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1867 Mt. Vesuvius erupts.
1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
well this got me to look it up...
September 4th, (1994 to be persise... that makes it 9/4/94)
2006- Steve Irwin died
1937- Chicago Polio Outbreak
1951- President Truman's speech in San Fransisco became the first television program to be broadcasted coast-to-coast
... and some other things, non of them are too interesting
September 4th, (1994 to be persise... that makes it 9/4/94)
2006- Steve Irwin died
1937- Chicago Polio Outbreak
1951- President Truman's speech in San Fransisco became the first television program to be broadcasted coast-to-coast
... and some other things, non of them are too interesting
yeah i was born May 13th, 1995.
1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
1364 Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven
1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
1559 Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
1568 Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1588 King Henri III flees Paris
1607 English colonists (John Smith) land near James River in Virginia
1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
1624 Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1643 Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1643 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi was completed.
1652 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
1654 Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish
1777 University library at Vienna opens
1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends
1787 A fleet of eleven ships left Britain with two years provision and a cargo of 759 unwilling convicts, their guards,and ships crew numbering - 1530 people in all. They were to colonise a new land. Australia
1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay
1820 The opera "Die Jäearsbraut" is completed
1828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
1830 Ecuador gains its independence.
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1835 The first foreign embassy in Hawaii is established
1846 US declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins
1848 First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 Great Comet of 1861 discovered in Australia.
1861 Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
1865 South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
1876 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1882 Toba-Indians killed 20 members of French expedition
1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is founded
1888 Brazil abolishes slavery
1888 DeWolf Hopper first recited "Casey at the Bat"
1888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery
1888 With the passage of the Lei urea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
1906 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1908 Navy Nurse Corps established.
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
1912 Royal Flying Corps is established in England
1913 Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1913 The first 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1916 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
1916 The first observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1917 Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres
1917 The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.
1917 Three peasant children report seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary near Ftima, Portugal.[1]
1918 The first US airmail stamps issued (24¢)
1926 German Government of Luther falls
1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1927 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
1929 The first suicidal person jumps off of the Statue of Liberty.
1930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock TX; this is the only known fatality due to hail
1931 Paul Doumer elected President of France
1932 Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
1934 Great dustbowl storm
1936 Quiroga Government takes office in Spain
1939 SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later became WDRC-FM.
1940 British bomb factory at Breda
1940 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
1941 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1942 Helicopter makes its first cross-country flight
1942 US troops replace New Zealanders in Fiji
1943 Axis forces surrender in Tunisia ? end of the North African campaign
1943 Bureau of Navigation renamed Bureau of Naval Personnel
1943 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
1943 World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1945 Aircraft from fast carrier task force begin 2-day attack on Kyushu airfields, Japan
1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1946 Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wicket for Indians vs Surrey
1946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1946 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1949 The first British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its first test flight later this type of aricaraft was used in the 1982 war in the Falklands
1950 Diner's Club issues its first credit cards
1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, held its first sitting.
1954 Anti-National Service Riots, a riot in Singapore by Chinese Middle School students.
1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
1958 Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation
1958 Personal posting - May 13,1958 Jeffery Carbaugh is born in York,Pa.
1958 Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France.
1958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French Government
1958 Rioters attack US Vice President Nixon in Venezuala
1958 Velcro's trade mark is registered.
1960 Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. 31 students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1960 The first launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
1960 Personal posting - Chris Peck born - Canada
1964 Organization and deployment of world's first all nuclear-powered task group, USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach, and USS Bainbridge, to Sixth Fleet
1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Roger Miller - King Of The Road
1965 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
1965 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1966 Personal posting - Mackenzie Kupyn born in Bellevue, WA
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain became 3rd President of India. He was the first Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position till August 24, 1969.
1967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Pompidou
1969 Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the May 13 Incident.
1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1970 The Beatles movie Let It Be premieres today
1971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka. Blocked exits and nonfunctional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville TN
1975 Stanley Cup ; Philadelphia Flyers beat New York Islanders 4-3
1976 The final game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets 112-106 in New York to win the 1976 ABA Championship.
1978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon / Brown Girl In The Girl
1979 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II
1981 Mehmet Ali Aca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope was rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery, and managed to survive.
1981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
1982 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
1982 Terri Lea Utley, (20), from Arkansas, crowned 31st Miss USA
1983 Reggie Jackson becomes the first major league baseball player to strike out 2,000 times
1985 Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11
1985 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police storm MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1986 Personal posting - May 13 1986 great philosopher and clairvoyant Sean Johns born
1987 Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
1989 Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 Large groups of students occupied Tiananmen Square and began a hunger strike. See Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart
1989 Thousands of students stage a hunger strike in China's Tiananmen Square
1991 "Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness" goes on sale
1991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1992 Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
1992 Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
1993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
1993 Personal posting - Taylor graced this world with her existence! - USA
1993 Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993 Personal posting - may 13 1993 Sarah was born YAYYYYY
1993 CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
1993 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
1993 Personal posting - Alonso Vasquez was born in Los Angeles Cali. and lives in El Paso Tx...ILY
1993 Personal posting - Mr.Bedoya was born in Northern California and lives in Santa Rosa, the Bay Area!!!!!!!!!! - USA
1995 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe;
1995 New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
1996 OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
1998 Personal posting - Travis Younger Dalton (Bubba) went to heaven. Rest in Peace our Angel - USA
1998 Personal posting - Semeen Mahbubs Birthday - United Kingdom
2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage.
2000 Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to voice our choices and opinions is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.
2001 Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
2002 Ruth Cracknell Dies - 13/5/07
2005 Malcolm Glazer completes a hostile takeover of Manchester United for $1.4 billion.
2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2006 2006 So Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons of the Brazilian state.
2007 Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
1364 Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven
1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
1559 Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
1568 Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1588 King Henri III flees Paris
1607 English colonists (John Smith) land near James River in Virginia
1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
1624 Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1643 Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1643 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi was completed.
1652 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
1654 Venetian fleet under Admiral Adeler beats Turkish
1777 University library at Vienna opens
1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends
1787 A fleet of eleven ships left Britain with two years provision and a cargo of 759 unwilling convicts, their guards,and ships crew numbering - 1530 people in all. They were to colonise a new land. Australia
1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay
1820 The opera "Die Jäearsbraut" is completed
1828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
1830 Ecuador gains its independence.
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1835 The first foreign embassy in Hawaii is established
1846 US declares war on México, 2 months after fighting begins
1848 First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 Great Comet of 1861 discovered in Australia.
1861 Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
1865 South Brownsville TX (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed
1876 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1882 Toba-Indians killed 20 members of French expedition
1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is founded
1888 Brazil abolishes slavery
1888 DeWolf Hopper first recited "Casey at the Bat"
1888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery
1888 With the passage of the Lei urea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
1906 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1908 Navy Nurse Corps established.
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
1912 Royal Flying Corps is established in England
1913 Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1913 The first 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1916 42nd Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
1916 The first observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1917 Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo" premieres
1917 The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.
1917 Three peasant children report seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary near Ftima, Portugal.[1]
1918 The first US airmail stamps issued (24¢)
1926 German Government of Luther falls
1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1927 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
1929 The first suicidal person jumps off of the Statue of Liberty.
1930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock TX; this is the only known fatality due to hail
1931 Paul Doumer elected President of France
1932 Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
1934 Great dustbowl storm
1936 Quiroga Government takes office in Spain
1939 SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later became WDRC-FM.
1940 British bomb factory at Breda
1940 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
1941 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1942 Helicopter makes its first cross-country flight
1942 US troops replace New Zealanders in Fiji
1943 Axis forces surrender in Tunisia ? end of the North African campaign
1943 Bureau of Navigation renamed Bureau of Naval Personnel
1943 German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
1943 World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1945 Aircraft from fast carrier task force begin 2-day attack on Kyushu airfields, Japan
1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1946 Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wicket for Indians vs Surrey
1946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1946 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1949 The first British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its first test flight later this type of aricaraft was used in the 1982 war in the Falklands
1950 Diner's Club issues its first credit cards
1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, held its first sitting.
1954 Anti-National Service Riots, a riot in Singapore by Chinese Middle School students.
1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
1958 Jordan & Iraq form the Arab Federation
1958 Personal posting - May 13,1958 Jeffery Carbaugh is born in York,Pa.
1958 Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France.
1958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French Government
1958 Rioters attack US Vice President Nixon in Venezuala
1958 Velcro's trade mark is registered.
1960 Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. 31 students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1960 The first launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
1960 Personal posting - Chris Peck born - Canada
1964 Organization and deployment of world's first all nuclear-powered task group, USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach, and USS Bainbridge, to Sixth Fleet
1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Roger Miller - King Of The Road
1965 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
1965 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1966 Personal posting - Mackenzie Kupyn born in Bellevue, WA
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain became 3rd President of India. He was the first Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position till August 24, 1969.
1967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Pompidou
1969 Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the May 13 Incident.
1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1970 The Beatles movie Let It Be premieres today
1971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka. Blocked exits and nonfunctional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville TN
1975 Stanley Cup ; Philadelphia Flyers beat New York Islanders 4-3
1976 The final game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets 112-106 in New York to win the 1976 ABA Championship.
1978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon / Brown Girl In The Girl
1979 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II
1981 Mehmet Ali Aca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope was rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery, and managed to survive.
1981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
1982 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
1982 Terri Lea Utley, (20), from Arkansas, crowned 31st Miss USA
1983 Reggie Jackson becomes the first major league baseball player to strike out 2,000 times
1985 Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11
1985 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police storm MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1986 Personal posting - May 13 1986 great philosopher and clairvoyant Sean Johns born
1987 Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
1989 Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 Large groups of students occupied Tiananmen Square and began a hunger strike. See Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart
1989 Thousands of students stage a hunger strike in China's Tiananmen Square
1991 "Michael Jackson: The Magic & the Madness" goes on sale
1991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1992 Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
1992 Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
1993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
1993 Personal posting - Taylor graced this world with her existence! - USA
1993 Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993 Personal posting - may 13 1993 Sarah was born YAYYYYY
1993 CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
1993 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
1993 Personal posting - Alonso Vasquez was born in Los Angeles Cali. and lives in El Paso Tx...ILY
1993 Personal posting - Mr.Bedoya was born in Northern California and lives in Santa Rosa, the Bay Area!!!!!!!!!! - USA
1995 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe;
1995 New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
1996 OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
1998 Personal posting - Travis Younger Dalton (Bubba) went to heaven. Rest in Peace our Angel - USA
1998 Personal posting - Semeen Mahbubs Birthday - United Kingdom
2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage.
