stez Posted 6 September 2008 Posted 6 September 2008 wiki particular highlights include: Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor in 324ad 1490 - Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy - could i marry sarah palin by proxy? 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position. (the french army actually does something) on a sadder note: 2002 - Arthur Rowley, English footballer. (b. 1926) died anyhoo, i bet your lots birthdays are shitter than mine.
stez Posted 6 September 2008 Author Posted 6 September 2008 How did you find that out wiki? just put your birthdate (without the year) in the search
Alexikokopops Posted 6 September 2008 Posted 6 September 2008 2nd August 1776 Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence 1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London 1903 Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising 1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany 1939 Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon 1943 Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka 1980 A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War Births 1982 Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer (plus the others in the other threads) Deaths 1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor, invented the telephone So Hitler became Fuhrer, they started making the atomic bomb, there was the Bologna station bombing and Iraq invaded Kuwait (starting the first Gulf War). What a happy day.
JakeShingler Posted 6 September 2008 Posted 6 September 2008 6th May 1976 - An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages. 1981 - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries. 1983 - The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax when experts examine the books and conclude that they are fake. 1988 - An airplane flying from Namsos to Brønnøysund in Norway crashes into the side of the Torghatten mountain, killing all 36 passengers and crew. 1994 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel. 1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991. 1994 - The Channel Tunnel opens, after 7 years of work and enables travel between England and France. 1996 - The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared. 1997 - The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history. 1998 - Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start. 2001 - During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque. 2002 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist. 2004 - The season finale of the sitcom Friends airs 2008 - Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people The best of the lot.
potter3 Posted 6 September 2008 Posted 6 September 2008 Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on my birthday, and the Treaty of Versailles was signed on it too
lildave3 Posted 6 September 2008 Posted 6 September 2008 Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on my birthday, and the Treaty of Versailles was signed on it too Alright showoff.
potter3 Posted 6 September 2008 Posted 6 September 2008 Alright showoff. It must be a coincidence but Franz Ferdinand was listed under the famous deaths section too
Tilley Posted 6 September 2008 Posted 6 September 2008 1991 I was born Can't believe that. I share my birthday with.. Bruno N'Gotty.
Jay Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 25 May Events 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. one that Sarah Palin would be overjoyed about! 1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. 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. 1977 - Star Wars is released. It rapidly becomes a cult classic and is the start of a six-movie franchise. A couple of sad musical deaths 1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968) 2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
Guest Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 MARCH 26 * 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. * 1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables. * 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru. * 1636 - Utrecht University is founded in The Netherlands. * 1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII. * 1812 - An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela. * 1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. * 1839 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held. * 1852 - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed * 1881 - Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again. * 1913 - Balkan War: Bulgarian forces take Adrianople. * 1917 - World War I: First Battle of Gaza - British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. * 1934 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom. * 1942 - World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners. * 1945 - World War II: In Iwo Jima, US forces declare Iwo Jima "secure." * 1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine. * 1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer 3. * 1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris. * 1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas." * 1967 - Ten thousand people gather for the Central Park Be-In. * 1971 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Liberation War begins. * 1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force. * 1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. * 1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson * 1979 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC. * 1982 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, DC. * 1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect. * 1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia. * 1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides. * 1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2. * 1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. * 1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. * 2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk. * 2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force. * 2006 - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital. Births * 603 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque * 1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565) * 1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611) * 1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765) * 1749 - William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800) * 1753 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814) * 1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigation expert (d. 1838) * 1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872) * 1859 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936) * 1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919) * 1868 - King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936) * 1871 - Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922) * 1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963) * 1875 - Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922) * 1875 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965) * 1876 - Prince William of Wied (d. 1945) * 1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965) * 1882 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940) * 1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969) * 1886 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971) * 1894 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985) * 1896 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974) * 1898 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979) * 1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948) * 1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964) * 1904 - Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987) * 1904 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (d. 1986) * 1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004) * 1905 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997) * 1905 - Monty Berman, British film and television producer (d. 2006) * 1906 - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981) * 1908 - Franz Stangl, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1971) * 1911 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003) * 1911 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983) * 1911 - T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988) * 1913 - Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996) * 1914 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995) * 1914 - William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005) * 1916 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995) * 1916 - Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986) * 1916 - Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986) * 1917 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001) * 1919 - Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965) * 1919 - Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980) * 1922 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist * 1923 - Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992) * 1923 - Bob Elliott, American comedian * 1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor * 1925 - James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor * 1929 - Edwin Turney, American businessman * 1929 - Tom Foley, American politician, former Speaker of the House * 1930 - Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001) * 1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice * 1931 