Dates in History: What Happened on the Day you were Born?
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11th May:
1310 ? In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
1502 ? Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
1820 ? Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
1983 ? Holly Valance, Australian-born actress and singer born
1981 ? Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician dies
2001 ? Douglas Adams, English author dies
1310 ? In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
1502 ? Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
1820 ? Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
1983 ? Holly Valance, Australian-born actress and singer born
1981 ? Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician dies
2001 ? Douglas Adams, English author dies
High five!Amberella said: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.
# 0676 Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
# 1048 All Soul's Day declared. A Christian day dedicated to all departed souls of the faithful, especially those in purgatory
# 1570 A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
# 1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
# 1675 A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
# 1755 Marie Antoinette, the wife of French King Louis XVI is born in Vienna
# 1772 Boston patriot Samuel Adams, 50, and local physician Joseph Warren, 31, organize a Committee of Correspondence, similar committees spring up throughout the colonies, relaying the anti-British polemics of Adams and others.
# 1783 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
# 1783 In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
# 1795 The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
# 1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
# 1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
# 1861 American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
# 1868 Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
# 1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
# 1880 James A Garfield (R) elected President
# 1885 The first Canadian Pacific Railway train leaves Montreal Quebec for Vancouver British Columbia
# 1889 North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state
# 1889 North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
# 1895 The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
# 1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
# 1899 The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
# 1904 British newspaper, "The Daily Mirror" begins publishing
# 1909 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
# 1914 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
# 1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
# 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
# 1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
# 1917 The first American soldiers die in combat in WW I
# 1920 QANTAS makes it's first commercial passenger flight, in Queensland, Australia. Qantas is now the second-oldest airline operationg today.
# 1920 Warren G Harding elected President
# 1930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
# 1930 Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
# 1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
# 1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (Ger) in battle of Alamein (WW II)
# 1943 In a few days, 50,000 Jews in the Lublin region are deported and shot in ditches behind the Majdanek gas chambers.
# 1947 Howard Hughes'"Spruce Goose" flies for only time
# 1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
# 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers
# 1954 Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's first black congressman
# 1956 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
# 1956 Israel captures Gaza and Sheham
# 1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
# 1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21" was fixed
# 1959 Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
# 1959 Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
# 1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
# 1962 JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
# 1963 South Vietnamese President Ng nh Dim is assassinated following a military coup.
# 1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
# 1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
# 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
# 1971 Personal posting - Tracey was born in Summit, NJ
# 1974 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
# 1975 Personal posting - Martin Fox was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom
# 1976 Former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter (D) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (R) in race for Presidency
# 1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
# 1980 Personal posting - Aleksandar Furtula was born - USA
# 1982 Channel 4 begins transmission in the UK
# 1982 Personal posting - Glenda A. was born to a wonderful family - USA
# 1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
# 1983 Personal posting - Amanda Hayes was born in Cheyenne Wyoming
# 1984 Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
# 1986 Personal posting - Rebecca Ann Farrell is born in Manchester, England - United Kingdom
# 1986 Personal posting - Aundrea R Head was born
# 1988 Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities
# 1988 Shamir Likud wins election in Israel
# 1988 Personal posting - tahir was born (Gujrat Pakistan)
# 1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
# 1989 Personal posting - Bradley M. Witherspoon came into this world on this day - USA
# 1990 Personal posting - Damian Dixon was born in Fort Myers, Flordia. - USA
# 1991 Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
# 1993 Personal posting - Teressa Malcolm was born on Nov 2 - USA
# 1995 Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
# 1996 Ontario L'Orignal Railway (RailTex) commences operation over the former CN line between Glen Robertson, Hawkesbury and L'Orignal, Ont.
# 1998 Quebec Gatineau Railway commences operation over the CN Montfort Spur between Mirabel and Saint-Jerome, QC. Access to the CN network is continued through an interchange agreement between CN, OGRY and St.L&H.
# 1999 "Saving Private Ryan" becomse the first major Spielberg movie to be released on DVD
# 1999 Personal posting - Marcus Jordan was Born in Belfast Northern Ireland
# 2000 The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
# 2002 Personal posting - Owen Gabriel Gromyko is born
# 2006 Personal posting - Preston Robert is born at 3:39 a.m
# 2008 Personal posting - Jaston Taylor Cruz was born, 8lbs 7.4 oz
# 2008 Personal posting - Nov 2 2008 Amber Yen Vi Misako Holland was born, daughter to William & Phuong Holland
# 2009 Personal posting - Andrew Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland - United Kingdom
# 1048 All Soul's Day declared. A Christian day dedicated to all departed souls of the faithful, especially those in purgatory
# 1570 A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
# 1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
# 1675 A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
# 1755 Marie Antoinette, the wife of French King Louis XVI is born in Vienna
# 1772 Boston patriot Samuel Adams, 50, and local physician Joseph Warren, 31, organize a Committee of Correspondence, similar committees spring up throughout the colonies, relaying the anti-British polemics of Adams and others.
# 1783 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
# 1783 In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
# 1795 The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
# 1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
# 1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
# 1861 American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
# 1868 Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
# 1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
# 1880 James A Garfield (R) elected President
# 1885 The first Canadian Pacific Railway train leaves Montreal Quebec for Vancouver British Columbia
# 1889 North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state
# 1889 North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
# 1895 The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
# 1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
# 1899 The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
# 1904 British newspaper, "The Daily Mirror" begins publishing
# 1909 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
# 1914 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
# 1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
# 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
# 1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
# 1917 The first American soldiers die in combat in WW I
# 1920 QANTAS makes it's first commercial passenger flight, in Queensland, Australia. Qantas is now the second-oldest airline operationg today.
# 1920 Warren G Harding elected President
# 1930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
# 1930 Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
# 1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
# 1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (Ger) in battle of Alamein (WW II)
# 1943 In a few days, 50,000 Jews in the Lublin region are deported and shot in ditches behind the Majdanek gas chambers.
# 1947 Howard Hughes'"Spruce Goose" flies for only time
# 1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
# 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers
# 1954 Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's first black congressman
# 1956 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
# 1956 Israel captures Gaza and Sheham
# 1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
# 1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21" was fixed
# 1959 Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
# 1959 Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
# 1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
# 1962 JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
# 1963 South Vietnamese President Ng nh Dim is assassinated following a military coup.
# 1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
# 1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
# 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
# 1971 Personal posting - Tracey was born in Summit, NJ
# 1974 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
# 1975 Personal posting - Martin Fox was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom
# 1976 Former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter (D) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (R) in race for Presidency
# 1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
# 1980 Personal posting - Aleksandar Furtula was born - USA
# 1982 Channel 4 begins transmission in the UK
# 1982 Personal posting - Glenda A. was born to a wonderful family - USA
# 1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
# 1983 Personal posting - Amanda Hayes was born in Cheyenne Wyoming
# 1984 Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
# 1986 Personal posting - Rebecca Ann Farrell is born in Manchester, England - United Kingdom
# 1986 Personal posting - Aundrea R Head was born
# 1988 Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities
# 1988 Shamir Likud wins election in Israel
# 1988 Personal posting - tahir was born (Gujrat Pakistan)
# 1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
# 1989 Personal posting - Bradley M. Witherspoon came into this world on this day - USA
# 1990 Personal posting - Damian Dixon was born in Fort Myers, Flordia. - USA
# 1991 Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
# 1993 Personal posting - Teressa Malcolm was born on Nov 2 - USA
# 1995 Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
# 1996 Ontario L'Orignal Railway (RailTex) commences operation over the former CN line between Glen Robertson, Hawkesbury and L'Orignal, Ont.
# 1998 Quebec Gatineau Railway commences operation over the CN Montfort Spur between Mirabel and Saint-Jerome, QC. Access to the CN network is continued through an interchange agreement between CN, OGRY and St.L&H.
