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

[blaqknoise]

February 23

Spoiler

303 - Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date)
1574 - France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots
1660 - Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
1668 - Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
1672 - Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
1689 - Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
1778 - Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
1792 - Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
1804 - Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
1820 - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
1821 - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
1846 - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
1847 - Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
1854 - Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
1861 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
1861 - Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
1861 - Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office
1869 - Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
1870 - Mississippi is readmitted to US
1874 - Mjr Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila)
1886 - Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1886 - London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
1886 - Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred," premieres
1887 - Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF
1887 - French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
1892 - 1st college student govt forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
1894 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play
1895 - Jaap Eden skates world record 10km (17:56)
1895 - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
1896 - Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1898 - In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
1900 - Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 - Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in SF Bay
1903 - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
1904 - US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
1905 - Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago
1906 - Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1910 - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
1910 - George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London
1915 - Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1915 - Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
1916 - Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
1916 - French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
1917 - February revolution begins in Russia
1918 - First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
1919 - Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
1921 - 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
1923 - German Republic day with laws against worker
1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
1927 - Pres Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)
1934 - Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 - Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1940 - Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released
1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
1943 - Gen-Maj Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
1943 - German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
1944 - Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
1945 - 2nd Dutch govt of Gerbrandy forms in London
1945 - Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
1945 - Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1945 - US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
1947 - Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
1954 - 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1954 - Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
1955 - Edgar Faure forms French government
1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
1956 - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1957 - "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
1957 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
1958 - 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
1958 - Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina
1958 - Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1959 - KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
1965 - Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1966 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1966 - Military coup in Syria ends Bitar govt
1966 - Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1967 - 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified
1967 - John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes," premieres in NYC
1967 - Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1969 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1969 - WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1970 - Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
1971 - Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
1971 - George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year
1971 - Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina
1973 - Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
1974 - Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA
1974 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
1975 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
1976 - Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1978 - 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel Calif, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
1979 - "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1979 - George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
1980 - 13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1980 - Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spill
1981 - People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
1981 - Spanish coup under lt-col Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1982 - Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London
1983 - 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins
1983 - USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
1983 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
1983 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1985 - Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
1986 - Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
1986 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
1986 - Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
1987 - Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor
1987 - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1987 - Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1988 - Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games
1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
1990 - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1991 - Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho
1991 - Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
1991 - NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
1991 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1991 - US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France
1992 - Andy Flower scores 115* on ODI debut, Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka
1992 - World Cup scoreline Zimbabwe 4-312, Sri Lanka 7-313
1992 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
1993 - Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees
1993 - India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
1993 - Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team)
1994 - Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
1995 - "Uncle Vanya" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
1995 - Antoine Nduwayo appointed Premier of Burundi
1995 - Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
1996 - Mark Waugh scores 130 in World Cup vs Kenya, 207 w/brother Steve
1996 - Rajindra Dhanraj takes 9-97 for Trinidad against Leeward Islands
1997 - Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building & kills 1
1997 - American Express Senior Golf Invitational
1997 - Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic
1997 - NBC TV shows "Schindler's List," completely uncensored, 65M watch
1997 - Tucson Chrysler Golf Classic
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1998 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM
1998 - Supreme Court lets Megan's Law stand
1998 - Tornadoes in Florida kills at least 31
1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
1999 - Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 - An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2005 - Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, marking the first occasion when a sitting American President visits Slovakia; George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are in attendance.
2005 - Vote of the controversial French law on colonialism, repealed start of 2006.
2006 - Dubai Ports World agrees to postpone its plans to take over management of six U.S. ports after the proposal ignited harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
2007 - Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2007 - A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2008 - a B-2 Spirit of the USAF crashes at Guam. The crew survived but the aircraft was written off, making it the most expensive air crash in human history (the aircraft alone cost $1.2Bn). The B-2 had a perfect safety record before the crash; not one B-2 ever crashed.
2010 - Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, causing an environmental disaster.

 

[Sougo]

The Great fire of London destroyed 10,000 buildings. But I already knew that.

