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A naked cupid decided to go on a rampage with heart-shaped arrows, and called it Valentine's day.

lol ryan!

- 2006 - chip and PIN - UK cardholders had to use their PIN to be sure they could pay with their chip and PIN card. This change was made to better protect cardholders against fraudsters.

you killed fraudsters, nice

Um, nothing really exciting happened, except for some "famous" people that I share my birthday with:
July 31, 1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor
July 31, 1965 - J. K. Rowling, British novelist
July 31, 1987 - Me, Doesn't even know himself what he wants to be

Here, eat your hearts out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_31

agust 20
Events
636 - Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
917 - Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out.
1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1391 - Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
1794 - Battle of Fallen Timbers - American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declared the U.S. Civil War over.
1882 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
1888 - Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile.
1900 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1914 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
1920 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
1926 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 - Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam - a record that still stands.
1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice axe. He dies the next day.
1944 - The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 - In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 - Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring independence.
1968 - 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
1974 - Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam from $1 Billion to $700 Million. Majority of the cuts were for military supplies.
1975 - Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977 - Voyager Program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1982 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.
1986 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 - "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 - Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1988 - Iran-Iraq War: A cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 - Estonia secedes from the Soviet Union.
1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the next month.
1997 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 - U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
2002 - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.

[edit] Births
1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586)
1561 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1632 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
1710 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
1719 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1719 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
1776 - Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
1779 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1845 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
1847 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1856 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
1860 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (d. 1934)
1873 - Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
1881 - Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
1898 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1905 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1905 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)
1908 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1913 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
1916 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984)
1918 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
1926 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
1932 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
1934 - Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
1935 - Ron Paul, American politician
1936 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
1938 - Alain Vivien, French politician
1939 - Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate
1940 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
1941 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
1941 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
1941 - Robin Oakley, British journalist
1942 - Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor
1942 - Fred Norman, American baseball player
1943 - Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1946 - Connie Chung, American journalist
1946 - N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
1948 - John Noble, Australian actor
1947 - Alan Lee, English conceptual artist
1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1949 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
1951 - Greg Bear, American author
1952 - John Hiatt, American musician
1954 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster
1955 - Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
1956 - Joan Allen, American actress
1961 - Greg Egan, Australian author
1962 - Sophie Aldred, English actress
1962 - James Marsters, American actor
1962 - Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player
1965 - KRS-One, American rapper
1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004)
1967 - Andy Benes, baseball player
1968 - Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
1969 - Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
1970 - John Carmack, American computer game programmer
1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
1971 - Steve Stone, English footballer
1971 - Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor
1971 - David Walliams, British comedian
1973 - Todd Helton, baseball player
1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
1975 - Amy Adams, American actress
1975 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
1976 - Chris Drury, American hockey player
1977 - Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
1977 - Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1979 - Cory Sullivan, baseball player
1980 - Rochelle Gadd, British actress
1981 - Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1982 - Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1982 - Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
1982 - Cléber, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
1986 - Robert Clark, Canadian actor
1987 - Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast

[edit] Deaths
535 - Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
984 - Pope John XIV
1384 - Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
1572 - Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
1580 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1611 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
1639 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
1643 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
1648 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
1672 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
1680 - William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
1701 - Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 - Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1823 - Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
1825 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
1887 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1904 - René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1914 - Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
1915 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1854)
1917 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
1930 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1961 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
1965 - Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (b. 1939)
1971 - Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1986 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1993 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
1997 - Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
2001 - Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
2005 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (heart disease) (b. 1981)
2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2006 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)

[edit] Holidays and observances
World Union - World Union Day.
Roman Catholic saints - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Asmá (Names) - First day of the ninth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
Estonia - Restoration Day.
Hungary - St. Stephen's day, the main national holiday in Hungary.
Morocco - Revolution of the King and the People Day.

Last edited by {B-T}<babacanosh> (2007-04-22 14:43:53)

LMFAO

36 BC - In the battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius

According to wikipedia, crap all has happened on the 10th of November. The only mention is that:
         -Mary Miller died (apparently a British actress)

Ryan wrote:

A naked cupid decided to go on a rampage with heart-shaped arrows, and called it Valentine's day.

Not another mass killing. Very sad

As for March 2:

1904  Dr Seuss is born (Yay).

1807  Congress abolishes the slave trade (YAY!).

1944  Acadamy Awards screened for the first time (meh, so what).

2005  Bush honours the Boston Red Sox (being a Cubs fan, so what).

A few other things, but those are the highlights.

April the 4th:

-Martin Luther King Assassinated (RIP good sir).

-Microsoft is founded.

-Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.

-Napoleon abdicates for the first time.

-Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.

-The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.

-15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.

November 30... Vista came out damn
1718 - The Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
1782 - American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
1824 -Sod turning ceremony for the first Welland Canal at Allanburg.
1829 - first Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day of the sod turning ceremony.
1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinop — The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin — The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
1868 - The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden in the King's garden in Stockholm.
1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace destroyed by fire.
1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1942 - World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga — A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code named Operation Overlord.
1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
1960 - Production of the DeSoto automobile brand ceases.
1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as as its 3rd UN Secretary-General.
1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) was discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.
1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
2004 - Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
2006 - Windows Vista, the newest version of Windows for Microsoft, released for volume license customers

bennisboy wrote:

Sextus Pompeius

A sexist pompus?

Hehe.

a blue angels plane crashed...

1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1942 - The Battle of Stalingrad began.
1942 - Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.

kick ass i got hawaii, and australia on me b-day August 21st kicks ass