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Wow, there has been A LOT of deaths on the 26th of may.
451 ? Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
1135 ? Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of All the Spains".
1293 ? An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1328 ? William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1538 ? Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1637 ? Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
1647 ? Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1670 ? In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.
1736 ? Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
1770 ? The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1783 ? A Great Jubilee Day is held in Trumbull, Connecticut to celebrate the end of the American Revolution.
1805 ? Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1822 ? 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
1828 ? Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830 ? The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1857 ? Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
1864 ? Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 ? American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1868 ? The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1869 ? Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1879 ? Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1889 ? Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1896 ? Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1896 ? Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1896 ? James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
1906 ? Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1908 ? At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان
in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
1917 ? Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
1918 ? Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
1918 ? The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1928 ? The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece.
1936 ? In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
1938 ? The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 ? World War II: Battle of Dunkirk ? In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1942 ? World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place.
1948 ? The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1959 ? Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix retires the first 36 Milwaukee Braves batters to face him, only to lose his bid for a perfect game in the 13th inning.
1966 ? British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1969 ? Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 ? The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1972 ? Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1972 ? The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 ? George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1981 ? Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1982 ? Aston Villa win the European Cup, defeating Bayern Munich 1-0 in Rotterdam, Netherlands thanks to a Peter Withe goal.
1983 ? A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
1986 ? The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 ? Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 ? Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
1992 ? Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California and is held hostage for a ransom of $650,000 in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
1998 ? The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2004 ? The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004 ? The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2006 ? The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
1135 ? Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of All the Spains".
1293 ? An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1328 ? William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1538 ? Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1637 ? Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
1647 ? Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1670 ? In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.
1736 ? Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
1770 ? The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1783 ? A Great Jubilee Day is held in Trumbull, Connecticut to celebrate the end of the American Revolution.
1805 ? Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1822 ? 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
1828 ? Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830 ? The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1857 ? Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
1864 ? Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 ? American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1868 ? The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1869 ? Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1879 ? Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1889 ? Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1896 ? Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1896 ? Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1896 ? James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
1906 ? Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1908 ? At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان
in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.1917 ? Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
1918 ? Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
1918 ? The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1928 ? The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece.
1936 ? In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
1938 ? The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 ? World War II: Battle of Dunkirk ? In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1942 ? World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place.
1948 ? The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1959 ? Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix retires the first 36 Milwaukee Braves batters to face him, only to lose his bid for a perfect game in the 13th inning.
1966 ? British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1969 ? Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 ? The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1972 ? Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1972 ? The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 ? George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1981 ? Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1982 ? Aston Villa win the European Cup, defeating Bayern Munich 1-0 in Rotterdam, Netherlands thanks to a Peter Withe goal.
1983 ? A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
1986 ? The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 ? Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 ? Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
1992 ? Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California and is held hostage for a ransom of $650,000 in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
1998 ? The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2004 ? The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004 ? The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2006 ? The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
# 1945 ? World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1970 ? M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director (Crap)
and 2 Independence Days
# Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
# Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.
Edit: Crap, right. August 6th.
1970 ? M. Night Shyamalan, Indian/American film director (Crap)
and 2 Independence Days
# Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bolivia from Spain in 1825.
# Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.
Edit: Crap, right. August 6th.
# 1925 The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
# 1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established
# 1926 Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
# 1927 Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State VP, assassinated
# 1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
# 1933 The first police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
# 1934 The first sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
# 1934 USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first visit of U.S. President to South America.
# 1936 109ø F (43ø C), Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
# 1936 111ø F (44ø C), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
# 1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
# 1940 Australian fighter pilots begin their participation in the Battle of Britain
# 1940 World War II: Vichy France government established.
# 1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA
# 1941 Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
# 1943 Naval gunfire help Allied troops land on Sicily. It was first extensive use of LST's and smaller landing craft to deliver heavy equipment over the beach.