 

[Triple AD]

20th of January

Since I have loads of events (Yay I'm popular... Somehow) I decided to take the most interesting and put them there.

0250 Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred. Afterwards the Donatist controversy over readmitting lapsed Christians disaffects many in North Africa.

1942 World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".

1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin.



1990 At least 62 civilians were killed and more than 200 wounded when the Soviet army stormed into Baku to end what Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called fratricidal killing between Moslem Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians.

2005 Republic of Ireland completes metrication with the conversion of speed limits to km/h.

2006 High School Musical is released on the Disney Channel.

2009 Inaugeration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. This was a historical event in that he is the first African-American president of the United States.

TLDR: Alright so I was born on the day Hitler decided to kill jews, the RAF bomb Berlin a lot, the Republic of Ireland converted to km/h, a crappy film was released and Obama was Inaugerated. So overall I'm bad luck and also after my birth my Mother's artheritis got worse/appeared :'(.

EDIT: On my birthday this happened: 1996 Australia defeat Sri Lanka 2-0 to win World Series Cup & Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, with 88 percent of the vote.

 

[bulbasaur765]

April 19th:
1775 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.

1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto

1987 The Simpsons make their television debut in the short "Good Night" a segment for The Tracey Ullman Show.

2011 Skynet is activated and becomes self aware.

 

[Nothing Tra La La]

January 24:

1924 Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad.
1984 The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1989 Serial killer Ted Bundy is put to death in Florida's electric chair.
1989 The first reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex. (AWWWWW YEAH)

I laughed.
Also, Victor Reinganum, who was an artist, died the exact day and year I was born. I think is artistic creativity embedded itself in me.
That or I'm just a tad bonkers.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

November 10th:

Spoiler

1444 Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
1520 Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
1556 Russian treasure ship Edward Bonaventure, carrying Ivan the Terrible's ambassador to Elizabeth 1 of England, was wrecked off Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire
1619 Ren Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1674 Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1766 The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 Birth of the United States Marine Corps! OORAH! - USA
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1847 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
1865 Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1871 Explorer and journalist Henry M. Stanley locates missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"
1871 Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1898 Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1910 The date of Thomas A. Davis' openning of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski
1919 American Legion's first national convention (Minneapolis)
1919 The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, MN.
1924 Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
1926 Vincent Massey becomes first Canadian minister to USA
1928 Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan
1928 Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Showa.
1928 Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper." The Fighting Irish would win the game 12-6.
1938 Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.
1938 The death of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatrk
1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1944 Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1945 Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected President of Guatemala
1951 Direct long-distance dialing between the east and west coasts of the U.S. begins today with a call between the mayors of Englewood, NJ and Alameda, CA.
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1958 The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1959 Personal posting - 1959 - On this day - Pauli Lappi turns 50 years old - USA
1963 Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
1969 The children's TV show Sesame Street debuts on PBS.
1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
1970 Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
1971 In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
1972 Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1975 The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling freighter with a crew of 29, disappears without a trace on Lake Superior during a storm.
1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1975 United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).
1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1979 CP Rail no. 54 suffers a hot axle box and derails 24 cars containing dangerous commodities, in Mississaugua, Ont. Almost a quarter of a million people were evacuated for periods of up to five days.
1980 Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays the $12.55 fare
1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet first sect, dies of a heart attack at 75
1982 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to visitors in Wahsington, D.C.
1984 Number one hit on UK music charts - Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
1985 Pelle Lindbergh Philadelphia Flyer's goalie, dies in drunk driving accident
1986 River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill
1988 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
1989 Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador
1989 Personal posting - Celeste Cheri Wallace was born at 1:11am, 7pounds 11ounces
1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped great word processor but not windows!
1990 Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1995 In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
1998 "The Legend of Mulan" becomes the first commercially available DVD to include a DTS audio track
2006 Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
2007 Por qu no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chvez.
2008 Personal posting - Isabelle Caitlin Onyxdragon Born 11/10/2008 at 4:48 pm 20 inches long 7 lbs-1.2 oz. in perfect health
2009 Sesame Street's 40th anniversary - USA
2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 release date

Personal Favorites:
-Formation of the US Marine Corps. in 1775,
-Sesame Street first airing in 1969,
-The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.