# 1999 "Saving Private Ryan" becomse the first major Spielberg movie to be released on DVD
# 1999 Personal posting - Marcus Jordan was Born in Belfast Northern Ireland
# 2000 The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
# 2002 Personal posting - Owen Gabriel Gromyko is born
# 2006 Personal posting - Preston Robert is born at 3:39 a.m
# 2008 Personal posting - Jaston Taylor Cruz was born, 8lbs 7.4 oz
# 2008 Personal posting - Nov 2 2008 Amber Yen Vi Misako Holland was born, daughter to William & Phuong Holland
# 2009 Personal posting - Andrew Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland - United Kingdom
Well, the All Soul's Day was declared on that date, a lot of Jews were killed, and some other guys died, cheerleading started, shit got real for the Ottoman Empire, first American soldiers of WWI died, people impressively talk and write about UFOs, also some Koreans died, some guys were born, one of them even into a 'wonderful family', and "Saving Private Ryan" became the firstmajor Spielberg movie to be released on DVD! Whoo!
Oh, and some dude called Andrew Smith was born...what? He was born LAST YEAR, and he was on that site? What the shit? Way to make me feel unspecial...
Also, it seems that I share birthdays with Marie Antoinette, whoever that is. I have no idea why I pointed her out. Ignore this, move along.
the sixth of august, the day the world experienced the first atomic bomb with the bombing of Hiroshima.
September 27th, 1993:
Sukhumi Massacre of the Abkhazia War [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumi_massacre]...
Great, I was born as millions of people died!
Sukhumi Massacre of the Abkhazia War [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhumi_massacre]...
Great, I was born as millions of people died!
Mine would be January 13th (I was born Friday 13th. Sadly, not in the right month to share it's famous past)
* 532 ? Nika riots in Constantinople.
* 888 ? Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
* 1328 ? Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
* 1435 ? Sicut Dudum is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV about the enslaving of black natives in Canary Islands by Spanish Natives.
* 1547 ? Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
* 1605 ? The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
* 1607 ? The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
* 1610 ? Galileo Galilei discovers Ganymede, 4th moon of Jupiter.
* 1733 ? James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.
* 1785 ? John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).
* 1797 ? A naval battle is fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars ends with the French vessel running ashore, resulting in the death of over 900.
* 1822 ? The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
* 1830 ? The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
* 1832 ? President Andrew Jackson writes to 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 ? Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
* 1847 ? The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
* 1869 ? National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
* 1893 ? The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
* 1893 ? U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
* 1898 ? Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
* 1908 ? Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.
* 1913 ? Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated is founded on the campus of Howard University as the second Black Greek Letter Organization for Women. The mission is to make a move towards social activism.
* 1915 ? An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
* 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.
* 1939 ? The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
* 1942 ? Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
* 1942 ? World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
* 1953 ? Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
* 1958 ? Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
* 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, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
* 1966 ? Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
* 1968 ? Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison.
* 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 Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
* 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. Coincidentally, a Washington DC Metro Rail train is derailed, killing 3 people.
* 1985 ? A passenger train plunged into a ravine at Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
* 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.
* 1990 ? L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
* 1991 ? Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius. Killed 14 people and wounding 1000.
* 1992 ? Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery (Comfort women) during World War II.
* 1993 ? Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
* 2001 ? An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
My fave event being 1610 when Galileo discovered Ganymede.
* 532 ? Nika riots in Constantinople.
* 888 ? Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
* 1328 ? Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
* 1435 ? Sicut Dudum is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV about the enslaving of black natives in Canary Islands by Spanish Natives.
* 1547 ? Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
* 1605 ? The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
* 1607 ? The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
* 1610 ? Galileo Galilei discovers Ganymede, 4th moon of Jupiter.
* 1733 ? James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina.
* 1785 ? John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).
* 1797 ? A naval battle is fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars ends with the French vessel running ashore, resulting in the death of over 900.
* 1822 ? The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
* 1830 ? The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
* 1832 ? President Andrew Jackson writes to 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 ? Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
* 1847 ? The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
* 1869 ? National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.
* 1893 ? The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
* 1893 ? U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
* 1898 ? Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
* 1908 ? Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.
* 1913 ? Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated is founded on the campus of Howard University as the second Black Greek Letter Organization for Women. The mission is to make a move towards social activism.
* 1915 ? An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
* 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.
* 1939 ? The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
* 1942 ? Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
* 1942 ? World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
* 1953 ? Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
* 1958 ? Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
* 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, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
* 1966 ? Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
* 1968 ? Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison.
* 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 Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
* 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. Coincidentally, a Washington DC Metro Rail train is derailed, killing 3 people.
* 1985 ? A passenger train plunged into a ravine at Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
* 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.
* 1990 ? L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
* 1991 ? Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius. Killed 14 people and wounding 1000.
* 1992 ? Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery (Comfort women) during World War II.
* 1993 ? Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
* 2001 ? An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
My fave event being 1610 when Galileo discovered Ganymede.
* 1334 ? King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
* 1505 ? Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
* 1562 ? Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)
* 1596 ? Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
* 1610 ? Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
* 1616 ? Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
* 1635 ? Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
* 1651 ? Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
* 1683 ? Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
* 1720 ? Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
* 1749 ? Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)
* 1777 ? Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)
* 1787 ? John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
* 1804 ? Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
* 1805 ? Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
* 1808 ? Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
* 1812 ? Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
* 1832 ? Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)
* 1845 ? Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)
* 1858 ? Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)
* 1859 ? Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
* 1861 ? Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
* 1864 ? Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
* 1865 ? Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
* 1866 ? Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
* 1869 ? Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
* 1870 ? Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)
* 1878 ? Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)
* 1881 ? Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
* 1883 ? Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
* 1884 ? Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)
* 1885 ? Alfred Fuller, Canadian businessman, The "Fuller Brush Man" (d. 1973)
* 1886 ? Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)
* 1887 ? Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)
* 1887 ? George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
* 1890 ? Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945)
* 1893 ? Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
* 1893 ? Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)
* 1898 ? Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)
* 1898 ? Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
* 1901 ? A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991)
* 1901 ? Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
* 1904 ? Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)
* 1905 ? Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
* 1906 ? Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
* 1909 ? Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)
* 1910 ? Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (d. 1989)
* 1911 ? Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
* 1913 ? Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1914 ? Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist (d. 1992)
* 1919 ? Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1921 ? Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)
* 1922 ? Albert Lamorisse, French film director and producer (d. 1970)
* 1923 ? Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
* 1924 ? Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
* 1924 ? Roland Petit, French choreographer
* 1925 ? Georgi Kaloyanchev, Bulgarian actor
* 1925 ? Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
* 1926 ? Michael Bond, British writer
* 1926 ? Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)
* 1927 ? Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
* 1927 ? Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
* 1929 ? Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
* 1930 ? Liz Anderson, American singer
* 1930 ? Frances Sternhagen, American actress
* 1931 ? Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
* 1931 ? Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
* 1931 ? Chris Wiggins, British actor
* 1932 ? Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994)
* 1934 ? Rip Taylor, American actor
* 1935 ? Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)
* 1935 ? Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
* 1936 ? Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
* 1938 ? William B. Davis, Canadian actor
* 1938 ? Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
* 1938 ? Shivkumar Sharma, santoor player, music composer
* 1939 ? Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
* 1939 ? Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1940 ? Edmund White, American author
* 1941 ? Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
* 1942 ? Carol Cleveland, English actress
* 1943 ? Richard Moll, American actor
* 1946 ? Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician
* 1947 ? Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków
* 1947 ? Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
* 1947 ? John Lees, English Musician
* 1948 ? Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
* 1949 ? Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
* 1949 ? Rakesh Sharma, first Indian and 138th person to visit space
* 1950 ? Bob Forsch, American baseball player
* 1950 ? John McNaughton, American film director
* 1954 ? Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)
* 1955 ? Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
* 1955 ? Jay McInerney, American writer
* 1956 ? Janet Hubert-Whitten, American actress
* 1957 ? Lorrie Moore, American writer
* 1957 ? Mark O'Meara, Major winning American Golfer
* 1959 ? James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)
* 1960 ? Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach
* 1961 ? Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips)
* 1961 ? Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
* 1961 ? Suggs, English singer (Madness)
