What I mean is, is there an important day, like New Years, Christmas, on your birthday?
For example, Silverlines birthday next year is special because Pirates of The Caribbean 3 is out on the same day.
I share Hitler's Birthday (April 20th). Does that count? Also columbine happened on my birthday, I felt creppy for a week.
i have mine on thanksgiving in Canada
Quote from: FuMannChu on January 01, 2007, 01:01:58 AM
I share Hitler's Birthday (April 20th). Does that count? Also columbine happened on my birthday, I felt creppy for a week.
DAMN.
Quote from: Tsunokiette on January 01, 2007, 03:27:01 AM
Quote from: FuMannChu on January 01, 2007, 01:01:58 AM
I share Hitler's Birthday (April 20th). Does that count? Also columbine happened on my birthday, I felt creppy for a week.
DAMN.
Wow that must've sucked.
I hope I'm not wrong. I think that Spiderman 3's in theaters the same day as my birthday, May 3rd, 2007.
Mine's on Veteran's Day, which is Nov. 11 for you non-American forumgoers.
I dont spose i have anything special.
You guys have something on the 14th july right?
Which doesnt matter...as my b'days not on the 14th of July
just asking
if you mean americans, it the 4th of July. Which is like technically here more important than jebusmass. But uh only atheists and pagans think that.
Well mine is this year on the lucky three 7s of the casino slots. :tpg:
Cinco de Mayo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_mayo)
I have a nothing on mah B'day!!!
Thats why its special... Cause its my b'day!
Quote from: FuMannChu on January 01, 2007, 01:01:58 AM
I share Hitler's Birthday (April 20th). Does that count? Also columbine happened on my birthday, I felt creppy for a week.
Yeah it counts.
LOL FU LOL
I dun think i got anything special
OR anything you would know about.
May have something special here.
THE SPECIAL THING ABOUT ME BDAY IS
ITS MY BDAY LOL
not really...
except the fact I share march 12 with the two hottest twins at my school!!!!!!!! (party!)
pics
of the twins?
yes
What else do you think we would have wanted pics off?
k, hld on....gota find their myspace (if they have one) if not I will find one somehow
Cool
PICS OR GTFO
lol
My birthday is not really important in the respect of a holiday.
BUT
My favorite series of videogames, Mega Man X, usually releases a new product within a few days of my birthday each year, which is fucking kick-ass in too many ways to count.
My birthday is Oct. 16th, 1990.
Quote from: Zypher on January 01, 2007, 04:02:00 AM
Mine's on Veteran's Day, which is Nov. 11 for you non-American forumgoers.
my brothers birthday is on that day toooo
Quote from: Christina on January 01, 2007, 07:59:44 PM
Quote from: Zypher on January 01, 2007, 04:02:00 AM
Mine's on Veteran's Day, which is Nov. 11 for you non-American forumgoers.
my brothers birthday is on that day toooo
this is proof that me and you were meant to be
edit: friends
That edit was necessary.
Quote from: arrowone on January 01, 2007, 06:59:27 PM
PICS OR GTFO
lol
My birthday is not really important in the respect of a holiday.
BUT
My favorite series of videogames, Mega Man X, usually releases a new product within a few days of my birthday each year, which is fucking kick-ass in too many ways to count.
My birthday is Oct. 16th, 1990.
I'm not WORTHY!!!!!!!!!!!
**grovels**
Wikipedia LOL just click on your B-day! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1)
----------Births----------
270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
1602 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)
1620 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony (d. 1704)
1621 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
1625 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1761 - Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)
1765 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
1839 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
1841 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
1841 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer (d. 1931)
1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge (d. 1944)
1869 - Clark Griffith, Baseball manager (d. 1955)
1880 - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)
1884 - Norman Thomas, American social reformer (d. 1968)
1886 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
1896 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1900 - Chester Gould, creator of comic strips (Dick Tracy) (d. 1985)
1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
1903 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)
1907 - Fran Allison, American entertainer, The 'Fran' of Kukla, Fran and Ollie (d. 1989)
1907 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director (d. 1977)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist (d. 2004)
1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian royal
1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (d. 1992)
1917 - Robert Byrd, American politician
1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1919 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress
1921 - Jim Garrison, American district attorney and judge (d. 1992)
1921 - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel laureate
1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer
1926 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Kaye Ballard, American comic actress
1927 - Estelle Parsons, American actress
1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor
1932 - Richard Dawson, British actor and game show host
1936 - Don DeLillo, American author
1937 - René Kollo, German singer
1937 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
1937 - Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier
1939 - Dick Smothers, American comedian
1940 - Bob Einstein, American actor
1941 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright
1942 - Joseph Biden, American politician
1942 - Norman Greenbaum, American singer
1943 - Veronica Hamel, American actress
1944 - Louie Dampier, American basketball player
1945 - Nanette Workman, American-born Canadian singer and actress
1945 - Rick Monday, Major League Baseball player
1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist. (Allman Brothers) (d. 1971)
1946 - Greg Cook, American football player
1947 - Joe Walsh, American musician
1948 - John R. Bolton, American ambassador
1948 - Barbara Hendricks, American-born singer
1948 - Richard Masur, American actor
1949 - Thelma Drake, American politician
1951 - David Walters, American politician
1952 - John Van Boxmeer, National Hockey League player
1956 - Bo Derek, American actress
1956 - Mark Gastineau, American football player
1957 - Margaret Spellings, American cabinet officer
1959 - James P. McGovern, American politician
1959 - Sean Young, American actress
1961 - Dave Watson, English footballer
1963 - Timothy Gowers, British mathematician
1963 - Ming-Na Wen, Macau-born actress
1965 - Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys)
1965 - Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan)
1966 - Kevin Gilbert, American musician (d. 1996)
1970 - Matt Blunt, American politician
1970 - Delia Gonzalez, American boxer
1971 - Joey Galloway, American football wide receiver
1971 - Joel McHale, American actor
1972 - Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian born poet
1975 - Dierks Bentley, American singer
1975 - Davey Havok, singer (AFI)
1975 - J.D. Drew, baseball player
1975 - Tímea Vágvölgyi, Hungarian porn star
1976 - Dominique Dawes, American gymnast
1977 - Josh Turner, American singer
1977 - Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee
1978 - Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
1978 - Freya Lin, Taiwanese singer
1981 - Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1981 - Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
1984 - Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver
1984 - Justin Hoyte, English footballer (Arsenal)
1985 - Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver
1986 - Jared Followill, American bassist (Kings Of Leon)
----------Deaths----------
870 - King Edmund of East Anglia
1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)
1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)
1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer
1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
1651 - Miko?aj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave
1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)
1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad.