2000 Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to voice our choices and opinions is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia.
2001 Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
2002 Ruth Cracknell Dies - 13/5/07
2005 Malcolm Glazer completes a hostile takeover of Manchester United for $1.4 billion.
2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2006 2006 So Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons of the Brazilian state.
2007 Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
1355 The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1535 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1542 Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
1549 Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil
1567 An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
1567 UK hist Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
1635 Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA
1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier
1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1746 English Pelham government resigns
1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1763 French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1763 The French and Indian War ends with signing of the Treaty of Paris. As part of the treaty, Canada is ceded to England by the French.
1763 The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 ending the French and Indian War.
1772 1771 Maratha forces from the Deccan Plateau drive the Afghans out of Delhi, install the son of the exiled Mughal emperor Shah Alam as temporary ruler
1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1798 Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1802 In London England Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land
1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
1824 Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú
1840 Queen Victoria of England marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1841 UK hist Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp
1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1846 First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1860 John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
1863 Frist US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)
1863 The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
1866 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
1868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
1870 The YWCA is founded (New York City).
1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York NY)
1878 Peace of Zanjón
1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1879 First electric arc light used (California Theater)
1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71
1890 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 Freedom of religion in Madagascar
1897 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899 -39ºF (-39ºC), Milligan OH (state lowest temperature record)
1899 Herbert Hoover (31st U.S. President, 1929-33), marries Lou Henry.
1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
1904 Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1906 Britain's first modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched, it changed the battleship concept fo rthe world
1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
1908 In England Canadian Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 rounds to defend his world heavyweight boxing title
1916 Conscription begins in Britain
1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands first female professor
1920 Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 Ink paste manufactured for first time by Standard Ink Company
1923 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
1923 Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1925 The first waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City IN
1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
1927 President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1929 Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
1930 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
1931 New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1933 -54ºF (-48ºC), Seneca OR (state record)
1933 Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship
1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1933 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
1933 Singing telegrams were introduced in the U.S. by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York.
1933 The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
1934 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; first unperforated ungummed US stamp
1934 First Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1934 Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
1935 Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive
1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 The first Tom and Jerry cartoon "Puss Gets the Boot" premiers.
1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1941 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
1942 HMCS Spikenard (Corvette) torpedoed
1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
1946 Liner Mauritania docks in Halifax carrying 943 war brides and children from England.
1947 Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland
1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1947 WWII peace treaties signed
1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
1949 Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman premiered in New York City.
1949 The Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, starring Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, makes its Broadway debut.
1950 The Temiscouata Railway is entrusted to Canadian National. This line, which was opened throughout on October 1, 1891, ran from Rivière du Loup to Edmundston and from Edmundston to Connors.
1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
1952 Personal posting - Australia, Margaret Edith Platt announces the birth of her first Aussie son. Named Ronald Malcolm - Australia
1953 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain
1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
1953 Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA
1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1954 President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1962 Captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the U.S.S.R. in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the U.S.
1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
1964 Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1965 In Northwestern Iran a 5.1 earthquake occurred. At least 20 persons were fatally injured and thousands of houses destroyed in and near Bustanabad
1966 Harmel government in Belgium resigns
1967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1967 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified.
1968 "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1970 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
1972 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
1973 83 meter wide gas tank on Staten Island NY explodes, crushing 40
1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1974 Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
1978 Personal posting - Kristopher Leander Crouse entered the world to the absolute delight of his parents! - USA
1979 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
1981 A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton claims eight lives, and injures nearly 200, at this popular hotel-casino.
1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
1982 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Québec
1983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
1983 Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles
1986 "John Lennon Live in NYC" album is released
1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
1987 Personal posting - Jennifer Beeman of Dallas, Texas was born in Silver City, NM - USA
1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
1989 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court
1990 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
1990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion
1990 South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela, the black activist imprisoned for 27 years, will be released the next day.
1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
1991 Personal posting - Nicholas Griffith makes his appearance,,, EARLY ! in FC,CO - USA
1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics first gold medal for the USA
1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1992 Roots author Alex Haley dies in Seattle at age 71.
1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
1993 Personal posting - Kyle Roman is born.
1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
1995 Personal posting - MELISSA FARLEY IS BORN!!! AHHHH!!! - USA
1995 Personal posting - Hannah Devine was born - USA
1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov
1996 Minneapolis, Minnesota Timmins country singer Shania Twain draws a crowd of up to 20,000 fans for an autograph session at the giant Mall of America
1996 The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1997 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
1997 Personal posting - the day I was born!!! (you don't know who I am though) (I'm Brian) - USA
1997 O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages
1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
1998 AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
1998 Canadian National President Paul Tellier says CN is acquiring US rail company Illinois Central Corp for $2.4 billion
1998 Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law.
1999 A federal judge orders American Airlines pilots back to work after their sickout grounds 2500 flights, stranding 200,000 travelers and crippling cargo carriers.
2000 Personal posting - Jack Craig Spurr of Castleford (West Yorkshire) was born - United Kingdom
2003 France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2003 Personal posting - Jacob Sean Farrelly is born in Royal Oak MI - USA
2008 Super Smash Bros. Brawl release date.
1355 The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1535 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1542 Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery).
1549 Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil
1567 An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
1567 UK hist Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
1635 Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA
1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier
1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1746 English Pelham government resigns
1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1763 French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1763 The French and Indian War ends with signing of the Treaty of Paris. As part of the treaty, Canada is ceded to England by the French.
1763 The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 ending the French and Indian War.
1772 1771 Maratha forces from the Deccan Plateau drive the Afghans out of Delhi, install the son of the exiled Mughal emperor Shah Alam as temporary ruler
1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1798 Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1802 In London England Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land
1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
1824 Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú
1840 Queen Victoria of England marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1841 UK hist Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp
1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1846 First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1860 John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
1863 Frist US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)
1863 The world-famous dwarfs General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren get married in New York City.
1866 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
1868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
1870 The YWCA is founded (New York City).
1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York NY)
1878 Peace of Zanjón
1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1879 First electric arc light used (California Theater)
1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71
1890 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 Freedom of religion in Madagascar
1897 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899 -39ºF (-39ºC), Milligan OH (state lowest temperature record)
1899 Herbert Hoover (31st U.S. President, 1929-33), marries Lou Henry.
1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
1904 Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1906 Britain's first modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched, it changed the battleship concept fo rthe world
1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
1908 In England Canadian Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 rounds to defend his world heavyweight boxing title
1916 Conscription begins in Britain
1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands first female professor
1920 Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 Ink paste manufactured for first time by Standard Ink Company
1923 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
1923 Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1925 The first waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City IN
1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
1927 President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1929 Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu.
1930 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
1931 New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1933 -54ºF (-48ºC), Seneca OR (state record)
1933 Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship
1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1933 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
1933 Singing telegrams were introduced in the U.S. by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York.
1933 The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
1934 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; first unperforated ungummed US stamp
1934 First Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1934 Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
1935 Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive
1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 The first Tom and Jerry cartoon "Puss Gets the Boot" premiers.
1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1941 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
1942 HMCS Spikenard (Corvette) torpedoed
1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
1946 Liner Mauritania docks in Halifax carrying 943 war brides and children from England.
1947 Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland
1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1947 WWII peace treaties signed
1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
1949 Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman premiered in New York City.
1949 The Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, starring Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock, makes its Broadway debut.
1950 The Temiscouata Railway is entrusted to Canadian National. This line, which was opened throughout on October 1, 1891, ran from Rivière du Loup to Edmundston and from Edmundston to Connors.
1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
1952 Personal posting - Australia, Margaret Edith Platt announces the birth of her first Aussie son. Named Ronald Malcolm - Australia
1953 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain
1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
1953 Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA
1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1954 President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1962 Captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the U.S.S.R. in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the U.S.
1964 Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne
1964 Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1965 In Northwestern Iran a 5.1 earthquake occurred. At least 20 persons were fatally injured and thousands of houses destroyed in and near Bustanabad
1966 Harmel government in Belgium resigns
1967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1967 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified.
1968 "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1970 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
1972 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
1973 83 meter wide gas tank on Staten Island NY explodes, crushing 40
1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1974 Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
1978 Personal posting - Kristopher Leander Crouse entered the world to the absolute delight of his parents! - USA
1979 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
1981 A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton claims eight lives, and injures nearly 200, at this popular hotel-casino.
1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
1982 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Québec
1983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
1983 Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles
1986 "John Lennon Live in NYC" album is released
1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
1987 Personal posting - Jennifer Beeman of Dallas, Texas was born in Silver City, NM - USA
1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
1989 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court
1990 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
1990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion
1990 South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela, the black activist imprisoned for 27 years, will be released the next day.
1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
1991 Personal posting - Nicholas Griffith makes his appearance,,, EARLY ! in FC,CO - USA
1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics first gold medal for the USA
1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1992 Roots author Alex Haley dies in Seattle at age 71.
1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
1993 Personal posting - Kyle Roman is born.
1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
1995 Personal posting - MELISSA FARLEY IS BORN!!! AHHHH!!! - USA
1995 Personal posting - Hannah Devine was born - USA
1996 IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov
1996 Minneapolis, Minnesota Timmins country singer Shania Twain draws a crowd of up to 20,000 fans for an autograph session at the giant Mall of America
1996 The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1997 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
1997 Personal posting - the day I was born!!! (you don't know who I am though) (I'm Brian) - USA
1997 O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages
1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
1998 AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
1998 Canadian National President Paul Tellier says CN is acquiring US rail company Illinois Central Corp for $2.4 billion
1998 Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon that law.
1999 A federal judge orders American Airlines pilots back to work after their sickout grounds 2500 flights, stranding 200,000 travelers and crippling cargo carriers.
2000 Personal posting - Jack Craig Spurr of Castleford (West Yorkshire) was born - United Kingdom
2003 France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2003 Personal posting - Jacob Sean Farrelly is born in Royal Oak MI - USA
2008 Super Smash Bros. Brawl release date.
1991 - Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
Important stuff :
1940 - The first Tom and Jerry cartoon "Puss Gets the Boot" premiers.
1940 - Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
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1535 - 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1903 Italo Marcioni patents the ice cream cone (NJ) - HAHAHAHA
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1938 The Holocaust: 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.
1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Return To Sender
1983 The Denver Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons play in the highest scoring NBA game in history, with the Pistons winning 186-184 in triple overtime. In addition to most points in a game, this game also set the record for most field goals made (136), and most assists (93).
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
2003 In the most-attended basketball game in history, 78,129 watch Michigan State University lose 79-74 to the University of Kentucky at Ford Field.