# 1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II
# 1943 World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
# 1945 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August.
# 1945 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies
# 1946 Canada's first drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton, Ontario (those were the days)
# 1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
# 1947 Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
# 1949 Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
# 1949 The first practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
# 1950 "Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV
# 1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
# 1951 Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
# 1951 Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
# 1955 Personal posting - Bonnie Caryn Levine was born in New York - USA
# 1958 Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
# 1958 In the Lituya Bay, Alaska an 8.3 event caused amassive rockslide at the head of Lituya Bay caused water to surge about 530 meters, generating a "gravity wave" that swept out of the bay. A fishing boat anchored in Anchorage Cove was carried in front of the largest wave crest, and those onboard estimated they cleared La Chaussee Spit (at the mouth of Lituya Bay) by 30 meters or more. Two people on another fishing boat disappeared after being caught in the huge wave
# 1958 Personal posting - Suresh's date of birth
# 1962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
# 1962 Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
# 1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
# 1965 Rolling Stones score their first #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
# 1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
# 1967 New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
# 1967 Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
# 1968 Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
# 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
# 1969 NL votes to split into 2 divisions
# 1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
# 1973 Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)
# 1973 National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
# 1973 The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
# 1976 One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
# 1976 The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy.
# 1977 Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
# 1978 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484
# 1978 Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
# 1978 Military coup in Mauritania
# 1978 World News Tonight premieres on ABC
# 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
# 1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp
# 1981 CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
# 1982 In Vancouver, BC, three $2 ticket bettors win $579,129 apiece at the races in Exhibition Park. (they call it the sport of kings?)
# 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze
# 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
# 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
# 1985 Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
# 1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
# 1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show
# 1991 Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
# 1991 Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer
# 1991 South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
# 1992 In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
# 1995 Personal posting - blonde haired blue eyed cutie born - USA
# 1997 London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
# 1997 Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel ngel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
# 1998 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
# 2000 A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
# 2000 EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Arospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
# 2002 At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for 49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
# 2003 A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
# 2005 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
# 2006 Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
# 1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established
# 1926 Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
# 1927 Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State VP, assassinated
# 1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
# 1933 The first police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
# 1934 The first sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
# 1934 USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first visit of U.S. President to South America.
# 1936 109ø F (43ø C), Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
# 1936 111ø F (44ø C), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
# 1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
# 1940 Australian fighter pilots begin their participation in the Battle of Britain
# 1940 World War II: Vichy France government established.
# 1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA
# 1941 Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
# 1943 Naval gunfire help Allied troops land on Sicily. It was first extensive use of LST's and smaller landing craft to deliver heavy equipment over the beach.
# 1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II
# 1943 World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
# 1945 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August.
# 1945 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies
# 1946 Canada's first drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton, Ontario (those were the days)
# 1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
# 1947 Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
# 1949 Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
# 1949 The first practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
# 1950 "Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV
# 1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
# 1951 Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
# 1951 Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
# 1955 Personal posting - Bonnie Caryn Levine was born in New York - USA
# 1958 Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
# 1958 In the Lituya Bay, Alaska an 8.3 event caused amassive rockslide at the head of Lituya Bay caused water to surge about 530 meters, generating a "gravity wave" that swept out of the bay. A fishing boat anchored in Anchorage Cove was carried in front of the largest wave crest, and those onboard estimated they cleared La Chaussee Spit (at the mouth of Lituya Bay) by 30 meters or more. Two people on another fishing boat disappeared after being caught in the huge wave
# 1958 Personal posting - Suresh's date of birth
# 1962 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
# 1962 Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
# 1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
# 1965 Rolling Stones score their first #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
# 1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
# 1967 New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
# 1967 Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
# 1968 Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
# 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
# 1969 NL votes to split into 2 divisions
# 1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
# 1973 Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)
# 1973 National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
# 1973 The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
# 1976 One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
# 1976 The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy.
# 1977 Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
# 1978 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484
# 1978 Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
# 1978 Military coup in Mauritania
# 1978 World News Tonight premieres on ABC
# 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
# 1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp
# 1981 CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
# 1982 In Vancouver, BC, three $2 ticket bettors win $579,129 apiece at the races in Exhibition Park. (they call it the sport of kings?)
# 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze
# 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
# 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
# 1985 Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
# 1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
# 1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show
# 1991 Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
# 1991 Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer
# 1991 South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
# 1992 In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
# 1995 Personal posting - blonde haired blue eyed cutie born - USA
# 1997 London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
# 1997 Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel ngel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
# 1998 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
# 2000 A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
# 2000 EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Arospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
# 2002 At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for 49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
# 2003 A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
# 2005 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
# 2006 Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
I chopped it down a little bit...
