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

[BigKaine]

Spoiler: December 31

# 1229 James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (nowadays Palma de Mallorca, Spain) thus consummating the Christian conquest of the island of Mallorca.
# 1599 British East India Company is chartered.
# 1660 James II of England is created Duke of Normandy by King Louis XIV.
# 1687 The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
# 1695 A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
# 1744 James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's motion of nutation
# 1775 Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
# 1776 Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation: Limit is $0.70 a day for carpenters, $0.42 for tailors
# 1781 Bank of North America, first US bank opens
# 1805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
# 1831 Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
# 1841 Alabama becomes first state to license dental surgeons
# 1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capitol of Canada
# 1860 The Brockville and Ottawa Railway opens a tunnel l/3 of a mile under the town of Brockville. This was the first railway tunnel in Canada.
# 1862 American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two).
# 1862 President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
# 1862 USS Monitor founders in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC.1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
# 1870 J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
# 1879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
# 1879 Edison gives first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
# 1879 The opera "The Pirates of Penzance" is produced (New York NY)
# 1887 Personal posting - Sgt Alvin C York was born who went on to win the medal of honor during world war 1 - USA
# 1890 Ellis Island (New York NY) opens as a US immigration depot
# 1891 A new immigration depot is opened on Ellis Island, New York.
# 1897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
# 1904 The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
# 1907 For the first time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year
# 1909 Manhattan Bridge opens.
# 1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired
# 1923 First transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
# 1923 The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
# 1924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies.
# 1929 Guy Lombardo performs Auld Lang Syne at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City for the first time.
# 1934 Helen Richey becomes first woman to pilot an airmail transport
# 1941 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.
# 1942 Commissioning of USS Essex (CV-9), first of new class of aircraft carriers, at Norfolk, VA
# 1943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater
# 1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
# 1945 Ratification of UN Charter completed



# 1946 French troops leave Lebanon
# 1946 President Truman officially proclaims end of WW-II
# 1951 First battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
# 1953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
# 1955 General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over USD $1 billion in a year.
# 1958 International Geophyscial Year ends
# 1960 The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
# 1961 First performance of the Beach Boys
# 1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
# 1961 The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than USD $12 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
# 1962 Katanga becomes part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
# 1963 The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
# 1964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
# 1966 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 and stays there for 7 weeks
# 1966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
# 1968 First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
# 1970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles
# 1974 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
# 1974 Personal posting - Joy's birthday
# 1976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
# 1977 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
# 1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US
# 1979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts
# 1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
# 1981 Coup d'tat in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
# 1981 Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana
# 1982 TV soap "The Doctors" ends 19 year run
# 1983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
# 1983 The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
# 1984 NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
# 1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
# 1985 King Hussein of Jordan and President Assid hold talks
# 1986 A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
# 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
# 1987 Personal posting - Nicole Murdoch is born - USA
# 1989 The last part of the railway on Prince Edward Island, operated by CN Rail, is abandoned.
# 1990 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
# 1990 The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
# 1991 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
# 1992 Target date for Europe's single market
# 1993 Personal posting - Michael Yost is born - USA
# 1994 This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
# 1996 Personal posting - Dec 31, 1996 - Sarah E.K. Forbes came into the world and blessed our lives!
# 1996 Personal posting - Stephano Calzavara was born
# 1997 Quaker Oats settles a lawsuit involving the immoral use of child subjects in radioactivity experiments circa 1945-1956.
# 1998 Exchange rates between the euro and legacy currencies in the Eurozone become fixed.
# 1998 Personal posting - December 31 1998 Twins are born to a family by the name of Fay
# 1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
# 1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
# 1999 Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
# 1999 The United States Government handed Panama Canal control over to Panama as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties
# 1999 Personal posting - Brighton Kent Kelley Potter was born on this day in Tulsa, OK - USA
# 2004 The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
# 2005 The Greek BBC radio service ends.
# 2006 The United Kingdom pays final installment of Second World War debt to the United States

The Beatles dissolved. Dammit.

 

[moose_man]

the world began.

 

[Minjoltr]

Remember Remember and all that.

 

[cheese_wizington]

I'll just do the exciting ones.

1891 First shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento
1942 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes first commercial flight
1971 Apollo 14, and its crew of three astronauts, returns to Earth after America's third lunar landing mission.