I've selected a few , for 13th of December.
Grats on interesting thread .
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1938 The Holocaust: 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.
1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Return To Sender
1983 The Denver Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons play in the highest scoring NBA game in history, with the Pistons winning 186-184 in triple overtime. In addition to most points in a game, this game also set the record for most field goals made (136), and most assists (93).
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
2003 In the most-attended basketball game in history, 78,129 watch Michigan State University lose 79-74 to the University of Kentucky at Ford Field.
I've selected a few , for 13th of December.
Grats on interesting thread .
# 0972 Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces.
# 1128 Battle of So Mamede, near Guimares. Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Ferno Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
# 1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
# 1340 UK hist Edward III personally commands the English fleet in their victory over the French off Sluys (who were trying to blockade English export of wool to Flanders)
# 1348 UK hist Order of the Garter founded by King Edward III of England ? motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'
# 1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
# 1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
# 1497 Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London
# 1497 John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European exploration of the region since the Vikings. Claims eastern Canada for England
# 1509 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crowned King and Queen of England.
# 1535 Anabaptists Protestants conquerered & disbanded
# 1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
# 1571 Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founded Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
# 1597 The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
# 1647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
# 1650 England's Charles II returns from the Continent, landing in Scotland. He signs the National Covenant and is proclaimed king, but he is defeated September 3 at the Battle of Dunbar by Oliver Cromwell
# 1662 Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
# 1664 The colony of New Jersey is founded.
# 1692 Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
# 1717 The Grand Lodge of England, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
# 1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
# 1793 First republican constitution in France adopted.
# 1794 Bowdoin College is founded.
# 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Arme crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia.
# 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
# 1817 The first coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
# 1821 Battle of Carabobo - Battle of Carabobo was the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
# 1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
# 1859 Battle of Solferino: (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
# 1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
# 1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
# 1894 Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years
# 1894 Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
# 1897 Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
# 1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
# 1901 First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
# 1902 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
# 1913 Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
# 1915 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
# 1916 Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
# 1916 Mary Pickford becomes first female film star to get million dollar contract.
# 1916 The most lucrative movie contract to the time was signed by actress, Mary Pickford. She inked the first sevenfigure Hollywood deal.
# 1918 First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
# 1928 With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada
# 1930 The first radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
# 1932 A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
# 1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
# 1938 A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
# 1939 Pan Am's first US to England flight
# 1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
# 1945 Moscow Victory Parade
# 1946 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record)
# 1947 Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
# 1947 Looking skyward this night, Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
# 1948 Berlin, Germany was completely isolated from the outside world. Joseph Stalin, premier of Soviet Russia, who had already cut rail and road access to the city three months earlier, now blocked all ground and water access and cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the great Berlin Airlift began. U.S. planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day for the next 10 months
# 1948 Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
# 1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes first network western (NBC)
# 1949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
# 1949 The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
# 1950 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua
# 1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
# 1963 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
# 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Hollies - I'm Alive
# 1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
# 1968 Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US & 1st rookie LPGA winner
# 1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
# 1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title
# 1968 Resurrection City closed
# 1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
# 1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
# 1973 Personal posting - Bryan Swearinger born and a new age dawned across the land. - USA
# 1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
# 1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
# 1981 What would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge opens, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
# 1982 British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
# 1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
# 1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
# 1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
# 1985 STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completed its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
# 1985 The motion picture " Cocoon", directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. "Cocoon", which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" starring Sylvester Stallone, in firstweekend receipts
# 1985 The wife of exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn became a U.S. citizen.
# 1986 Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
# 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
# 1987 ?The Great One?, Jackie Gleason, passed away on this day, at the age of 71. Gleason was one of TV?s biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s. He started on the DuMont Television Network, became a celebrated fixture on CBSTV, and later, a movie star. He starred in honored films such as, "Gigot" and "The Hustler". He also starred in "Smokey and the Bandit". Jackie Gleason is best remembered from TV, however, as bus driver Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners", which still ranks as one of TV?s greatest sitcoms.
# 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler - Back To Life
# 1989 Personal posting - Joshua Bruce McPhatter was born. - USA
# 1993 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
# 1995 South Africa defeats New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The 1995 World cup was the first major sporting event in South Africa after Apartheid.
# 1997 "Mars Attacks!" becomes the first DVD ever to incorporate sound with menus
# 1997 June 24 - Port Colborne Harbour Railway, a division of the Caledonia and Hamilton Southern Railway (Trillium Rail), starts operation between Welland and Port Colbourne on the following lines in Ontario: CN Port Colbourne Spur (6.6 miles). Macy Spur (west of the Welland Canal). Government Spur (off Macy Spur). a new 1.1 mile connection between the Port Colbourne Spur and the Macy Spur.
# 2002 The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
# 2004 Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Cte d'Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.
# 2004 In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
# 2007 The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
# 1128 Battle of So Mamede, near Guimares. Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Ferno Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
# 1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
# 1340 UK hist Edward III personally commands the English fleet in their victory over the French off Sluys (who were trying to blockade English export of wool to Flanders)
# 1348 UK hist Order of the Garter founded by King Edward III of England ? motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'
# 1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
# 1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
# 1497 Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London
# 1497 John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European exploration of the region since the Vikings. Claims eastern Canada for England
# 1509 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crowned King and Queen of England.
# 1535 Anabaptists Protestants conquerered & disbanded
# 1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
# 1571 Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founded Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
# 1597 The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
# 1647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
# 1650 England's Charles II returns from the Continent, landing in Scotland. He signs the National Covenant and is proclaimed king, but he is defeated September 3 at the Battle of Dunbar by Oliver Cromwell
# 1662 Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
# 1664 The colony of New Jersey is founded.
# 1692 Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
# 1717 The Grand Lodge of England, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
# 1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
# 1793 First republican constitution in France adopted.
# 1794 Bowdoin College is founded.
# 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Arme crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia.
# 1813 Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
# 1817 The first coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
# 1821 Battle of Carabobo - Battle of Carabobo was the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
# 1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
# 1859 Battle of Solferino: (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
# 1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
# 1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
# 1894 Decision to begin modern Olympics every 4 years
# 1894 Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
# 1897 Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
# 1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
# 1901 First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
# 1902 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
# 1913 Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
# 1915 800 die as excursion steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago
# 1916 Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
# 1916 Mary Pickford becomes first female film star to get million dollar contract.
# 1916 The most lucrative movie contract to the time was signed by actress, Mary Pickford. She inked the first sevenfigure Hollywood deal.
# 1918 First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
# 1928 With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada
# 1930 The first radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
# 1932 A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
# 1932 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
# 1938 A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
# 1939 Pan Am's first US to England flight
# 1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
# 1945 Moscow Victory Parade
# 1946 29.77 cm (11.72") of rainfall, Mellen, Wisc. (state 24-hr record)
# 1947 Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
# 1947 Looking skyward this night, Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
# 1948 Berlin, Germany was completely isolated from the outside world. Joseph Stalin, premier of Soviet Russia, who had already cut rail and road access to the city three months earlier, now blocked all ground and water access and cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the great Berlin Airlift began. U.S. planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day for the next 10 months
# 1948 Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
# 1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes first network western (NBC)
# 1949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
# 1949 The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
# 1950 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1821 Aconcagua
# 1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
# 1963 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
# 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Hollies - I'm Alive
# 1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
# 1968 Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US & 1st rookie LPGA winner
# 1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
# 1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title
# 1968 Resurrection City closed
# 1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
# 1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
# 1973 Personal posting - Bryan Swearinger born and a new age dawned across the land. - USA
# 1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
# 1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
# 1981 What would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge opens, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
# 1982 British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
# 1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
# 1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
# 1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
# 1985 STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completed its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
# 1985 The motion picture " Cocoon", directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. "Cocoon", which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" starring Sylvester Stallone, in firstweekend receipts
# 1985 The wife of exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn became a U.S. citizen.
# 1986 Guy Hunt elected first Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
# 1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
# 1987 ?The Great One?, Jackie Gleason, passed away on this day, at the age of 71. Gleason was one of TV?s biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s. He started on the DuMont Television Network, became a celebrated fixture on CBSTV, and later, a movie star. He starred in honored films such as, "Gigot" and "The Hustler". He also starred in "Smokey and the Bandit". Jackie Gleason is best remembered from TV, however, as bus driver Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners", which still ranks as one of TV?s greatest sitcoms.
# 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler - Back To Life
# 1989 Personal posting - Joshua Bruce McPhatter was born. - USA
# 1993 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
# 1995 South Africa defeats New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The 1995 World cup was the first major sporting event in South Africa after Apartheid.
# 1997 "Mars Attacks!" becomes the first DVD ever to incorporate sound with menus
# 1997 June 24 - Port Colborne Harbour Railway, a division of the Caledonia and Hamilton Southern Railway (Trillium Rail), starts operation between Welland and Port Colbourne on the following lines in Ontario: CN Port Colbourne Spur (6.6 miles). Macy Spur (west of the Welland Canal). Government Spur (off Macy Spur). a new 1.1 mile connection between the Port Colbourne Spur and the Macy Spur.
# 2002 The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
# 2004 Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Cte d'Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.
# 2004 In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
# 2007 The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
March 9th (warning loooooooooooooooooong list).
Personally I love the last one: 2007 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the FBI had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens. It just makes me laugh.
On the exact day I was born (March 9th, 1994):
1994 Death - Charles Bukowski author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73
1994 Death - Fernando Rey Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
1994 Death - John Harrison South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
1994 Death - Lawrence E Spivak journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1994 Death - Louis Freeman band leader, dies at 100
1994 Death - Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer, dies at 77
1994 IRA launch first of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
Holy god. That sucks. 6 deaths and a terrorist attack.
I need another happy one:
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended. Happy since it means everyone had finally quit World War 2 but also kind of interesting considering it took so damn long.
0590 Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia.
1230 Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
1276 Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1454 Birth - Amerigo Vespucci explorer, This could be Vespucciland
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation,
1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1500 The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover the sea route to Brazil, already Portuguese since the treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1564 Birth - David Fabricius Essen Germany, astronomer (discovered variable star)
1566 David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1566 Death - David Riccio Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered
1568 Birth - Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga Italian prince/Jesuit/saint
1617 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1620 Death - Aegidius Albertinus German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59
1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Netherlands
1661 Death - Jules Cardinal Mazarin chief minister of France, dies
1688 Death - Claude Mellan French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89
1693 Death - Antonio Caraffa Italian General (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at 46?
1697 Birth - Friederike C Neuber German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1701 France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1706 Death - Johann Pachelbel German organist/composer, dies at 52
1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1735 Birth - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer
1737 Birth - Josef Myslivecek composer
1745 Bells for first American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1745 The first carillon was shipped from England to Boston, MA.