Oh! my birthday is July 10th.
The link is quite awesome, but looks like not a lot of cool stuff happened on the date when i was born(11. March)
My best picks are :
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model.
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare (Awww...)
1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
I didn't read trough them all so i may be missing something, but these things are good enough for me.
My best picks are :
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model.
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare (Awww...)
1953 An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
I didn't read trough them all so i may be missing something, but these things are good enough for me.
Let's see, fun events for September 29th:
1789: US first establishes an army
1829: The London Metropolitan Police is founded.
1916: Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire.
1991: Military coup in Haiti
Birthdays: Pompey the Great, Ian McShane
Not too much of interest going on on my b-day.
1789: US first establishes an army
1829: The London Metropolitan Police is founded.
1916: Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire.
1991: Military coup in Haiti
Birthdays: Pompey the Great, Ian McShane
Not too much of interest going on on my b-day.
Cinco de Mayo
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire (1260).
Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain (1494).
Marx (1818), Kierkegaard (1813), and Ian McCullough (1959) were born.
Battle of Puebla in Mexico (1862).
Bobby Sands dies (1981).
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire (1260).
Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain (1494).
Marx (1818), Kierkegaard (1813), and Ian McCullough (1959) were born.
Battle of Puebla in Mexico (1862).
Bobby Sands dies (1981).
August 9th
1945- The second atomic bomb "Fat Man" is dropped on Nagasaki effectively ending WWII.
1945- The second atomic bomb "Fat Man" is dropped on Nagasaki effectively ending WWII.
me birthday: 28th of june
Most importantly: Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated my birthday ergo WW1 was ignited on my birthday!
* 1098 ? Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
* 1389 ? Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
* 1519 ? Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1635 ? Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
* 1651 ? Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
* 1776 ? Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
* 1778 ? American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
* 1807 ? Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
* 1838 ? The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
* 1841 ? The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
* 1859 ? First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
* 1865 ? The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
* 1880 ? Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
* 1881 ? Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
* 1882 ? Anglo-French Convention of 1882 signed marking territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
* 1894 ? Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
* 1895 ? El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
* 1896 ? An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania resulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.
* 1902 ? The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
* 1904 ? The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
* 1914 ? Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
* 1919 ? The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
* 1922 ? The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
* 1936 ? The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
* 1940 ? Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
* 1948 ? Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
* 1948 ? Boxer Dick Turpin beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park, Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
* 1950 ? Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
* 1956 ? Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań.
* 1964 ? Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
* 1967 ? Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
* 1969 ? Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
* 1973 ? Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
* 1976 ? The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
* 1978 ? The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
* 1981 ? A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
* 1983 ? The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
* 1986 ? ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.
* 1990 ? Paperback Software International Ltd. found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
* 1992 ? The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
* 1994 ? Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
* 1994 ? Lebanese actor
* 1996 ? The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
* 1997 ? Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II ? Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.
* 2004 ? Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
* 2006 ? The Republic of Montenegro is admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
* 1389 ? Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
* 1519 ? Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1635 ? Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
* 1651 ? Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
* 1776 ? Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
* 1778 ? American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
* 1807 ? Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
* 1838 ? The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
* 1841 ? The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
* 1859 ? First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
* 1865 ? The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
* 1880 ? Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
* 1881 ? Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
* 1882 ? Anglo-French Convention of 1882 signed marking territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
* 1894 ? Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
* 1895 ? El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
* 1896 ? An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania resulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.
* 1902 ? The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
* 1904 ? The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
* 1914 ? Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
* 1919 ? The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
* 1922 ? The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
* 1936 ? The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
* 1940 ? Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
* 1948 ? Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
* 1948 ? Boxer Dick Turpin beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park, Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
* 1950 ? Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
* 1956 ? Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań
.* 1964 ? Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
* 1967 ? Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
* 1969 ? Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
* 1973 ? Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
* 1976 ? The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
* 1978 ? The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
* 1981 ? A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
* 1983 ? The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
* 1986 ? ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.
* 1990 ? Paperback Software International Ltd. found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
* 1992 ? The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
* 1994 ? Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
* 1994 ? Lebanese actor
* 1996 ? The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
* 1997 ? Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II ? Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.
* 2004 ? Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
* 2006 ? The Republic of Montenegro is admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
Most importantly: Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated my birthday ergo WW1 was ignited on my birthday!