1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna, aviation pioneer (Cessna) (b. 1879)
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (b. 1924)
1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892)
1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898)
1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
1983 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (b. 1926)
1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion, (b. 1967)
1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926)
1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)
2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)
2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)
2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2006 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
2006 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
2006 - Zoia Ceau?escu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
----------Holidays and observances----------
Church of England - Edmund the Martyr
Brazil - Zumbi Day (since 1978)
Brazil - Dia da Consciência Negra (Afro-Brasilian's Consience Day)
United Kingdom - wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (1947), official flag day
Mexico - Anniversary of the Revolution (1910)
UNICEF - Universal Children's Day
Vietnam - Teacher's Day (Ngày nhà giáo Vi?t Nam)
Transgender Day of Remembrance (since 1999) [1]
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November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining.
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Events
* 2 Births
* 3 Deaths
* 4 Holidays and observances
* 5 Trivia
* 6 External links
[edit] Events
* 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul
* 1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
* 1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
* 1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony.
* 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
* 1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
* 1675 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs.
* 1778 - Cherry Valley Massacre: Seneca Indians in central New York kill more than forty people.
* 1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
* 1833 - Former United States President John Quincy Adams is first chief executive involved in a railroad accident when the Camden & Amboy train he is riding derails due to a broken axle caused by an overheated journal box in the meadows near Hightstown, New Jersey. He is uninjured and continues his trip onto Washington, D.C. the following day.
* 1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
* 1843 - Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling was first published.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
* 1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
* 1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
* 1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
* 1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
* 1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
* 1911 - Many cities in the U.S. midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
* 1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00.
* 1918 - Józef Pi?sudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
* 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
* 1919 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
* 1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
* 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
* 1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
* 1933 - Dust Bowl: In South Dakota, a very strong dust storm strips topsoil from desiccated farmlands.
* 1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
* 1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
* 1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
* 1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.
* 1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
* 1965 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith.
* 1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
* 1967 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
* 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
* 1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
* 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
* 1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
* 1981 - Stuntman Dan Goodwin scaled the John Hancock Center in Chicago in nearly six hours.
* 1991 - Derrick Thomas of the Kansas City Chiefs completes a National Football League record of 7 sacks in one game.
* 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
* 1999 - A six-storey apartment block collapses in Foggia, Italy, killing 62.
* 2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
* 2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
* 2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
* 2006 - Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier, Hong Kong completed the last journey of its 49-year operation.
[edit] Births
* 1050 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
* 1154 - King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
* 1155 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
* 1220 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
* 1493 - Paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)
* 1493 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
* 1599 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)
* 1633 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, British statesman (d. 1695)
* 1668 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
* 1743 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
* 1744 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
* 1748 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
* 1764 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (d. 1824)
* 1791 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
* 1792 - Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
* 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
* 1828 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (d. 1963)
* 1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (d. 1907)
* 1852 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
* 1858 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
* 1863 - Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
* 1864 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1921)
* 1869 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
* 1882 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
* 1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (d. 1969)
* 1885 - George Smith Patton, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
* 1887 - Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
* 1891 - Rabbit Maranville, baseball player (d. 1954)
* 1898 - Rene Clair, French film director (d. 1981)
* 1899 - Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983)
* 1900 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
* 1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
* 1903 - Sam Spiegel, Austrian-born film producer (d. 1985)
* 1904 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (d. 1994)
* 1904 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
* 1909 - Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
* 1912 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
* 1914 - Howard Fast, American author (d. 2003)
* 1914 - Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
* 1915 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator (d. 2005)
* 1918 - Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)
* 1919 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
* 1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
* 1921 - Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
* 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American novelist
* 1925 - June Whitfield, British comedian
* 1925 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor
* 1926 - Harry Lumley, National Hockey League goaltender (d. 1998)
* 1927 - Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer
* 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
* 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer
* 1929 - LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
* 1930 - Hank Garland American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
* 1937 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
* 1938 - Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
* 1938 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
* 1939 - Denise Alexander, American actress
* 1940 - Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator
* 1943 - Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
* 1944 - Jesse Colin Young, American musician (The Youngbloods)
* 1945 - Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
* 1945 - Chris Dreja, British guitarist and bassist (The Yardbirds)
* 1945 - Vince Martell, American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
* 1950 - Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
* 1950 - Jim Peterik, American musician and songwriter (Survivor)
* 1951 - Kim Peek, American megasavant
* 1951 - Marc Summers, American game show and documentary host
* 1953 - Marshall Crenshaw, American musician
* 1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist and short-story writer
* 1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer
* 1959 - Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
* 1960 - Peter Parros, American actor
* 1960 - Stanley Tucci, American actor and film director
* 1961 - Corinne Hermès, French singer
* 1962 - Demi Moore, American actress
* 1962 - Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
* 1962 - James Morrison, Australian musician
* 1964 - Judith Edelman, American musician
* 1964 - Calista Flockhart, American actress
* 1966 - Alison Doody, Irish actress
* 1967 - Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
* 1968 - David L Cook, American singer and comedian
* 1969 - Carson Kressley, American television personality
* 1970 - Lee Battersby, Australian author
* 1973 - Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
* 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
* 1974 - Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
* 1976 - Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
