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* 69 - Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian becomes the fourth Emperor of Rome within a year.
    * 1620 - Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
    * 1861 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
    * 1872 - Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
    * 1883 - First Canadian armoured regiment, The Royal Canadian Dragoons, created. The first Canadian infantry regiment, the Royal Canadian Regiment is also formed
    * 1912 - The movie Das Mirakel premiered in Germany.
    * 1913 - Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
    * 1917 - Meiji Dairies, a Japanese dairy industry company, is founded.
    * 1936 - First flight of the Junkers JU-88 bomber prototype.
    * 1937 - The film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles.
    * 1958 - French presidential election, 1958: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France as his Union des Démocrates pour la République party gain 78.5% of the vote.
    * 1962 - Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
    * 1967 - Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days.
    * 1968 - Project Apollo: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 2h:50m:37s Mission elapsed time (MES), the crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave the Earth's gravity field.
    * 1970 - Elvis Presley meets with President Richard Nixon to discuss the war on drugs.
    * 1971 - The United Nations Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim to succeed U Thant as Secretary-General.
    * 1973 - The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
    * 1979 - Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Dr S C Mundawarara.
    * 1987 - The passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing 1,565.
    * 1988 - A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
    * 1992 - A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport (Portugal), killing 56 people.
    * 1995 - The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
    * 1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives thatETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
    * 2006 - The title of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released via a special Christmas-themed "hangman" puzzle on JK Rowling's website.


December 21st.

August 6th

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

1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devestated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 90,000 people were killed instantly.

1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.

1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

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

1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

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.

Also share my birthday with ginger spice. 6th Aug Sucks.

share birthdays with G.W.'s paps, as well as Anne Frank among other's.

April 27.

Events:
1945 - World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (ie. Finnish Veteran's Day)
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.

Births:
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant
1987 - Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater (ZOMG 1987!)

(Wiki also thinks Beethoven wrote Fur Elise on April 27 1810, which no-one would know, so bollocks)

Kamikaze17 wrote:

November 27th



* 399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
    * 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
    * 1295 - Lancashire Day - On this day in 1295 the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
    * 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
    * 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
    * 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison and return safely to the South.
    * 1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
    * 1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
    * 1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
    * 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
    * 1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
    * 1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
    * 1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
    * 1940 - In Romania, General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
    * 1940 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean.
    * 1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
    * 1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
    * 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
    * 1960 - Gordie Howe was the first player to reach the NHL landmark of 1000 points.
    * 1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
    * 1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
    * 1971 - Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.
    * 1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
    * 1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
    * 1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
    * 1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
    * 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
    * 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
    * 1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
    * 1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
    * 1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
    * 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
    * 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
    * 2006 - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada





Also, i was born on Thanksgiving Day 1986

Look at my post, I beat you to it.

Hey, wait a minute, we have the same birthday! HIGH FIVE!

Great success!

My day is perhaps the dullest day of all, highlight is portugal getting owned (hate christiano ronaldo).

1902: Portugal declares itself bankrupt
1908: Artist Claude Monet destroys some of his paintings, which he didn't like
1988: Soviet troops begin their withdrawl from Afghanistan

Edit: found more stuff, same birth date as Andy murray and patrice evra, and check this out

2004 - The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 224036583 − 1, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort.

Lol

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1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

1759 - The British Museum opens.

1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).

1967 - In the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.

1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.

1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

1993 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive

2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.


Some noteable ones imo, Wiki was born on my birthday (not year -.-) Do I win a Pie?

Events

    * 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
    * 1385 - Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385: Battle of Aljubarrota - Portuguese forces commanded by King João I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I.
    * 1598 - Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford - Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
    * 1791 - Ceremony at Bois Caiman, Haiti; Haitian Revolution begins.
    * 1842 - Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
    * 1846 - The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
    * 1848 - Oregon Territory organized by Act of U.S. Congress.
    * 1880 - Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, completed.
    * 1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
    * 1893 - France introduces motor vehicle registration.
    * 1897 - The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
    * 1900 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
    * 1901 - The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
    * 1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England.
    * 1911 - United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
    * 1912 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier.
    * 1921 - Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
    * 1925 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
    * 1933 - Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km²).
    * 1935 - United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
    * 1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
    * 1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
    * 1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).
    * 1947 - Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth.
    * 1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
    * 1969 - United Kingdom troops deploy in Northern Ireland.
    * 1972 - An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
    * 1976 - The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
    * 1980 - Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
    * 1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
    * 2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
    * 2004 - Sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. All sales taxes are suspended on purchases of $2500 or less.
    * 2005 - Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
    * 2006 - The 2006 Lebanon War cease fire goes into effect.