* 1962 ? Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter
* 1962 ? Paul Higgins, Canadian hockey player
* 1962 ? Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
* 1963 ? Kevin McClatchy, American businessman
* 1964 ? Bill Bailey, British comedian
* 1964 ? Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
* 1964 ? Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
* 1966 ? Patrick Dempsey, American actor
* 1966 ? Shelagh Fogarty, British radio presenter
* 1967 ? Annie Jones, Australian actress
* 1968 ? Traci Bingham, American actress
* 1968 ? Mike Whitlow, English footballer
* 1968 ? Chara, Japanese singer and actress
* 1969 ? Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier
* 1969 ? Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
* 1970 ? Keith Coogan, American actor
* 1970 ? Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
* 1970 ? Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator (Grey's Anatomy)
* 1971 ? John Mallory Asher, American film actor/director
* 1971 ? Phil Whyman, English paranormal researcher, television personality, writer and musician
* 1972 ? Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer
* 1972 ? Nicole Eggert, American actress
* 1972 ? James O'Brien, British radio presenter and journalist
* 1972 ? Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor
* 1972 ? Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
* 1972 ? Park Jin-Young, Korean singer
* 1973 ? Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1973 ? Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actor
* 1974 ? Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1976 ? Michael Peña, American actor
* 1976 ? Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater
* 1977 ? Orlando Bloom, English actor
* 1977 ? James Posey, American basketball player
* 1978 ? Ashmit Patel, Indian actor
* 1980 ? Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
* 1980 ? Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
* 1980 ? Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
* 1980 ? Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
* 1981 ? Reggie Brown, American football player
* 1981 ? Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor
* 1981 ? Darrell Rasner, American baseball player
* 1981 ? Jason James, Welsh bassist
* 1982 ? Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
* 1983 ? Julian Morris, English actor
* 1983 ? William Hung, American Idol contestant
* 1983 ? Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
* 1984 ? Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
* 1984 ? Nathaniel Motte, American musician (3OH!3)
* 1985 ? Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
* 1986 ? Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
* 1987 ? Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer
* 1987 ? Lee Seung Gi, K-pop singer
* 1987 ? Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1989 ? Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
* 1989 ? James Berrett, English footballer
* 1989 ? Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
* 1992 ? Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
* 1995 ? Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
* 1505 ? Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
* 1562 ? Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)
* 1596 ? Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
* 1610 ? Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
* 1616 ? Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
* 1635 ? Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
* 1651 ? Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
* 1683 ? Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
* 1720 ? Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)
* 1749 ? Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)
* 1777 ? Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)
* 1787 ? John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
* 1804 ? Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)
* 1805 ? Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
* 1808 ? Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
* 1812 ? Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
* 1832 ? Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)
* 1845 ? Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)
* 1858 ? Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)
* 1859 ? Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
* 1861 ? Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
* 1864 ? Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
* 1865 ? Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
* 1866 ? Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
* 1869 ? Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
* 1870 ? Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)
* 1878 ? Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)
* 1881 ? Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
* 1883 ? Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
* 1884 ? Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)
* 1885 ? Alfred Fuller, Canadian businessman, The "Fuller Brush Man" (d. 1973)
* 1886 ? Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)
* 1887 ? Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)
* 1887 ? George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
* 1890 ? Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945)
* 1893 ? Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
* 1893 ? Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)
* 1898 ? Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)
* 1898 ? Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
* 1901 ? A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991)
* 1901 ? Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
* 1904 ? Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)
* 1905 ? Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
* 1906 ? Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist
* 1909 ? Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)
* 1910 ? Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (d. 1989)
* 1911 ? Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
* 1913 ? Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1914 ? Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist (d. 1992)
* 1919 ? Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1921 ? Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)
* 1922 ? Albert Lamorisse, French film director and producer (d. 1970)
* 1923 ? Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
* 1924 ? Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
* 1924 ? Roland Petit, French choreographer
* 1925 ? Georgi Kaloyanchev, Bulgarian actor
* 1925 ? Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
* 1926 ? Michael Bond, British writer
* 1926 ? Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)
* 1927 ? Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
* 1927 ? Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate
* 1929 ? Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
* 1930 ? Liz Anderson, American singer
* 1930 ? Frances Sternhagen, American actress
* 1931 ? Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
* 1931 ? Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
* 1931 ? Chris Wiggins, British actor
* 1932 ? Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994)
* 1934 ? Rip Taylor, American actor
* 1935 ? Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)
* 1935 ? Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
* 1936 ? Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
* 1938 ? William B. Davis, Canadian actor
* 1938 ? Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
* 1938 ? Shivkumar Sharma, santoor player, music composer
* 1939 ? Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
* 1939 ? Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1940 ? Edmund White, American author
* 1941 ? Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
* 1942 ? Carol Cleveland, English actress
* 1943 ? Richard Moll, American actor
* 1946 ? Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician
* 1947 ? Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków
* 1947 ? Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
* 1947 ? John Lees, English Musician
* 1948 ? Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
* 1949 ? Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
* 1949 ? Rakesh Sharma, first Indian and 138th person to visit space
* 1950 ? Bob Forsch, American baseball player
* 1950 ? John McNaughton, American film director
* 1954 ? Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)
* 1955 ? Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
* 1955 ? Jay McInerney, American writer
* 1956 ? Janet Hubert-Whitten, American actress
* 1957 ? Lorrie Moore, American writer
* 1957 ? Mark O'Meara, Major winning American Golfer
* 1959 ? James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)
* 1960 ? Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach
* 1961 ? Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips)
* 1961 ? Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
* 1961 ? Suggs, English singer (Madness)
* 1962 ? Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter
* 1962 ? Paul Higgins, Canadian hockey player
* 1962 ? Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
* 1963 ? Kevin McClatchy, American businessman
* 1964 ? Bill Bailey, British comedian
* 1964 ? Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
* 1964 ? Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
* 1966 ? Patrick Dempsey, American actor
* 1966 ? Shelagh Fogarty, British radio presenter
* 1967 ? Annie Jones, Australian actress
* 1968 ? Traci Bingham, American actress
* 1968 ? Mike Whitlow, English footballer
* 1968 ? Chara, Japanese singer and actress
* 1969 ? Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier
* 1969 ? Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
* 1970 ? Keith Coogan, American actor
* 1970 ? Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
* 1970 ? Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator (Grey's Anatomy)
* 1971 ? John Mallory Asher, American film actor/director
* 1971 ? Phil Whyman, English paranormal researcher, television personality, writer and musician
* 1972 ? Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer
* 1972 ? Nicole Eggert, American actress
* 1972 ? James O'Brien, British radio presenter and journalist
* 1972 ? Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor
* 1972 ? Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
* 1972 ? Park Jin-Young, Korean singer
* 1973 ? Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1973 ? Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actor
* 1974 ? Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1976 ? Michael Peña, American actor
* 1976 ? Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater
* 1977 ? Orlando Bloom, English actor
* 1977 ? James Posey, American basketball player
* 1978 ? Ashmit Patel, Indian actor
* 1980 ? Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
* 1980 ? Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
* 1980 ? Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
* 1980 ? Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
* 1981 ? Reggie Brown, American football player
* 1981 ? Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor
* 1981 ? Darrell Rasner, American baseball player
* 1981 ? Jason James, Welsh bassist
* 1982 ? Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
* 1983 ? Julian Morris, English actor
* 1983 ? William Hung, American Idol contestant
* 1983 ? Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
* 1984 ? Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
* 1984 ? Nathaniel Motte, American musician (3OH!3)
* 1985 ? Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
* 1986 ? Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
* 1987 ? Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer
* 1987 ? Lee Seung Gi, K-pop singer
* 1987 ? Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1989 ? Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
* 1989 ? James Berrett, English footballer
* 1989 ? Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
* 1992 ? Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
* 1995 ? Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
* 86 BC ? Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
* 614 ? Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
* 703 ? Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
* 858 ? King Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
* 888 ? Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
* 1138 ? Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
* 1151 ? Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
* 1177 ? Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
* 1330 ? Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
* 1363 ? Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
* 1599 ? Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
* 1625 ? Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
* 1630 ? Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
* 1658 ? Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
* 1691 ? George Fox, English founder of Quakerism (b. 1624)
* 1766 ? King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
* 1775 ? Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
* 1790 ? Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
* 1796 ? John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
* 1797 ? Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
* 1832 ? Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founder of Lord's cricket ground (b. 1755)
* 1838 ? Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
* 1852 ? Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
* 1853 ? Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (b. 1783)
* 1860 ? William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
* 1864 ? Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)
* 1882 ? Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
* 1885 ? Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b. 1823)
* 1889 ? Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
* 1894 ? Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
* 1905 ? George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
* 1906 ? Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
* 1915 ? Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
* 1923 ? Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