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director * 1934 - Alan Arkin, American actor * 1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority * 1937 - Wayne Embry, American basketball player * 1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate * 1940 - James Caan, American actor * 1940 - Nancy Pelosi, American politician and 60th Speaker of the House * 1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist * 1941 - Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician * 1942 - Erica Jong, American author * 1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist * 1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes) * 1945 - Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004) * 1946 - Johnny Crawford, American actor * 1946 - Alain Madelin, French politician * 1947 - Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986) * 1948 - Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra) * 1948 - Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith) * 1949 - Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer * 1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer * 1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer * 1950 - Martin Short, Canadian comedian * 1950 - Ernest Thomas, American actor * 1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer * 1951 - Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel laureate * 1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987) * 1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor * 1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island * 1953 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002) * 1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor) * 1954 - Curtis Sliwa, American founder of the Guardian Angels * 1955 - Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player * 1956 - Charly McClain, American singer * 1957 - Leeza Gibbons, American television host * 1957 - Paul Morley, English music journalist and musician * 1958 - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer * 1958 - Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986) * 1959 - Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent * 1960 - Marcus Allen, American football player * 1960 - Jennifer Grey, American actress * 1961 - Leigh Bowery, Australian-born English fashion performance artist (d. 1994) * 1961 - William Hague, British politician * 1962 - John Stockton, American basketball player * 1962 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch television host * 1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer * 1963 - Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress * 1963 - Roch Voisine, Canadian singer and songwriter * 1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver * 1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player * 1966 - Nick Wirth, British engineer * 1966 - Michael Imperioli, American actor * 1967 - Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer * 1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer * 1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle) * 1968 - Laurent Brochard, French cyclist * 1970 - Paul Bosvelt, Dutch football player * 1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist * 1972 - Jon Reep, American comedian and actor * 1972 - Jason Maxwell, Retired American Baseball Player * 1973 - Heather Goldenhersh, American actress * 1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer * 1973 - T.R. Knight, American actor * 1973 - Matt Burke, Australian rugby player * 1974 - Mike Peca, Canadian ice hockey player * 1976 - Joachim Alcine, Haitian-born Quebec boxer * 1976 - Amy Smart, American actress * 1976 - Natalia Livingston, American actress * 1976 - Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress * 1976 - Ufuk Talay, Australian soccer player * 1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer * 1977 - Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler * 1978 - Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player * 1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist * 1979 - Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer * 1979 - Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer * 1980 - Son Ho Young, Korean singer * 1981 - Baruch Dego, Israeli football player * 1981 - Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer * 1981 - Josh Wilson, American baseball player * 1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer * 1983 - David Bennett, Canadian powerlifter and steamfitter * 1983 - Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler * 1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean crickaeter * 1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer * 1984 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model * 1985 - Keira Knightley, English actress * 1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain * 1985 - Jonathan Groff, American stage actor * 1987 - Yui, Japanese musician Deaths * 304 - Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian * 922 - Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer * 1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090) * 1212 - King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154) * 1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer * 1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482) * 1546 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat * 1566 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1510) * 1649 - John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony * 1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621) * 1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640) * 1726 - Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (b. 1664) * 1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704) * 1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725) * 1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713) * 1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721) * 1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726) * 1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738) * 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770) * 1858 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811) * 1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800) * 1888 - Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837) * 1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819) * 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853) * 1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849) * 1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864) * 1910 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879) * 1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834) * 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844) * 1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852) * 1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859) * 1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902) * 1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873) * 1942 - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874) * 1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863) * 1951 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1864) * 1957 - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872) * 1958 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887) * 1959 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888) * 1969 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937) * 1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899) * 1973 - Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916) * 1973 - Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909) * 1973 - George Sisler, American baseball player (b. 1893) * 1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888) * 1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895) * 1978 - Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster (b. 1904) * 1983 - Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy (b. 1907) * 1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922) * 1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902) * 1990 - Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932) * 1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937) * 1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A) (b. 1963) * 1996 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914) * 1996 - David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912) * 1997 - Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931) * 2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920) * 2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950) * 2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927) * 2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941) * 2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921) * 2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912) * 2005 - Gérard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (b. 1909) * 2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959) * 2005 - Marius Russo, American baseball player (b. 1914) * 2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944) * 2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975) * 2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956) * 2008 - Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983) * 2008 - Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933) * 2008 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (b. 1925) * 2008 - Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP (b. 1930) Holidays and observances * Independence Day - Bangladesh * Zoroastrianism - Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday. * Prince Kuhio Day in Hawaii * Saint Emmanuel (died 304) * Saint Ludger * Saint Larissa * Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel * Orthodox Christian liturgical calendar - Synaxis of St. Gabriel the Archangel
