissa Anderson, independent professional wrestler
1985 - Reda Wahid, Lebanese footballer
1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
Deaths
1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (b. 1799)
1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (b. 1827)
1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1920 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
1954 - Billy Murray, recording artist (b. 1877)
1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
1979 - Vivian Vance, actress (b. 1909)
1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1992 - Al Parker, actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005 - John Bahcall, astrophysicist (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
Independence Day – observance in Indonesia.
Rastafari movement - celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey.
Roman Empire - Portunalia in honor of Portunes.
Día del Libertador - observed in Argentina, on the day when José de San Martín died. (lol i live in argentina)
Slovenia: Slovenians in Prekmurje Incorporated into the Mother Nation Day
1427 - First band of Gypsies visits Paris, according to an account of the citizen of Paris.
1807 - Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1862 - Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1863 - American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville - Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1877 - After he is fatally wounded, Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill becomes the first person killed by Billy the Kid.
1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Quisqueyanos valientes.
1914 - World War I: Battle of Stalluponen - The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1915 - Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia.
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1933 - New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig played his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking Everett Scott's record. He would continue the streak until 1939.
1942 - U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
1943 - World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission.
1943 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1943 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1945 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence.
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1960 - Gabon gains independence from France.
1962 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. He thus became the first victim of the wall.
1963 - A ferry linking remote islands off the coast of Okinawa sinks, killing 112.
1969 - Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage.
1970 - Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1978 - Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1979 - Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners collide in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 156
1980 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1991 - Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre.
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
1999 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004 - MD5 collision found by Chinese researchers.
2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
Births
1473 - Richard, Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?)
1562 - Hans Leo Hassler (baptised), German composer (d. 1612)
1578 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
1601 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
1629 - King John III of Poland (d. 1696)
1768 - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French general (d. 1800)
1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836)
1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist (d. 1897)
1844 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (d. 1913)
1863 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924)
1866 - Julia Marlowe, Shakespearean actress (d. 1950)
1873 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist (d. 1946)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer (d. 1974)
1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican leader, Rastafari prophet (d. 1940)
1887 - Emperor Charles I of Austria (d. 1922)
1890 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1946)
1890 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1893 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
1896 - Leslie Groves, American military engineer (d. 1970)
1904 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
1911 - Mikhail Botvinnik, chess player (d. 1995)
1913 - W. Mark Felt, FBI associate director and Watergate informant
1913 - Rudy York, baseball player (d. 1970)
1914 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1988)
1920 - Maureen O'Hara, actress
1926 - Jiang Zemin, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China
1929 - Francis Gary Powers, U-2 pilot (d. 1977)
1930 - Glenn Corbett, actor (d. 1993)
1930 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
1933 - Gene Kranz, NASA flight director
1935 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1938 - Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian Muslim cleric
1939 - Luther Allison, American blues guitarist
1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
1943 - Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues guitarist (d. 2002)
1948 - Rod MacDonald, American musician
1951 - Alan Minter, boxer
1952 - Nelson Piquet, Brazilian Formula One driver
1952 - Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
1953 - Judith Regan, American book publisher
1954 - Eric Johnson, guitarist
1955 - Richard Hilton, American heir
1956 - Gail Berman, president of Paramount Pictures
1957 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, American singer
1958 - Kirk Stevens, Canadian snooker player
1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
1960 - Sean Penn, American actor, director
1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses
1964 - Colin James, blues musician
1966 - Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
1966 - William E. Dudley, American poet
1968 - Ed McCaffrey, American football player
1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and singer
1970 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
1970 - Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
1970 - Oyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer
1971 - Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1971 - Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer
1977 - Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer (Nightwish)
1977 - William Gallas, French footballer
1979 - Antwaan Randle El, American football player
1980 - Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer
1980 - Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Akisha Samia, Hawaiian professional wrestler
1982 - Melissa Anderson, independent professional wrestler
1985 - Reda Wahid, Lebanese footballer
1986 - Rudy Gay, American basketball player
1986 - Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player
1990 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
Deaths
1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. 1130)
1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243)
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman (b. 1462)
1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral (b. 1599)
1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)
1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar (b. 1654)
1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (b. 1668)
1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703)
1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut (b. 1710)
1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1712)
1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader (b. 1802)
1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general (b. 1778)
1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (b. 1799)
1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist (b. 1827)
1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (b. 1810)
1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer (b. 1842)
1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
1920 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (b. 1891)
1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin (b. 1848)
1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
1954 - Billy Murray, recording artist (b. 1877)
1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944)
1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
1979 - Vivian Vance, actress (b. 1909)
1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy (b. 1894)
1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1914)
1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (b. 1918)
1992 - Al Parker, actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (b. 1918)
2005 - John Bahcall, astrophysicist (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances
Independence Day – observance in Indonesia.
