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

[Kimarous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_27

Urgh... lots of war, conflict, crime, death... I'm depressed n-

Ooh, what's this?

1921 ? Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.

And this?

1940 ? The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.

Well, that ain't so bad. =)

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

Events

43 BC ? Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
69 ? Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
70 ? Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
966 ? Christianisation of Poland
1028 ? Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
1205 ? Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1294 ? Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 ? Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 ? The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1471 ? In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1699 ? Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1775 ? The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828 ? Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 ? The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1849 ? Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1860 ? The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
1864 ? Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1865 ? U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 ? U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1881 ? The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 ? The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 ? The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1912 ? The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
1927 ? The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1931 ? Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
1935 ? "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1939 ? The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1940 ? World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1941 ? World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Rommel attacks Tobruk.
1944 ? Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 ? Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
1956 ? In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
1958 ? The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1969 ? At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
1978 ? 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1981 ? STS-1 ? The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1986 ? In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
1986 ? 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1988 ? The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 ? In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1994 ? In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 ? NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees ? Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
1999 ? A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 ? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 ? The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 ? U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 ? The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 ? At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

 

[havass]

When I was born, it was Adolf Hitler's 105th birthday.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

August 9th

The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

Plenty of other stuff happened, but that was really the only stand out.

 

[havass]

My birthday is the 4th of July...

I don?t think anything important happened on that day, seeing how the site isn?t working for me >.>...

You ARE joking, right?

 

[RewardMe]

A google search came up with a few interesting things but nothing major.


20th May 1956 : The first hydrogen bomb dropped from an aircraft is exploded by America over Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.


20th May 1944 : A group of officers from the German Army attempt an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler by exploding a bomb in his headquarters during a staffing meeting

20th May : Captain janeway was born.

 

[Toriver]

Wow, there's a decent amount for my birthday, I didn't realize it.

79 AD - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire (So the Roman Empire died on my birthday... that one's kinda sad. :*( )
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1814 - British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
1853 - Potato chips are first prepared. (Except is this the American or the British definition of "chips"?)
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
1932 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the U.S. nonstop, completing a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.
1939 - Germany and Russia sign a 10-year non-agression pact. (...and we all know how well THAT turned out.)
1960 - -127 F (-88ø C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1991 - Ukraine declares independence from the USSR
1995 - Windows 95, a computer operating system by Microsoft, is released with much fanfare.
2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a "Dwarf Planet.

 

[The Weaver]

My birthday is the 4th of July...

I don?t think anything important happened on that day, seeing how the site isn?t working for me >.>...

You ARE joking, right?

Kind of, to put it simply due to bad internet connection, i was unable to view it at the time (Fun fact: after posting that, i lost internet connection all together for a time on this computer)

... Or did you mean the joke i made about the 4th of July?

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

July 15th.

Crusaders storm the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders.

And a guy was murdered on the exact same day as my birthday.

 

[Nouw]

July 15th.

Crusaders storm the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders.

And a guy was murdered on the exact same day as my birthday.

To be honest, I bet everyone has that xD

Waitangi Day. If you're from NZ and don't know it, SHAME ON YOU!

It was the day the natives of New Zealand signed the 'treaty of Waitangi.' On that site, there are no really memorable events... but the one I know is big enough. Thanks to that, every birthday of mine is on a public holiday!

 

[hotacidbath]

I'm an American born on July 4th. Besides the obvious, slavery was abolished in NY, Wisconsin territory formed (I live in Wisconsin), and Thoreau moved into his shack on Walden Pond. I'm in a natural resources field and along with Aldo Leopold and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau is pretty high up there in historical influences in the field.

 

[Tartarga]

June 28th 1914. Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo.

 

[Lilani]

On April 22, 1991 (the day I was born):

~A 7.6 earthquake killed 82 in Costa Rica and Panama
~Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
~Intel releases 486SX chip
~Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
~Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn and Queens

And on April 22 in other years:

~1793: President Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in U.S.
~1969: 1st human eye transplant performed
~1994: In Denmark the largest lollipop is created, weighing 3,011 pounds.

Hooray for Earth Day!