1747 Death - Jacob Campo Weyerman South Netherlands adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69
1753 Birth - Jean-Baptiste Klber French General/architect (Mainz, Fleurus)
1758 Birth - Franz Joseph Gall German/French physician (frenology)
1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1776 Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
1777 Birth - Alexander Orlowski Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
1791 Birth - George Hayward US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1791 George Hayward, Us, surgeon, first to use ether
1796 Napolon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josphine de Beauharnais.
1798 Appointment of first surgeon U.S. Navy, George Balfour
1798 Dr George Balfour becomes first naval surgeon in the US navy
1800 Death - Dominique Della-Maria composer, dies at 30
1810 Birth - Jean-Georges Kastner composer
1812 Birth - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer
1814 Birth - Taras Shevchenko Ukraine, national poet/painter/professor of Kiev
1819 Death - Janos Fusz composer, dies at 41
1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
1820 Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1822 Charles M. Graham of New York City received a patent for artificial teeth.
1824 Birth - Leland Stanford (Governor/Senator)/found Stanford University
1824 Death - Jacobus J Cramer priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79
1826 Birth - Jean Joseph Bott German violinist/composer
1827 Death - Franz Xaver Gerl composer, dies at 62
1831 Death - Friedrich M Klinger German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
1832 Abraham Lincoln of New Salem, IL announced that he would run for political office for the first time 1929 - Eric Krenz of Palo Alto, CA became the first athlete to toss the discus over 160 feet.
1834 French Foreign Legion is founded.
1839 Birth - Felix Huston Robertson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1839 Birth - Modest P Mussorgsky Russian composer (Boris Godunov)
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1847 Commodore David Connor leads successful amphibious assault near Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 Birth - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick composer
1850 Birth - Alexandre Luigini composer
1856 Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1859 Birth - Richard Englnder [Peter Altenberg], Austria, author (Lebensabend)
1860 The first Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington DC
1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1862 Battle of Hampton Roads, Virginia; first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships ? USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1865 Birth - Margaret Murray Washington wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
1870 Death - Theodore Labarre composer, dies at 65
1874 Birth - Johann Richard Ohlsson composer
1875 Birth - Martin Fallas Shaw composer
1877 Birth - Emil Abderhalden Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
1877 Death - Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 58
1881 Birth - Enver Pasja Turkish General/politician
1881 Birth - Ernest Bevin British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1883 Birth - Umberto Saba writer
1885 Birth - Ringgold "Ring" Lardner baseball player
1887 Birth - Phil Mead cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI)
1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema); Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
1889 Kansas passes first general antitrust law in US
1890 Birth - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Soviet foreign minister (UN)
1892 Birth - David Garnett England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1892 Birth - Frank Puglia Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
1892 Birth - Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 Birth - Vita Sackville-West England, novelist/poet (The Land)
1893 Birth - Edgar Scauflaire Belgian muralist/decorator
1893 Birth - Hans Munch composer
1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1895 Death - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59
1900 Birth - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1901 In British Columbia, naturalized Japanese Canadians win right to vote; successfully appeal BC Elections Act
1902 Birth - Edward Durell Stone US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
1902 Birth - Will Greer Frankfort IN, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1905 Birth - Flix Labisse French painter (libidoscaphes)
1905 Birth - Grigori Kozintsev Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
1905 Birth - Peter C Quennell English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1905 Birth - Rex Warner English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
1906 Coal miners at Lethbridge Alberta go on strike; until December 2
1907 Birth - Henry Leland Clarke composer
1907 First involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 Hamilton news vendor fined $30 for selling US papers on a Sunday.
1908 Birth - Luiz Cosme composer
1908 Inter Milan is founded.
1910 Birth - Ed[uard] Hoornik Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
1910 Birth - Samuel Barber West Chester PA, composer (School for Scandal)
1910 The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1911 Birth - Ramon Campbell Batista composer
1912 Birth - Alan David Melville polymath
1913 Birth - Ger[ar]da Brautigam journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA)
1913 Death - Eberhard Nestle German biblical scholar, dies at 61
1914 Birth - Fred Clark Lincoln CA, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1914 Test of wind tunnel at Washington Navy Yard
1914 US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1915 Birth - Pete Gray one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1916 Death - Ken Hutchings cricketer (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies
1916 General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM (17 killed)
1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
1916 Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
1917 Birth - Dante B Fascell (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1955- )
1918 Birth - Marguerite Chapman Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1918 Birth - Mickey [Frank Morrison] Spillane Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury)
1918 Death - [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind German writer/press secretary, dies at 53
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1920 Birth - Carl Betz Pittsburgh PA, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1922 Birth - Herbert P Douglas Jr Pittsburgh PA, long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1948)
1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 Birth - Andr Courrges France, fashion designer (introduced the miniskirt)
1923 Birth - James Buckley (Senator-Republican-NY)
1924 Birth - Konstantin Iliev composer
1924 Italy annexes Fiume
1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
1925 Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins.
1926 Bertha Landes elected first woman mayor of Seattle
1926 Birth - Celso Garrido Lecca composer
1926 Birth - Gerrit A Kooy Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa)
1926 Birth - Irene Papas Corinth Greece, actress (Moses The Lawgiver)
1927 Birth - Hans Ludwig Schilling composer
1927 Birth - Jack Jensen baseball player (American League MVP 1958)
1927 Birth - John Beckwith composer
1928 First telephone call between Vancouver British Columbia, and London, England.
1929 Birth - Hugh Desmond Hoyte president (Guyana, 1985-92)
1929 Birth - Marie Cardinal writer
1930 Birth - Harrie J B Aarts Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1930 Birth - Thomas Schippers Kalamazoo MI, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1931 Birth - Taina Elg Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in New York, Les Girls)
1931 Death - Ida B Wells-Barnett famous black, dies in Chicago at 78
1932 Birth - Heere Heeresma Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid)
1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland
1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1932 The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigns in protest of the transfer of Dr.Taha Hussein without the University's permission. In 2003, an academic group called "March 9" is established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.
1932 The first Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
1933 Birth - Lloyd Price Kenner LA, singer (Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Misty, Just Because, Come to Me)
1933 Birth - William Francis McBeth composer
1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
1933 Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
1934 Birth - Joyce Van Patten Queens NY, actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show)
1934 Birth - Yuri Gagarin Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
1935 Birth - Joe Gallison Houston TX, actor (PT-109, Neil-Days of our Lives)
1935 Birth - Keely Smith Norfolk VA, singer (Mrs Louis Prima)
1935 Birth - Sister Bernard Ncube South African nun
1935 Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1936 Birth - Glenda Jackson Birkenhead Cheshire England, actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class)
1936 Birth - Marty Ingels Brooklyn NY, comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1936 Birth - Mickey Gilley Ferriday LA, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
1936 Birth - [Aino] Elina Salo Sipoo Finland, actress (Hamlet Goes Business)
1937 Birth - Grahame Chevalier cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1970, 0 & 0, 5-100)
1937 In Western Ohio a 5.4 earthquake, the largest historical earthquake in Ohio occurred
1938 Birth - Charles Siebert Kenosha WI, actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper John)
1938 Death - Sydney Baynes composer, dies at 59
1940 Birth - Raul Julia San Juan Puerto Rico, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Eyes of Laura Mars)
1941 Birth - Ger van Each sculptor
1941 Birth - Jim Colbert Elizabeth NJ, PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open)
1941 Death - Carlos Pedrell composer, dies at 62
1942 Birth - Bert Campaneris shortstop (Oakland A's)
1942 Birth - John Cale Welsh/US bassist/violinist/singer (Velvet Underground)
1942 Birth - Mark Lindsay Eugene OR, rocker (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 Birth - Bobby Fischer US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1943 Birth - Trish Van Devere [Patricia Dressel] Englewood Cliffs NJ, actress (Changeling, Movie Movie, Hearse)
1943 Death - Oskar Hks Czechoslovakian marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1944 Birth - Geoff Arnold cricketer (England medium-pacer in 34 Tests 1967-75)
1944 Birth - Lee Irvine cricketer (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970)
1944 Birth - Trevor Burton rocker (Move)
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
1945 Birth - Laura Lee [Rundless] singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights)
1945 Birth - Ray Royer rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1945 Birth - Robin Trower London England, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1945 Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China
1946 Birth - Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6)
1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1947 Death - Stanley Jackson cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies
1948 Birth - Jamie Lyn Bauer Phoenix AZ, actress (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girls)
1948 Birth - Jeffrey Osborne Providence RI, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
1948 Birth - Jimmy Fadden Long Beach CA, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1949 Birth - Kalevi Aho composer
1949 Personal posting - Jane is Born
1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1949 The first all-electric dining car was placed in service -- on the Illinois Central Railroad.
1950 Birth - Danny Sullivan Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York NY
1952 Birth - Iuliana Semenova USSR, basketball (Olympics-gold-1976)
1952 Birth - William Kirby Cullen Santa Ana CA, actor (How the West Was Won)
1953 Birth - Henritte J Toll actress (Soldier of Orange)
1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1954 Birth - Charmain Elaine Sylvers rocker
1954 Birth - Keven Wade Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
1954 McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
1954 This was the day that critics called"TV?s coming of age." Edward R. Murrow presented his report on Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Wisconsin Senator, .
1954 WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), New York, broadcast the first local color television commercials
1955 Birth - Fernando Bujones Miami FL, ballet dancer
1955 Birth - Ornella Muti Rome Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife)
1955 Birth - Teo Fabi formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
1955 Death - Matthew A Henson met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88
1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
1957 Birth - Faith Daniels news anchor (CBS-TV)
1957 Birth - Jeff Senior Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1957 Birth - Jon Engen Oslo Norway, US biathlete (Olympics-1994)
1957 In the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 8.8 quake, one of the 10 Largest Earthquakes in the World and one of the 15 Largest Earthquakes in the United States.