Rastafari movement - celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey.
Roman Empire - Portunalia in honor of Portunes.
Día del Libertador - observed in Argentina, on the day when José de San Martín died. (lol i live in argentina)
Slovenia: Slovenians in Prekmurje Incorporated into the Mother Nation Day
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September 1 Events:
* 5509 BC - Epoch of the late Byzantine calendar.
* 462 - possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
* 1355 - Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
* 1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England.
* 1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause.
* 1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
* 1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
* 1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
* 1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
* 1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
* 1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
* 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
* 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
* 1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
* 1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
* 1894 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
* 1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
* 1902 - A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
* 1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
* 1906 - the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
* 1910 - Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, from Brazil, is founded.
* 1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
* 1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
* 1917 - Russia is officially proclaimed as a republic.
* 1923 - The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.
* 1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
German soldiers destroying Polish border checkpoint in Sopot on September 1939. Invasion of Poland and World War II in Europe begins.
German soldiers destroying Polish border checkpoint in Sopot on September 1939. Invasion of Poland and World War II in Europe begins.
* 1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Invasion of Poland.)
* 1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
* 1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
* 1939 - Switzerland mobilises its forces and parliament elects Henri Guisan as head of army (a thing that can only happen during war or during mobilisation)
* 1943 - World War II: Italy accepts armistice terms.
* 1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
* 1954 - Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10-day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas: The Junction Boys.
* 1960 - Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
* 1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
* 1969 - A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees.
* 1970 - Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerillas, who attacked his motorcade.
* 1971 - The Senate rejects the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, setting a deadline of December 31, 1971, for complete withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam by a vote of 55-39.
* 1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
* 1974 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
* 1975 - The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.
* 1979 - The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
* 1980 - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
* 1980 - Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
* 1982 - Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
* 1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
* 1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
* 1988 - YTV was launched.
* 1990 - The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
* 1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
* 1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
* 2001 - Almost every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000 - the largest change in North America.
* 2001 - The first orca calf (later named Nakai) is born through artificial insemination, to parents Kasatka and Tillikum.
* 2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
* 2005 - Sony released the PlayStation Portable in Europe and Australia.
Births:
* 1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
* 1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
* 1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
* 1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
* 1653 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
* 1711 - William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
* 1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
* 1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
* 1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
* 1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
* 1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
* 1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
* 1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
* 1873 - Dinko Šimunović, Croatian writer and poet (d. 1933)
* 1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
* 1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
* 1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
* 1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
* 1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
* 1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
* 1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
* 1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
* 1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
* 1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
* 1906 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
* 1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
* 1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
* 1909 - E. Herbert Norman - Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
* 1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
* 1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
* 1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 2007)
* 1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
* 1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
* 1923 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
* 1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
* 1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
* 1926 - Gene Colan, American comic book artist
* 1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
* 1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
* 1933 - Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
* 1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
* 1937 - Ron O'Neal, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
* 1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
* 1942 - C. J. Cherryh, American writer
* 1943 - Don Stroud, American actor
* 1944 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
* 1945 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
* 1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
* 1946 - Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea
* 1947 - Al Green, American politician
* 1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
* 1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
* 1950 - Dr. Phil, American talk show host
* 1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician
* 1952 - Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
* 1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
* 1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
* 1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
* 1959 - Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
* 1961 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
* 1962 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
* 1962 - Tony Cascarino, English footballer
* 1964 - Brian Bellows, Canadian hockey player
* 1964 - Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
* 1966 - Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
* 1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
* 1969 - Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
* 1970 - Hwang Jeong-min, South Korean actor
* 1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
* 1971 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
* 1971 - Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
* 1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
* 1973 - Zach Thomas, American football player
* 1974 - Jason Taylor, American football player
* 1974 - Jhonen Vasquez, comic book artist
* 1975 - Scott Speedman, American actor
* 1975 - Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer (Rogue Traders)
* 1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
* 1976 - Jada Fire, American actress
* 1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
* 1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
* 1977 - Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
* 1977 - Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
* 1978 - Max Vieri, Australian footballer
* 1979 - James O'Connor, Irish footballer
* 1980 - Chris Riggott, English footballer
* 1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
* 1982 - Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
* 1983 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
* 1984 - Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
* 1985 - Camile Velasco, American singer
* 1987 - Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
* 1989 - Bill Kaulitz, German singer (Tokio Hotel)
* 1989 - Tom Kaulitz, German guitarist (Tokio Hotel)
* 1994 - Bianca Ryan, American singer
Deaths:
* 921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
* 1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders
* 1159 - Pope Adrian IV
* 1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
* 1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
* 1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
* 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
* 1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
* 1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
* 1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
* 1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
* 1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
* 1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
* 1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
* 1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
* 1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief
* 1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
* 1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
* 1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
* 1970 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
* 1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
* 1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
* 1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
* 1983 - Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
* 1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
* 1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler
* 1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
* 1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
* 1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
* 1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
* 1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
* 2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
* 2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
* 2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
* 2005 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
* 2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
* 2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
* 2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
* 2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
Holidays and Observances
* In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
* Church of England - Saint Giles.
* Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise.
* Libya - Revolution Day (1969).
* New Zealand - National R.A.K. (Random Act of Kindness) Day
* Russia - Knowledge Day.
* Singapore - Teacher's Day.
* Slovakia - Constitution Day.
* Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
* Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R").
* Start of cold season.
* Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St. Partridge").
* Start of new school year in many countries.
* First day of Spring in Australia and New Zealand.
* Presidential Inform In Mexico usually in the union congress, except in 2006, when the congress was "taken" by deputies on the PRD
* 5509 BC - Epoch of the late Byzantine calendar.
* 462 - possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
* 1355 - Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
* 1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England.
* 1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause.
* 1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
* 1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
* 1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
* 1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
* 1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
* 1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
* 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
* 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
* 1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
* 1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
* 1894 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
* 1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
* 1902 - A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
* 1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
* 1906 - the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
* 1910 - Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, from Brazil, is founded.
* 1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
* 1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
* 1917 - Russia is officially proclaimed as a republic.
* 1923 - The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.
* 1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
German soldiers destroying Polish border checkpoint in Sopot on September 1939. Invasion of Poland and World War II in Europe begins.
German soldiers destroying Polish border checkpoint in Sopot on September 1939. Invasion of Poland and World War II in Europe begins.
* 1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Invasion of Poland.)
* 1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
* 1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
* 1939 - Switzerland mobilises its forces and parliament elects Henri Guisan as head of army (a thing that can only happen during war or during mobilisation)
* 1943 - World War II: Italy accepts armistice terms.
* 1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
* 1954 - Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10-day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas: The Junction Boys.
* 1960 - Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
* 1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
* 1969 - A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees.
* 1970 - Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerillas, who attacked his motorcade.
* 1971 - The Senate rejects the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, setting a deadline of December 31, 1971, for complete withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam by a vote of 55-39.
* 1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
* 1974 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
* 1975 - The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.
* 1979 - The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
* 1980 - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
* 1980 - Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
* 1982 - Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
* 1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
* 1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
* 1988 - YTV was launched.
* 1990 - The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
* 1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
* 1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
* 2001 - Almost every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000 - the largest change in North America.
* 2001 - The first orca calf (later named Nakai) is born through artificial insemination, to parents Kasatka and Tillikum.
* 2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
* 2005 - Sony released the PlayStation Portable in Europe and Australia.
Births:
* 1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
* 1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
* 1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
* 1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
* 1653 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
* 1711 - William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
* 1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
* 1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
* 1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
* 1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
* 1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
* 1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
* 1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
* 1873 - Dinko Šimunović, Croatian writer and poet (d. 1933)
* 1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
* 1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
* 1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
* 1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
* 1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
* 1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
* 1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
* 1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
* 1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
* 1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
* 1906 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
* 1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
* 1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
* 1909 - E. Herbert Norman - Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
* 1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
* 1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
* 1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 2007)
* 1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
* 1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
* 1923 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
* 1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
* 1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
* 1926 - Gene Colan, American comic book artist
* 1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
* 1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
* 1933 - Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
* 1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
* 1937 - Ron O'Neal, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
* 1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
* 1942 - C. J. Cherryh, American writer
* 1943 - Don Stroud, American actor
* 1944 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
* 1945 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
* 1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
* 1946 - Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea
* 1947 - Al Green, American politician
* 1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
* 1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
* 1950 - Dr. Phil, American talk show host
* 1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician
* 1952 - Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
* 1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
* 1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
* 1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
* 1959 - Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
* 1961 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
* 1962 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
* 1962 - Tony Cascarino, English footballer
* 1964 - Brian Bellows, Canadian hockey player
* 1964 - Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
* 1966 - Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
* 1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
* 1969 - Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
* 1970 - Hwang Jeong-min, South Korean actor
* 1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
* 1971 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
* 1971 - Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
* 1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
* 1973 - Zach Thomas, American football player
* 1974 - Jason Taylor, American football player