* 1976 - Lisa Gleave, American actress and model
* 1977 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
* 1977 - Maniche, Portuguese footballer
* 1979 - Courtenay Semel, American reality TV star
* 1980 - Willie Parker, American football player
* 1981 - Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian beauty queen
* 1981 - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
* 1982 - Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
* 1982 - Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
* 1983 - Philipp Lahm, German footballer
* 1983 - Kristal Marshall, American professional wrestler
* 1985 - Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
* 1985 - Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
* 1989 - Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer (Morning Musume, Aa!, Elegies)
* 1994 - Netgie Laguerre,Astronmer
* 1995 - Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor
[edit] Deaths
* 397 - Martin of Tours, French saint
* 405 - Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
* 537 - Pope Silverius, saint
* 1623 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
* 1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
* 1686 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
* 1686 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
* 1812 - Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
* 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebel (b. 1800)
* 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
* 1862 - James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
* 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged)
* 1880 - Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist (b. 1793)
* 1884 - Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
* 1887 - Haymarket defendants:
o - George Engel (b. 1836)
o - Adolph Fischer (b. 1858)
o - Albert Parsons (b. 1848)
o - August Spies (b. 1855)
* 1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)
* 1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
* 1931 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
* 1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
* 1939 - Jan Opletal, czech student, victim of nazi violence in Prague
* 1945 - Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
* 1972 - Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder, Allman Brothers Band (b. 1948)
* 1973 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
* 1973 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
* 1974 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
* 1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
* 1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
* 1979 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
* 1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
* 1993 - Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and big band leader (b. 1914)
* 1997 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
* 1999 - Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
* 1999 - Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
* 2004 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
* 2004 - Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
* 2005 - Lord Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
* 2005 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
* 2005 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director. (b. 1930)
* 2006 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
* 2006 - Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)
[edit] Holidays and observances
Several nations celebrate, in some way, the end of World War I, the ceasefire of which went into effect at 11:00am CET on this day in 1918.
* Armistice Day in France and Belgium
* Veterans Day in the United States (called Armistice Day until 1952, when the name was changed, and the holiday was re-geared toward all military veterans)
* Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, including United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
* Poland - Independence Day (1918)
* Colombia - Independence of Cartagena, Colombia, from Spain (1811)
* Lacplesis' Day (1919) in Latvia: the official date for commemoration of Latvian soldiers, who had died for the country's freedom.
* Angola - Independence Day (1975)
* Opening of carnival season in Germany ("Karneval"/"Fasching" on 11-11, at 11:11), the Netherlands, and other countries
* R.C. Saints - Martin of Tours, Saint Mina
* South Korea - Pepero Day
[edit] Trivia
* A Kiss To Send Us Off, a song on the band Incubus' album, Light Grenades, says "Meet me here on November 11th; come alone."
[edit] External links
* BBC: On This Day
* The New York Times: On This Day
* On This Day in Canada
November 10 - November 12 - October 11 - December 11 -- listing of all days
Months and Days of the Year
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February 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (29) (30)
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Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_11"
Category: November[/spoiler]
Quote from: BanisherOfEden on January 02, 2007, 03:37:33 AM
Wikipedia LOL just click on your B-day! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1)
----------Births----------
270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
1602 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)
1620 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony (d. 1704)
1621 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
1625 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1761 - Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)
1765 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
1839 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
1841 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
1841 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer (d. 1931)
1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge (d. 1944)
1869 - Clark Griffith, Baseball manager (d. 1955)
1880 - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)
1884 - Norman Thomas, American social reformer (d. 1968)
1886 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
1896 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1900 - Chester Gould, creator of comic strips (Dick Tracy) (d. 1985)
1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
1903 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)
1907 - Fran Allison, American entertainer, The 'Fran' of Kukla, Fran and Ollie (d. 1989)
1907 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director (d. 1977)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist (d. 2004)
1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian royal
1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (d. 1992)
1917 - Robert Byrd, American politician
1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1919 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress
1921 - Jim Garrison, American district attorney and judge (d. 1992)
1921 - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel laureate
1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer
1926 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Kaye Ballard, American comic actress
1927 - Estelle Parsons, American actress
1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor
1932 - Richard Dawson, British actor and game show host
1936 - Don DeLillo, American author
1937 - René Kollo, German singer
1937 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
1937 - Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier
1939 - Dick Smothers, American comedian
1940 - Bob Einstein, American actor
1941 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright
1942 - Joseph Biden, American politician
1942 - Norman Greenbaum, American singer
1943 - Veronica Hamel, American actress
1944 - Louie Dampier, American basketball player
1945 - Nanette Workman, American-born Canadian singer and actress
1945 - Rick Monday, Major League Baseball player
1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist. (Allman Brothers) (d. 1971)
1946 - Greg Cook, American football player
1947 - Joe Walsh, American musician
1948 - John R. Bolton, American ambassador
1948 - Barbara Hendricks, American-born singer
1948 - Richard Masur, American actor
1949 - Thelma Drake, American politician
1951 - David Walters, American politician
1952 - John Van Boxmeer, National Hockey League player
1956 - Bo Derek, American actress
1956 - Mark Gastineau, American football player
1957 - Margaret Spellings, American cabinet officer
1959 - James P. McGovern, American politician
1959 - Sean Young, American actress
1961 - Dave Watson, English footballer
1963 - Timothy Gowers, British mathematician
1963 - Ming-Na Wen, Macau-born actress
1965 - Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys)
1965 - Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan)
1966 - Kevin Gilbert, American musician (d. 1996)
1970 - Matt Blunt, American politician
1970 - Delia Gonzalez, American boxer
1971 - Joey Galloway, American football wide receiver
1971 - Joel McHale, American actor
1972 - Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian born poet
1975 - Dierks Bentley, American singer
1975 - Davey Havok, singer (AFI)
1975 - J.D. Drew, baseball player
1975 - Tímea Vágvölgyi, Hungarian porn star
1976 - Dominique Dawes, American gymnast
1977 - Josh Turner, American singer
1977 - Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee
1978 - Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
1978 - Freya Lin, Taiwanese singer
1981 - Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1981 - Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
1984 - Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver
1984 - Justin Hoyte, English footballer (Arsenal)
1985 - Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver
1986 - Jared Followill, American bassist (Kings Of Leon)
----------Deaths----------
870 - King Edmund of East Anglia
1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)
1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)
1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer
1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
1651 - Miko?aj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave
1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)
1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad.