* 1924 ? Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
* 1929 ? Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)
* 1929 ? H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
* 1932 ? Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
* 1934 ? Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
* 1941 ? James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
* 1943 ? Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
* 1958 ? Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (b. 1880)
* 1962 ? Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
* 1967 ? Anatole de Grunwald, British producer and screenwriter (b. 1910)
* 1971 ? Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
* 1974 ? Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)
* 1974 ? Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
* 1976 ? Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
* 1977 ? Henri Langlois, French film archivist, and a co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
* 1978 ? Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
* 1978 ? Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (b. 1887)
* 1979 ? Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
* 1979 ? Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
* 1980 ? Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
* 1982 ? Marcel Camus, French director (b. 1912)
* 1988 ? Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
* 1993 ? Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
* 1995 ? Max Harris, Australian poet, columnist and publisher (b. 1921)
* 2001 ? Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)
* 2002 ? Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)
* 2002 ? Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, Ernest Hemingway's first mate (b. 1897)
* 2002 ? Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
* 2003 ? Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
* 2004 ? Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)
* 2004 ? Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
* 2004 ? Zeno Vendler, American philosopher of language (b. 1921)
* 2005 ? Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)
* 2005 ? Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)
* 2006 ? Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
* 2006 ? Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
* 2007 ? Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
* 2007 ? Danny Oakes, American racecar driver (b. 1911)
* 2008 ? Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
* 2008 ? Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
* 2009 ? Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
* 2009 ? Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
* 2009 ? Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
* 2009 ? Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
* 2009 ? William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926)
* 2010 ? Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)
* 2010 ? Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (b. 1980)
* 2010 ? Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist
* 614 ? Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
* 703 ? Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
* 858 ? King Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
* 888 ? Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
* 1138 ? Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
* 1151 ? Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
* 1177 ? Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
* 1330 ? Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
* 1363 ? Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
* 1599 ? Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
* 1625 ? Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
* 1630 ? Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
* 1658 ? Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
* 1691 ? George Fox, English founder of Quakerism (b. 1624)
* 1766 ? King Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
* 1775 ? Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
* 1790 ? Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
* 1796 ? John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
* 1797 ? Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
* 1832 ? Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founder of Lord's cricket ground (b. 1755)
* 1838 ? Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
* 1852 ? Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
* 1853 ? Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest, humanist and revolutionary (b. 1783)
* 1860 ? William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
* 1864 ? Stephen Foster, American composer (b. 1826)
* 1882 ? Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834)
* 1885 ? Schuyler Colfax, American politician (b. 1823)
* 1889 ? Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
* 1894 ? Nadezhda von Meck, Russian patroness of Pyotr Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
* 1905 ? George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
* 1906 ? Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
* 1915 ? Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
* 1923 ? Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
* 1924 ? Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
* 1929 ? Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848)
* 1929 ? H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
* 1932 ? Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
* 1934 ? Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
* 1941 ? James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
* 1943 ? Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
* 1958 ? Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (b. 1880)
* 1962 ? Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
* 1967 ? Anatole de Grunwald, British producer and screenwriter (b. 1910)
* 1971 ? Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
* 1974 ? Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)
* 1974 ? Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
* 1976 ? Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
* 1977 ? Henri Langlois, French film archivist, and a co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
* 1978 ? Hubert H. Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
* 1978 ? Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (b. 1887)
* 1979 ? Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
* 1979 ? Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
* 1980 ? Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
* 1982 ? Marcel Camus, French director (b. 1912)
* 1988 ? Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
* 1993 ? Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
* 1995 ? Max Harris, Australian poet, columnist and publisher (b. 1921)
* 2001 ? Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)
* 2002 ? Ted Demme, American film director (b. 1963)
* 2002 ? Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, Ernest Hemingway's first mate (b. 1897)
* 2002 ? Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (b. 1916)
* 2003 ? Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
* 2004 ? Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber (b. 1937)
* 2004 ? Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
* 2004 ? Zeno Vendler, American philosopher of language (b. 1921)
* 2005 ? Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)
* 2005 ? Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)
* 2006 ? Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
* 2006 ? Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
* 2007 ? Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
* 2007 ? Danny Oakes, American racecar driver (b. 1911)
* 2008 ? Sergei Larin, Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
* 2008 ? Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
* 2009 ? Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
* 2009 ? Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
* 2009 ? Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
* 2009 ? Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
* 2009 ? William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926)
* 2010 ? Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)
* 2010 ? Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (b. 1980)
* 2010 ? Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan writer and linguist
# 0068 The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
# 0452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
# 0536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
# 0536 St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
# 0570 Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
# 0632 Mohammed, founder of Islam, dies. (probable date).
# 0793 The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.
# 1191 Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
# 1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
# 1624 An earthquake strikes Peru.
# 1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
# 1783 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
# 1786 First commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)
# 1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
# 1815 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation
# 1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
# 1845 Andrew Jackson, seventh US president, dies in Nashville.
# 1856 The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of the HMAV Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island Commencing the Third Settlement of the Island
# 1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
# 1861 Tennessee secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy.
# 1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
# 1866 The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
# 1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents a vacuum cleaner
# 1887 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
# 1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
# 1906 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
# 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
# 1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
# 1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
# 1928 Second Northern Expedition: NRA captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping.
# 1928 The first US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
# 1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily
# 1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
# 1940 HMS GLORIOUS sunk west of Lofoten Islands in Norwegian Sea by 11in gunfire of German battlecruisers 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau'.1,207 men lost, c40 survivors. Escorting destroyers 'Acasta' and 'Ardent' also sunk
# 1941 Allied forces (largely Australian) enter Syria
# 1941 World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
# 1942 Eisenhower is appointed Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations.
# 1942 Tobruk in the African Desert falls to Germans; Axis claims 25,000 prisoners.
# 1944 FO K.O.Moore pilot of a liberator bomber sunk two U-Boats off the coast of France
# 1947 Lassie makes its broadcast debut on the ABC radio network.
# 1948 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV
# 1948 John Rudder becomes first negro commissioned officer in US marines
# 1948 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
# 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
# 1949 Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
# 1950 General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, World War Two, made a Field Marshal, the only Australian appointment to this rank in Australian military history
# 1950 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
# 1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
# 1953 Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
# 1953 Panmunjon negotiators sign agreement on POWs
# 1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
# 1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
# 1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
# 1959 X-15 makes first unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
# 1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
# 1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
# 1966 One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
# 1966 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. [1]
# 1967 34 U.S. servicemen are killed when Israeli warplanes mistakenly attack the Navy ship Liberty stationed in the Mediterranean.
# 1967 Number one hit on UK music charts - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
# 1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
# 1968 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
# 1968 James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
# 1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
# 1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
# 1971 Personal posting - Pamela R. Ruffin was born on June 8, 1971 - USA
# 1974 An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
# 1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
# 1979 The Source, first computer public information service, goes online
# 1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
# 1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
# 1984 Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
# 1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
# 1986 Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
# 1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
# 1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
# 1993 Personal posting - June 8, 1993 Ronn & Erika Married in Munich, Germany
# 1994 Personal posting - June 8, 1994 Nathan Thompson was Born!
# 1994 Personal posting - Alex MacBeth was born. Hi Nathan Thompson - USA
# 1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
# 1995 Rasmus Lerdorf launched version 1.0 of the popular scripting language PHP.
# 1995 U.S. Air Force Capt. Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines, after having to survive alone for several days when his F-16 fighter was shot down.
# 1996 Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
# 1999 War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.
# 2000 Pultizer Prize Winning cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, creator of the comic strip Shoe, dies of cancer at age 52.