* 1974 - Jhonen Vasquez, comic book artist
* 1975 - Scott Speedman, American actor
* 1975 - Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer (Rogue Traders)
* 1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
* 1976 - Jada Fire, American actress
* 1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
* 1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
* 1977 - Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
* 1977 - Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
* 1978 - Max Vieri, Australian footballer
* 1979 - James O'Connor, Irish footballer
* 1980 - Chris Riggott, English footballer
* 1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
* 1982 - Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
* 1983 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
* 1984 - Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
* 1985 - Camile Velasco, American singer
* 1987 - Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
* 1989 - Bill Kaulitz, German singer (Tokio Hotel)
* 1989 - Tom Kaulitz, German guitarist (Tokio Hotel)
* 1994 - Bianca Ryan, American singer
Deaths:
* 921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
* 1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders
* 1159 - Pope Adrian IV
* 1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
* 1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
* 1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
* 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
* 1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
* 1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
* 1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
* 1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
* 1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
* 1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
* 1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
* 1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
* 1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief
* 1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
* 1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
* 1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
* 1970 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
* 1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
* 1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
* 1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
* 1983 - Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
* 1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
* 1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler
* 1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
* 1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
* 1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
* 1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
* 1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
* 2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
* 2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
* 2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
* 2005 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
* 2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
* 2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
* 2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
* 2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
Holidays and Observances
* In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
* Church of England - Saint Giles.
* Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise.
* Libya - Revolution Day (1969).
* New Zealand - National R.A.K. (Random Act of Kindness) Day
* Russia - Knowledge Day.
* Singapore - Teacher's Day.
* Slovakia - Constitution Day.
* Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
* Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R").
* Start of cold season.
* Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St. Partridge").
* Start of new school year in many countries.
* First day of Spring in Australia and New Zealand.
* Presidential Inform In Mexico usually in the union congress, except in 2006, when the congress was "taken" by deputies on the PRD
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2007-01-24 at 15:49:15
In this thread, I forgot how to spell Decemember.
[sub] * 537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed.
* 1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World.
* 1657 - The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
* 1703 - Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
* 1814 - Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
* 1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, where he will formulate the theory of evolution.
* 1836 - The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
* 1845 - Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
* 1904 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan premieres in London.
* 1904 - The Abbey Theatre opens.
* 1918 - The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
* 1923 - Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito
* 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist party.
* 1932 - The Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
* 1939 - Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake.
* 1945 - The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
* 1947 - Howdy Doody, a children's television program, makes its debut on the National Broadcasting Company.
* 1949 - Indonesian War of Independence: The Netherlands recognizes Indonesian sovereignty.
* 1968 - The long-running radio program The Breakfast Club signs off for the last time (ABC radio).
* 1968 - Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending humanity's first manned mission to the Moon.
* 1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
* 1979 - The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.
* 1985 - Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
* 1996 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
* 1997 - Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
* 2001 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
* 2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
* 2006 - The Fregat space shuttle launches the spacecraft COROT was sucessfully lauched in Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:28 UTC (GMT+4)
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That's right, Howdy Doody premiered on my birthday. /thread
[sub] * 537 - The Hagia Sophia is completed.
* 1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World.
* 1657 - The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
* 1703 - Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.
* 1814 - Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
* 1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, where he will formulate the theory of evolution.
* 1836 - The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
* 1845 - Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
* 1904 - James Barrie's play Peter Pan premieres in London.
* 1904 - The Abbey Theatre opens.
* 1918 - The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
* 1923 - Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito
* 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist party.
* 1932 - The Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
* 1939 - Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake.
* 1945 - The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
* 1947 - Howdy Doody, a children's television program, makes its debut on the National Broadcasting Company.
* 1949 - Indonesian War of Independence: The Netherlands recognizes Indonesian sovereignty.
* 1968 - The long-running radio program The Breakfast Club signs off for the last time (ABC radio).
* 1968 - Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending humanity's first manned mission to the Moon.
* 1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
* 1979 - The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.
* 1985 - Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside Rome and Vienna airports.
* 1996 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
* 1997 - Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
* 2001 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
* 2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
* 2006 - The Fregat space shuttle launches the spacecraft COROT was sucessfully lauched in Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:28 UTC (GMT+4)
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That's right, Howdy Doody premiered on my birthday. /thread
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Killer_Kow(MM) on 2007-01-24 at 16:17:53
QUOTE(Killer_Kow(MM) @ Jan 24 2007, 12:58 PM)
Don't copy all of it, just things that seem interesting, like a whale exploding.
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Since the majority of Misc. users cannot read, I'm closing this thread.
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