Dates in History: What Happened on the Day you were Born?

[MysteriousStranger]

Have you ever wandered what Historical Events happened on the day you were born. Do you share the birthday with an important historical figure, or were you born on the day a war was won. Find Out Here [http://www.datesinhistory.com/] and Post your Events. After you have posted, feel free to take a look and post your favourite or the most interesting event that you found.

Spoiler: Historical Events on the 13th of January

0532 Nika riots in Constantinople.

0888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France

0888 Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.

1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria

1328 Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.

1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death

1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death.

1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

1602 William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.

1605 The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

1607 Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.

1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)

1622 Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.

1625 John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.

1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued

1673 Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris

1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland

1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC

1770 De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris

1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London Times

1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes

1822 The patterns of the Greek flag are adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves

1832 President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

1840 The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

1842 On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.

1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co

1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion

1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY

1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet

1864 Composer Stephen Foster dies in New York at age 39, while recuperating from loss of blood from a fever-induced fall in his hotel room.

1865 Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC

1869 Colored National Labor Union, first Black labor convention

1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..

1873 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor

1874 Battle between jobless & police in New York City NY, 100s injured

1874 Imperial Russian Government issues second decree which amended the one of June 4, 1871. The second decree instituted compulsory military conscription for the German colonists. These two decrees impelled thousands of German Russians to immigrate to North and South America.

1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king

1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"

1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430

1883 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo

1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)

1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)

1893 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.

1893 US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops

1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London

1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris

1899 The Canadian Northern Railway is formed by the amalgamation of the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway and the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. William Mackenzie and Donald Mann then proceeded to expand the Canadian Northern system so that by 1915 the system comprised 9,362 miles of trackage.

1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1

1906 The first radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile

1908 French pilot Henry Farman is first European to fly roundtrip

1910 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin

1910 Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

1911 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin

1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay

1911 South Africa's first win over Australia, at Adelaide

1912 -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)

1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia

1915 An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.

1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000

1915 SS Roebuck, formerly on the Channel Islands service, she was taken over for government service after the outbreak of war and renamed HMS Roedene under which name while at Scapa Flow she dragged her anchor and fell across the bows of the battleship HMS Imperieuse, after which she sank.

1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles

1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly

1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections

1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests

1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA

1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears

1930 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.

1934 the Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.

1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany

1937 The U.S. government announces that Americans are cannot actively participate in the Spanish Civil War.

1938 Church of England accepts theory of evolution.

1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco

1939 The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

1941 Novelist James Joyce dies during an eye operation in Zurich, Switzerland at age 58.

1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast

1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies

1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration

1942 World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat. German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1943 HMCS Ville de Quebec (Corvette) make Canada's first U-Boat sinking in the Mediterranean

1943 Hitler declares "Total War"

1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov

1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal

1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow

1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14

1953 Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.

1954 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested

1955 Personal posting - David Randal Luckow born - USA

1957 Personal posting - Ray Parks was born

1957 Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee

1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban

1958 Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

1958 Personal posting - Susan Irene Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pa, USA

1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication

1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts

1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence

1962 Comedian Ernie Kovacs is killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.

1963 Personal posting - Joe Christopher Trujillo born in Alamosa, Colorado

1964 Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow

1964 USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown

1966 First black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

1967 Coup in Togo

1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show

1968 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances

1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam

1968 Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison

1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)

1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album

1972 Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.

1974 Seraphim is elected elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

1978 Former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.

1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam

1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium

1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective

1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes

1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame

1982 Seventy-eight people die in Washington, D.C., when an Air Florida 737 crashes into a bridge after takeoff and falls into the Potomac River.

1982 Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. In a freaky coincidence, a Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people.

1983 Alan Webb (American record holder in the mile) is born.

1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course

1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428

1986 A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen

1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams

1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking

1988 Personal posting - Cara Jane Gorman is born.

1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain

1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq

1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run

1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence

1990 L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough

1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa

1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected

1991 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die

1991 Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.