 

[MintyNinja]

Warning: Way too long to really want to read.

Spoiler: March 17

# 0045 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
# 0180 Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor.
# 0624 Muhammad wins a key victory over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.
# 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh by which England acknowledged the independence of Scotland under Robert 1 was concluded at Edinburgh
# 1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England.
# 1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines
# 1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon
# 1526 French king François I freed from Spain
# 1537 French troops invade Flanders
# 1577 Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 gets commission from the Cathay Company to hunt for gold in the Arctic; he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold
# 1577 The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.
# 1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
# 1613 Cupids, Newfoundland the wife of Nicholas Guy gives birth to a son; likely the first English child born in Newfoundland
# 1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
# 1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
# 1753 First official St Patrick's Day
# 1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
# 1756 St Patrick's Day first celebrated in NYC at Crown and Thistle Tavern
# 1756 St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
# 1757 Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
# 1762 First St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
# 1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
# 1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
# 1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
# 1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell", premieres
# 1805 The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
# 1824 England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement
# 1829 Ottawa Ontario 200 Irish canal navvies riot on St. Patricks Day; one killed and many wounded
# 1833 Phoenix Society forms (New York)
# 1836 Texas abolishes slavery
# 1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12²-mile area in Upper Sandusky
# 1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
# 1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
# 1845 UK hist The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
# 1858 Toronto Ontario St. Patricks Day riot breaks out during parade; one man fatally stabbed
# 1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed
# 1861 The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed.
# 1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)
# 1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued
# 1870 Massachusetts legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary



# 1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
# 1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' first 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs England
# 1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes first glider flight, Otay CA
# 1886 Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed
# 1886 Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
# 1891 British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
# 1891 The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
# 1894 US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
# 1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
# 1898 The first practical submarine submerges, off New York NY for 1 hour 40 minutes
# 1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
# 1901 A showing of 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
# 1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
# 1905 Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in New York
# 1906 Japan nationalises its railways
# 1906 The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
# 1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)
# 1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Netherlands
# 1910 Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA) (formally announced in 1912).
# 1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
# 1913 The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
# 1916 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history
# 1917 Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School.
# 1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
# 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages
# 1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's first birth control clinic (London)
# 1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
# 1921 The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
# 1924 Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
# 1924 Sweden and USSR exchange diplomats
# 1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
# 1926 Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
# 1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
# 1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
# 1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
# 1931 In an attempt to lift the state from the hard times of the Great Depression, the Nevada state legislature votes to legalize gamblin
# 1931 Nevada legalizes gambling.
# 1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
# 1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
# 1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gömbös sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
# 1939 Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out.
# 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported
# 1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander
# 1942 Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland).
# 1943 The ships, Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sink
# 1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
# 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
# 1945 HMCS Guysborough torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay
# 1945 The strategically important captured railway Bridge at Remagen, having sped the end of WW-II, but ironically no longer taking artillery fire, collapses ten days into the battle rendering the lodgement on the Germany bank of the Rhine dependent entirely on pontoon bridges.
# 1948 Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
# 1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
# 1950 University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
# 1951 Government of Drees takes power
# 1952 UK hist Utility furniture and clothing scheme ends
# 1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montréal
# 1956 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball
# 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
# 1957 Ramon Magsaysay, President of Philippines dies in a plane crash
# 1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
# 1959 Australia and USSR restore diplomatic relations
# 1959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
# 1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
# 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
# 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Johnny Preston - Running Bear
# 1960 UK hist New £1 notes issued by Bank of England
# 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
# 1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975)
# 1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,500 Balinese
# 1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
# 1965 The X-22A VTOL research aircraft made its first flight at Buffalo, N.Y.
# 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
# 1966 Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
# 1966 US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean
# 1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations
# 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister
# 1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
# 1970 My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
# 1970 US casts their first UN Security Council veto (Support England)
# 1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
# 1973 Luzon, Philippine Islands a 7.5 earthquake killed 14, injured 100, and caused an estimated $2 million in damage
# 1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
# 1973 The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
# 1973 UK hist Modern London Bridge opened by the Queen
# 1974 A CP Rail freight train hits a rock slide and derails at Spences Bridge, BC killing two crew members. This lead to the eventual installation of ditch lights on Canadian trains.
# 1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
# 1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
# 1978 RCMP charge Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington and publisher Donald Creighton with violating Official Secrets Act; published information from secret report on Soviet espionage activities in Canada
# 1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
# 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
# 1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
# 1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
# 1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
# 1982 Following the failure of Argentinean diplomatic efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British, an Argentine warship lands a party of "scrap dealers" on South Georgia Island, a dependency of the Falkland Islands British crown colony
# 1983 9th People's Choice Awards
# 1984 Personal posting - sonja michelle irvin daughter of gregory and loretta irvin born
# 1985 Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day.
# 1985 IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC
# 1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree.
# 1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
# 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way)
# 1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
# 1987 Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing.
# 1988 A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
# 1988 Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
# 1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
# 1989 Dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
# 1991 Former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76.
# 1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
# 1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
# 1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
# 1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire
# 1992 A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
# 1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
# 1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
# 1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
# 1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
# 1995 British £ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)