 

[Koroviev]

September 15:

1968 ? The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

1962 ? The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1987 ? United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

1959 ? Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

1828 ? Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist was born (d. 1886)

1867 ? Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary was born (d. 1920)

1941 ? Yuri Norstein, Russian animator was born

1941 ? Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official was born

1921 ? Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary died (b. 1886)


Source: Wikipedia

 

[redisforever]

1st September - Japan surrenders ending World War 2.

July 31- The "Final Solution" is created...

I'm Jewish...

Haha!

I think 1st September was when Poland was invaded, starting the war.

Anyways, March 6, Michaelangelo was born. So was I. Different years though.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

August 17:

1999 ? A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Ýzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.

Interesting.

 

[icame]

November 9th, The Kristallnacht...

Fuck my birthday was the start of the holocaust

 

[Samuel Adams]

Alright! Niagara Falls opened! And I guess the Moscow treaty is pretty good.

Spoiler: May 24th

* 1153 Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
* 1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
* 1276 Magnus Laduls crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
* 1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
* 1370 Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV
* 1487 Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
* 1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
* 1621 Protestant Union formally dissolved.
* 1626 Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
* 1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
* 1653 German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria
* 1658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
* 1667 French troops attack into Southern Netherlands
* 1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
* 1689 The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded).
* 1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
* 1738 John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
* 1738 Methodist Church is established
* 1787 The Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates attends in Philadelphia
* 1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war

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* 1810 Argentina beings its revolt against Spain
* 1815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
* 1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola FL
* 1822 At Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain
* 1822 Battle of Pichincha: Antonio Jos de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
* 1824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
* 1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for the pontificate
* 1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written
* 1830 Mary had a little lamb by Sarah Hale is published.
* 1830 The first U S passenger railroad begins service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, Maryland
* 1830 The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road between Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills.
* 1832 The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
* 1844 Samuel F B Morse opens America's first telegraph line between Washington, D C and Baltimore, MD with the message "What hath God wrought!"
* 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought" (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland.
* 1844 The Baltimore Patriot carries the first-ever telegraphed news dispatch (received from Washington, D C )
* 1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
* 1854 Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, first Black college in US forms by Prebyts
* 1856 John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
* 1856 Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
* 1861 Alexandria VA occupied by Federal troops



* 1861 Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
* 1862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
* 1866 Berkeley CA named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
* 1870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, first Missionary Bishop in US
* 1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins first American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
* 1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die
* 1881 The Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers
* 1881 Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
* 1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland
* 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
* 1884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party form People's Party in the US
* 1887 Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants East African Association at East African harbors
* 1890 Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany
* 1890 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
* 1890 Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
* 1893 The Niagara Falls Park and River Railway opens in Ontario.
* 1895 Henry Irving becomes first theatrical knight
* 1895 Henry Irving becomes the first personage from the theatre to be knighted.
* 1895 Playright Oscar Wilde is convicted on a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison
* 1899 The first auto repair shop opens in Boston
* 1899 The first public parking garage in the United States is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1900 Australians cross Vaal River in South Africa
* 1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State
* 1900 Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
* 1901 78 miners die in Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
* 1902 Empire Day first celebrated in Britain
* 1908 Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
* 1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter
* 1911 The New York Public Library opened.
* 1915 Enemy Contracts Annulment Act
* 1915 Formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried
* 1915 World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
* 1916 French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
* 1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
* 1916 US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
* 1921 British Legion is formed
* 1921 The first parliament for Northern Ireland elected
* 1921 The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
* 1922 Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6ºC)
* 1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
* 1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
* 1929 The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the Marx Brothers, opens.
* 1930 Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
* 1930 Babe Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
* 1930 Bradman scores 252 Australia vs Surrey, 290 minutes, 29 fours
* 1934 Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
* 1935 Babe Ruth, in a Boston Braves uniform, hits the 714th and final home run of his career in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates
* 1935 Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, hosts major-league baseball's first night game ever as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.
* 1935 Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX)
* 1940 Dutch army demobilizes
* 1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France
* 1940 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
* 1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
* 1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
* 1941 The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic
* 1941 World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy.
* 1943 Admiral Dönitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
* 1943 Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp.
* 1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
* 1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
* 1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
* 1944 Major John Keefer Mahony (The Westminister Regiment(Motor)) wins the Victoria Cross at the Melfa River, Italy
* 1946 Transjordan (now known as Jordan) becomes a kingdom, with King Abdulla Ibn Ul-Hussein as the new monarch
* 1949 The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade.
* 1951 Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal
* 1951 Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants
* 1954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes first black to head an AMA unit
* 1954 German airline Lufthansa forms
* 1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
* 1956 Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbna.
* 1956 The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland and is won by the host nation.
* 1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
* 1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
* 1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
* 1958 Visitor posting - Shelby and Joe got married
* 1958 United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service
* 1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
* 1959 The first house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
* 1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
* 1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson MS
* 1961 Cyprus enters the Council of Europe.
* 1961 U S President Kennedy asks the nation to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade
* 1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
* 1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm
* 1962 Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
* 1964 18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win
* 1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
* 1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
* 1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
* 1966 "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
* 1968 FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
* 1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
* 1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
* 1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse
* 1968 Students set fire to the Paris bourse.
* 1968 The Gateway Arch, located in St Louis, Missouri, is dedicated
* 1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
* 1970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
* 1970 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the USSR
* 1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
* 1972 Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona
* 1973 Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords.
* 1974 Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
* 1975 A group of 80 reporters and cameramen are the first Westerners allowed to leave Saigon in South Vietnam since it fell to communist forces on April 29.
* 1975 Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain some F-16's
* 1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
* 1976 London to Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
* 1976 Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
* 1976 The first commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)
* 1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns
* 1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
* 1979 Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
* 1980 "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56
* 1980 Iran rejects a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages
* 1981 Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indianapolis 500
* 1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
* 1982 Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during Iran-Iraq War