The Doughnut was invented!!!! 22nd of June the doughtnut was invented!!!! Oh and the department of justice was created as well apprently
1085 Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo back from the Moors.
1085 Castile's Alfonso VI takes Toledo, the Arab center of science falls into Christian hands
1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren
1085 Pope Gregory VII dies at Salerno; Henry IV extends the "Peace of God" over the entire Holy Roman Empire
1241 First attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragança
1720 "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent
1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is first US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1810 In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela
1825 American Unitarian Association founded
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
1862 Battle of Winchester VA
1864 Battle of New Hope Church GA
1865 In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs Surrey Gentlemen
1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec
1878 Gilbert & Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London
1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1895 Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1898 First US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco
1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
1901 River Plate was founded to become one of the most successful teams in Argentina.
1911 Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz
1914 The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1915 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
1926 Sholom Schwarzband kills exiled Ukrainian Nationalist leader Simon Petlura.
1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is first woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
1935 Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last home run at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a baseball record that will stand for 39 years.
1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1937 First airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
1938 Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Alicante, 313 deaths.
1940 Golden Gate International Expo reopens
1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1941 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for first time in 1941
1943 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1943 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1949 Personal posting - May 25, 1949 Hyacinth Veronica Grant was born to Herbert and ruby grant. She was born in the district of Wilmington, parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica. She gave birth to two children Lori Lee Johnson born May 3, 1969 and Neil Andrew Johnson born April 2, 1974.
1950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1951 New York Giant Willie Mays first major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1952 USS Iowa bombards Chongjin, Korea.
1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 The first atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat NV
1955 Personal posting - Stephen's birthday - USA
1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall KS & most of Blackwell OK
1959 Khrushchev visits Angola
1959 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
1961 Apollo program: U.S. president John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Temperance Seven - You're Driving Me Crazy
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
1963 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
1964 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
1964 Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis
1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut
1965 Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
1965 India & Pakistan border fights
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in first round for heavyweight boxing title
1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1966 The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China was posted at Peking University.
1967 Celtic F.C. become the first British and non-Latin side to win the European Champions' Cup in the Lisbon Lions 2-1 victory over Inter Milan in Lisbon, Portugal.
1967 Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon
1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
1968 "Unicorn" by The Irish Rovers hits #7
1968 Fire Support Base Balmoral in Vietnam reinforced with Centurion tanks
1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating
1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1969 Personal posting - May 25, 1969 Marsha & Steve get married.
1970 Personal posting - Personal info- The Day Joanna was born - Greece
1973 Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president
1973 Launch of Skylab 2 mission, which was first U.S. manned orbiting space station. It had an all Navy crew of CAPT Charles Conrad, Jr., USN. (commanding), CDR Joseph P. Kerwin, USN and CDR Paul J. Weitz, USN. During the 28 day mission of 404 orbits, the craft rendezvoused with Skylab to make repairs and conduct science experiments. Recovery by USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)
1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich
1977 "Beatles Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is released
1977 Personal posting - I was born this year, only to face this wild world. today in 2010 i can say i lost.Time to Bid adieu the world. - India
1978 "Star Wars" released
1978 Personal posting - The one and only Zuks Ndwandwa was born at 11:50. - South Africa
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1980 "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
1981 Al Unser becomes first Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified
1981 Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes the 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
1983 First National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York
1986 Hands Across America, a benefit event, takes place.
1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1986 Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
1988 PSV wins Europe Cup
1989 Eastern Airlines graduates its first class of non-union pilots
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"
1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
1993 Personal posting - Gabriel Ortiz was born - USA
1994 Personal posting - Joe Callahan is born! - USA
1995 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1998 Personal posting - Steven Harwell is born ya baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - USA bone-deah@hotmail.com
1999 Personal posting - austin grotts is born. may 25 1999
2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2002 China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2003 Nstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