# 1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House
# 1995 US approves first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Co
# 1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
# 1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
# 1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts
# 1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for first Olympics Gold medal
# 2000 The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God on March 17, 2000 is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
# 2001 AUSTRALIA has its first woman police chief, with Christine Nixon today appointed Victoria's new police commissioner.
# 2003 British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq.
# 2004 Massive unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
# 2008 German Chancellor Visits Israel
# 2010 Toyota Gong Show continues - Blaming solar flare on accelleration problems - ha ha - next theory will be that Godzilla is in the vicinity and causing the problems

 

[Stone Wera]

September 2nd.
The day victory over Japan was declared in WW2.

 

[AnimeMan127]

Dec. 3rd, the first successful heart transplant and the release of Super Smash Bros. Melee.

 

[estherblueburger]

blah repeat...see below...

 

[pigmypython]

This one is relevant to this site.
September 29th...
1996 Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 in North America.

 

[Ravenseeker]

July 17th:
180: first recorded event of Christianity in North Africa, and by event i mean execution
Other side of the feeling spectrum
1955: Disneyland opened

 

[GundamSentinel]

Spoiler: March 21

0630 Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
0717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1188 Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1349 Three thousand Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons
1666 Intendant Jean Talon starts census of New France; 3,000 persons counted in the first Canadian census
1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1788 A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans LA
1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
1791 Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War
1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN
1800 With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mch.
1801 The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 After four years of debate and planning, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework known as the "Napoleonic Code."
1804 Code Napolon is adopted as French civil law.
1821 First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1821 Party leaves Sydney to establish a penal settlement at Port Macquarie, NSW.
1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1829 Earthquake in Spain kills 6,000.
1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1843 Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today, he was wrong
1844 Origin of Bahá'í Era-Bahá'í calendar starts here (Bahá 1, 1)
1844 The Bah' calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bah' calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bah' Faith as the Bah' New Year or Nw-Rz.
1844 The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1849 The Norwegian city of Hamar is reestablished by royal decree.
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1857 An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman

My favo is Henry V being crowned king of England in 1413. Oh, and Einstein publishing his theory on special relativity.

 

[Danik93]

I only too kthe 6th of august 1993 the day i was born
# 1993 Personal posting - Famous British Actor Al James Greedy is Born in Solihull Hospital - United Kingdom
# 1993 Personal posting - August 6 1993 A handsome guy named Alex was born and another more handsome guy named Niklas
# 1993 Personal posting - Brock Burch was born - USA
# 1993 Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

yea... I'm that awesome
(my name is Niklas)

 

[estherblueburger]

Something random on my birthday, 15 November is Steve Irwin remembrance day www.steveirwinday.org, famous last (recorded) words "Don't worry, they (stingrays) usually don't swim backwards"

 

[IanB.]