* 1983 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria
* 1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students
* 1983 The Brooklyn Bridge, linking the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan, opens to traffic
* 1984 Visitor posting - GAIR, CECIL EN MARIE GOT MARRIED IN CENTENARY CHURCH, PE
* 1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US
* 1985 Cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
* 1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy Mahl
* 1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hours
* 1987 Visitor posting - Artist,Singer, and Revolutionist Marketta Carroll-Neubauer is Born. - USA
* 1987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indianapolis 500
* 1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
* 1988 Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe
* 1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
* 1988 Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
* 1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres
* 1989 AC Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona
* 1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
* 1989 NHL's New York Rangers fire general manager & coach Phil Esposito
* 1989 Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded a six-figure sum in damages after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
* 1989 Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
* 1990 A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
* 1990 Visitor posting - May 24 1990 Juanita Jade Green is born
* 1990 Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game
* 1990 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
* 1991 Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
* 1992 Jay Leno makes his Tonight Show debut as permanent host, succeeding Johnny Carson
* 1992 The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
* 1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
* 1993 Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
* 1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4 million settlement
* 1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey
* 1993 Visitor posting - Crysta Rae LaVonne Robinson is born to Mardy and Wes Robinson, Havre MT
* 1993 Microsoft unveils Windows NT.
* 1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
* 1994 Visitor posting - Lawrence Allen McSorley's Birthday - USA
* 1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
* 1995 Visitor posting - Brenna Michelle was born in Watertown, SD
* 1995 Visitor posting - Mikaela Edwards was born on the 24th of May. In Chandler Arizona. - USA
* 1995 Visitor posting - Zebbie Warren born - USA
* 1996 "Spy Hard" starring Leslie Nielsen is released
* 1997 Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Michigan
* 1999 Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.
* 2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
* 2001 Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
* 2001 The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.

* 2001 The Versailles wedding hall collapse in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.
* 2002 Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
* 2010 Visitor posting - Alexander Murphy turns 16. what now Ricky - USA
* 2010 Tribal gunmen have kidnapped two American tourists along with their driver and translator, and are demanding the release of their jailed tribesman for the pair, - Yemen
* 2010 China Soccer rocked by corruption scandals. Players and officials from China and Hong Kong arrested on suspicion of taking bribes from gambling syndicates for match fixing.
* 2010 Visitor posting - Julie Walker turns 27! - USA

 

[Asmundr]

Remember, remember, 5th November.

Yeah, Gunpowder plot.
Also in 2006 Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death.

Same here!

 

[Yomandude]

Nero became a Roman emperor back in Oct. 13, 54. Just 54, no preface, no apostrophe. Also, of course, barely two months ago this very year the last Chilean miner was freed from the collapse-thingy. HOORAY!