2005 Liverpool football club win theUefa Champions League for the 5th time. The most times for a British club.
2007 The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.
2008 Personal posting - May 25 2008 Allen was born
1085 Castile's Alfonso VI takes Toledo, the Arab center of science falls into Christian hands
1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren
1085 Pope Gregory VII dies at Salerno; Henry IV extends the "Peace of God" over the entire Holy Roman Empire
1241 First attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Bragança
1720 "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent
1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is first US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1810 In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
1812 Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela
1825 American Unitarian Association founded
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
1862 Battle of Winchester VA
1864 Battle of New Hope Church GA
1865 In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs Surrey Gentlemen
1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Québec
1878 Gilbert & Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London
1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1895 Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1898 First US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco
1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
1901 River Plate was founded to become one of the most successful teams in Argentina.
1911 Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz
1914 The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1915 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
1926 Sholom Schwarzband kills exiled Ukrainian Nationalist leader Simon Petlura.
1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1928 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is first woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
1935 Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last home run at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a baseball record that will stand for 39 years.
1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
1935 Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1937 First airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
1938 Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Alicante, 313 deaths.
1940 Golden Gate International Expo reopens
1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1941 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for first time in 1941
1943 Riot at Mobile AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1943 Trident conference in Washington DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1949 Personal posting - May 25, 1949 Hyacinth Veronica Grant was born to Herbert and ruby grant. She was born in the district of Wilmington, parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica. She gave birth to two children Lori Lee Johnson born May 3, 1969 and Neil Andrew Johnson born April 2, 1974.
1950 Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1951 New York Giant Willie Mays first major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1952 USS Iowa bombards Chongjin, Korea.
1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 The first atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat NV
1955 Personal posting - Stephen's birthday - USA
1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall KS & most of Blackwell OK
1959 Khrushchev visits Angola
1959 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
1961 Apollo program: U.S. president John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Temperance Seven - You're Driving Me Crazy
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
1963 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
1964 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
1964 Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis
1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut
1965 Dave Davies of the Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
1965 India & Pakistan border fights
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in first round for heavyweight boxing title
1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1966 The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China was posted at Peking University.
1967 Celtic F.C. become the first British and non-Latin side to win the European Champions' Cup in the Lisbon Lions 2-1 victory over Inter Milan in Lisbon, Portugal.
1967 Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon
1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
1968 "Unicorn" by The Irish Rovers hits #7
1968 Fire Support Base Balmoral in Vietnam reinforced with Centurion tanks
1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating
1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1969 Personal posting - May 25, 1969 Marsha & Steve get married.
1970 Personal posting - Personal info- The Day Joanna was born - Greece
1973 Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president
1973 Launch of Skylab 2 mission, which was first U.S. manned orbiting space station. It had an all Navy crew of CAPT Charles Conrad, Jr., USN. (commanding), CDR Joseph P. Kerwin, USN and CDR Paul J. Weitz, USN. During the 28 day mission of 404 orbits, the craft rendezvoused with Skylab to make repairs and conduct science experiments. Recovery by USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14)
1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich
1977 "Beatles Live! At the Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1977 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is released
1977 Personal posting - I was born this year, only to face this wild world. today in 2010 i can say i lost.Time to Bid adieu the world. - India
1978 "Star Wars" released
1978 Personal posting - The one and only Zuks Ndwandwa was born at 11:50. - South Africa
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1980 "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
1981 Al Unser becomes first Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified
1981 Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes the 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
1983 First National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York
1986 Hands Across America, a benefit event, takes place.
1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1986 Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
1988 PSV wins Europe Cup
1989 Eastern Airlines graduates its first class of non-union pilots
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"
1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
1993 Personal posting - Gabriel Ortiz was born - USA
1994 Personal posting - Joe Callahan is born! - USA
1995 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1998 Personal posting - Steven Harwell is born ya baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - USA bone-deah@hotmail.com
1999 Personal posting - austin grotts is born. may 25 1999
2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2002 China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2003 Nstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
2005 Liverpool football club win theUefa Champions League for the 5th time. The most times for a British club.
2007 The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.
2008 Personal posting - May 25 2008 Allen was born
I was born in 1995, possibly the most disturbing thing ever for me.
February 18th
1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
1930 Pluto, the ninth planet of our solar system, is discovered.
1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
Those are the best ones I could find.
I have the same birthday as Scientology
1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
1930 Pluto, the ninth planet of our solar system, is discovered.
1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
Those are the best ones I could find.
I have the same birthday as Scientology