I'm older than google by a few hours

 

[Marik2]

May 10

Spoiler

* 70 ? Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
* 1291 ? Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
* 1497 ? Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
* 1503 ? Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
* 1534 ? Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
* 1655 ? England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
* 1768 ? John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
* 1774 ? Louis XVI becomes King of France.
* 1775 ? American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is captured by a small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold.
* 1775 ? American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
* 1796 ? First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
* 1801 ? First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
* 1824 ? The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
* 1833 ? The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam Le Van Duyet by Emperor Minh Mang provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.
* 1837 ? Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
* 1857 ? Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
* 1863 ? American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
* 1864 ? American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment "Attack-in-depth" assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.
* 1865 ? American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
* 1865 ? American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
* 1869 ? The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
* 1872 ? Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
* 1877 ? Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. This act is recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
* 1893 ? The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
* 1908 ? Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
* 1922 ? The United States annex the Kingman Reef.
* 1924 ? J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
* 1933 ? Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
* 1940 ? World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
* 1940 ? World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
* 1940 ? World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* 1940 ? World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
* 1941 ? World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
* 1941 ? World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
* 1942 ? World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
* 1946 ? First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
* 1954 ? Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
* 1960 ? The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
* 1969 ? Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
* 1979 ? The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
* 1981 ? François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
* 1993 ? In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 188 workers.
* 1994 ? Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
* 1996 ? A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
* 2001 ? In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.
* 2002 ? F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
* 2003 ? The May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence takes place.
* 2005 ? A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.

 

[shadyh8er]

January 25, 1971: Idi Amin seized power in Uganda.


1924 (I think): First Winter Olympics.

 

[UberLemonBoy]

Spoiler: May 20

# 0325 The First Council of Nicaea the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
# 0526 An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
# 0526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
# 0685 The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
# 1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
# 1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
# 1293 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcal.
# 1303 Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
# 1310 Shoes were made for both right & left feet (and we thank you)
# 1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal
# 1497 John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a 2 May date).
# 1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India
# 1501 Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
# 1521 Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded in the battle.
# 1521 Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball
# 1524 Duke of Albany leaves Scotland
# 1570 Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
# 1570 Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum"
# 1571 Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
# 1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius
# 1631 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg
# 1631 The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
# 1639 Dorchester MA, forms first school funded by local taxes
# 1639 Dorchester, Massachusetts funds the first school in the US from local taxes
# 1690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
# 1690 England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of Roman Catholic James II.
# 1704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York
# 1734 The first Jockey Club forms in South Carolina
# 1774 Britain gives Québec, Labrador & territory north of the Ohio
# 1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain
# 1813 Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
# 1825 Charles X becomes King of France
# 1830 The first railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
# 1835 Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
# 1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
# 1845 The first legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
# 1861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
# 1862 Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of the West
# 1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church VA, 1,400 killed or injured
# 1864 Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person