1957 The magnitude 8.6 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake and tsunami occurs.
1958 Birth - Martin Fry rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1959 Birth - Barbie doll (Mattel)
1959 Birth - Kato [Brian] Kaelin actor (Beach Fever)/OJ houseguest/witness
1959 Birth - Lonny Price New York NY, actor (Muppets Take Manhattan)
1959 The Barbie doll debuts.
1959 The first known radar contact is made with Venus
1960 Birth - Linda Fiorentino Philadelphia PA, actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns)
1960 Birth - Mike Leach Minneapolis MN, tennis star
1961 First animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
1962 Birth - Brian Green Columbus IN, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children, Sam Fowler-Another World)
1962 Death - Dr Howard Engstrom Boston MA, a designer of Univac computer dies at 59
1962 Death - Howard Engstrom Boston MA, a designer of Univac computer, dies at 59
1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1963 Beatles began first British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
1963 Birth - Kent Ferguson Cedar Rapids IA, diver (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 Birth - Terry Mulholland Uniontown PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1964 Birth - Phil Housley St Paul MN, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Team USA Olympics-98)
1964 Death - Johanna W "Mina" Bakker Dutch actress (Boefje), dies at 87
1964 Death - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Prussian General/politician, dies at 93
1964 The first of many Ford Mustangs is produced
1965 Birth - Benito Santiago Ponce PR, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 Birth - Brian Bosworth NFL quarterback (Seattle)
1965 Birth - Juliette Binoche Paris France, actress (English Patient, Unbearable Lightness of Being)
1965 Death - Anthon van der Horst Dutch organist/composer, dies at 65
1965 Death - Kazys Boruta writer, dies
1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes first black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
1966 Birth - Louis Oliver NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1967 Birth - Curt Schreiner Albany NY, biathlete (Olympics-1994)
1967 Birth - Eric Flaim Pembroke MA, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1967 Birth - Michael Kiselak CFL corner (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win
1969 Birth - Bryce Burnett NFL/WLAF tight end (Broncos, Barcelona Dragons)
1969 Birth - George Nimako CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 Birth - Mahmoud Abdul Rauf NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets)
1969 Death - Riad chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1969 Death - Richard Crane actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50
1969 Personal posting - Diana Jones, Best mom in the world was born
1970 Birth - Melissa Rathburn-Nealy US soldier (Iraqi POW)
1971 Birth - Bev Oden Millington TN, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 Birth - Emmanuel Lewis Brooklyn NY, actor (Webster)
1971 Birth - Jiro Nihei hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1971 Birth - Lou Benfatti NFL defensive tackle (New York Jets)
1971 Birth - Sean Holcomb NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
1971 Death - Jean-Pierre Guezek composer, dies at 36
1972 Birth - Marcia M Griffith Washington DC, Miss Maryland-America (1995)
1972 Birth - Sara Nicole Williams Miss Washington-USA (1997)
1973 Birth - David Prinosil Olmutz Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1995 ATP Newport)
1973 Birth - Josh LaRocca WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1973 Birth - Troy Bailey WLAF defensive end (Scotland Claymores)
1973 Canada starts direct air service with Federal Republic of Germany and People's Republic of China
1974 Birth - Mark Harrity cricketer (promising South Australia left-arm fast bowler)
1974 Death - Earl W Sutherland Jr US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind
1975 Birth - Adonal Foyle NBA center (San Francisco Warriors)
1975 Birth - Roy Makaay Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1975 Death - Joseph Dunninger New York NY, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82
1975 Death - Shirley Ross actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller), dies at 62
1976 Forty-two people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1976 The first female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th
1977 The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, DC, killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.
1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1979 Death - Barbara Mullen actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64
1980 Death - Olga Chekova actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82
1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1981 Death - Max Delbrck German/US biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74
1982 Death - Alan Badel actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58
1982 Death - Rex Marshall TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies
1982 Death - Richard A Butler England, minister of Finance, dies at 79
1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen", premieres in London
1983 Death - Faye Emerson actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1984 The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
1985 Death - Edward Andrews actor (Broadside, Harry-Supertrain), dies at 70
1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
1985 The most requested movie in history,"Gone With The Wind", went on sale in video stores across the U.S. for the first time.
1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
1986 Death - Ned Calmer TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1986 United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
1987 Chrysler Corporation offered to buy American Motors Corporation on this day.
1988 Death - Kurt Georg Kiesinger West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83
1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1989 A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
1989 Death - Robert Mapplethorpe US photographer, dies at 42
1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as first hispanic/female US surgeon general
1990 Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1990 Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
1991 Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Miloevi in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
1992 Death - Felipe Turich actor (Lawless), dies
1992 Death - Jack McEdward assistant director (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
1992 Death - James Brooks US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY), dies at 85
1992 Death - Menachim Begin Israeli prime minister (1977-1983, Nobel 1979), dies at 79
1993 Death - Ad van Gessel Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies
1993 Death - Bob Crosby swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1993 Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
1994 Death - Charles Bukowski author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73
1994 Death - Fernando Rey Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
1994 Death - John Harrison South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
1994 Death - Lawrence E Spivak journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1994 Death - Louis Freeman band leader, dies at 100
1994 Death - Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer, dies at 77
1994 IRA launch first of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1995 Death - Ian Ballantine publisher, dies of heart attack at 79
1995 Death - Ruud van den Hende Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
1995 In the Atlantic, Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin orders Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit
1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1996 Death - Alan Hugh Iliffe psychologist, dies at 77
1996 Death - Elman Ali Ahmed peace campaigner, dies at 42
1996 Death - Peter Mansfield writer, dies at 67
1997 Death - Notorius B I G [Biggie Small Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24
1997 Death - Terry Nation writer (Dr Who, Blake 7) at 66
2000 Personal posting - Jacob Scott Pace was born - USA
2006 Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
2007 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the FBI had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
1230 Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
1276 Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1454 Birth - Amerigo Vespucci explorer, This could be Vespucciland
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation,
1500 Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1500 The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover the sea route to Brazil, already Portuguese since the treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1564 Birth - David Fabricius Essen Germany, astronomer (discovered variable star)
1566 David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1566 Death - David Riccio Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered
1568 Birth - Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga Italian prince/Jesuit/saint
1617 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1620 Death - Aegidius Albertinus German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59
1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Netherlands
1661 Death - Jules Cardinal Mazarin chief minister of France, dies
1688 Death - Claude Mellan French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89
1693 Death - Antonio Caraffa Italian General (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at 46?
1697 Birth - Friederike C Neuber German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1701 France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1706 Death - Johann Pachelbel German organist/composer, dies at 52
1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1735 Birth - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing composer
1737 Birth - Josef Myslivecek composer
1745 Bells for first American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1745 The first carillon was shipped from England to Boston, MA.
1747 Death - Jacob Campo Weyerman South Netherlands adventurer/painter/writer, dies at 69
1753 Birth - Jean-Baptiste Klber French General/architect (Mainz, Fleurus)
1758 Birth - Franz Joseph Gall German/French physician (frenology)
1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1776 Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
1777 Birth - Alexander Orlowski Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
1791 Birth - George Hayward US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1791 George Hayward, Us, surgeon, first to use ether
1796 Napolon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josphine de Beauharnais.
1798 Appointment of first surgeon U.S. Navy, George Balfour
1798 Dr George Balfour becomes first naval surgeon in the US navy
1800 Death - Dominique Della-Maria composer, dies at 30
1810 Birth - Jean-Georges Kastner composer
1812 Birth - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer composer
1814 Birth - Taras Shevchenko Ukraine, national poet/painter/professor of Kiev
1819 Death - Janos Fusz composer, dies at 41
1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
1820 Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1822 Charles M. Graham of New York City received a patent for artificial teeth.
1824 Birth - Leland Stanford (Governor/Senator)/found Stanford University
1824 Death - Jacobus J Cramer priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79
1826 Birth - Jean Joseph Bott German violinist/composer
1827 Death - Franz Xaver Gerl composer, dies at 62
1831 Death - Friedrich M Klinger German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
1832 Abraham Lincoln of New Salem, IL announced that he would run for political office for the first time 1929 - Eric Krenz of Palo Alto, CA became the first athlete to toss the discus over 160 feet.
1834 French Foreign Legion is founded.
1839 Birth - Felix Huston Robertson Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1839 Birth - Modest P Mussorgsky Russian composer (Boris Godunov)
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 US Supreme Court rules Negroes are free (Amistad Incident)
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1847 Commodore David Connor leads successful amphibious assault near Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 Birth - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick composer
1850 Birth - Alexandre Luigini composer
1856 Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1859 Birth - Richard Englnder [Peter Altenberg], Austria, author (Lebensabend)
1860 The first Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington DC
1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1862 Battle of Hampton Roads, Virginia; first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships ? USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
1864 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1865 Birth - Margaret Murray Washington wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
1870 Death - Theodore Labarre composer, dies at 65
1874 Birth - Johann Richard Ohlsson composer
1875 Birth - Martin Fallas Shaw composer
1877 Birth - Emil Abderhalden Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
1877 Death - Mark Prager Lindo English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 58
1881 Birth - Enver Pasja Turkish General/politician
1881 Birth - Ernest Bevin British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1883 Birth - Umberto Saba writer
1885 Birth - Ringgold "Ring" Lardner baseball player
1887 Birth - Phil Mead cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI)
1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema); Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
1889 Kansas passes first general antitrust law in US
1890 Birth - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov Soviet foreign minister (UN)
1892 Birth - David Garnett England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1892 Birth - Frank Puglia Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
1892 Birth - Joseph Weinheber Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 Birth - Vita Sackville-West England, novelist/poet (The Land)
1893 Birth - Edgar Scauflaire Belgian muralist/decorator
1893 Birth - Hans Munch composer
1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1895 Death - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59
1900 Birth - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1901 In British Columbia, naturalized Japanese Canadians win right to vote; successfully appeal BC Elections Act
1902 Birth - Edward Durell Stone US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
1902 Birth - Will Greer Frankfort IN, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1905 Birth - Flix Labisse French painter (libidoscaphes)
1905 Birth - Grigori Kozintsev Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
1905 Birth - Peter C Quennell English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1905 Birth - Rex Warner English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
1906 Coal miners at Lethbridge Alberta go on strike; until December 2
1907 Birth - Henry Leland Clarke composer
1907 First involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 Hamilton news vendor fined $30 for selling US papers on a Sunday.
