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Mexican independence day.

355 - Roman Emperor Constantius II raises his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him of the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot on Texas.
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 - The first constitution of the Dominican Republic was adopted.
1860 - U.S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1869 - In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1873 - The Halifax Rugby League Football Club is formed.
1888 - U.S. presidential election: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
1900 - U.S. presidential election: Republican incumbent William McKinley is re-elected by defeating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan.
1913 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 - The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1928 - U.S. presidential election: Democrat Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominee of a major party, but loses by a wide margin to Republican Herbert Hoover .
1931 - Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba arrives in The United States for the first time aboard the SS Roma.
1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation," i.e. FM radio.
1935 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
1939 - The Hedda Hopper Show debuts with Hollywood gossip Hedda Hopper as host. The show would run until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite.
1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 - World War II: SS City of Cairo sunk by German U-Boat U-68 in the South Atlantic en route to Brazil from Cape Town.
1943 - World War II: Russia recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 - Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1956 - U.S. presidential election: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-elected by defeating Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest four years earlier.
1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France
1962 - Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1963 - Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans will take advantage of this program.
1971 - The AEC tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1975 - Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
1975 - The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1984 - U.S. presidential election: Incumbent Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in one of the largest electoral landslides in U.S. presidential election history.
1985 - In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2001 - Belgian national airline Sabena is declared bankrupt.
2001 - David Trimble is re-elected prime minister of Northern Ireland.
2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris
2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
2005 - The military junta of Myanmar begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

Events
1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional).
1558 - Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 - The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published.
1800 - The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1862 - American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
1863 - The Keyesville Massacre: a massacre of 53 Native American men from the Tehachapi tribe in Keyesville, California.
1877 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey, for the exclusive use of his employees is opened.
1913 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City was opened.
1915 - The Armenian Genocide began with a massacre of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
1916 - Easter Rising begins: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett start a rebellion in Ireland.
1918 - First tank to tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
1941 - World War II: Operation Demon – The United Kingdom begins evacuating Greece.
1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1955 - Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemned colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1961 - Bob Dylan earned a $50 session fee for playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte's "Midnight Special." It was his recording debut.
1961 - The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
1963 - Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1964 - Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1965 - Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that was in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
1967 - Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He was the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 - Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 - The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1970 - The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
1975 - The Baader-Meinhof Gang blow up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
1979 - "Georgia on My Mind" is adopted as the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia, a month after it is performed before a joint session of the Georgia General Assembly by Ray Charles.
1980 - Eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempted to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1982 - Madonna (entertainer) released her first single, "Everybody".
1990 - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine.
1991 - Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
1993 - The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act came into force establishing Panchayati Raj system in India.
1993 - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of City of London.
1996 - In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
2004 - US lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2006 - King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
2007 - Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime

Births
1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1581 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
1718 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
1743 - Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
1815 - Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
1845 - Carl Spitteler, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1856 - Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman (d. 1951)
1876 - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
1876 - Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
1878 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
1882 - Hugh Dowding, Scottish fighter pilot (d. 1970)
1887 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
1889 - Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1896 - Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
1897 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1899 - Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
1903 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (d. 1936)
1904 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
1905 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
1906 - William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
1907 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
1908 - Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)
1914 - William Castle, American film director and producer (d. 1977)
1916 - Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1922 - J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
1926 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
1929 - Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
1930 - Jerome Callet, American musician
1930 - Richard Donner, American film director and producer
1933 - Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
1933 - Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
1933 - Freddie Scott, American singer
1933 - Alan Eagleson, Canadian hockey agent and promoter
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
1936 - Jill Ireland, British actress (d. 1990)
1937 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
1940 - Sue Grafton, American author
1941 - John Williams, Australian guitarist
1942 - Richard M. Daley, American politician
1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
1945 - Doug Clifford, American drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1945 - Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
1945 - Robert Knight, American singer
1947 - Roger D. Kornberg, American chemist, Nobel-prized
1947 - Claude Dubois, Quebec singer and songwriter
1947 - Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parilment, Socialist
1949 - Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1953 - Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
1954 - Mumia Abu-Jamal, American death-row inmate
1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
1955 - John de Mol, Dutch media tycoon
1957 - David J, British musician
1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
1958 - Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
1958 - Brian Paddick, British police commander
1959 - Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer
1960 - Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
1962 - Stuart Pearce, English footballer and manager
1962 - Steve Roach, Australian rugby player
1963 - Billy Gould, American musician (Faith No More)
1963 - Mano Solo, French singer
1963 - Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician (Vennaskond), anarchist
1964 - Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor
1964 - Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor
1965 - Son Chang Min, South Korean actor
1966 - Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer
1967 - Omar Vizquel, American baseball player
1968 - Stacy Haiduk, American actress
1968 - Hashim Thaci, Kosovan politician
1968 - Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Todd Jones, American baseball player
1969 - Melinda Clarke, American actress
1969 - Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer
1969 - Viveca Paulin, Swedish actress
1971 - Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer (Evil Superstars and dEUS)
1971 - Aaron Austin, American pornographic actor
1972 - Chipper Jones, baseball player
1972 - Jure Košir, Slovenian skier
1972 - Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
1972 - Nicolas Gill, French Canadian judoka
1973 - Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
1974 - Dave Vitty, aka Comedy Dave, British television host
1974 - Joseph Bruce, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
1974 - Kristie Krabe, American stage actress
1974 - Derek Luke, American actor
1975 - Sam Doumit, American actress
1976 - Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
1977 - Carlos Beltran, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1977 - Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ, Belarusian writer
1978 - Eric Balfour, American actor
1978 - Kim Hyun-ju, Korean actress
1980 - Austin Nichols, American actor
1981 - Taylor Dent, American tennis player
1982 - Kelly Clarkson, American singer
1983 - Princess Iman bint Al Hussein, of Jordan