1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna, aviation pioneer (Cessna) (b. 1879)
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (b. 1924)
1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892)
1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898)
1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
1983 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (b. 1926)
1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion, (b. 1967)
1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926)
1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)
2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)
2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)
2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2006 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
2006 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
2006 - Zoia Ceau?escu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
----------Holidays and observances----------
Church of England - Edmund the Martyr
Brazil - Zumbi Day (since 1978)
Brazil - Dia da Consciência Negra (Afro-Brasilian's Consience Day)
United Kingdom - wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (1947), official flag day
Mexico - Anniversary of the Revolution (1910)
UNICEF - Universal Children's Day
Vietnam - Teacher's Day (Ngày nhà giáo Vi?t Nam)
Transgender Day of Remembrance (since 1999) [1]
the fact that i am to lazy to read through that to find anything worthwhile shows that your birthday still isnt special.
Neither is mine.
Zypher's is.
Fu's just sucks.
Quote from: Nouman6 on January 01, 2007, 03:14:43 PM
not really...
except the fact I share march 12 with the two hottest twins at my school!!!!!!!! (party!)
lol twins? im actually a twin. were ferternal so we dont look alike.
i have curly hair, she has straight hair...kinda thing
get her to post here, or is she not as geeky as you?
POST OR GTFO
lol
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_16
July 07 2005, London Bombings happen. :tpg:
Quote from: Zypher on January 04, 2007, 03:09:13 AM
get her to post here, or is she not as geeky as you?
Oi.
Lol, D_D...
heh.
Im glad nothing has happened on my birthday, actually. I can live without guilt or inflated ego.
* 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
* 1775 - Portland, Maine burned by the British.
* 1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War.
* 1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia.
* 1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
* 1793 - Battle of Wattignies.
* 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
* 1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down.
* 1841 - Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
* 1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
* 1859 - John Brown leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
* 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, discovered.
* 1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.
* 1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
* 1905 - The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
* 1906 - The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
* 1916 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
* 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
* 1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
* 1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe.
* 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army.
* 1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established.
* 1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
* 1945 - The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada.
* 1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged.
* 1949 - Nikos Zakhiariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
* 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
* 1958 - The first episode of Blue Peter, a popular, long-running children's television programme, was first broadcast on BBC, with Christopher Trace and Leila Williams as the original presenters.
* 1961 - Cork International Airport opened in Ireland.
* 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began.
* 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
* 1966 - Grace Slick`s first live performance with Jefferson Airplane.
* 1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
* 1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
* 1969 - United States - The "miracle" New York Mets win the World Series.
* 1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.
* 1972 - Rainbow, a British television programme for children, debuts.
* 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1975 - The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
* 1978 - Karol Józef Wojty?a becomes Pope John Paul II.
* 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
* 1991 - Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 19 in Luby's Cafeteria.
* 1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
* 1992 - Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson files a 1.4 million USD lawsuit against French tabloids for running topless photos taken of her on the French Riviera, including some of Texas millionaire John Bryan suckling on her toes.
* 1995 - The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.
* 1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
* 2001 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: U.S. warplanes mistakenly bomb International Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan.
* 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
* 2003 - The Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees face off in a historic ALCS game 7 at Yankee Stadium. The game ends in dramatic fashion with an Aaron Boone walk off home run.
[edit] Births
* 1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
* 1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
* 1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
* 1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
* 1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
* 1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
* 1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
* 1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
* 1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
* 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
* 1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
* 1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
* 1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
* 1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
* 1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
* 1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
* 1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
* 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
* 1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
* 1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
* 1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
* 1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
* 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
* 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
* 1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
* 1890 - Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
* 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
* 1898 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
* 1900 - Edward Ardizzone - Artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
* 1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
* 1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
* 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
* 1914 - Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
* 1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
* 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
* 1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
* 1922 - Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
* 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
* 1923 - Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
* 1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
* 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
* 1928 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
* 1931 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
* 1931 - James Chace, American historian (d. 2004)
* 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
* 1936 - Akira Machida Japanese judge
* 1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
* 1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
* 1940 - Barry Corbin, American actor
* 1940 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
* 1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
* 1943 - Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
* 1946 - Suzanne Somers, American actress
* 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
* 1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
* 1947 - David Zucker, American film director
* 1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
* 1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
* 1952 - Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
* 1953 - Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
* 1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
* 1956 - Johnny Chavis, Native American Football Coach
* 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
* 1959 - Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
* 1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
* 1959 - Brian Harper, baseball player
* 1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
* 1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
* 1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
* 1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the NBA
* 1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
* 1965 - Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
* 1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
* 1968 - Randall Batinkoff, American actor
* 1968 - Ben Weinberger, American actor
* 1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
* 1969 - Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
* 1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter.