MikeyT Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 1940: Germany invades Norway 1983 English trainer Jenny Pitman becomes the first woman to train the winner of the Grand National - Corbiere - at Aintree, Liverpool. 1969 Maiden flight of the British-built supersonic airliner, Concorde. 1945 The American warship USS Liberty explodes in Bari Habour, Italy killing more than 350. 1944 World War II: Charles de Gaulle, in exile in England, is appointed leader of the Free French Government. 1940 World War II: Germany invades Denmark. 1865 Confederate General Robert E.Lee surrenders to General Grant in Virginia bringing the American Civil War to a close. 1838 Opening of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London. 1770 English explorer Captain Cook discovers Australia
lavrentis Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 I share my birthday with Daniel De Rossi. That's about it.
Babylon Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 19th June Births 1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625) 1954 - Kathleen Turner, American actress 1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer 1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer 1964 - Boris Johnson, British politician 1965 - Sadie Frost, English actress 1983 - Mark Selby, British snooker player On that day... 1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom. 1982 - The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London. It's also Garfield the Cat Day Basically not a lot happened.
Webbo Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 29th July. Holidays and observances * Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session. * National Anthem Day in Romania. Roman Catholicism * Saint Eugenius, king [Magdeburg] * Saint Felix I, pope, and companions (Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, (siblings)), martyrs [common] * Saint Ladislas, king, confessor (Deposition) [Hungary] * Saint Lupus, bishop of Troyes, confessor [Cologne, Constance, Metz, Paris, France] * Saint Olaf II of Norway, king of Norway, martyr, patron of woodcarvers [sleswig, Scandinavia] - celebrated in Norway as Olsok (St. Olav's Day) * Saint Pantaleon [Paris] * Saint Beatrice of Nazareth * Saint Martha, host of Christ, sister of Lazarus, patron saint of cooks, domestic staff and dieticians [common] * Saint Serafina
Samilktray Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 I share my birthday with.. Bruno N'Gotty. I envy you.
Nugent Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 9th October 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. 1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first European to reach America. 1238 - James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia. 1446 - The hangul alphabet is published in Korea. 1514 - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor. 1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela. 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai. 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. 1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. 1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. 1760 - 7 Year's War: Russian forces occupy Berlin. 1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland. 1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California. 1799 - Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000. 1804 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded. 1806 - Prussia declares war on France. 1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. 1820 - Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. 1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica. 1831 - Capo d'Istria is assassinated. 1835 - The Royal College, Colombo established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka. 1837 - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. 1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church. 1854 - the siege of Sebastopol begins. 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island - Union troops repel Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia. 1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control. 1874 - General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne. 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. 1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. 1919 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series. 1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France. 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb. 1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president. 1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy. 1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment. 1945 - Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients 1962 - Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm. 1963 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it. 1967 - A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. 1969 - In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" (trial started on September 24). 1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. 1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France. 1983 - Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and 17 others were injured. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast. 1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. 1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. 1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms. 1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. 1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu 1995 - An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. 1999 - The last flight of the SR-71. 2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack. 2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. [edit] Births 1201 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274) 1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler 1261 - King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325) 1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes (d. 1616) 1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638) 1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672) 1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632) 1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) 1757 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836) 1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878) 1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) 1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905) 1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) 1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935) 1871 - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940) 1871 - Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar. 1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916) 1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939) 1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944) 1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947) 1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960) 1886 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980) 1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938) 1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944) 1892 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) 1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941) 1893 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945) 1900 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976) 1902 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998) 1903 - Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979) 1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001) 1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001) 1907 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982) 1908 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961) 1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975) 1909 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000) 1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006) 1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture 1918 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007) 1918 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000) 1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976) 1921 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002) 1922 - Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997) 1923 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor 1925 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958) 1926 - Danièle Delorme, French actress 1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer 1931 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair 1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1934 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author 1935 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family 1936 - Brian Blessed, English actor 1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician 1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980) 1940 - Joe Pepitone, American baseball player 1941 - Trent Lott, American politician 1941 - Brian Lamb, Founder of c-span 1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician 1943 - Mike Peters, American cartoonist 1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002) 