1991 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad

1992 Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

1992 Japan formally apologizes for forcing thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops during WWII.

1992 US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane

1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan

1995 America3 becomes first all-female crew to win an America's Cup race

1995 Lamberto Dini becomes prime minister of Italy.

1995 Philippine authorities unearth a plot by militant Muslims to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit.

1995 The National Hockey League teams unanimously ratify agreement to end the players strike

1998 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years

1999 Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the Chicago Bulls (for the second and final time).

2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

2003 Visitor posting - The Queen has knee arthroscopy at King Edward VII hospital, London - United Kingdom

2007 Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened.

MOST INTERESTING DATE: 1842 On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

 

[Valkyira]

EDIT: Decided to get rid of it because there were about thirty trillion things that happened on 3rd March.

 

[Eleuthera]

Spoiler: December 14th

0867 Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

0872 John VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1287 St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.

1287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives

1503 Nostradamus (Michael de Notredame) was born

1542 Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland.

1656 Artificial pearls first manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales

1702 (according to the old calendar; January 30, 1703 by the new calendar) - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of ishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.

1751 The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.

1782 Charleston, SC evacuated by British

1782 The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight.

1793 First state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati

1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine

1799 George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and first president of the United States, dies of acute laryngitis at his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia

1819 Alabama admitted to the Union as 22nd state

1819 Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.

1825 Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins

1836 The Toledo War unofficially ends.

1849 First chamber music group in US gives their first concert (Boston)

1861 Prince Albert, husband of England's Queen Victoria, dies in London.

1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee

1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia

1896 James Doolittle aviator: U.S. Army Air Force Lt. General awarded Congressional Medal of Honor for leading 1st U.S. aerial raid against Japan in WWII was born

1896 The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

1900 Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

1902 The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.

1903 The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1907 The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

1911 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his expedition of four companions, are the first to reach the South Pole and return safely.

1911 Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

1912 Canadian Pacific leases Quebec Central Railway Company, Quebec

1914 Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Demcrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.

1918 Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Vin I, renounces the Finnish throne.

1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain

1934 First streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany NY

1934 Turkish women are given the right to vote.

1939 League of Nations drops the Soviet Union

1939 Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations.

1941 German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issues an order, under which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15,000 Jews are shot at Drobitsky Yar.

Not a whole lot really, apparently George Washington died on my birthday...

 

[steampunk42]

the Boy scouts of america was founded on my birthday....insidently i am also a boysecout and am an eagle scout as well....woohoo for me!

 

[Me55enger]

D-Day

 

[Amberella]

Spoiler: December 13th

1294 Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.

1545 Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens

1545 Council of Trent begins.

1577 Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

1636 The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.

1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman reaches New Zealand.

1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman

1643 English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.

1769 Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter

1769 Dartmouth College is founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.

1774 First incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William and Mary, NH

1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston

1862 American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose E. Burnside.

1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va; South beats North

1879 First federal fish hatching steamer launched (Wilmington Delaware)

1884 first performance of any of Richard Strauss's compositions in the United States (Symphony in F, New York Philharmonic)

1895 Premiere of Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in Berlin.

1898 First passenger train over the newly reconstructed Victoria Railway Bridge, Montreal. The original 1859 tube had been replaced by a double track steel bridge.

1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ)

1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol

1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany

1918 Wilson, becomes first to make a foreign visit as president (France)

1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London

1920 F Pease's interferometer measures first stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)

1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)

1937 Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.

1938 "Aryanization" decree is enacted, all Jewish property is transferred to Aryan possession.

1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28ø

1938 The Holocaust: 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.

1941 World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.

1943 World War II: 710 Bombers of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Kiel, Germany. *1942 - Robert Volpe : Artist, Art Crime Detective d. 2006

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic

1949 Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capitol to Jerusalem

1949 The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.

1951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher

1951 Margaret Thatcher (Roberts) marries Denis Thatcher at City Methodist in London.

1959 Archbishop Makarios becomes the first President of Cyprus.

1959 Archbishop Makarios elected first president of Cyprus

World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.