[edit] Births

    * 1297 - Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
    * 1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)
    * 1575 - Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
    * 1586 - William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)
    * 1599 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671)
    * 1625 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)
    * 1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
    * 1653 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
    * 1688 - Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
    * 1714 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
    * 1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
    * 1758 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
    * 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist (d. 1832)
    * 1777 - Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
    * 1777 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)
    * 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
    * 1847 - Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
    * 1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler (d. 1887)
    * 1857 - Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
    * 1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
    * 1865 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
    * 1866 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)
    * 1867 - John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
    * 1867 - Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
    * 1876 - Aleksandar Obrenović, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
    * 1881 - Francis Ford (actor), American actor (d. 1953)
    * 1882 - Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
    * 1909 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
    * 1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1955)
    * 1911 - Vethathiri, Indian yogi (d. 2006)
    * 1913 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
    * 1916 - Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants (d. 2005)
    * 1924 - Georges Prêtre, French conductor
    * 1925 - Russell Baker, American columnist
    * 1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
    * 1926 - Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
    * 1929 - Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
    * 1930 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager
    * 1933 - Richard R. Ernst, Nobel Prize Laureate
    * 1935 - John Brodie, American football player
    * 1940 - Dash Crofts, American musician
    * 1941 - David Crosby, American musician
    * 1941 - Connie Smith, American singer
    * 1943 - Jimmy Johnson, American football coach
    * 1945 - Steve Martin, American comedian
    * 1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
    * 1946 - Antonio Fargas, American actor
    * 1946 - Susan Saint James, American actress
    * 1946 - Larry Graham, American musician
    * 1947 - Danielle Steel, American novelist
    * 1950 - Bob Backlund, American wrestler
    * 1950 - Gary Larson, American cartoonist
    * 1952 - Carl Lumbly, American actor
    * 1952 - Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
    * 1953 - James Horner, American composer
    * 1953 - Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
    * 1954 - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
    * 1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
    * 1956 - Luther Wamble, American guitarist
    * 1957 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler
    * 1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
    * 1959 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
    * 1960 - Sarah Brightman, English soprano
    * 1961 - Susan Olsen, American actress
    * 1961 - "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995)
    * 1964 - Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter
    * 1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
    * 1966 - Halle Berry, American actress
    * 1968 - Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
    * 1968 - Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
    * 1968 - Catherine Bell, American actress
    * 1969 - Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
    * 1970 - Ctislav Doseděl, Czech tennis player
    * 1973 - Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
    * 1973 - Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
    * 1973 - Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
    * 1974 - Ana Matronic, singer
    * 1974 - Christopher Gorham, American actor
    * 1976 - Steve Braun, Canadian actor
    * 1977 - Juan Pierre, American baseball player
    * 1978 - Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
    * 1978 - Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
    * 1979 - Paul Burgess, Australian athlete
    * 1981 - Matthew Etherington, English footballer
    * 1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born tennis player
    * 1983 - Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born actress
    * 1985 - Christian Gentner, German footballer
    * 1986 - Terin Humphrey, American gymnast

[edit] Deaths

    * 582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
    * 1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
    * 1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
    * 1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
    * 1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
    * 1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
    * 1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
    * 1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
    * 1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
    * 1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
    * 1727 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
    * 1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
    * 1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
    * 1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
    * 1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
    * 1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
    * 1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
    * 1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet (b. 1890)
    * 1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
    * 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)
    * 1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
    * 1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
    * 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
    * 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
    * 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
    * 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
    * 1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)
    * 1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906)
    * 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
    * 1972 - Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885)
    * 1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
    * 1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
    * 1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
    * 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b. 1894)
    * 1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904)
    * 1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
    * 1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
    * 1992 - John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904)
    * 1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (b. 1905)
    * 1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
    * 1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
    * 2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
    * 2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
    * 2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
    * 2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
    * 2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
    * 2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)

[edit] Holidays and observances

    * Morocco - Allegiance of Oued Eddahab or Río de Oro.
    * Pakistan - Independence Day (From the Indian Empire and from the British colonialist and imperialists under the foreign control of the United Kingdom, 1947).
    * Paraguay - Flag Day.
    * United States - National Code talkers Day.[citation needed]
    * United States - National Creamsicles Day.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7

Some of the more notable ones that I remember experiencing are:

2001 - The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. (Ironically, my sister's birthday is 9/11)

2003 - California governor Gray Davis is recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Things I recognized from AP US:

1763 - George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.

1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.

Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_4
1060 - Henry I of France died


On This Day in History    Thursday, August 04th
The 216th day of 2005.
There are 149 days left in the year.
Go to a previous date.
Go to lesson   
Today's Highlights in History
   
On Aug. 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality.