1944 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle) 1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996) 1946 - Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey 1947 - France Gall, French singer 1947 - William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007) 1947 - Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer 1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician 1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1950 - Brian Downing, former baseball player 1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne 1953 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor 1954 - Scott Bakula, American actor 1954 - James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues) 1954 - Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician 1954 - John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host 1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner 1958 - Michael Pare, American actor 1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry) 1960 - Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist 1961 - Julian Bailey, British racing driver 1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer 1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director 1966 - Christopher Östlund, Swedish Publisher and entrepreneur 1966 - David Cameron, British politician 1967 - Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005) 1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician 1970 - Kenny Anderson, American basketball player 1970 - Park Sang-min, South Korean actor 1970 - Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994) 1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer 1970 - Jason Butler Harner, American actor 1971 - Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004) 1971 - Michael Manna, American professional wrestler 1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor 1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist 1973 - Steven Burns, American actor and musician 1973 - Erin Daniels, American actress 1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody) 1973 - Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer 1974 - Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor 1975 - Sean Lennon, American musician & son of ex-Beatle John Lennon 1975 - Mark Viduka, Australian footballer 1976 - Nick Swardson American Actor 1977 - Brian Roberts, American baseball player 1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife) 1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player 1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer 1979 - Brandon Routh, American actor 1979 - Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model 1979 - Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver 1980 - Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian Footballer 1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player 1981 - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer 1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor 1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player 1982 - António Mendonça, Angolan footballer 1982 - Shi Jun, Chinese footballer 1983 - Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean Weightlifter 1983 - Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver 1983 - Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player 1984 - Ghetto, British musician 1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer 1992 - Tyler James Williams, American actor 1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress [edit] Deaths 1047 - Pope Clement II (b. 1005) 1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop 1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany 1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358) 1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493) 1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523) 1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533) 1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537) 1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638) 1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640) 1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654) 1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718) 1797 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720) 1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731) 1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776) 1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785) 1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873) 1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888) 1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862) 1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865). 1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900) 1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) 1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895) 1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875) 1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882) 1958 - Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876) 1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885) 1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928) 1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) 1967 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885) 1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929) 1972 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902) 1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908) 1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894) 1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929) 1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905) 1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908) 1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903) 1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892) 1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940) 1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)) 1996 - Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913) 1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923) 1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914) 2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945) 2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918) 2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921) 2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927) 2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924) 2002 - Aileen Wournos, American Serial Killer sentenced to death (b. 1956) 2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913) 2006 - Paul Hunter, professional snooker player (b. 1978) 2006 - Raymond Noorda, co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924) 2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922) [edit] Holidays and observances RC Saints - Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia. South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet. Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962) Leif Erikson Day - in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil) Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day French Republican Calendar - Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Alexikokopops Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 A guy I went to school with was born on the day of the Chenobyl disaster. Explains a lot about him really.
Daggers Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 On my birthday I usually hope for a lie-in and maybe some sex. And scampi for tea.
Moreton Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 17th August 1992 Births 1977 - William Gallas, French footballer1977 - Thierry Henry, French footballer1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor1982 - Phil Jagielka, English footballer The best one's i could find.
DB11 Posted 7 September 2008 Posted 7 September 2008 28th January 1547 - Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. 1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses. 1986 - Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard. 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
billyfox1 Posted 8 September 2008 Posted 8 September 2008 november 9th 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim 1967 - First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published 1989 - Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall not the most exciting day.
lookwhaticando Posted 8 September 2008 Posted 8 September 2008 # 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. # 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam). # 1964 - Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa. # 1988 - The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament. # 1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic. # 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit. # 1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. # 2008 - Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform programme of the European Union. Births # 1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States # 1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945) # 1976 - Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer # 1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
Koke Posted 8 September 2008 Posted 8 September 2008 2nd March Birth 1947 - Harry Redknapp 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi 1973 - Trevor Sinclair 1977 - Chris Martin 1979 - Damien Duff 1982 - Kevin Kurányi Quite a number of football people born on the 2nd March.
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