AH!!!, My b-day is sep 27, what year are you?leetkyle wrote:
I was amazed to find so many big things happened on my birthday! Search your birthday (eg September 27)
Pearl Harbor.
'91 Cliff Burton (Metallica bassist) died on 27 Sept.-=]NS[=-Eagle wrote:
AH!!!, My b-day is sep 27, what year are you?leetkyle wrote:
I was amazed to find so many big things happened on my birthday! Search your birthday (eg September 27)
I only remember one thing - the Tonkien Gulf incident. Basicly the start of the Vietnam War.
That and Peter O'Toole and Wes Craven were born.
That and Peter O'Toole and Wes Craven were born.
[Blinking eyes thing]
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March 21st
* 717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
* 1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
* 1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
* 1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
* 1788 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
* 1800 - With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
* 1801 - The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
* 1804 - Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
* 1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
* 1844 - The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
* 1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
* 1849 - The Norwegian city of Hamar is reestablished by royal decree.
* 1857 - An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
* 1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
* 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins.
* 1919 - The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee.
* 1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
* 1933 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
* 1937 - Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
* 1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
* 1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
* 1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
* 1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
* 1964 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough").
* 1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
* 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
* 1968 - Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
* 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
* 1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
* 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
* 2002 - British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from school in Surrey.
* 2005 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
* 717 - Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
* 1188 - Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
* 1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
* 1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
* 1788 - A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
* 1800 - With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
* 1801 - The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
* 1804 - Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
* 1821 - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
* 1844 - The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
* 1844 - The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
* 1849 - The Norwegian city of Hamar is reestablished by royal decree.
* 1857 - An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
* 1871 - Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
* 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins.
* 1919 - The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee.
* 1928 - Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
* 1933 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
* 1937 - Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
* 1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
* 1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
* 1960 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
* 1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
* 1964 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough").
* 1965 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
* 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
* 1968 - Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
* 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
* 1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
* 1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
* 2002 - British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from school in Surrey.
* 2005 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
April 14:
Titanic hits iceberg, sinks next day.
Lincoln shot, dies next day.
D&D invented.
Titanic hits iceberg, sinks next day.
Lincoln shot, dies next day.
D&D invented.
Last edited by pirana6 (2007-04-23 00:29:14)
[edit] Events
1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1276 - Innocent V becomes Pope.
1287 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1643 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 - After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
1887 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
1899 - Opel Motors opens for business.
1907 - The Kenora Thistles win the Stanley Cup, representing the smallest town (Kenora, Ontario) ever to win ice hockey's ultimate prize, or any major North American sports title.
1908 - New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 - The first Monte Carlo Rally.
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 - Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin, Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1921 - The Italian Communist Party is founded at Livorno.
1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
1925 - Albania declares itself a republic.
1927 - First live radio commentary of a football (soccer) match anywhere in the world- Arsenal vs. Sunderland at Highbury. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.
1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1950 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
1958 - The last Fokker C.X in military service, the FAF FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1969 - An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
1972 - Tripura becomes a full- fledged state in India.
1976 - Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1985 - Because January 20 had fallen on a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's public inaugural ceremony (for his second term as President) was moved to Monday, January 21. Due to bad weather, the ceremony was held indoors in the United States Capital Rotunda.[1]
1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
2002 - Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 - NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6th.
2005 - In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
Cool! Lenin died on my birthday, National Hug Day, Feast Day, and a war hero feature on my birthday.
1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1276 - Innocent V becomes Pope.
1287 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1643 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 - After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
1887 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
1899 - Opel Motors opens for business.
1907 - The Kenora Thistles win the Stanley Cup, representing the smallest town (Kenora, Ontario) ever to win ice hockey's ultimate prize, or any major North American sports title.
1908 - New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 - The first Monte Carlo Rally.
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 - Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin, Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1921 - The Italian Communist Party is founded at Livorno.
1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
1925 - Albania declares itself a republic.
1927 - First live radio commentary of a football (soccer) match anywhere in the world- Arsenal vs. Sunderland at Highbury. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.
1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1950 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
1958 - The last Fokker C.X in military service, the FAF FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1969 - An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
1972 - Tripura becomes a full- fledged state in India.
1976 - Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1985 - Because January 20 had fallen on a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's public inaugural ceremony (for his second term as President) was moved to Monday, January 21. Due to bad weather, the ceremony was held indoors in the United States Capital Rotunda.[1]
1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
2002 - Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 - NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6th.
2005 - In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
Cool! Lenin died on my birthday, National Hug Day, Feast Day, and a war hero feature on my birthday.
noice 
Ugh, can't people just take excerpts from the Wikipedia page instead of pasting whole lists?
I hate gigantic list posts.
I hate gigantic list posts.
deleted the birth/death parts in KuSTaV's post, bit unnecessary
570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect.
oh my....
(April 26th)
oh my....
(April 26th)