Deaths
624 - Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
709 - Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
1338 - Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
1342 - Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)
1622 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)
1656 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
1779 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
1852 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
1891 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
1924 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
1938 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
1939 - Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
1942 - Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
1944 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859)
1945 - Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
1947 - Hans Biebow, German war criminal (b. 1902)
1960 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1964 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
1965 - Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
1967 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927)
1974 - Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1975 - Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger (b. 1947)
1980 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
1982 - Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
1986 - Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896)
1993 - Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
1997 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
1997 - Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer (b. 1922)
2001 - Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
2004 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
2005 - Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
2005 - Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2006 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
2006 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
2006 - Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)

LOL no1 will read all of this put the most important events

[edit] Events
284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.
762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uighurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.
1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
1407 - A solemn truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
1490 - Joanot Martorell's book Tirant lo Blanc is published for the first time.
1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.
1700 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).
1861 - Secession ordinance filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1902 - Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris.
1910 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, declaring himself president, and calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1917 - Ukraine is declared a republic.
1923 - Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion Papiermark
1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.
1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1945 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 - The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1952 - Slánský trials - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1955 - Bo Diddley becomes the first African American performer to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Apparently Sullivan was infuriated when Diddley sang his self-titled song instead of Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit, "Sixteen Tons".
1955 - RCA offers a $35,000 contract for Elvis Presley.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1966 - Cabaret opens at the Imperial Theatre, New York.
1968 - Vietnam War: Eleven men comprising a Long Range Patrol team from F Company, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne are surrounded and nearly wiped out by North Vietnamese army regulars from the 4th and 5th Regiment. The seven wounded survivors are rescued after several hours by an impromptu force made of other men from their unit.
1969 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
1974 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System.
1975 - Francisco Franco Caudillo of Spain dies after 36 years in power. He died, symbolically, on the 39th anniversary of the murder of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
1979 - Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages in the Kaaba. The Saudi government received help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
1982 - Andy Kaufman was forever voted off Saturday Night Live by a live phone poll.
1982 - Cal executes The Play in a college football game against Stanford.
1983 - In the U.S., an estimated 100 million people watch the controversial made-for-television movie The Day After, depicting a nuclear war and its effects on the United States.
1984 - SETI is founded.
1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).
1993 - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1993 - An Avioimpex Yak 42D crashed near Ohrid, Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. On landing the aircraft crashed into Mount Trojani near Ohrid. All eight crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers were killed.
1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumed the next year).
1998 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 - The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.
2000 - Judith Keppel becomes the first one million pound winner on the original Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? which is hosted by Chris Tarrant in the United Kingdom.
2001 - In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
2003 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation.
2005 - Tacoma mall shooting: Six wounded during a shooting spree in a Tacoma, Washington mall

Dude, A giant sperm whale attacked a boat in 1820 on my bday. if that does not win i dont know what does. + 1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released. WIN!