1908 Birth - Luiz Cosme composer
1908 Inter Milan is founded.
1910 Birth - Ed[uard] Hoornik Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
1910 Birth - Samuel Barber West Chester PA, composer (School for Scandal)
1910 The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1911 Birth - Ramon Campbell Batista composer
1912 Birth - Alan David Melville polymath
1913 Birth - Ger[ar]da Brautigam journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA)
1913 Death - Eberhard Nestle German biblical scholar, dies at 61
1914 Birth - Fred Clark Lincoln CA, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1914 Test of wind tunnel at Washington Navy Yard
1914 US Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1915 Birth - Pete Gray one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1916 Death - Ken Hutchings cricketer (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies
1916 General Fransisco "Pancho" Villa leads Mexican band raid on Columbus NM (17 killed)
1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
1916 Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
1917 Birth - Dante B Fascell (Representative-Democrat-FL, 1955- )
1918 Birth - Marguerite Chapman Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1918 Birth - Mickey [Frank Morrison] Spillane Brooklyn NY, mystery writer (I the Jury)
1918 Death - [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind German writer/press secretary, dies at 53
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1920 Birth - Carl Betz Pittsburgh PA, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1922 Birth - Herbert P Douglas Jr Pittsburgh PA, long jumper (Olympics-bronze-1948)
1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 Birth - Andr Courrges France, fashion designer (introduced the miniskirt)
1923 Birth - James Buckley (Senator-Republican-NY)
1924 Birth - Konstantin Iliev composer
1924 Italy annexes Fiume
1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
1925 Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins.
1926 Bertha Landes elected first woman mayor of Seattle
1926 Birth - Celso Garrido Lecca composer
1926 Birth - Gerrit A Kooy Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa)
1926 Birth - Irene Papas Corinth Greece, actress (Moses The Lawgiver)
1927 Birth - Hans Ludwig Schilling composer
1927 Birth - Jack Jensen baseball player (American League MVP 1958)
1927 Birth - John Beckwith composer
1928 First telephone call between Vancouver British Columbia, and London, England.
1929 Birth - Hugh Desmond Hoyte president (Guyana, 1985-92)
1929 Birth - Marie Cardinal writer
1930 Birth - Harrie J B Aarts Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1930 Birth - Thomas Schippers Kalamazoo MI, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1931 Birth - Taina Elg Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in New York, Les Girls)
1931 Death - Ida B Wells-Barnett famous black, dies in Chicago at 78
1932 Birth - Heere Heeresma Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid)
1932 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland
1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1932 The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigns in protest of the transfer of Dr.Taha Hussein without the University's permission. In 2003, an academic group called "March 9" is established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.
1932 The first Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
1933 Birth - Lloyd Price Kenner LA, singer (Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Misty, Just Because, Come to Me)
1933 Birth - William Francis McBeth composer
1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
1933 Great Depression: The U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress.
1934 Birth - Joyce Van Patten Queens NY, actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show)
1934 Birth - Yuri Gagarin Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
1935 Birth - Joe Gallison Houston TX, actor (PT-109, Neil-Days of our Lives)
1935 Birth - Keely Smith Norfolk VA, singer (Mrs Louis Prima)
1935 Birth - Sister Bernard Ncube South African nun
1935 Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1936 Birth - Glenda Jackson Birkenhead Cheshire England, actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class)
1936 Birth - Marty Ingels Brooklyn NY, comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1936 Birth - Mickey Gilley Ferriday LA, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
1936 Birth - [Aino] Elina Salo Sipoo Finland, actress (Hamlet Goes Business)
1937 Birth - Grahame Chevalier cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1970, 0 & 0, 5-100)
1937 In Western Ohio a 5.4 earthquake, the largest historical earthquake in Ohio occurred
1938 Birth - Charles Siebert Kenosha WI, actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper John)
1938 Death - Sydney Baynes composer, dies at 59
1940 Birth - Raul Julia San Juan Puerto Rico, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Eyes of Laura Mars)
1941 Birth - Ger van Each sculptor
1941 Birth - Jim Colbert Elizabeth NJ, PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open)
1941 Death - Carlos Pedrell composer, dies at 62
1942 Birth - Bert Campaneris shortstop (Oakland A's)
1942 Birth - John Cale Welsh/US bassist/violinist/singer (Velvet Underground)
1942 Birth - Mark Lindsay Eugene OR, rocker (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 Birth - Bobby Fischer US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1943 Birth - Trish Van Devere [Patricia Dressel] Englewood Cliffs NJ, actress (Changeling, Movie Movie, Hearse)
1943 Death - Oskar Hks Czechoslovakian marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1944 Birth - Geoff Arnold cricketer (England medium-pacer in 34 Tests 1967-75)
1944 Birth - Lee Irvine cricketer (South African batsman, only Tests in 1970)
1944 Birth - Trevor Burton rocker (Move)
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
1945 Birth - Laura Lee [Rundless] singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights)
1945 Birth - Ray Royer rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1945 Birth - Robin Trower London England, rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1945 Japanese proclaim the "independence" of Indo-China
1946 Birth - Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6)
1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1947 Death - Stanley Jackson cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905), dies
1948 Birth - Jamie Lyn Bauer Phoenix AZ, actress (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girls)
1948 Birth - Jeffrey Osborne Providence RI, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
1948 Birth - Jimmy Fadden Long Beach CA, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1949 Birth - Kalevi Aho composer
1949 Personal posting - Jane is Born
1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1949 The first all-electric dining car was placed in service -- on the Illinois Central Railroad.
1950 Birth - Danny Sullivan Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York NY
1952 Birth - Iuliana Semenova USSR, basketball (Olympics-gold-1976)
1952 Birth - William Kirby Cullen Santa Ana CA, actor (How the West Was Won)
1953 Birth - Henritte J Toll actress (Soldier of Orange)
1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1954 Birth - Charmain Elaine Sylvers rocker
1954 Birth - Keven Wade Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
1954 McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy," produced by Edward R. Murrow.
1954 This was the day that critics called"TV?s coming of age." Edward R. Murrow presented his report on Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Wisconsin Senator, .
1954 WNBT-TV (now WNBC-TV), New York, broadcast the first local color television commercials
1955 Birth - Fernando Bujones Miami FL, ballet dancer
1955 Birth - Ornella Muti Rome Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife)
1955 Birth - Teo Fabi formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
1955 Death - Matthew A Henson met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole, dies at 88
1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
1957 Birth - Faith Daniels news anchor (CBS-TV)
1957 Birth - Jeff Senior Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1957 Birth - Jon Engen Oslo Norway, US biathlete (Olympics-1994)
1957 In the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 8.8 quake, one of the 10 Largest Earthquakes in the World and one of the 15 Largest Earthquakes in the United States.
1957 The magnitude 8.6 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake and tsunami occurs.
1958 Birth - Martin Fry rock vocalist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1959 Birth - Barbie doll (Mattel)
1959 Birth - Kato [Brian] Kaelin actor (Beach Fever)/OJ houseguest/witness
1959 Birth - Lonny Price New York NY, actor (Muppets Take Manhattan)
1959 The Barbie doll debuts.
1959 The first known radar contact is made with Venus
1960 Birth - Linda Fiorentino Philadelphia PA, actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns)
1960 Birth - Mike Leach Minneapolis MN, tennis star
1961 First animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
1962 Birth - Brian Green Columbus IN, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children, Sam Fowler-Another World)
1962 Death - Dr Howard Engstrom Boston MA, a designer of Univac computer dies at 59
1962 Death - Howard Engstrom Boston MA, a designer of Univac computer, dies at 59
1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1963 Beatles began first British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
1963 Birth - Kent Ferguson Cedar Rapids IA, diver (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 Birth - Terry Mulholland Uniontown PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1964 Birth - Phil Housley St Paul MN, NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Team USA Olympics-98)
1964 Death - Johanna W "Mina" Bakker Dutch actress (Boefje), dies at 87
1964 Death - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Prussian General/politician, dies at 93
1964 The first of many Ford Mustangs is produced
1965 Birth - Benito Santiago Ponce PR, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 Birth - Brian Bosworth NFL quarterback (Seattle)
1965 Birth - Juliette Binoche Paris France, actress (English Patient, Unbearable Lightness of Being)
1965 Death - Anthon van der Horst Dutch organist/composer, dies at 65
1965 Death - Kazys Boruta writer, dies
1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes first black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
1966 Birth - Louis Oliver NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1967 Birth - Curt Schreiner Albany NY, biathlete (Olympics-1994)
1967 Birth - Eric Flaim Pembroke MA, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1967 Birth - Michael Kiselak CFL corner (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1968 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sergeant Pepper win
1969 Birth - Bryce Burnett NFL/WLAF tight end (Broncos, Barcelona Dragons)
1969 Birth - George Nimako CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 Birth - Mahmoud Abdul Rauf NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets)
1969 Death - Riad chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1969 Death - Richard Crane actor (Surfside 6), dies at 50
1969 Personal posting - Diana Jones, Best mom in the world was born
1970 Birth - Melissa Rathburn-Nealy US soldier (Iraqi POW)
1971 Birth - Bev Oden Millington TN, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 Birth - Emmanuel Lewis Brooklyn NY, actor (Webster)
1971 Birth - Jiro Nihei hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1971 Birth - Lou Benfatti NFL defensive tackle (New York Jets)
1971 Birth - Sean Holcomb NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
1971 Death - Jean-Pierre Guezek composer, dies at 36
1972 Birth - Marcia M Griffith Washington DC, Miss Maryland-America (1995)
1972 Birth - Sara Nicole Williams Miss Washington-USA (1997)
1973 Birth - David Prinosil Olmutz Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1995 ATP Newport)
1973 Birth - Josh LaRocca WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
1973 Birth - Troy Bailey WLAF defensive end (Scotland Claymores)
1973 Canada starts direct air service with Federal Republic of Germany and People's Republic of China
1974 Birth - Mark Harrity cricketer (promising South Australia left-arm fast bowler)
1974 Death - Earl W Sutherland Jr US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Alvin Stardust - Jealous Mind
1975 Birth - Adonal Foyle NBA center (San Francisco Warriors)
1975 Birth - Roy Makaay Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1975 Death - Joseph Dunninger New York NY, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82
1975 Death - Shirley Ross actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller), dies at 62
1976 Forty-two people die in a Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1976 The first female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1977 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th
1977 The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, DC, killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.
1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1979 Death - Barbara Mullen actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64
1980 Death - Olga Chekova actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at 82
1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1981 Death - Max Delbrck German/US biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74
1982 Death - Alan Badel actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58
1982 Death - Rex Marshall TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies
1982 Death - Richard A Butler England, minister of Finance, dies at 79
1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen", premieres in London
1983 Death - Faye Emerson actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1984 The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
1985 Death - Edward Andrews actor (Broadside, Harry-Supertrain), dies at 70
1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
1985 The most requested movie in history,"Gone With The Wind", went on sale in video stores across the U.S. for the first time.
1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
1986 Death - Ned Calmer TV host (In the First Person), dies at 78
1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1986 United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.