On Aug. 4, 1901, Louis Armstrong, the influential American jazz trumpeter, was born. F
   
On August 4, 1866, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Seven Weeks' (or Austro-Prussian) War.

1790     The Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.
1830     Plans for the city of Chicago were laid out.

1892     Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Mass. Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, though she was later acquitted.

1916     The United States purchased the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million.

1929     Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was born Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa in either Cairo or Gaza.

1944     Nazi police raided the secret annex of a building in Amsterdam and arrested eight people, including 15-year-old Anne Frank, whose diary became a famous account of the Holocaust.

1964     The bodies of three missing civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam in Mississippi.

1977     President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.

1987     The Federal Communications Commission voted to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues

2004     Richard Smith, a Staten Island ferry pilot, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in a crash that killed 11 commuters the previous October.

Current Birthdays

Jeff Gordon turns 34 years old today.

85     Helen Thomas
Journalist

66     Frankie Ford
Singer

61     Richard Belzer
Actor-comedian (''Law and Order: Special Victims Unit'')

56     John Riggins
Football hall-of-famer

50     Alberto Gonzales
Attorney general

44     Barak Obama
U.S. senator, D-Ill.

44     Michael Gelman
TV producer (''Live With Regis and Kelly'')

43     Roger Clemens
Baseball player

37     Rob Cieka
Rock musician (Boo Radleys)

36     Michael DeLuise
Actor

30     Andy Hallett
Actor

24     Marques Houston
Singer-actor

13     Dylan Sprouse
Actor

13     Cole Sprouse
Actor

Historic Birthdays

Louis Armstrong

8/4/1901 - 7/6/1971
American jazz trumpeter
(Go to obit.)

40     Richard de Clare Gloucester
8/4/1222 - 7/15/1262
English nobleman

30     Percy Bysshe Shelley
8/4/1792 - 7/8/1822
English Romantic poet

90     Russell Sage
8/4/1816 - 7/22/1906
American financier

55     Walter Pater
8/4/1839 - 7/30/1894
British critic, essayist and humanist

70     Sir Pherozeshah Mehta
8/4/1845 - 11/5/1915
Indian politician and newspaper publisher

78     Sir Osbert Lancaster
8/4/1908 - 7/27/1986
English cartoonist, stage designer and writer

79     Glenn Cunningham
8/4/1909 - 3/10/1988
American champion middle-distance runner

82     William Schuman
8/4/1910 - 2/15/1992
American composer and educator

35     Raoul Wallenberg
8/4/1912 - 7/17/1947
Swedish businessman and diplomat; rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II

January 17

1819 - Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia.
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed.
1929 - Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Comic Strip Thimble Theatre.
1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

Births
1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1949 - Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian

Not too shabby.

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8th September

1273 - Election of Pope John XXI.
1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
1986 - The first Oprah Winfrey Show airs.

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may 15th

1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots weds James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France.
1776 - American Revolution: Virginia convention instructs its delegates to propose a declaration of independence from Great Britain.
1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposed the self-denying ordinance.
1795 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph.
1811 - Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1829 - According to LDS teaching, John the Baptist confers the Aaronic Priesthood onto Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery. LDS is widely considered to be a cult and therefore such events are not grounded in actual fact but religious hallucinations.
1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1849 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.
1851 - Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
1858 - The third Royal Opera House officially opens in London.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed USDA).
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1869 - Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in Greco-Turkish War
1902 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).
1905 - Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Lake Elsinore Fault.
1911 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
1911 - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
1914 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 - Finnish Civil War ends.
1918 - The US Post Office Department (later renamed the USPS) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).
1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike began. By 11:00, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
1919 - Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion killed or wounded 350 Turks by the Greek army. The responsible were punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. Hasan Tahsin fired the first gun of the Turkish War of Independence.
1920 - Council of Lithuania adjourned as newly elected Constituent Assembly of Lithuania met for the first time in Kaunas
1928 - Release of the animated short "Plane Crazy", featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
1929 - A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
1930 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago.
1932 - The May 15 Incident. In an attempted coup the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
1934 - The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.
1934 - Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
1940 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States.
1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Nazi Germany, marking the beginning of 5 years of occupation.
1940 - McDonald's is founded.
1941 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.
1942 - World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1945 - Last skirmish of the Second World War in Europe fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948 - Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel.
1951 - The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
1951 - The cartoon Rabbit Fire is released
1955 - Austrian Independence Treaty signed.
1955 - First ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
1957 - Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
1963 - Mercury program: America launches the last mission of the program, Mercury 9 (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb told Congress the program was complete).
1964 - The Smothers Brothers give their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1970 - The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released in the United States.
1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1970 - Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1972 - In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while Wallace is campaigning to be American President.
1973 - Nolan Ryan threw his first no-hitter (at Kansas City).
1978 - Lagumot Harris, having only been elected President less than a month before, is replaced as the leader of the republic of Nauru. He is succeeded by Hammer DeRoburt.
1981 - Len Barker, American baseball pitcher, completes a perfect game for the Cleveland Indians against the Toronto Blue Jays.
1987 - Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform, which failed to reach orbit.
1988 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1990 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
2004 - The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 224036583 − 1, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort.
2004 - Arsenal complete a whole English Premiership season, 38 games, unbeaten.