# 2004 First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
# 2007 MV Pasha Bulker bulk cargo ship runs aground on Nobby's Beach in Newcastle, Australia.
# 2007 Roll out ceremony launch for the First of Class Astute class submarine, in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
# 2008 Jewish Holiday - Shavuot - No work is permitted June 8-10, 2008
# 2009 Personal posting - Dean Redpath born in Dunde - United Kingdom
# 0452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
# 0536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
# 0536 St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
# 0570 Relgion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
# 0632 Mohammed, founder of Islam, dies. (probable date).
# 0793 The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.
# 1191 Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
# 1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
# 1624 An earthquake strikes Peru.
# 1783 Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
# 1783 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
# 1786 First commercially-made ice cream sold (NY)
# 1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of Representatives.
# 1815 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation
# 1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
# 1845 Andrew Jackson, seventh US president, dies in Nashville.
# 1856 The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of the HMAV Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island Commencing the Third Settlement of the Island
# 1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
# 1861 Tennessee secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy.
# 1862 Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
# 1866 The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa.
# 1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents a vacuum cleaner
# 1887 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
# 1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
# 1906 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
# 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
# 1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
# 1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
# 1928 Second Northern Expedition: NRA captures Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping.
# 1928 The first US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
# 1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botonical Garden, 12' calla lily
# 1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
# 1940 HMS GLORIOUS sunk west of Lofoten Islands in Norwegian Sea by 11in gunfire of German battlecruisers 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau'.1,207 men lost, c40 survivors. Escorting destroyers 'Acasta' and 'Ardent' also sunk
# 1941 Allied forces (largely Australian) enter Syria
# 1941 World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
# 1942 Eisenhower is appointed Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations.
# 1942 Tobruk in the African Desert falls to Germans; Axis claims 25,000 prisoners.
# 1944 FO K.O.Moore pilot of a liberator bomber sunk two U-Boats off the coast of France
# 1947 Lassie makes its broadcast debut on the ABC radio network.
# 1948 "The Milton Berle Show" premiers on NBC TV
# 1948 John Rudder becomes first negro commissioned officer in US marines
# 1948 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
# 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published.
# 1949 Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
# 1950 General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area, World War Two, made a Field Marshal, the only Australian appointment to this rank in Australian military history
# 1950 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
# 1953 Cluster of 6 tornaodes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
# 1953 Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado hits the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
# 1953 Panmunjon negotiators sign agreement on POWs
# 1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
# 1953 Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
# 1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
# 1959 X-15 makes first unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
# 1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
# 1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
# 1966 One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
# 1966 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. [1]
# 1967 34 U.S. servicemen are killed when Israeli warplanes mistakenly attack the Navy ship Liberty stationed in the Mediterranean.
# 1967 Number one hit on UK music charts - Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
# 1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
# 1968 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
# 1968 James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
# 1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
# 1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
# 1971 Personal posting - Pamela R. Ruffin was born on June 8, 1971 - USA
# 1974 An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
# 1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
# 1979 The Source, first computer public information service, goes online
# 1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
# 1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
# 1984 Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
# 1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
# 1986 Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
# 1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
# 1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
# 1993 Personal posting - June 8, 1993 Ronn & Erika Married in Munich, Germany
# 1994 Personal posting - June 8, 1994 Nathan Thompson was Born!
# 1994 Personal posting - Alex MacBeth was born. Hi Nathan Thompson - USA
# 1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
# 1995 Rasmus Lerdorf launched version 1.0 of the popular scripting language PHP.
# 1995 U.S. Air Force Capt. Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines, after having to survive alone for several days when his F-16 fighter was shot down.
# 1996 Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
# 1999 War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product.
# 2000 Pultizer Prize Winning cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, creator of the comic strip Shoe, dies of cancer at age 52.
# 2004 First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
# 2007 MV Pasha Bulker bulk cargo ship runs aground on Nobby's Beach in Newcastle, Australia.
# 2007 Roll out ceremony launch for the First of Class Astute class submarine, in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
# 2008 Jewish Holiday - Shavuot - No work is permitted June 8-10, 2008
# 2009 Personal posting - Dean Redpath born in Dunde - United Kingdom
There were a few interesting things in there. Apparently the Bill of Rights was proposed on my birthday by James Madison. Islam was started in the city of Mecca. And lassie began airing on the radio.
January 21st
1189 Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1287 The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1643 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga.
1720 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1749 The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
1789 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars.
1887 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
1893 The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
1899 Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1908 New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1915 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1921 The Italian Communist Party is founded at Livorno.
1925 Albania declares itself a republic.
1948 The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
1950 Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1958 The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh ? One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1968 A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1976 Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1981 Tehran releases American hostages after 444 days.
1985 The inauguration of President Ronald Reagan to a second term, already postponed a day because Jan. 20 fell on a Sunday, becomes the second inauguration in history moved indoors because of freezing temperatures and high winds. The parade is cancelled altogether.
1997 Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1999 War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2000 Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
2002 The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.
1287 The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1643 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga.
1720 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1749 The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
1789 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars.
1887 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
1893 The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
1899 Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1908 New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1915 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1921 The Italian Communist Party is founded at Livorno.
1925 Albania declares itself a republic.
1948 The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
1950 Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1958 The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh ? One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1968 A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1976 Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1981 Tehran releases American hostages after 444 days.
1985 The inauguration of President Ronald Reagan to a second term, already postponed a day because Jan. 20 fell on a Sunday, becomes the second inauguration in history moved indoors because of freezing temperatures and high winds. The parade is cancelled altogether.
1997 Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1999 War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2000 Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
2002 The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.
1338 King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1721 James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1804 Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1813 John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (d. 1890)
1815 John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1824 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1825 Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1848 Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1860 Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1867 Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1867 Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
1881 Arch McCarthy, American baseball player (d. unknown)
1882 Pavel Florensky (O.S. January 9), Russian Orthodox theologian and mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
1883 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1884 Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
1885 Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical engineer (d. 1978)
1887 Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1895 Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1897 René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
1901 Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1905 Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1905 Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1909 Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
1910 Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1910 Albert Rosellini, American politician
1912 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1918 Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1918 Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1921 Howard Unruh, American mass murderer (d. 2009)
1922 Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1922 Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
1923 Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)
1924 Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
1926 Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1926 Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1927 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
1928 Gene Sharp, American political theorist and pacifist
1932 John Chaney, American basketball coach
1933 Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
1934 Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1936 Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1938 John Savident, British actor
1940 Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
1941 Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1941 Richie Havens, American musician
1941 Mike Medavoy, American film producer
1941 Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
1942 Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1942 Mac Davis, American musician
1943 Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek actor, songwriter and singer
1946 Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1947 Jill Eikenberry, American actress
1947 Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1950 Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1950 Gary Locke, American Secretary of Commerce
1951 Eric Holder, American Attorney General (2009-)
1952 Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1952 Cyril and Libbye Hellier, identical-twin sopranos
1952 Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1953 Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1954 Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach
1955 Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 Robby Benson, American actor
1956 Geena Davis, American actress
1957 Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
1958 Frank Ticheli, American composer
1958 Michael Wincott, Canadian actor
1959 Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1962 Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player
1963 Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1965 Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 Robert Del Naja, English musician
1966 Candi Milo, American voice actress
1967 Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
1968 Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1968 Charlotte Ross, American actress
1969 Eduard Hämäläinen, Finnish-Belarusian decathlete
1969 Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1969 M. K. Hobson, American speculative fiction and fantasy writer
1970 Ken Leung, American actor
1970 Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1971 Tweet, American singer
1971 Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
1972 Alan Benes, American baseball player
1972 Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician
1972 Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1973 Duane Lee Chapman Jr (American bounty hunter)
1974 Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1974 Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1975 Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
1975 Thomas Castaignede, French rugby player
1975 Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
1976 Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1977 Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
1977 Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 Matt Perry, English rugby player
1978 Bryan Gilmore, National Football League player
1978 Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1978 Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
1978 Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1979 Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1979 Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1980 Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1980 Mari Possa, Salvatorian-American Adult-Films actress
1981 Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer
1981 Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 Izabella Miko, Polish actress and model
1981 Alex Ubago, Spanish singer-songwriter
1982 Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1982 Go Shiozaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1982 Simon Rolfes, German footballer
1983 Katie Griffiths, English actress
1983 Maryse Ouellet, Canadian model and professional wrestler
1983 Peter Philipakos, American/Greek soccer player
1983 Moritz Volz, German footballer
1984 Raymond Gutierrez, Filipino actor and television host
1984 Robert Ray, American baseball player
1985 Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
1985 Adrian Lewis, English dart player
1985 Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1986 Peyton Hillis, American football player
1987 Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1988 William C. Woxlin, Swedish composer
1990 Jacob Smith, American actor
1994 BooBoo Stewart, Actor, singer
1994 Laura Robson, Australian/British tennis player
2004 Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
1721 James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1804 Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1813 John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (d. 1890)
1815 John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1824 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1825 Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1848 Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1860 Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1867 Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1867 Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
1881 Arch McCarthy, American baseball player (d. unknown)
1882 Pavel Florensky (O.S. January 9), Russian Orthodox theologian and mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
1883 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1884 Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
1885 Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical engineer (d. 1978)
1887 Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1895 Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1897 René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