* 1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
* 1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
* 1972 - Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At The Gates)
* 1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, National Hockey League player
* 1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
* 1974 - Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
* 1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter
* 1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress
* 1977 - John Mayer, American musician
* 1979 - Erin Brown, B-movie actress, model, filmmaker, former softcore erotic actress, and musician
* 1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
* 1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
* 1981 - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
* 1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
* 1984 - Melissa Lauren, pornographic actress
[edit] Deaths
* 1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
* 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
* 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English protestant (martyred)
* 1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English protestant (martyred)
* 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
* 1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
* 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
* 1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
* 1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
* 1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
* 1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
* 1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
* 1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)
* 1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
* 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
* 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
* 1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)
* 1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
* 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
* 1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
* 1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
* 1909 - Jakub Bart-?išinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
* 1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
* 1946:
o Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
o Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
o Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
o Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
o Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
o Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
o Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
o Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
o Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
o Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
* 1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)
* 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
* 1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
* 1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
* 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
* 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892)
* 1973 - Gene Krupa, American musician (b. 1909)
* 1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
* 1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
* 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
* 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
* 1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
* 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
* 1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
* 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
* 1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
* 1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
* 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
* 1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
* 1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
* 1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
* 1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
* 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
* 1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
* 2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
* 2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
* 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
* 2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
* 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
* 2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
* 2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
* 2005 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
* 2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru
* 2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b 1949)
* 2006 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (b. 1935)
* 2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
[edit] Holidays and observances
* World Food Day
* Boss's Day
way to get world food day, fatty
ROFL, I didnt know there was a world food day.
or a boss's day.
I wanna know whats on mine now...
here it is:
Events
* 451 - According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.
* 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
* 1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
* 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
* 1756 - British garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
* 1782 - The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
* 1789 - Deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath.
* 1791 - The Flight to Varennes began.
* 1819 - The U.S. vessel Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail.
* 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
* 1862 - Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
* 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
* 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
* 1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father.
* 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
* 1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series.
* 1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
* 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people.
* 1959 - A train-bus collision near Lauffen, Germany kills 43 people
* 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
* 1963 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* 1963 - Leave it to Beaver ends.
* 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels (9.14 teragrams) of wheat to Soviet Union.
* 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1973 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fired upon left-wing peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 injured.
* 1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
* 1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship.
* 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
* 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
* 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
* 2001 - Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub in their Houston, Texas home.
* 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan.
* 2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.
* 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.
* 2006 - Hastings, Nebraska experiences a rare heat burst, raising temperatures from the mid-seventies to 94 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the night.
[edit] Births
* 1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
* 1389 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
* 1566 (O.S.) - King Sigismund III Vasa (d. 1632)
* 1583 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
* 1634 - Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675)
* 1642 (O.S.) - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (d. 1715)
* 1647 - John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
* 1717 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
* 1723 (O.S.) - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
* 1723 (O.S.) - Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
* 1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (d. 1792)
* 1763 - Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot (d. 1798)
* 1770 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
* 1771 - Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
* 1786 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
* 1808 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
* 1819 - Jacques Offenbach, German composer (d. 1880)
* 1858 - Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
* 1860 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
* 1861 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947)
* 1872 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
* 1887 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter and writer (d. 1948)
* 1891 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
* 1894 - Lloyd Hall, American chemist
* 1896 - Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (d. 1982)
* 1899 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (d. 1943)
* 1905 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
* 1907 - Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
* 1909 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
* 1912 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
* 1915 - Terence Young, British film director (d. 1994)
* 1916 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
* 1920 - Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater
* 1924 - Chet Atkins, American guitar player (d. 2001)
* 1924 - Audie Murphy, American actor (d. 1971)
* 1928 - Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politician
* 1930 - Paul Pender, American Boxer
* 1930 - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
* 1931 - Olympia Dukakis, American actress
* 1931 - Martin Landau, American actor
* 1933 - Danny Aiello, American actor
* 1934 - Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
* 1935 - Len Dawson, Former football player
* 1937 - Jerry Keller, pop singer and songwriter
* 1938 - Mickie Most, British record producer
* 1940 - Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
* 1940 - John Mahoney, English actor
* 1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
* 1942 - Brian Wilson, American musician; founder of The Beach Boys
* 1944 - Cheryl Holdridge, American actress
* 1945 - Anne Murray, Canadian singer
* 1946 - Bob Vila, television presenter
* 1946 - Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor
* 1946 - Andre Watts, American pianist
* 1947 - Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
* 1947 - Candy Clark, American actress
* 1948 - Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
* 1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores)
* 1951 - Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
* 1951 - Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
* 1952 - John Goodman, American actor
* 1952 - Larry Riley, American actor (d. 1992)
* 1954 - Michael Anthony, American musician
* 1956 - Ace Andres, American musician
* 1958 - Chuck Wagner, American actor
* 1960 - John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
* 1960 - Jeremy Monteiro, Singaporean pianist
* 1963 - Viktor Kožený, Czech businessman
* 1963 - Don West, American professional wrestling announcer
* 1967 - Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
* 1968 - Robert Rodríguez, American filmmaker
* 1970 - Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
* 1970 - Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
* 1971 - Josh Lucas, American actor
* 1971 - Jeordie White, American bassist
* 1973 - Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
* 1977 - Stefán H. Ófeigsson, Icelandic space engineer
* 1977 - Tika Sumpter, American actress
* 1978 - Frank Lampard, English footballer
* 1981 - Ardian Gashi, Norwegian footballer
* 1981 - Alisan Porter, American actress and singer
* 1982 - Andy Baddeley, English middle distance runner
* 1988 - Shefali Chowdhury, Welsh actress
[edit] Deaths
* 451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
* 840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)
* 1597 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator
* 1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
* 1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
* 1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)
* 1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
* 1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
* 1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
* 1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
* 1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
* 1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
* 1906 - John Clayton Adams, British Landscape Artist (b. 1840)
* 1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
* 1945 - Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
* 1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (whacked) (b. 1906)
* 1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
* 1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
* 1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
* 1972 - Howard Deering Johnson, American entrepreneur (b. 1897)
* 1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
* 1978 - Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913)
* 1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel (b. 1945)
* 1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911)
* 1997 - Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
* 1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
* 1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
* 2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
* 2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
* 2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
* 2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923)
* 2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
* 2006 - Billy Johnson, baseball player (b. 1918)
[edit] Holidays and observances
* Day of The Royal Victorian Order.
* Roman Empire – Festival in honor of Summanus.
* Ancient Latvia – Zalu Diena.