1987 Chrysler Corporation offered to buy American Motors Corporation on this day.
1988 Death - Kurt Georg Kiesinger West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83
1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1989 A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
1989 Death - Robert Mapplethorpe US photographer, dies at 42
1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as first hispanic/female US surgeon general
1990 Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1990 Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
1991 Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Miloevi in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
1992 Death - Felipe Turich actor (Lawless), dies
1992 Death - Jack McEdward assistant director (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell), dies at 94
1992 Death - James Brooks US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY), dies at 85
1992 Death - Menachim Begin Israeli prime minister (1977-1983, Nobel 1979), dies at 79
1993 Death - Ad van Gessel Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies
1993 Death - Bob Crosby swing-era bandleader (Bobcats), dies of cancer at 79
1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1993 Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
1994 Death - Charles Bukowski author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73
1994 Death - Fernando Rey Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
1994 Death - John Harrison South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
1994 Death - Lawrence E Spivak journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1994 Death - Louis Freeman band leader, dies at 100
1994 Death - Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer, dies at 77
1994 IRA launch first of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1995 Death - Ian Ballantine publisher, dies of heart attack at 79
1995 Death - Ruud van den Hende Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63
1995 In the Atlantic, Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin orders Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit
1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1996 Death - Alan Hugh Iliffe psychologist, dies at 77
1996 Death - Elman Ali Ahmed peace campaigner, dies at 42
1996 Death - Peter Mansfield writer, dies at 67
1997 Death - Notorius B I G [Biggie Small Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24
1997 Death - Terry Nation writer (Dr Who, Blake 7) at 66
2000 Personal posting - Jacob Scott Pace was born - USA
2006 Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
2007 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the FBI had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
Personally I love the last one: 2007 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the FBI had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens. It just makes me laugh.
On the exact day I was born (March 9th, 1994):
1994 Death - Charles Bukowski author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73
1994 Death - Fernando Rey Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at 76
1994 Death - John Harrison South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48
1994 Death - Lawrence E Spivak journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1994 Death - Louis Freeman band leader, dies at 100
1994 Death - Maurice "Moe" Purtill jazz drummer, dies at 77
1994 IRA launch first of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
Holy god. That sucks. 6 deaths and a terrorist attack.
I need another happy one:
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended. Happy since it means everyone had finally quit World War 2 but also kind of interesting considering it took so damn long.
# 0399 St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
# 1095 Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
# 1095 Pope Urban receives an appeal from the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus for aid against the Seljuk Turks He proclaims the crusade November 27 at the Synod of Clermont, and he excommunicates France's Philip I for adultery
# 1295 The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
# 1703 The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
# 1807 The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
# 1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
# 1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
# 1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
# 1843 The opera "The Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
# 1870 NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
# 1885 Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
# 1889 Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr. Brady had to pledge to New York's finest that he would not frighten the horses in the park.
# 1890 Firstsignal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation
# 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
# 1895 At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
# 1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die
# 1901 Army War College established in Washington DC
# 1901 U.S. Army War College is established.
# 1903 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
# 1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
# 1912 Albanian National Flag adopted
# 1912 Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
# 1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established
# 1915 Personal posting - Nell Jeanette Gilbert born - USA
# 1916 City of Birmingham, an Ellerman Lines ship, of 7,498 grt, and built by Palmers of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1911, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U32, 90 miles south-east of Malta while bound from Liverpool to Karachi. with 315 passengers and crew on board, 4 lost their lives, all crew
# 1919 Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
# 1919 Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity is founded in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
# 1924 57,000 watch a High School football game in LA
# 1926 110,000 watch Army andNavy play a 21-all tie
# 1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
# 1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
# 1934 Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
# 1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins and Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
# 1939 Inauguration of Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS)
# 1940 In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
# 1940 World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
# 1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
# 1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
# 1942 World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
# 1944 World War II: An explosion at a RAF ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
# 1945 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
# 1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
# 1951 The First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
# 1954 Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
# 1957 Army withdraws from Little Rock AR, after Central HS integration
# 1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
# 1960 Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings becomes the first player to reach the NHL landmark of 1000 points.
# 1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
# 1963 The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
# 1964 Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
# 1965 French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
# 1965 Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
# 1966 In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
# 1966 The Washington Redskins defeat the New York Giants 72-41 in the highest scoring game in NFL history.
# 1967 Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
# 1967 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
# 1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
# 1971 Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.
# 1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes first spacecraft to crash land on Mars
# 1972 Yanks trade Ellis, Torres andSpikes to Indians for Nettles andMoses
# 1973 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
# 1975 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
# 1980 Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
# 1983 A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
# 1983 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185
# 1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
# 1989 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
# 1990 Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
# 1990 The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
# 1992 For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
# 1993 Personal posting - danika miles is born - Canada
# 1997 Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
# 1999 The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
# 2000 The Liberal government in Canada is re-elected for another 5 years, HO Well
# 2001 A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
# 2005 The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
# 2009 Important Islamic date - Eid ul-Adha: November 27, 2009
# 2014 Thanksgiving day - US - (always last Thursday of November)
# 1095 Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
# 1095 Pope Urban receives an appeal from the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus for aid against the Seljuk Turks He proclaims the crusade November 27 at the Synod of Clermont, and he excommunicates France's Philip I for adultery
# 1295 The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
# 1703 The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
# 1807 The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops
# 1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
# 1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War
# 1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
# 1843 The opera "The Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
# 1870 NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
# 1885 Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
# 1889 Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr. Brady had to pledge to New York's finest that he would not frighten the horses in the park.
# 1890 Firstsignal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation
# 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
# 1895 At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
# 1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die
# 1901 Army War College established in Washington DC
# 1901 U.S. Army War College is established.
# 1903 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
# 1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
# 1912 Albanian National Flag adopted
# 1912 Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
# 1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established
# 1915 Personal posting - Nell Jeanette Gilbert born - USA
# 1916 City of Birmingham, an Ellerman Lines ship, of 7,498 grt, and built by Palmers of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1911, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U32, 90 miles south-east of Malta while bound from Liverpool to Karachi. with 315 passengers and crew on board, 4 lost their lives, all crew
# 1919 Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
# 1919 Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity is founded in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
# 1924 57,000 watch a High School football game in LA
# 1926 110,000 watch Army andNavy play a 21-all tie
# 1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
# 1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
# 1934 Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
# 1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins and Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
# 1939 Inauguration of Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS)
# 1940 In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
# 1940 World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
# 1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
# 1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
# 1942 World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
# 1944 World War II: An explosion at a RAF ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
# 1945 Gen George C Marshall named special US envoy to China
# 1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
# 1951 The First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM
# 1954 Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
# 1957 Army withdraws from Little Rock AR, after Central HS integration
# 1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
# 1960 Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings becomes the first player to reach the NHL landmark of 1000 points.
# 1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
# 1963 The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
# 1964 Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
# 1965 French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
# 1965 Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
# 1966 In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41
# 1966 The Washington Redskins defeat the New York Giants 72-41 in the highest scoring game in NFL history.
# 1967 Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
# 1967 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
# 1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
# 1971 Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.
# 1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes first spacecraft to crash land on Mars
# 1972 Yanks trade Ellis, Torres andSpikes to Indians for Nettles andMoses
# 1973 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
# 1975 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
# 1980 Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
# 1983 A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
# 1983 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185
# 1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
# 1989 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
# 1990 Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
# 1990 The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
# 1992 For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
# 1993 Personal posting - danika miles is born
- Canada# 1997 Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
# 1999 The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
# 2000 The Liberal government in Canada is re-elected for another 5 years, HO Well
# 2001 A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
# 2005 The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
# 2009 Important Islamic date - Eid ul-Adha: November 27, 2009
# 2014 Thanksgiving day - US - (always last Thursday of November)
In 2005 The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
Suprisingly, a great deal happened on my day of birth:
Some interesting years:
1745 Skirmish at Clifton where retreating Jacobite forces under Lord George Murray, defeated General Bland's Hanoverian troops. The last battle to be fought on English soil.
1774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the new land speed record going 39.245 mph, in a Jeantaud electric car. This is the first recognized land speed record.
1916 The Battle of Verdun (France), one of the bloodiest WWI engagements, ends after 10 months and massive losses to both sides.
1939 Thousands watched from the shore as the German Pocket Battleship, Graf Spee is scuttled by her crew.
1941 Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
1972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1979 Stanley Barrett first to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
So yeah, a date with a variety of events going on. =O
1118 Aragon's Alfonso the Battler takes Saragossa December 18 from the Almoravid king Ali ibn-Yusuf, whose father defeated Castile's Alfonso VI in 1086
1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" ( yun), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
1620 The Mayflower lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts delivering 102 Pilgrims.
1642 Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
1661 The "S.S.Elizabeth" of Burntisland lost off the English coast with the Scottish records aboard, being returned from London to which they had been taken by Oliver Cromwell.
1737 Antonio Stradivari, world-famous violin maker, dies in Cremona, Italy.
1745 Skirmish at Clifton where retreating Jacobite forces under Lord George Murray, defeated General Bland's Hanoverian troops. The last battle to be fought on English soil.
1774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
1777 First national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1777 The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, celebrating the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October
1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
1787 New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1793 Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1796 First US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor
1799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
1813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
1839 First celestial photograph (of the moon) made in US, John Draper, New York NY
1846 Copper first discovered in Western Australia.
1849 William Bond obtains first photograph of Moon through a telescope
1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
1862 The first orthopedic hospital is organized in New York City (The Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled).
1872 Opals first discovered in Australia, at Listowel Downs, Queensland.
1878 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1888 Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1890 Frederick Lugard occupies Uganda for British East Africa Company.
1892 The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1894 South Australian women given the vote.
1898 At a site near Paris, France, Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the world's first official automobile land speed record of 39 miles per hour.
1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the new land speed record going 39.245 mph, in a Jeantaud electric car. This is the first recognized land speed record.
1900 The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1912 The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found today in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
1915 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
1916 The Battle of Verdun (France), one of the bloodiest WWI engagements, ends after 10 months and massive losses to both sides.
1923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
1935 The $1 silver certificate is issued.
1935 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1936 Giant panda imported into US
1939 Thousands watched from the shore as the German Pocket Battleship, Graf Spee is scuttled by her crew.
1940 Munitions Minister C.D.Howe and 152 other survivors of the torpedoed lines SS Western Prince arive in Britian
1941 Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
1944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillippines)
1944 World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
1945 Uruguay joins the United Nations
1951 Personal posting - Deborah Ann Jones Viney is born in Eureka, California
1956 Japan admitted to UN
1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Station, first nuke plant to generate electricity
1957 The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, goes online.
1958 First voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1958 Project SCORE, the world's first experimental communications satellite, was launched
1958 Test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu
1961 Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
1962 Personal posting - Mardy Ray Albertson is born to Rhoda and Jerold Albertson
1963 Muskegon, MI gets 3' of snow
1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1969 Britain abolishes death penalty
1969 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years, is carried by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1973 Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
1974 San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1979 Stanley Barrett first to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
1982 A large Tacoa power plant starts burning in Venezuela, eventually killing 128.
1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Renee & Renato - Save Your Love
1984 Christopher Guest (Saturday Night Live) and actress Jamie Lee Curtis are married in Los Angeles.
1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1986 Kid Icarus is released in Japan on the NES game system.