1901 Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1905 Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1905 Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1909 Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
1910 Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1910 Albert Rosellini, American politician
1912 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1918 Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1918 Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1921 Howard Unruh, American mass murderer (d. 2009)
1922 Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1922 Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
1923 Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)
1924 Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
1926 Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1926 Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1927 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
1928 Gene Sharp, American political theorist and pacifist
1932 John Chaney, American basketball coach
1933 Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
1934 Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1936 Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1938 John Savident, British actor
1940 Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
1941 Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1941 Richie Havens, American musician
1941 Mike Medavoy, American film producer
1941 Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
1942 Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1942 Mac Davis, American musician
1943 Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek actor, songwriter and singer
1946 Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1947 Jill Eikenberry, American actress
1947 Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1950 Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1950 Gary Locke, American Secretary of Commerce
1951 Eric Holder, American Attorney General (2009-)
1952 Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1952 Cyril and Libbye Hellier, identical-twin sopranos
1952 Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1953 Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1954 Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach
1955 Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 Robby Benson, American actor
1956 Geena Davis, American actress
1957 Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
1958 Frank Ticheli, American composer
1958 Michael Wincott, Canadian actor
1959 Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1962 Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player
1963 Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1965 Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 Robert Del Naja, English musician
1966 Candi Milo, American voice actress
1967 Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
1968 Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1968 Charlotte Ross, American actress
1969 Eduard Hämäläinen, Finnish-Belarusian decathlete
1969 Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1969 M. K. Hobson, American speculative fiction and fantasy writer
1970 Ken Leung, American actor
1970 Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1971 Tweet, American singer
1971 Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
1972 Alan Benes, American baseball player
1972 Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician
1972 Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1973 Duane Lee Chapman Jr (American bounty hunter)
1974 Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1974 Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1975 Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
1975 Thomas Castaignede, French rugby player
1975 Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
1976 Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1977 Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
1977 Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 Matt Perry, English rugby player
1978 Bryan Gilmore, National Football League player
1978 Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1978 Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
1978 Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1979 Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1979 Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1980 Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1980 Mari Possa, Salvatorian-American Adult-Films actress
1981 Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer
1981 Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 Izabella Miko, Polish actress and model
1981 Alex Ubago, Spanish singer-songwriter
1982 Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1982 Go Shiozaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1982 Simon Rolfes, German footballer
1983 Katie Griffiths, English actress
1983 Maryse Ouellet, Canadian model and professional wrestler
1983 Peter Philipakos, American/Greek soccer player
1983 Moritz Volz, German footballer
1984 Raymond Gutierrez, Filipino actor and television host
1984 Robert Ray, American baseball player
1985 Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
1985 Adrian Lewis, English dart player
1985 Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1986 Peyton Hillis, American football player
1987 Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1988 William C. Woxlin, Swedish composer
1990 Jacob Smith, American actor
1994 BooBoo Stewart, Actor, singer
1994 Laura Robson, Australian/British tennis player
2004 Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
# 304 ? Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)
917 Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (b. c. 880)
1118 Pope Paschal II
1519 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1489)
1546 Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
1638 Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. c. 1570)
1683 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
1699 Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
1706 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1722 Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
1731 Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1766 James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
1775 Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel
1793 King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
1795 Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1814 Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
1823 Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
1831 Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
1851 Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)
1862 Bo?ena Němcová, Czech writer (b. 1820)
1870 Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1872 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
1881 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1891 Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
1901 Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1914 Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
1919 Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1924 Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
1928 George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1931 Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)
1932 Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
1933 George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
1937 Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
1950 George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
1955 Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1956 Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1959 Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
1967 Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
1968 Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
1977 Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1978 Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
1984 Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893)
1984 Jackie Wilson, American musician (b. 1934)
1985 James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
1985 Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
1987 Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
1989 Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1989 Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
1993 Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1996 René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)
1997 Colonel Tom Parker, American manager of Elvis Presley (b. 1909)
1998 Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
1999 Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
1999 Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
2001 Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (b. 1921)
2002 Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
2003 Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933)
2004 Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
2005 Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
2005 John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2005 Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)
2006 Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2006 Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2007 Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
2007 U;Nee, Korean pop artist (b. 1981)
2008 Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2008 Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2009 Veatrice Rice, Security guard, television personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live (b. 1949)
2010 Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)
917 Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (b. c. 880)
1118 Pope Paschal II
1519 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1489)
1546 Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
1638 Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. c. 1570)
1683 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
1699 Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
1706 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1722 Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
1731 Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1766 James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
1775 Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel
1793 King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
1795 Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1814 Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
1823 Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
1831 Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
1851 Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)
1862 Bo?ena Němcová, Czech writer (b. 1820)
1870 Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1872 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
1881 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1891 Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
1901 Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1914 Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
1919 Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1924 Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
1928 George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1931 Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)
1932 Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
1933 George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
1937 Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
1950 George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
1955 Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1956 Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1959 Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
1967 Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
1968 Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
1977 Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1978 Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
1984 Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893)
1984 Jackie Wilson, American musician (b. 1934)
1985 James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
1985 Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
1987 Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
1989 Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1989 Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
1993 Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1996 René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)
1997 Colonel Tom Parker, American manager of Elvis Presley (b. 1909)
1998 Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
1999 Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
1999 Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
2001 Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (b. 1921)
2002 Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
2003 Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933)
2004 Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
2005 Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
2005 John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2005 Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)
2006 Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2006 Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2007 Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
2007 U;Nee, Korean pop artist (b. 1981)
2008 Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2008 Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2009 Veatrice Rice, Security guard, television personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live (b. 1949)
2010 Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)
# 1223 Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.
# 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
# 1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
# 1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League
# 1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
# 1564 Battle on Gotland: Lübeck & Denmark beat Sweden
# 1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
# 1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
# 1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
# 1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
# 1669 Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
# 1678 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes
# 1678 The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
# 1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
# 1759 The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
# 1790 Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
# 1790 The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
# 1790 US copyright law enacted
# 1821 Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, first US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
# 1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
# 1837 Astor Hotel (most elaborate in US) opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
# 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
# 1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard the Advance
# 1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
# 1861 Mint at New Orleans closes
# 1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks); North defeats South
# 1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
# 1866 In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
# 1868 First Memorial Day parade held in Ironton OH
# 1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
# 1878 German battleship Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed
# 1878 US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
# 1879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
# 1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors
# 1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
# 1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
# 1884 John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
# 1889 Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
# 1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania
# 1889 The Johnstown Flood kills 2,000 to 5,000 Pennsylvanians in a city of 30,000
# 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
# 1899 Conference of Bloemfontein fails
# 1900 Piet de Law captures Lieutenant-Colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry
# 1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
# 1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
# 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
# 1902 Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
# 1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
# 1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
# 1907 Taxis first began running in NYC
# 1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is first female airplane passenger (Belgium)
# 1909 First NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
# 1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of the Union of South Africa
# 1910 Creation of the Union of South Africa.
# 1910 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
# 1911 R.M.S. Titanic launched.
# 1912 US marines land on Cuba
# 1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
# 1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London fortelling the future
# 1916 Battle of Skagerrak: British-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
# 1916 During WWI British & German fleets fight Battle of Jutland
# 1917 1First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
# 1918 General Monash succeeds Birdwood as GOC Australian Corps
# 1918 HMS Fairy, Built by Fairfields at Govan, Glasgow this 'C' Class destroyer of about 400 tons rammed the German submarine UC75 off the Yorkshire coast. The Uboat had previously been rammed by the steamer Blaydonian, damaging the casing. The Uboat then surfaced and at first the Commanding Officer of Fairy thought the submarine must be Royal Navy but the normal challenge was not replied to. Fairy then rammed the uboat at the stern because if the boat was British the crew would have time to get out. It then became quite quite clear the boat was German so HMS Fairy rammed her hard just forward of the conning tower. Two of the men from the submarine jumped on to the forecastle of the destroyer and the other twelve crew were rescued from the water. The submarine sank but the bows of the destroyer were seriously damaged as the submarine was a much bigger vessel than HMS Fairy and she, herself, later sank.