* UNHCR - World Refugee Day.
* Flag Day in Argentina (1938).
* West Virginia – West Virginia Day.
* American Radio Relay League – Bring your Handy-Talky to Work Day
[edit] Liturgical feasts
* Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg (died 981)
* Saint Silvere (died 537)
* Saint Benigna
* Saint Florentina
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So yeah, nothing Ive really heard of.
lol she would but i tried teaching her rpg maker xp, but she didnt really understand it....she also wonders why i post on here because i left last time...but watever. maybe ill post a picture of us but i need to find a nice one first lol
Meh, don't sweat it. Other than probably Arrow, no one's on the edge of their seat over it.
Quote from: Zypher on January 04, 2007, 04:41:22 AM
way to get world food day, fatty
That post, and the one you just did made me lol.
I lol too much. :\
mhm. I didn't even say anything funny in this thread yet, I think.
Eh, he just quoted it.
*shrug*
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*cough*
Arrow, you do Lol to much.
Dont be so happy.
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food day fatty.
Quote from: arrowone* 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
I fail to see your point.
Quote from: Zypher on January 05, 2007, 05:39:55 AM
I fail to see your point.
Point? what is this "point" you speak of?
Okay, lemme put it this way: I fail to understand why you still post.
Man period?
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waht?
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MPMS?
July 5. LOL.
* 1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
* 1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
* 1770 - Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
* 1803 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
* 1811 - Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
* 1813 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
* 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario.
* 1830 - France invades Algeria.
* 1833 - Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
* 1865 - William Booth founds The Christian Mission (later renamed The Salvation Army).
* 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln establishes the Secret Service to combat counterfeiters.
* 1865 - The world's first maximum speed law is enacted in England.
* 1878 - The coat of arms of the Baku governorate was established.
* 1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
* 1934 - "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
* 1935 - The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* 1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
* 1937 - Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45 °C.
* 1940 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
* 1941 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River.
* 1943 - World War II: Battle of Kursk - The largest tank battle in history begins.
* 1943 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
* 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
* 1946 - The bikini is introduced.
* 1947 - Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League. (Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League 11 weeks earlier.)
* 1948 - British National Health Service Act enacted.
* 1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American and North Korean forces.
* 1950 - Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
* 1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
* 1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. Widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll.
* 1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
* 1954 - Andhra Pradesh High Court is established.
* 1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.
* 1962 - Algeria becomes independent from France.
* 1970 - Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108 people.
* 1971 - Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
* 1973 - Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
* 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
* 1975 - Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
* 1977 - Military coup in Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto the very first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan overthrown.
* 1982 - NBC's experiment in late-night news programming, NBC News Overnight, debuts.
* 1987 - First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army. The Black Tigers are born and in the following years continue to use it to deadly effect.
* 1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service.
* 1989 - The sitcom Seinfeld aired its first episode.
* 1994 - The United States announced it would refuse further unrestricted immigration from Haiti.
* 1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
* 2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by WHO.
* 2004 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
* 2006 - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
* 2006 - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because of the North Korean missile tests a day before.
Births
* 1586 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)
* 1653 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726)
* 1675 - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
* 1717 - Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
* 1718 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
* 1794 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (d. 1851)
* 1801 - David Farragut, American naval commander (d. 1870)
* 1810 - P.T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
* 1841 - William C. Whitney, American financier (d. 1904)
* 1853 - Cecil Rhodes, South African politician (d. 1902)
* 1860 - Robert Bacon, American politician (d. 1919)
* 1879 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959)
* 1880 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
* 1886 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1988)
* 1888 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963)
* 1889 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (d. 1963)
* 1890 - Frederick Lewis Allen, American social historian (d. 1954)
* 1891 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
* 1901 - Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
* 1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American diplomat (d. 1985)
* 1904 - Harold Acton, American writer and dilettante (d. 1994)
* 1904 - Milburn Stone, American actor (d. 1980)
* 1911 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (d. 1974)
* 1918 - George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
* 1924 - János Starker, Hungarian cellist
* 1928 - Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
* 1928 - Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France
* 1928 - Katherine Helmond, American actress
* 1932 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
* 1935 - John Gilmore (writer), American true crime author
* 1936 - Shirley Knight, American actress
* 1936 - James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1939 - Booker Edgerson, American football player
* 1943 - Curt Blefary, baseball player (d. 2001)
* 1943 - Robbie Robertson, Canadian guitarist (The Band)
* 1950 - Huey Lewis, American musician
* 1950 - Michael Monarch, American guitarist (Steppenwolf)
* 1951 - Rich Gossage, baseball player
* 1955 - Peter McNamara, Australia tennis player
* 1957 - David Hanson, politician
* 1957 - Doug Wilson, Canadian hockey player
* 1958 - Tzipi Livni, Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel
* 1958 - Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
* 1960 - Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
* 1961 - Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
* 1963 - Edie Falco, American actress
* 1963 - Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
* 1966 - Kathryn Erbe, American actress
* 1966 - Susannah Doyle, Actress
* 1966 - Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
* 1968 - Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian journalist
* 1968 - Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist
* 1969 - John LeClair, American hockey player
* 1969 - RZA, American rapper
* 1970 - Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
* 1971 - Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
* 1972 - Letha Weapons, porn actress
* 1973 - Róisín Murphy, Irish musician
* 1973 - Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer
* 1974 - Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer
* 1975 - Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
* 1976 - Mike DeWolf, American guitarist (Taproot)
* 1976 - Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
* 1976 - Marina Dias, Brazilian model
* 1976 - Bizarre, American rapper
* 1977 - Royce Da 5'9", American rapper
* 1979 - Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
* 1979 - Shane Filan, Irish musician (Westlife)
* 1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
* 1980 - Jason Wade, American musician (Lifehouse)
* 1980 - Eva Green, French actress
* 1981 - Jesse Crain, Canadian-born baseball player
* 1982 - Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
* 1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress
* 1991 - Jason Dolley, American actor
Deaths
* 1316 - Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
* 1375 - Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)
* 1472 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
* 1539 - St. Anthony Maria Zaccaria, Italian saint (b. 1502)
* 1666 - Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
* 1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
* 1715 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
* 1719 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
* 1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
* 1833 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
* 1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
* 1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
* 1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
* 1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
* 1920 - Max Klinger, German artist (b. 1857)
* 1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1853)
* 1932 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
* 1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
* 1948 - Georges Bernanos, French writer (b. 1888)
* 1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
* 1965 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)
* 1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
* 1969 - Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
* 1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
* 1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German commando who rescued Benito Mussolini (b. 1908)
* 1983 - Harry James, American musician (b. 1916)
* 1991 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (b. 1920)
* 1996 - Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904)
* 1998 - Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
* 2002 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
* 2002 - Ted Williams, baseball player (b. 1918)
* 2003 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian hockey player (b. 1979)
* 2004 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
* 2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
* 2005 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
* 2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman and convicted criminal (b. 1942)
Holidays and observances
* Venezuela: Independence Day (1811).