1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari
1987 Federal Judge Morris E. Lasker sentenced Ivan Boesky,the once mighty arbitrageur to a three-year prison term
1987 Ivan Boesky is sentenced to three years in prison for inside trading.
1987 Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for first time in over 30 years
1990 Personal posting - Dec 18, 1990 - Kaylie Gilbault was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Kristi Baxter and George Gilbault - USA
1991 DeForest Kelly, who portrayed Dr. "Bones" McCoy on Star Trek, gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1991 General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants
1994 Personal posting - Mary Ellen Hudspeth`s birthday December 18, 1994
1995 Personal posting - I TRISTEN was born and in the year 2014 is going to attend MSU - USA
1996 The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
1997 HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2001 Rapper NaS releases critically acclaimed album, Stillmatic, to 5 star reviews and 300 thousand copy first week sales. (UK only)
2002 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2005 So Paulo FC (Brazil) becomes third time World Champion against Liverpool (England) in the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan.
2006 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigns, Robert Gates is sworn in as the new Secretary of Defense.
2007 Important Islamic date - Hajj (Annual Pilgrimage to Mecca) December 18 - December 21, 2007
2009 Important Islamic date - Islamic New Year: December 18, 2009 (1431 A.H.)
1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" ( yun), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
1620 The Mayflower lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts delivering 102 Pilgrims.
1642 Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
1661 The "S.S.Elizabeth" of Burntisland lost off the English coast with the Scottish records aboard, being returned from London to which they had been taken by Oliver Cromwell.
1737 Antonio Stradivari, world-famous violin maker, dies in Cremona, Italy.
1745 Skirmish at Clifton where retreating Jacobite forces under Lord George Murray, defeated General Bland's Hanoverian troops. The last battle to be fought on English soil.
1774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
1777 First national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1777 The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, celebrating the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October
1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
1787 New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1793 Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1796 First US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor
1799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
1813 British take Fort Niagara in the War of 1812
1839 First celestial photograph (of the moon) made in US, John Draper, New York NY
1846 Copper first discovered in Western Australia.
1849 William Bond obtains first photograph of Moon through a telescope
1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
1862 The first orthopedic hospital is organized in New York City (The Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled).
1872 Opals first discovered in Australia, at Listowel Downs, Queensland.
1878 John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1888 Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1890 Frederick Lugard occupies Uganda for British East Africa Company.
1892 The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1894 South Australian women given the vote.
1898 At a site near Paris, France, Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the world's first official automobile land speed record of 39 miles per hour.
1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the new land speed record going 39.245 mph, in a Jeantaud electric car. This is the first recognized land speed record.
1900 The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1912 The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found today in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
1915 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
1916 The Battle of Verdun (France), one of the bloodiest WWI engagements, ends after 10 months and massive losses to both sides.
1923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
1935 The $1 silver certificate is issued.
1935 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1936 Giant panda imported into US
1939 Thousands watched from the shore as the German Pocket Battleship, Graf Spee is scuttled by her crew.
1940 Munitions Minister C.D.Howe and 152 other survivors of the torpedoed lines SS Western Prince arive in Britian
1941 Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
1944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillippines)
1944 World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
1945 Uruguay joins the United Nations
1951 Personal posting - Deborah Ann Jones Viney is born in Eureka, California
1956 Japan admitted to UN
1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Station, first nuke plant to generate electricity
1957 The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, goes online.
1958 First voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1958 Project SCORE, the world's first experimental communications satellite, was launched
1958 Test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu
1961 Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
1962 Personal posting - Mardy Ray Albertson is born to Rhoda and Jerold Albertson
1963 Muskegon, MI gets 3' of snow
1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1969 Britain abolishes death penalty
1969 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years, is carried by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1973 Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
1974 San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1979 Stanley Barrett first to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
1982 A large Tacoa power plant starts burning in Venezuela, eventually killing 128.
1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
1982 Number one hit on UK music charts - Renee & Renato - Save Your Love
1984 Christopher Guest (Saturday Night Live) and actress Jamie Lee Curtis are married in Los Angeles.
1985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1986 Kid Icarus is released in Japan on the NES game system.
1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari
1987 Federal Judge Morris E. Lasker sentenced Ivan Boesky,the once mighty arbitrageur to a three-year prison term
1987 Ivan Boesky is sentenced to three years in prison for inside trading.
1987 Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for first time in over 30 years
1990 Personal posting - Dec 18, 1990 - Kaylie Gilbault was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Kristi Baxter and George Gilbault - USA
1991 DeForest Kelly, who portrayed Dr. "Bones" McCoy on Star Trek, gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1991 General Motors announces the closing of 21 plants
1994 Personal posting - Mary Ellen Hudspeth`s birthday December 18, 1994
1995 Personal posting - I TRISTEN was born and in the year 2014 is going to attend MSU - USA
1996 The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
1997 HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2001 Rapper NaS releases critically acclaimed album, Stillmatic, to 5 star reviews and 300 thousand copy first week sales. (UK only)
2002 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2005 So Paulo FC (Brazil) becomes third time World Champion against Liverpool (England) in the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan.
2006 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigns, Robert Gates is sworn in as the new Secretary of Defense.
2007 Important Islamic date - Hajj (Annual Pilgrimage to Mecca) December 18 - December 21, 2007
2009 Important Islamic date - Islamic New Year: December 18, 2009 (1431 A.H.)
Some interesting years:
1745 Skirmish at Clifton where retreating Jacobite forces under Lord George Murray, defeated General Bland's Hanoverian troops. The last battle to be fought on English soil.
1774 Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
1898 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the new land speed record going 39.245 mph, in a Jeantaud electric car. This is the first recognized land speed record.
1916 The Battle of Verdun (France), one of the bloodiest WWI engagements, ends after 10 months and massive losses to both sides.
1939 Thousands watched from the shore as the German Pocket Battleship, Graf Spee is scuttled by her crew.
1941 Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
1972 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1979 Stanley Barrett first to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
So yeah, a date with a variety of events going on. =O
Feb 22
1819: By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1856: The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1865: Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
1889: President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1923: The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
1949: Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
1956: Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
1959: Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1969: The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.
1974: Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1980: The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
1997: In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2006: At least six men stage Britain's biggest ever robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or ?78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
1819: By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1856: The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1865: Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
1889: President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1923: The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
1949: Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
1956: Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
1959: Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1969: The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.
1974: Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1980: The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
1997: In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2006: At least six men stage Britain's biggest ever robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or ?78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
Historical Events
Born today:
2004 Ronald Reagan
Former US president Ronald Reagan dies at his Los Angeles home at age 93.
(photo credit: NARA)
1981 The Centers for Disease Control reports the earliest reported cases of AIDS in five homosexual men from Los Angeles.
1977 The Apple II personal computer goes on sale.
1975 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to international shipping. The canal had been closed since the 1967 war with Israel.
1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who is immediately arrested.
1967 Israel raids Egyptian military targets, beginning the Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
1940 The Battle of France begins during WWII.
1933 The US goes off the gold standard.
1917 Some ten million men begin registering for the draft in WWI.
1915 Women in Denmark gain the right to vote.
1865 Sabine Baring-Gould's hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers, is performed for the first time.
1851 The first installment of the serialized Uncle Tom's Cabin appears in the National Era newspaper.
1794 The US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
1783 Brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.
1316 King Louis X of France dies.
Former US president Ronald Reagan dies at his Los Angeles home at age 93.
(photo credit: NARA)
1981 The Centers for Disease Control reports the earliest reported cases of AIDS in five homosexual men from Los Angeles.
1977 The Apple II personal computer goes on sale.
1975 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to international shipping. The canal had been closed since the 1967 war with Israel.
1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who is immediately arrested.
1967 Israel raids Egyptian military targets, beginning the Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
1940 The Battle of France begins during WWII.
1933 The US goes off the gold standard.
1917 Some ten million men begin registering for the draft in WWI.
1915 Women in Denmark gain the right to vote.
1865 Sabine Baring-Gould's hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers, is performed for the first time.
1851 The first installment of the serialized Uncle Tom's Cabin appears in the National Era newspaper.
1794 The US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
1783 Brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.
1316 King Louis X of France dies.
Born today:
1971 Mark Wahlberg - guitarist, singer, actor
1956 Kenny G - saxophonist
1956 Richard Butler - singer (Psychedelic Furs)
1951 Wayne Wood - hockey player
1946 Fred Stone - singer (Sly and the Family Stone)
1945 Don Reid - singer (Statler Brothers)
1941 Spalding Gray - actor
1941 Floyd Butler - singer (5th Dimension, Friends of Distinction)
1939 Charles 'Joe' Clark - Canadian Prime Minister (1979-1980)
1934 Bill Moyers - broadcast journalist
1929 Robert Lansing - actor
1928 Tony Richardson - film director (won Oscar, 1963)
1926 Bill Hayes - singer, actor
1925 Art Donovan - football player
1919 Richard Scarry - children's author, illustrator
1895 William Boyd - actor (Hopalong Cassidy)
1956 Kenny G - saxophonist
1956 Richard Butler - singer (Psychedelic Furs)
1951 Wayne Wood - hockey player
1946 Fred Stone - singer (Sly and the Family Stone)
1945 Don Reid - singer (Statler Brothers)
1941 Spalding Gray - actor
1941 Floyd Butler - singer (5th Dimension, Friends of Distinction)
1939 Charles 'Joe' Clark - Canadian Prime Minister (1979-1980)
1934 Bill Moyers - broadcast journalist
1929 Robert Lansing - actor
1928 Tony Richardson - film director (won Oscar, 1963)
1926 Bill Hayes - singer, actor
1925 Art Donovan - football player
1919 Richard Scarry - children's author, illustrator
1895 William Boyd - actor (Hopalong Cassidy)
1876 A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.
1926 Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States.
1952 First thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
1961 In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
1975 Queen released their hit single, Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1 on the UK charts.
1926 Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States.
1952 First thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.
1961 In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
1975 Queen released their hit single, Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1 on the UK charts.