# 1919 First wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston TX)
# 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes first crossing of Atlantic
# 1919 NC-4's transatlantic flight ends at Plymouth, England
# 1921 Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
# 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
# 1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats
# 1926 Portuguese President Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
# 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
# 1927 The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
# 1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
# 1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
# 1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
# 1930 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
# 1931 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
# 1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
# 1937 German battleships shell Almeria Spain
# 1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
# 1940 General-Major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
# 1941 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington KS (state record)
# 1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
# 1942 Japanese midget submarines raid Sydney Harbour
# 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
# 1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
# 1943 "Archie" comic strip first broadcast on radio
# 1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
# 1944 USS England sank a record 6th Japanese submarine in 13 days.
# 1947 Communists grab power in Hungary
# 1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Port Deposit & Perryville MD, kills 53
# 1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later)
# 1951 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord
# 1953 Lebanese President Camille Shamun disbands government
# 1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
# 1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
# 1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
# 1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
# 1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Education of New Rochelle, to integrate
# 1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
# 1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
# 1965 May 31, 1965 Brooke Shields was born
# 1967 Bayern München wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg
# 1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
# 1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
# 1970 The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
# 1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
# 1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
# 1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season
# 1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
# 1977 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
# 1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
# 1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
# 1978 Personal posting - May 31 1978 Kumar Brajesh was born in Patna, INDIA
# 1978 Personal posting - Dragos birthday - Romania
# 1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
# 1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
# 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Mash - Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)
# 1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
# 1984 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
# 1984 Viv Richards hits 189 (170 balls) vs England, ODI cricket record
# 1985 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada kill 88 & injure more than 1,000
# 1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
# 1985 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
# 1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
# 1985 United States-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
# 1986 Personal posting - Dr.suyog born - India
# 1987 Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
# 1988 Personal posting - Hottie Kristen Nicole Jones was born
# 1988 Personal posting - Mary Smelser was born - USA
# 1989 First International Rock Awards
# 1989 Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigns
# 1990 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
# 1990 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
# 1990 The pilot episode of Seinfeld premieres.
# 1991 "These Are the Days of Our Lives", the last Queen video with Freddie Mercury, is shot.
# 1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
# 1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
# 1992 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
# 1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
# 1996 Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
# 1997 The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
# 2002 A series of major storms blew through Western Pennsylvania, killing 1 person when the Whip pavilion at Kennywood collapses.
# 2002 The United States Secretary of the Navy issued Instruction 10520.6 directing all United States Navy ships to fly the First Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign will be flown for the duration of the War on Terrorism.
# 2003 1996 Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
# 2004 A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
# 2005 W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
# 2009 Personal posting - May 31 2009 Jack William Ruddick was born
# 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
# 1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
# 1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League
# 1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
# 1564 Battle on Gotland: Lübeck & Denmark beat Sweden
# 1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
# 1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
# 1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
# 1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
# 1669 Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
# 1678 Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes
# 1678 The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
# 1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
# 1759 The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
# 1790 Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
# 1790 The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
# 1790 US copyright law enacted
# 1821 Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, first US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
# 1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
# 1837 Astor Hotel (most elaborate in US) opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
# 1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
# 1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves New York aboard the Advance
# 1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
# 1861 Mint at New Orleans closes
# 1862 Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks); North defeats South
# 1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
# 1866 In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
# 1868 First Memorial Day parade held in Ironton OH
# 1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
# 1878 German battleship Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed
# 1878 US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
# 1879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
# 1879 Madison Square Garden opens its doors
# 1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
# 1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
# 1884 John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
# 1889 Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
# 1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Pennsylvania
# 1889 The Johnstown Flood kills 2,000 to 5,000 Pennsylvanians in a city of 30,000
# 1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
# 1899 Conference of Bloemfontein fails
# 1900 Piet de Law captures Lieutenant-Colonel Spragges Irish Yeomanry
# 1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
# 1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
# 1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
# 1902 Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
# 1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
# 1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
# 1907 Taxis first began running in NYC
# 1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is first female airplane passenger (Belgium)
# 1909 First NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
# 1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of the Union of South Africa
# 1910 Creation of the Union of South Africa.
# 1910 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
# 1911 R.M.S. Titanic launched.
# 1912 US marines land on Cuba
# 1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
# 1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London fortelling the future
# 1916 Battle of Skagerrak: British-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
# 1916 During WWI British & German fleets fight Battle of Jutland
# 1917 1First jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
# 1918 General Monash succeeds Birdwood as GOC Australian Corps
# 1918 HMS Fairy, Built by Fairfields at Govan, Glasgow this 'C' Class destroyer of about 400 tons rammed the German submarine UC75 off the Yorkshire coast. The Uboat had previously been rammed by the steamer Blaydonian, damaging the casing. The Uboat then surfaced and at first the Commanding Officer of Fairy thought the submarine must be Royal Navy but the normal challenge was not replied to. Fairy then rammed the uboat at the stern because if the boat was British the crew would have time to get out. It then became quite quite clear the boat was German so HMS Fairy rammed her hard just forward of the conning tower. Two of the men from the submarine jumped on to the forecastle of the destroyer and the other twelve crew were rescued from the water. The submarine sank but the bows of the destroyer were seriously damaged as the submarine was a much bigger vessel than HMS Fairy and she, herself, later sank.
# 1919 First wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston TX)
# 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes first crossing of Atlantic
# 1919 NC-4's transatlantic flight ends at Plymouth, England
# 1921 Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
# 1921 Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
# 1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats
# 1926 Portuguese President Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
# 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
# 1927 The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
# 1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
# 1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
# 1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
# 1930 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
# 1931 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
# 1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
# 1937 German battleships shell Almeria Spain
# 1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
# 1940 General-Major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
# 1941 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington KS (state record)
# 1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
# 1942 Japanese midget submarines raid Sydney Harbour
# 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
# 1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
# 1943 "Archie" comic strip first broadcast on radio
# 1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
# 1944 USS England sank a record 6th Japanese submarine in 13 days.
# 1947 Communists grab power in Hungary
# 1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Port Deposit & Perryville MD, kills 53
# 1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later)
# 1951 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord
# 1953 Lebanese President Camille Shamun disbands government
# 1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
# 1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
# 1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
# 1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
# 1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Education of New Rochelle, to integrate
# 1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
# 1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
# 1965 May 31, 1965 Brooke Shields was born
# 1967 Bayern München wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg
# 1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
# 1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 earthquake (50-70,000 die)
# 1970 The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
# 1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
# 1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
# 1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season
# 1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
# 1977 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
# 1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
# 1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
# 1978 Personal posting - May 31 1978 Kumar Brajesh was born in Patna, INDIA
# 1978 Personal posting - Dragos birthday - Romania
# 1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
# 1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
# 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Mash - Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)
# 1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
# 1984 57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
# 1984 Viv Richards hits 189 (170 balls) vs England, ODI cricket record
# 1985 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada kill 88 & injure more than 1,000
# 1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
# 1985 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
# 1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
# 1985 United States-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
# 1986 Personal posting - Dr.suyog born - India
# 1987 Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
# 1988 Personal posting - Hottie Kristen Nicole Jones was born
# 1988 Personal posting - Mary Smelser was born - USA
# 1989 First International Rock Awards
# 1989 Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigns
# 1990 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
# 1990 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
# 1990 The pilot episode of Seinfeld premieres.
# 1991 "These Are the Days of Our Lives", the last Queen video with Freddie Mercury, is shot.
# 1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
# 1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
# 1992 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
# 1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
# 1996 Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
# 1997 The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
# 2002 A series of major storms blew through Western Pennsylvania, killing 1 person when the Whip pavilion at Kennywood collapses.