May 28th
585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
1108 - The Forces of Castile reached Ulces Castle, and prepared for the Battle of Ulces.
1503 - James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull.
1503 - The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed, which would actually last 10 years.
1533 - The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid
1588 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
1644 - Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
1754 - French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1774 - American Revolutionary War: The first Continental Congress convenes.
1830 - President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Indians
1863 - American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1918 - The Democratic Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
1926 - Ditadura Nacional established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. (28th May 1926 coup d'état.)
1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
1934 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1934 - The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
1940 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
1940 - World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. First allied infantry victory in World War II.
1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
1952 - Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
1952 - The women of Greece gain the suffrage.
1955 - Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
1961 - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1969 - Sound engineer Glyn Johns mixes the second of the Beatles Bootlegs.
1970 - The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
1974 - Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1978 - Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. Elections won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.
1979 - Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1982 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1987 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1991 - The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1995 - The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ⅔ of total population.
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
1998 - Comic actor Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live is shot to death at his home in Encino, California, by his wife, Brynn Hartman, who then kills herself.
1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
1999 - Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
2000 - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.
2002 - NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2003 - Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 - The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2006 - German-born Pope Benedict XVI visits Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland.
2006 - Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth for second place on the all time list.
2007 - The first television channel of Venezuela: Radio Caracas Televisión (abbreviated RCTV) closes after 53 years on the air.

[edit] Births
1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
1371 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
1582 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
1588 - Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
1692 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
1779 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
1818 - Pierre Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
1837 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d.1921)
1837 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
1853 - Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
1872 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
1878 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1966)
1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
1884 - Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
1888 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
1892 - Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966)
1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1908 - Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
1909 - Red Horner, Canadian hockey star (d. 2005)
1910 - T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
1911 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
1911 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
1912 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1912 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (d. 1992)
1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
1915 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
1916 - Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
1917 - Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)
1918 - Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)
1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
1922 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
1923 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor,director,producer and politician (d. 1998)
1925 - Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey
1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
1931 - Carroll Baker, American actress
1934 - Dionne quintuplets (Emilie d. 1954, Marie d. 1970, Yvonne d. 2001)
1936 - Betty Shabazz, American civil rights leader (d. 1997)
1936 - Claude Forget, Quebec politician
1938 - Jerry West, American basketball player
1941 - Beth Howland, American actress ("Vera" on Alice)
1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 - Terry Crisp, NHL Coach
1943 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 - Rudy Giuliani, ex-Mayor of New York City
1944 - Gladys Knight, American singer
1944 - Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
1944 - Billy Vera, American actor and musician
1944 - Faith Brown, British actress
1945 - John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1945 - Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor
1946 - Satchidanandan, Indian-born poet
1946 - Skip Jutze, baseball player
1947 - Sondra Locke, American actress
1947 - Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist
1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1950 - Ian Campbell Bradley, British writer, academic and theologian
1950 - Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
1952 - Russell J. Wintner, American Hollywood executive
1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1955 - Mark Howe, Professional ice hockey player
1956 - Julie Peasgood, British actress
1956 - Jerry Douglas (musician), American dobro player
1956 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
1957 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player
1957 - Ben Howland, NCAA basketball coach
1959 - John Morgan, etiquette expert (d. 2000)
1962 - Brandon Cruz, American actor
1962 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
1962 - James Michael Tyler, actor-best known as Gunther on "Friends".
1963 - Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
1964 - Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
1964 - Christa Miller, American actress
1964 - David Baddiel, English comedian, novelist and television presenter
1964 - Phil Vassar, country music artist
1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
1969 - Mike DiFelice, Baseball player
1970 - Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate
1970 - Ian Cashmore, UK actor, tv presenter & paranormal investigator
1971 - Isabelle Carré, French actress
1971 - Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion
1972 - Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
1972 - Guidoni Junior Doriva, Brazilian footballer
1976 - Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
1976 - Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
1976 - Glenn Morrison, Rugby League Player
1977 - Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer
1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
1979 - Jesse Bradford, American actor
1979 - Monica Keena, American actress
1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
1980 - Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
1981 - Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
1981 - Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1982 - Alexa Davalos, American actress
1982 - Jhonny Peralta, American baseball player
1983 - Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
1986 - Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer

[edit] Deaths
1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
1556 - Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494?)
1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1828 - Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)
1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
1953 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)
1976 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
2007 - Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician. Minister of Agriculture. (b. 1945)

[edit] Holidays and observances
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Germain of Paris
Augustine of Canterbury
William of Gellone
Bernard of Menthon
Lanfranc
Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918).
National Flag Day in the Republic of the Philippines

Last edited by M.O.A.B (2007-06-17 11:19:32)

FFLink13 wrote:

TheDarkRaven wrote:

P Diddy was born! Boo-ya!

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And don't you know it?

Wikipedia wrote:

1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex

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Last edited by De_Jappe (2007-06-17 12:00:27)

Julius ceaser was brutally murdered. i can't be arsed using wiki for the rest really.

When I put my birthday in I just get this.

A god was born.