# 1867 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
# 1867 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria
# 1870 Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment
# 1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
# 1874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz
# 1875 International Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
# 1879 The Department of Railways and Canals comes into effect with a Minister having jurisdiction over all railways pertaining to the Dominion Government. Previously this function had been covered by the Department of Public Works.
# 1882 St Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
# 1882 The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
# 1883 The eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.
# 1891 History of cinema: First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
# 1892 George Sampson patents clothes dryer
# 1892 Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria-Hungary forms
# 1895 The first commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
# 1896 The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
# 1900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris France (lasted 5 months)
# 1902 Cuba gains independence from Spain and establishes a republic
# 1902 US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
# 1908 Personal posting - Eloise Staudinger born
# 1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII
# 1910 Krazy Kat and Ignatz first appear in 'The Dingbat Family' comic strip
# 1911 Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 minutes Notts vs Sussex
# 1915 Bataafsche Petroleum begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
# 1916 Codell KS hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
# 1916 Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting
# 1916 The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
# 1916 The small town of Codell, Kansas is struck by a tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in 1917 and 1918 on the exact same date
# 1917 Turkish Government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
# 1918 The first electrically propelled warship (the New Mexico)
# 1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
# 1920 Montreal Quebec station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
# 1920 The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the national assembly of Germany's Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved.
# 1922 "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine" killing 90
# 1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
# 1926 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
# 1926 Railway Labor Act became law
# 1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
# 1927 At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
# 1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris
# 1927 By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
# 1927 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, NY to begin his historic solo flight to Paris
# 1927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)
# 1930 The first airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
# 1932 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin her historic solo flight to Ireland
# 1932 Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
# 1939 "3 Little Fishies" by Kay Kyser hits #1
# 1939 Pan Am begins regular transatlantic airmail and passenger service across the North Atlantic
# 1940 Concentration camp is established at Auschwitz.
# 1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel
# 1940 Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
# 1940 Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention
# 1941 Former Dutch PM Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence
# 1941 German soldiers invade Crete
# 1941 Sgt. Alfred Clive HULME 23rd NZ Battalionwon the Victoria Cross for valor at various places in Greece
# 1942 US Navy first permitted black recruits to serve
# 1943 French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
# 1944 US Communist Party dissolves
# 1945 Keith Miller scores 105 in the first Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
# 1948 The first use of Israeli Air Force & first war victory, defeating Syrian army
# 1949 In the United States of America, the Armed Forces Security Agency (predecessor to the National Security Agency) is established.
# 1949 Kuomintang regime declare Taiwan is under the martial law.
# 1954 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
# 1954 Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly
# 1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state
# 1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
# 1956 Jordan government of Samir resigns
# 1959 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
# 1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
# 1959 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
# 1959 Personal posting - Laurie Michelle Anderson born May 20, 1959. Adopted name Lora Elizabeth Noah
# 1960 Personal posting - Born at Elmendorf AFB Alaska - USA afifriend@aol.com
# 1961 Mauritania adopts constitution
# 1961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery AL
# 1963 Sukarno appointed President of Indonesia
# 1964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Frazier to qualify for US Olympic team
# 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - Jackie Trent - Where Are You Now (My Love)
# 1965 PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 - 040 B crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
# 1965 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
# 1965 Yorkshire all out for 23 vs Hampshire at Middlesbrough
# 1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam
# 1967 Personal posting - May 20 1967 Bernie Darin Dye was born
# 1967 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
# 1969 The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
# 1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
# 1970 100,000 march in New York supporting US policies in Vietnam
# 1970 The Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
# 1971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
# 1972 "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 24 performances
# 1972 "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 6 performances
# 1972 Cameroon becomes a republic as their constitution is ratified
# 1972 Number one hit on UK music charts - T Rex - Metal Guru
# 1972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
# 1973 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore win
# 1974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
# 1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris France
# 1978 US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces first global radar map of Venus
# 1980 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated
# 1980 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
# 1980 Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
# 1980 In a Referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
# 1980 In a referendum, 59.5% of Québec voters reject separatism
# 1980 Peter Criss quits as drummer for the rock band Kiss
# 1983 First publications of the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
# 1983 Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
# 1983 Michael Dokes & Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
# 1983 Personal posting - Agnita Kumar was born at Gaya, INDIA
# 1984 The first line of the Miami Metrorail in Miami, Florida opens.
# 1985 Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1300 for first time
# 1985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
# 1985 Israel exchanges 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
# 1985 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
# 1985 Radio Mart, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
# 1985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
# 1986 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
# 1986 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
# 1987 Götenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee
# 1987 Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king"

# 1989 China declares martial law in Beijing
# 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & Christians - Ferry 'Cross The Mersey
# 1989 The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
# 1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
# 1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top
# 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first photographs back to Earth
# 1990 The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
# 1990 Personal posting - Cory Hutton was born. - USA
# 1991 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP
# 1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
# 1992 FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London
# 1992 India launches its first satellite independently
# 1992 Rap singer raps 597 syllables in 55.12 seconds
# 1993 10 meter meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)
# 1993 274th & final "Cheers" on NBC
# 1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
# 1994 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show
# 1995 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
# 1995 In a second Referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
# 1995 Personal posting - 1995 Brennen Patrick O'Ryan is born - USA
# 1996 Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
# 1996 Personal posting - Leigh Ann Nichols was born. - USA
# 1996 Personal posting - David Stookey was born - USA
# 1999 TJ Solomon injures 6 people in Heritage High School shooting.
# 2002 The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).

Same birthday
# 1996 Personal posting - Leigh Ann Nichols was born. - USA
# 1996 Personal posting - David Stookey was born - USA

 

[AWAR]

Buddha's Birthday ! xD

 

[Hatchet90]

November 23, the day that Ocarina of Time was released, widely considered the greatest game of all time. I also share a birthday with Miley Cyrus.... and i am sad.

 

[Fingolfin High-King of the Noldor]

One that I know off the top of my head is that J.R.R Tolkien was born on the same day as me. Which I have always thought is cool since I loved his books before I was aware of that fact.