[edit] Births
1567 - (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1720 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
1773 - Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d. 1859)
1786 - General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
1817 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
1848 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1856 - L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)
1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
1891 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (d. 1971)
1892 - Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)
1895 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
1898 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
1899 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
1902 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
1905 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
1907 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian Freedom Fighter
1909 - James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
1910 - Constance Cummings, British actress (d. 2005)
1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
1911 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
1914 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa (d. 1986)
1914 - Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender
1915 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (d. 2006)
1915 - Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
1918 - Eddy Arnold, American singer
1922 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
1923 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
1923 - Johnny Walker, Indian actor
1924 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (d. 1971)
1926 - Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
1926 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright
1930 - Jasper Johns, American painter
1931 - Ken Venturi, American golfer
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress
1936 - Hugh Romney, American clown and activist
1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
1936 - Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1937 - Trini López, American musician
1940 - Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
1940 - Don Nelson, NBA coach
1941 - K.T. Oslin, American musician
1944 - Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
1945 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
1950 - Nicholas Hammond, American actor
1951 - Chazz Palminteri, American actor, writer and director
1951 - Jonathan Richman, American musician
1951 - Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1953 - George Brett, baseball player
1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
1954 - Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
1955 - Melinda Culea, American actress
1956 - Dan Patrick, American sportscaster
1958 - Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
1959 - Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer
1961 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
1962 - Melle Mel, American musician
1965 - Raí, Brazilian footballer
1967 - John Smoltz, baseball player
1967 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician
1968 - Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
1969 - Emmitt Smith, American football player
1970 - Desmond Howard, American football player
1970 - Rod Smith, American football player
1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch football player
1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch football player
1971 - Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
1972 - David Charvet, French actor
1974 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby player
1974 - Ahmet Zappa, American musician
1974 - Vassilis Kikilias, Greek footballer
1975 - Ray Lewis, American football player
1976 - Torraye Braggs, American basketball player
1976 - Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
1976 - Tyler Walker, baseball player
1976 - Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
1976 - Ryan Leaf, former NFL quarterback
1978 - Amy Chow, American gymnast
1978 - Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
1978 - David Krumholtz, American actor (NUMB3RS)
1978 - Edu, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995)
1980 - Josh Beckett, baseball player
1980 - Rocky Marquette, American actor
1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
1981 - Zara Phillips, British royal
1981 - Patrice Evra, French-Senegalese footballer
1982 - Veronica Campbell, Jamaican athlete
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
1982 - Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 - Alex Breckenridge, American actress
1982 - Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1986 - Matías Fernández,Chilean footballer
1987 - Andrew Murray, tennis player
1987 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipino actress and singer
1990 - Gerald Santos, Filipino actor and singer

[edit] Deaths
1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1174 - Nur ad-Din, ruler of Syria (b. 1118)
1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1591 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (b. 1582)
1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1698 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
1699 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
1773 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
1782 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
1924 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
1937 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1940 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)
1945 - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)
1948 - Father Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1954 - William March, American writer (b. 1893)
1956 - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)
1967 - Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
1971 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor
1986 - Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915)
1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
1989 - Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
1991 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1933)
1994 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1904)
1995 - Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
1998 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
2003 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (b. 1924)
2005 - Les Bartley, lacrosse coach (b. 1954)
2005 - Alan B. Gold, Chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court (b. 1917)
2006 - Joyce Ballantyne Brand, artist (b. 1918)

[edit] Holidays and observances
Paraguay - Independence Day. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, 14 May.
Roman Empire - Mercuralia in honor of Mercury held.
Buddha's Birthday in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea (2005).
United States - Peace Officers Memorial Day.
Slovenia - Day of Slovenian armed forces.
Teacher's Day in Mexico (Día del Maestro) and South Korea (스승의 날).
Nakba Day in Palestinian communities.
Peace Officers Memorial Day

[edit] Liturgical Feast days
in the Roman Catholic Church:

Saint Achillius
Saint Gerebern
Saint Isidore the Labourer
Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
Saint Reticius
Saint Denise
Saint Dymphna

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