* Algeria: Independence Day (1962).
* Cape Verde: Independence Day (1975).
* Armenia: Constitution Day (1995)
* Czech Republic and Slovakia: Arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia (around 863).
* Isle of Man: Tynwald Day (1266).
* Church of the SubGenius: X-Day (1998).
You sharing Bill Watterson's birthday makes me jealous.
I'm more excited over P.T. Barnum.
Ooooooo.
*smolder*
lucky SoB.
I don't know about special, but my last birthday landed on October Friday the 13th for any of you that are superstitious, actully now that i think about it lol my dad was born on thanksgiving, and my mom on the 4th of july so yeah
May 22nd
* 1176 - Murder attempt by the Hashshashin (Assassins) on Saladin near Aleppo.
* 1377 - Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
* 1455 - Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
* 1762 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
* 1807 - A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
* 1819 - The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
* 1840 - The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
* 1844 - Persian Prophet The Báb announces His revelation, founding Bábism. He announced to the world of the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest." He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
* 1856 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas").
* 1872 - Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
* 1906 - The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opens in Athens.
* 1906 - Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
* 1915 - Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain to erupt other than Mount St. Helens in the continental US during the 20th century.
* 1915 - Five trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
* 1936 - Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
* 1939 - World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
* 1942 - Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
* 1947 - Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
* 1960 - An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
* 1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode.
* 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
* 1967 - The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
* 1967 - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the longest-running children's series on U.S. television, airs its first episode.
* 1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
* 1969 - Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
* 1972 - Ceylon adopts a new constitution, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1990 - North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
* 1990 - The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.
* 1992 - After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
* 1997 - Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
* 1963 - A.C. Milan wins the European Cup.
* 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: A federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
* 2002 - In Washington, DC, the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
* 2002 - American civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
* 2003 - In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
* 2004 - Felipe, Prince of Asturias, of the Spanish Royal Family marries Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano.
* 2004 - The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also killed one local resident.
* 2006 - Results from the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 are announced. 55.4% of voters voted to become independent from the Serbia and Montenegro Union.
[edit] Births
* 1622 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
* 1715 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
* 1772 - Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
* 1808 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
* 1813 - Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
* 1823 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (d. 1889)
* 1841 - Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
* 1844 - Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
* 1849 - Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
* 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
* 1874 - Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
* 1879 - Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
* 1879 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
* 1885 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
* 1885 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
* 1891 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
* 1902 - Al Simmons, baseball player (d. 1956)
* 1903 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
* 1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
* 1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
* 1910 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
* 1911 - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist, and pianist
* 1912 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
* 1914 - Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
* 1914 - Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
* 1917 - Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
* 1917 - Nathan Davis, American actor
* 1920 - Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
* 1922 - Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
* 1924 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, and composer
* 1925 - James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
* 1925 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
* 1927 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1927 - Phil Tucker, American director
* 1930 - John Barth, American writer
* 1930 - Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
* 1930 - Kenny Ball, British musician
* 1934 - Peter Nero, American musician
* 1936 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
* 1938 - Richard Benjamin, American actor
* 1938 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
* 1940 - Bernard Shaw, American television journalist
* 1940 - Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor
* 1941 - Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
* 1941 - Sir Menzies Campbell, UK Politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
* 1942 - Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist (The Unabomber)
* 1942 - Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk)
* 1942 - Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
* 1943 - Tommy John, baseball player
* 1943 - Betty Williams, Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1946 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager
* 1946 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
* 1950 - Bernie Taupin, English songwriter
* 1955 - Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money)
* 1955 - Dale Winton, UK radio DJ and television presenter
* 1957 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
* 1958 - Eric Carlson, American guitarist (The Mentors)
* 1959 - Morrissey, English singer
* 1960 - Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
* 1962 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
* 1964 - Ashley Renee, American fetish model
* 1966 - Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
* 1966 - Jose Mesa, Dominican baseball player
* 1968 - Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
* 1970 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
* 1970 - Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula 1 Driver
* 1971 - Manuel Ortiz, wrestler
* 1972 - Annabel Chong, Singapore actress
* 1973 - Danny Tiatto, Australian footballer
* 1974 - Sean Gunn, American actor
* 1975 - Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice hockey player
* 1977 - Alastair Ralphs, Canadian professional wrestler
* 1978 - Jordan, English model and media personality
* 1978 - Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
* 1980 - Rhett Fisher, actor/musician (lead singer for Manic Mind)
* 1981 - Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler
* 1982 - Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
* 1985 - Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1987 - Novak ?okovi?, Serbian tennis player
[edit] Deaths
* 337 - Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
* 1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
* 1455 - Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
* 1455 - Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406)
* 1457 - Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
* 1538 - John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
* 1540 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
* 1666 - Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
* 1667 - Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
* 1745 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
* 1746 - Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
* 1760 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
* 1772 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
* 1795 - Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
* 1859 - King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
* 1868 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
* 1885 - Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
* 1910 - Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
* 1932 - Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
* 1939 - Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
* 1939 - Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
* 1965 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
* 1966 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
* 1967 - Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
* 1972 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
* 1972 - Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
* 1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
* 1988 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
* 1990 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
* 1992 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
* 1997 - Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
* 1998 - José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
* 2003 - Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
* 2004 - Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
* 2004 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
* 2005 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
* 2005 - Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
* 2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
* 2006 - Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
* 2006 - Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
[edit] Holidays and observances
* Victoria Day in Canada (This depends on the year. The majority of the time, the holiday takes place on May 24, but sometimes, such as in 2006, the date switches to the 22nd.)