New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman

Just a few things that happened on December 13th.

 

[Ekit]

December 21. The day of the Apocalypse... Nice...

 

[NLS]

29th of November
1972 ? Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp?s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
Now that's something

 

[cerebus23]

December 21. The day of the Apocalypse... Nice...

Grats dude! Happy Birthday!

 

[SpecklePattern]

I tried to find the interesting ones.

Spoiler: first of december

1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
1640 Portugal regains its independence from Spain and Joo IV of Portugal becomes king.
1750 First American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md
1878 First White House telephone installed
1887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet"
1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1913 The First drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)
1929 BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe YEAH!
1930 Ruth Nichols becomes first woman pilot to cross the continent
1959 The First color photograph of Earth from outer space Nice to know and forget
1982 Michael Jackson releases his second solo album Thriller which became the biggest selling album of all time.
1984 NASA had fun with 720 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstration].
1990 Engineers digging a rail tunnel under the English Channel link up between England and France at a point forty meters beneath the seabed, and the island of Britain is connected with the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age
1998 Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the largest company on the planet.

Most interesting
1929 - BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe

 

[IamQ]

April 17: Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Count Igor]

Edit: Working!

Spoiler: November 15th

0655 Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.

1315 Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I of the House of Habsburg.

1492 Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco

1492 In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic

1515 Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal

1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, Peru.

1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to the Netherlands

1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland

1791 The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.

1806 Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).

1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)

1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.

1864 Sherman burns Atlanta

1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated

1884 Colonization of Africa organized at international conference in Berlin

1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed

1920 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.

1920 Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection

1920 League of Nations holds first meeting, in Geneva

1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

1935 Manuel Quezon is inaugurated as the first president of the Philippines.

1939 In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

1941 Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.

1942 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

1943 Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)

1944 Government approves sending members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) to New Guinea to replace men for service in forward areas Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) were already serving in New Guinea

1948 Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.

1948 Personal posting - Arnold's birthday

1949 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 fine

1958 Morocco promulgates a press code.

1959 Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)

1966 Gemini XII returns to Earth

1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km

1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against the Vietnam War

1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.

1969 Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.

I got Gemini XII comin' home.
AND the first League of Nations. (Sounds like a superhero group)
Plus, got 11 people usin' Black Magic for some reason ^^

 

[Hollock]

Well I was born during a blizzard so that was fun for my parents

Spoiler: other stuff

1138 ? Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1639 ? Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1781 ? William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1809 ? Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
1845 ? Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1862 ? American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 ? American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1881 ? Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
1884 ? The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
1897 ? San Diego State University is founded.
1900 ? Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1900 ? In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited by law to 11 hours.
1920 ? The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1921 ? Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
1925 ? Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1930 ? The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1933 ? Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
1938 ? World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1938 ? Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.
1940 ? The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1943 ? World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
1943 ? The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. Hans Finke arrives in Auschwitz with 963 other prisoners. 473 are put to death in the gas chambers. 491 are assigned to slave labor.
1954 ? Battle of Ðiện Biên Phủ: Viet Minh forces attack the French.
1957 ? Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1957 ? Anglo-Jordanian Treaty of 1948 expires.
1962 ? Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
1969 ? Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1979 ? The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
1986 ? Microsoft has its initial public offering.
1991 ? The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
1992 ? An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1996 ? Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 kindergarten children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
1997 ? India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 ? The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
2003 ? Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
2005 ? Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2008 ? Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time

 

[dragonslayer32]

1382 St. Mary's College is founded at Westminster, England.

1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)

1740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia

1740 Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

1781 Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, was approved in Habsburg Monarchy.

1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

1813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished

1817 First Mississippi showboat leaves Nashville on maiden voyage

1818 49th parallel established as the border between US & Canada

1818 The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.

1818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country

1824 William H. Seward and Frances Adeline Miller Seward wed.

1827 Battle of Navarino - a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece.

1847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandfather

1883 Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancn, by which the Tarapac province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.