# 2002 The United States Secretary of the Navy issued Instruction 10520.6 directing all United States Navy ships to fly the First Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign will be flown for the duration of the War on Terrorism.
# 2003 1996 Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
# 2004 A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
# 2005 W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
# 2009 Personal posting - May 31 2009 Jack William Ruddick was born
0867 St Nicholas I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1093 Scotland's Malcolm III MacDuncan and his eldest son Edward are entrapped and killed November 13 at a place that will be called Malcolm's Cross Malcolm has been laying siege to Alnwick in an invasion of England, his wife Margaret dies 4 days later, and he is succeeded by his brother Donald Bane, who will reign until 1097
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1642 At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1839 The first US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington.
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1854 The ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1864 The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1895 The first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1909 Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1926 Personal posting - James W. Smith was born - USA
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, first twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 The first modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1940 Walt Disney's"Fantasia" released
1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, sinking the next day.
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1955 The first live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1956 United States Supreme Court declares Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal; thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1961 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1965 The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1965 The cruise ship "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1965 Warrant Officer KA Wheatley, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), awarded posthumously the first Victoria Cross won in Vietnam
1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Hugo Montenegro Orchestra - The Good The Bad And The Ugly
1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1970 Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster.
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 Mariner 9, first to orbit another planet (Mars)
1971 Number one hit on UK music charts - Slade - Coz I Luv You
1971 The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
1978 NASA launches HEAO
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1985 Personal posting - Clayton Gerrian was born =) - USA
1985 The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1988 Personal posting - November 13, 1988 Kendra Williams was born
1990 The World Wide Web first began.
1991 Personal posting - Normans birthday
1992 Personal posting - Rebecca Anne born Fri. Nov. 13. Illinois. - USA
1992 Personal posting - Kamal Patwa was born on nov 13 fri, INDIA
1992 Personal posting - Teenage Author, Leon Evans, was born. - USA
1994 Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
1995 A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
2001 Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
2001 Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
2005 Personal posting - The great ShivaliMuthuvel born in Madurai,India - India
2007 An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six.
1002 English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers
1093 Scotland's Malcolm III MacDuncan and his eldest son Edward are entrapped and killed November 13 at a place that will be called Malcolm's Cross Malcolm has been laying siege to Alnwick in an invasion of England, his wife Margaret dies 4 days later, and he is succeeded by his brother Donald Bane, who will reign until 1097
1460 Henry the Navigator prince of Portugal, dies at 66
1642 At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"
1829 Sam Patch loses his life in a 125' dive into Genesse Falls
1839 The first US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts
1849 Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California
1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington.
1854 "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1854 The ship "New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300
1864 The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 US issues 1st gold certificates
1868 American Philological Association organized in NY
1868 Gioacchino (Antonio) Rossini composer (Barber of Seville), dies at 76
1875 National Bowling Association organized in NYC
1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1895 The first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii
1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies a twin rotor helicopter
1909 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill
1909 Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1921 "The Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released
1921 US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1926 Personal posting - James W. Smith was born - USA
1927 NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, first twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1931 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st US woman senator
1933 The first modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN
1937 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1940 Walt Disney's"Fantasia" released
1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, sinking the next day.
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.
1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1955 The first live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba
1956 United States Supreme Court declares Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal; thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
1961 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
1961 Wally Brown actor (Jed Fame-Cimarron City), dies at 57
1965 The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1965 The cruise ship "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
1965 Warrant Officer KA Wheatley, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), awarded posthumously the first Victoria Cross won in Vietnam
1967 Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh)
1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - Hugo Montenegro Orchestra - The Good The Bad And The Ugly
1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1970 Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster.
1970 Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh
1970 Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup
1970 VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"
1971 Mariner 9, first to orbit another planet (Mars)
1971 Number one hit on UK music charts - Slade - Coz I Luv You
1971 The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
1974 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances
1976 Number one hit on UK music charts - Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
1978 NASA launches HEAO
1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"
1982 A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport.
1982 Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim fatally injured when KOed by Ray Mancini
1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1983 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56
1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
1985 Personal posting - Clayton Gerrian was born =) - USA
1985 The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1986 US violates Iran arms boycott
1988 Personal posting - November 13, 1988 Kendra Williams was born
1990 The World Wide Web first began.
1991 Personal posting - Normans birthday
1992 Personal posting - Rebecca Anne born Fri. Nov. 13. Illinois. - USA
1992 Personal posting - Kamal Patwa was born on nov 13 fri, INDIA
1992 Personal posting - Teenage Author, Leon Evans, was born. - USA
1994 Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
1995 A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
2001 Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
2001 Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
2005 Personal posting - The great ShivaliMuthuvel born in Madurai,India - India
2007 An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six.
Oooooh! The world wide web started on my birthday! Oh, and the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated as well. I remember learning that in history class.
# 0270 St. Valentine died, marking Valentines Day (some sources say 269, others 273).
# 0842 Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
# 1014 Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.
# 1014 The German king Henry of Bavaria recognizes Benedict VIII as the rightful pope and is crowned at Rome February 14
# 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
# 1349 Approximately 2,000 Jews were burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
# 1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
# 1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
# 1556 Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
# 1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
# 1613 King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
# 1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
# 1663 Canada becomes a Royal Province of France.
# 1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
# 1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
# 1711 Händels opera Rinaldo, premieres
# 1743 Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
# 1761 British troops occupy Fort Michilimackinac in Michigan
# 1766 Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
# 1778 The Star and Stripes (U.S. flag) makes its first appearance at a foreign port, flying aboard the ship Ranger, as it arrives in France.
# 1778 The United States Flag was formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
# 1779 James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
# 1794 First US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia PA
# 1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA
# 1803 Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is void.
# 1804 Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
# 1826 Lt. Colonel John By 1781-1836 of the Royal Engineers arrives in Hull to plan construction of the Rideau Canal
# 1831 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
# 1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
# 1843 The event that inspired the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held.
# 1848 James K Polk became first President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
# 1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
# 1852 Personal posting - 1st patient accepted at Gt Ormond Street Hospital, London - United Kingdom
# 1854 Texas linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
# 1859 Oregon admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
# 1859 Oregon becomes the 33rd state admitted to the Union.
# 1862 Galena, first US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
# 1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues first policy
# 1876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
# 1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
# 0842 Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
# 1014 Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.
# 1014 The German king Henry of Bavaria recognizes Benedict VIII as the rightful pope and is crowned at Rome February 14
# 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
# 1349 Approximately 2,000 Jews were burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
# 1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
# 1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
# 1556 Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
# 1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
# 1613 King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
# 1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
# 1663 Canada becomes a Royal Province of France.
# 1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
# 1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
# 1711 Händels opera Rinaldo, premieres
# 1743 Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
# 1761 British troops occupy Fort Michilimackinac in Michigan
# 1766 Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
# 1778 The Star and Stripes (U.S. flag) makes its first appearance at a foreign port, flying aboard the ship Ranger, as it arrives in France.
# 1778 The United States Flag was formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
# 1779 James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
# 1794 First US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia PA
# 1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA
# 1803 Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is void.
# 1804 Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
# 1826 Lt. Colonel John By 1781-1836 of the Royal Engineers arrives in Hull to plan construction of the Rideau Canal
# 1831 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
# 1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
# 1843 The event that inspired the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! is held.
# 1848 James K Polk became first President photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
# 1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
# 1852 Personal posting - 1st patient accepted at Gt Ormond Street Hospital, London - United Kingdom
# 1854 Texas linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
# 1859 Oregon admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
# 1859 Oregon becomes the 33rd state admitted to the Union.
# 1862 Galena, first US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut
# 1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company issues first policy
# 1876 A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents; Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
# 1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