* World Biodiversity Day.
* Republic of Yemen - National Day.
* National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka.
* National Maritime Day in the United States.([1])
Never knew you could type in your birthday and get all that!!! *heads to wikipedia*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_25
Mine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_4th
Nobody's going to click those links. Post the shit.
Also, we're pretty lazy, so bold the stuff that matters.
OK then:
[spoiler=September 4th]September 4
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September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). There are 118 days remaining.
Contents [hide]
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
[edit] Events
476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.
1260 - The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
1886 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
1923 - Maiden flight of the the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1939 - World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war.
1940 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine fires on a United States ship (the USS Greer) even though the US is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two nations as a result.
1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp.
1945 - World War II: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
1949 - Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon.
1949 - The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, NY.
1950 - The "Beetle Bailey" comic strip begins.
1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced.
1957 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
1957 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1963 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all on board.
1964 - Scotland's Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.
1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese . The ensuing four-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
1970 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" and is officially appointed as the 42nd master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi order by his father, Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha
1971 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1971 - In the U.S., The Lawrence Welk Show airs its last show on ABC-TV before moving to syndication, which would last until 1982.
1972 - Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts including a Brueghel, and a Rembrandt landscape in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.
1972 - Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to do so. Spitz swam in only seven events and set world records in each one.
1972 - TV Game Show The Price is Right debuts on CBS.
1975 - the Sinai Interim Agreement concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
1984 - Brian Mulroney leads the Progressive Conservative Party to power in Canada, winning 211 seats in the 1984 federal election and ending 20 years of nearly uninterrupted Liberal rule
1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
1996 - War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
[edit] Births
1241 - Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286)
1383 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (d. 1451)
1454 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483)
1563 - Wanli, Emperor of China (d. 1620)
1596 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (d. 1687)
1717 - Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783)
1768 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French diplomat (d. 1848)
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)
1832 - Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915)
1846 - Daniel Burnham, American architect (d. 1912)
1851 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist (d. 1927)
1886 - Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
1891 - Fritz Todt, Nazi official (d. 1942)
1892 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974)
1895 - Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
1896 - Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)
1905 - Mary Renault, English novelist (d. 1983)
1906 - Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1908 - Edward Dmytryk, American film director (d. 1999)
1908 - Richard Wright, American writer (d. 1960)
1908 - Michael Donohoe, Irish athlete (d. 1989)
1913 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
1913 - Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
1914 - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)
1917 - Henry Ford II, American industrialist (d. 1987)
1918 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster
1919 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (d. 2005)
1920 - Teddy Johnson, British singer
1924 - Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)
1925 - Forrest Carter, American author
1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
1928 - Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)
1929 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician
1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
1932 - Carlos Romero Barcelo, Puerto Rican politician
1932 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (d. 2003)
1934 - Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
1937 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)
1941 - Marilena Chaui, Brazilian philosopher
1941 - Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
1942 - Jerry Jarrett, American professional wrestling promoter
1945 - Danny Gatton, American musician (d. 1994)
1946 - Gary Duncan, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1946 - Greg Elmore, American drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1948 - Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
1949 - Martin Chambers, English drummer (The Pretenders)
1949 - Tom Watson, American golfer
1950 - Doyle Alexander, American baseball player
1952 - Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor
1957 - Khandi Alexander, American actress
1957 - Patricia Tallman, American actress
1958 - David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host
1959 - Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
1960 - Damon Wayans, American actor and comedian
1961 - Kevin Kennedy, English actor
1963 - John Vanbiesbrouck, American hockey player
1964 - René Pape, German bass
1968 - Phill Lewis, American actor
1968 - Mike Piazza, baseball player
1969 - Noah Taylor, English-born actor
1970 - Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer (Sepultura)
1970 - Daisy Dee, West Indian-born singer
1971 - Ione Skye, English actress
1971 - Maik Taylor, Irish footballer
1973 - Jason David Frank, American actor
1974 - Carmit Bachar, American musician (Pussycat Dolls)
1974 - Nona Gaye, American singer and actress
1977 - Ian Grushka, American musician (New Found Glory)
1977 - Sun-Woo Kim, Korean Major League Baseball player
1978 - Wes Bentley, American actor
1980 - Lucie Silvas, English musician
1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, American singer
1981 - Adam Liam McCleery, Irish-born model
1982 - Alessandra Rubi Streignard Villarreal, Spanish singer
[edit] Deaths
799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)
1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)
1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)
1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian
1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)
1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer
1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
1963 - Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)
1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)
1986 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b. 1911)
1987 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1989 - Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)
1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
1991 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)
1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
2002 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904)
2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)
2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)
2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
2006 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)
[edit] Holidays and observances
Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Romani a.k.a. Ludi Magni, until 19 September.
RC Saints - Saint Rosalia, Saint Rose of Viterbo.
Also see September 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Quatre Septembre in France - celebrates the Proclamation of the Third Republic in 1870[/spoiler]
Hahaha, Steve Irwin died on your birthday.
Oh damn, lol, thats sadly funny.
Or would it be humorously sad?
Or just upsetting.
geez, way to make me look like an ass.
Can some one explain why My birthday sucks? I think my kick assery more than makes up for columbine. Maybe not for hitler.... But definately columbine.
It doesn't. Your birthdays fantabalus.
Damn straight Nevfx.