1883 Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile

1890 Pike's Peak railroad completed.

1891 First International 6 day bike race begins in New York

1898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms

1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada

1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days

1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube

1910 The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.

1911 Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole

1929 Bayshore Highway opens in San Francisco

1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land

1935 The Long March ends

1941 World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.

1944 30 blocks of Cleveland Ohio burn after a liquid gas factory explodes

1944 Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.

1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala

1944 The Soviet army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia

1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

1951 The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma

1952 Governor Evelyn Baring declared a state of emergency in Kenya and began arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.

1955 Day-O is released by Harry Belafonte. It was later renamed to The Banana Boat Song.

1955 Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings.

1956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17 foot craft

1960 First fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI

1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely

1963 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy

1964 Herbert Hoover, former U.S. president, dies.

1964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)

1967 A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.

1967 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers

1968 Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.

1971 The Nepal stock exchange collapses.

1973 OPEC oil embargo begins

1973 The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

1973 The Sydney Opera House opens.

1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince

1976 The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, LA. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died; only 18 people aboard the ferry survived.

1977 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash

1977 A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.

1979 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston

1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

1979 The John F Kennedy library is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.

1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery

1982 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem at least 63 and probably many more people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

1984 Number one hit on UK music charts - Wham! - Freedom

1984 The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.

1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis

1988 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA

1988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)

1991 The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.

1993 Personal posting - I...Taylor Elizabeth...was born : ) - USA

2004 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is sworn in as the President of Indonesia.

2004 The Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball become the first team in the history of the league to win a best-of-7 postseason series after trailing the series 3 games to 0, by defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7 the American League Championship Series.

2004 The first Ubuntu Linux distribution is released.

2008 Jewish Holiday - Hoshana Rabbah - Work permitted with certain restrictions.


omg, its the day Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed!

 

[Eleade]

4th October..

World Animal Day. I get dog biscuits and fish food for my birthday every year. Ha ha. Gets old after so many years.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

August 31:


# 1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
# 1142 With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
# 1422 Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
# 1535 Pope Paul II deposed & excommunicated King Henry VIII
# 1688 Death in London of John Bunyan, English author of The Pilgrim's Progress.
# 1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
# 1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in the Bronx during Revolution
# 1803 Lewis and Clark start their expedition from Pittsburgh at 11 o clock in the morning.
# 1842 US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
# 1846 Committee established in Sydney to organise appeal for Irish famine.
# 1850 Calif pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
# 1858 Personal posting - Lake Victoria, source of the Nile, discovered by John Speke - United Kingdom
# 1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Jonesborough
# 1876 Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
# 1886 A strong earthquake rocks Charleston, SC, killing more than 100 people.
# 1886 Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
# 1886 The first major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, SC
# 1887 Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
# 1888 Jack the Ripper claims his first victim as the body of Mary Ann Nicholls is found in London.
# 1888 Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims.
# 1888 North Canterbury, New Zealand a 7+ earthquake in northern Canterbury, some 100 kilometers from Christchurch, caused the partial collapse of the cathedral's spire
# 1902 Split skirt first worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
# 1907 Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
# 1907 England, Russia & France form the Triple Entente
# 1914 Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
# 1915 Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
# 1919 Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago
# 1919 Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
# 1920 First radio news program broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
# 1920 Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarw.
# 1935 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
# 1939 Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe.
# 1940 Hollywood screen stars Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh are married.
# 1940 The FBI created a Disaster Squad to assist civilian authorities in identifying persons who died in a Virginia plane crash. FBI personnel were among the victims.
# 1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
# 1942 In Ternopil, western Ukraine, at 4.30 am, German SS organise the first deportation of Jews from Ternopil ghetto to death camp in Belzec, about 5,000 Jews were deported to face death in Belzec. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city.
# 1943 The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
# 1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
# 1948 Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
# 1950 Contingent of 80 men from First Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, leaves for the Korean War.


Officially, my longest post ever...

 

[Vrex360]

Taken from a Wikipedia article.

On February 23rd 1991

The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.
In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état.