 

[Scde2]

Ok...May 9th
*Uses Wikipedia*
- L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released...
and is also the Anniversary of Dianetics for the Church of Scientology...
*Sigh* Damn...

 

[Hunter6475]

A few I found interesting: B-Day: August 6
-1181 Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers

-1787 Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.

-1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.

-1890 First use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder

-1914 World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

-1945 World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly.
(Oh thats depressing...)

-1960 USA The Highest Ever Parachute jump was Made by Joe Kittinger in Excelsior III at 100,000Ft (31KM/23Mi) and lasted for 15 Minutes and 3 Seconds. (sweet!)

-1997 Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.(LOL)

-2001 White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks. (O_O)

 

[Citizen.Erased]

On a dark and sinister January 22nd, Heath Ledger died.
Thanks for fucking up my birthday. Douche.

 

[MysteriousStranger]

Just noticed this one on my list aswell:

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

Never heard of it but sounds nasty

 

[NeedAUserName]

The Second Coming.

# 1960 ? To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
# 1962 ? First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

Probably my two favourite from Wiki

 

[AvsJoe]

January 3, 1988​

According to Wikipedia: Margret Thatcher broke a record, some famous Mexican guy was born and a famous American dude and German dude died.

According to the NY Times: An ailing Japanese Emperor is wished well, a slaughter occurred in Mozambique, a flood in Hawaii, and not much else. Slow news day. Maybe I'll get famous and show this date who's boss! Yeah, go me!

 

[Liam1390]

I was born on a Friday the 13th and Good Friday

Spoiler: April 13

* 1111 ? Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 ? Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
* 1250 ? The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
* 1256 ? The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
* 1598 ? Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)

* 1612 ? Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
* 1742 ? George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
* 1796 ? The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
* 1829 ? The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
* 1849 ? Hungary becomes a republic.
* 1861 ? American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
* 1868 ? The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
* 1870 ? The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
* 1873 ? The Colfax Massacre takes place.
* 1902 ? James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
* 1919 ? The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
* 1919 ? Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
* 1919 ? Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
* 1921 ? Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
* 1939 ? In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
* 1941 ? Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
* 1943 ? World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, alienating the Western Allies, the Polish government in exile in London, from the Soviet Union.
* 1943 ? James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in an attempt to escape from Alcatraz .
* 1943 ? The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
* 1944 ? Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
* 1945 ? German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
* 1948 ? The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
* 1953 ? CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
* 1958 ? Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
* 1963 ? At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for Lilies of the Field.
* 1969 ? Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.
* 1970 ? An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
* 1972 ? The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
* 1974 ? Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
* 1975 ? Bus Massacre in Lebanon: Attack by the Phalangist resistance kill 26 militia members of the P.F.L. of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
* 1976 ? The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
* 1983 ? Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history.
* 1984 ? India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
* 1987 ? Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
* 1992 ? The Great Chicago Flood.
* 1997 ? Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win The Masters Tournament.
* 2009 ? Citi Field opens to almost 44,000 people in a game lost by the New York Mets 6-5 to the San Diego Padres.

 

[bhenders13]

1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories

1928 Amelia Erhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean, the first woman to do so in a 21-hour flight to Wales.

1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created

 

[rosemystica]

May 5:

-1494: Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.

-1862: Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.

-1891: The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

-1904: Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

-1961: The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 ? Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.

I share a birthday with Michael Palin, Karl Marx, John Rhys-Davies, Nellie Bly, Bill Ward (the drummer for Black Sabbath), and Takehito Koyasu (one of my favorite seiyuu!)