What happened on your birthday?

[Dave]

Go to wikipedia and plug in your month and date, I'll start things off

* 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
* 844 - Gregory IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
* 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England.
* 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
* 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
* 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
* 1755 - Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
* 1787 - American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor's prisons.
* 1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
* 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
* 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
* 1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
* 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
* 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
* 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
* 1909 - Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
* 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
* 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
* 1918 - Russia declared a republic of Soviets.
* 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.
* 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
* 1937 - The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.
* 1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
* 1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
* 1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends.
* 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
* 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
* 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
* 1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany.
* 1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims Second Vatican Council.
* 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
* 1961 - In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
* 1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.
* 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
* 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
* 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
* 1981 - Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
* 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
* 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
* 1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 1990 - Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.
* 1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
* 1994 - Peter Garland, the composer was born.
* 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missile by the
* 1996 The attack of the gurls

* 1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
* 1998 - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
* 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
* 2002 - Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software ("Phase II") aka Magnus Manske Day.
* 2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
* 2005 - A stampede during a pilgrimage in India kills at least 258.
* 2006 - Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.


I also share my birthday with mia kirshner and alicia keys ;)

[dancemf666]

1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1564 - Shakespeare was christened (this is not his birthdate).
1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin in Virginia.
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war.
1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 - in Libya Amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1975 - I was born on a Military base in north carolina.ahahahahahahahahha
1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurrs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before its end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264.
1999 - Last release of the Nemesis OS.
2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany.
2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.

[moosethebelgian]

August 13th
I noticed a lot of wars/battles occured....

3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the Maya calendar starts.
523 - John succeeds Hormisdas as Pope.
1099 - Paschal II elected Pope.
1315 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou.
1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria later known as the Malandanti.
1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men.
1516 - Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain signed. In it, Francis recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1536 - Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 - Michael Servetus arrested by John Calvin in Geneva as a heretic.
1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians.
1814 - The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London.
1905 - Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
1913 - Otto Witte, an acrobat, is crowned King of Albania.
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 - Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw begins, lasts till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1923 - First major sea-going ship arrives at Gdynia, newly constructed Polish seaport.
1937 - Battle of Shanghai begins.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations.
1942 - Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, Bambi, premieres.
1954 - Radio Pakistan broadcasts National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1960 - The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel G. Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1973 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1979 - The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon near Chicago, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan assumes responsibility for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1991 - The SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) debuts in the United States.
1996 - Marc Dutroux, his wife Michelle Martin, and Michel Lelièvre are arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. All are found guilty on June 22, 2004, with sentences of life, 30, and 25 years, respectively.
1997 - South Park debuts on Comedy Central.
2004 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad open in Athens.
2004 - Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.
2004 - Black Friday crackdown by NSS on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé.
2004 - 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2004 - Adam Curry's first Daily Source Code is created, launching podcasting.

I also share a birthday with Annie Oakley, Sir Alfred Hitch****, Buddy Rogers, and Fidel Castro.

[sherwood]

1985-the man. the legend. Sherwood was born

[twistedlanes]

* 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
Oh okay I guess thats good to know

In other News
*April 21 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's secret vault on The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault, discovering only a bottle of moonshine.
*August 20 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.

*September 27 - A tour bus carrying heavy metal band Metallica crashes in Sweden, killing their bassist, Cliff Burton.
*November 22 - Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas.

births:
*June 13 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
*July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
*July 6 - Caroline Welz, Tallest woman in Germany and model
*August 27 - Mario, R&B singer
*September 3 - Shaun White, American professional snowboarder

Computer and video games
Set in 1986:
*Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
*Shenmue (1999)

[foss]

September 30
* 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
* 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
* 1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.
* 1791 - The Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
* 1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
* 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
* 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
* 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
* 1903 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
* 1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
* 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
* 1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
* 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
* 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
* 1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
* 1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
* 1947 - The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
* 1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.
* 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
* 1960 - The Flintstones made their debut on primetime.
* 1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
* 1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
* 1962 - Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
* 1965 - Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by Communist Party of Indonesia. More than a million people died.
* 1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
* 1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
* 1967 - Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
* 1970 - Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
* 1972 - Major League Baseball: Roberto Clemente of the Pittsburgh Pirates collects his 3,000th and final hit. He would die in a plane crash on December 31, while carrying relief supplies to Nicaragua.
* 1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
* 1975 - Thrilla in Manila takes place between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali
* 1977 - Due to US Budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the moon are shut down.
* 1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
* 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
* 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
* 1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
* 1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
* 1989 - NBC airs its final edition of the Major League Baseball Game of the Week. The Toronto Blue Jays would clinch the American League Eastern divisional title against the Baltimore Orioles.
* 1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
* 1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
* 1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
* 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
* 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
* 2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
* 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

[Kerplunk105]

1409 - The University of Leipzig opens.
1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823 - Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1848 - Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851 - Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.
1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
1861 - The small town of Champoeg, Oregon is flooded by the Willamette River. No deaths occurred.
1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1899 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1920 - Following more then a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated peace treaty is concluded -Treaty of Alexandropol
1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1939 - New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1943 - A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile. Numerous fatalities (though the exact death toll is unresolved as the bombing raid itself caused hundreds of deaths too).
1946 - British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
1954 - The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, DC.
1956 - The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1961 - In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1962 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
1970 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
1972 - Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
1975 - Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1980 - Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
1982 - Michael Jackson's album, Thriller, is released. (year I was born)
1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1993 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.

I share my birthday with: Britney Spears

[TGilb2007]

# 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
# 1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
# 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
# 1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
# 1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (the so-called "Bill of Rights") to the States for ratification.
# 1835 - The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
# 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Saltville - Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
# 1869 - Mahatma Gandhi is born.
# 1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
# 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
# 1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
# 1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
# 1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
# 1937 - Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge.
# 1938 - Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
# 1941 - World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
# 1944 - World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
# 1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.
# 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
# 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
# 1968 - A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.
# 1970 - A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
# 1980 - William Robert Logan born.
# 1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
# 1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil.
# 1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
# 1996 - An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
# 2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
# 2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
# 2005 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
# 2005 - NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
# 2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.


Births include Proof from D12, Paul Tutil Jr, Kelly Ripa, and Sting

Deaths include Samuel Adams, a former pope, and no one else anyone knows without research

[CHAOS]

1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (According to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
928 - Trpimir II succeedes to the Croatian throne
1387 - Battle of Castagnaro
1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.
1649 - The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 - The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1779 - Army Corps of Engineers for the United States was authorized by the Congress
1801 - Paul I of Russia is assassinated, leading the way for his son Alexander I to accede the throne.
1824 - The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti led 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1845 - British citizen Henry Jones invents self-raising flour.
1848 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto, written by Verdi.
1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
1867 - The first performance of Don Carlos written by Verdi.
1872 - Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1872 - The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
1888 - The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1900 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
1912 - Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1931 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union
1936 - British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
1941 - World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor.
1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1959 - The original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City.
1966 - President Sukarno of Indonesia was forced to give up his executive power.
1966 - A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
1977 - The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: 130+ hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined negotiations.
1978 - Nine Palestinian Al Fatah guerillas hijack a bus in Israel, killing 34 civilians and wounding 70 before being killed by security forces. The Israelis retaliate by invading southern Lebanon three days later, under codename Operation Litani.
1983 - Bob Hawke becomes 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader.
1988 - Iran-Iraq War: Iran and Iraq agreed to stop attacking civilian centers.
1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
1991 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49.
1993 - Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1996 - John Howard comes to power as the twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
1996 - EU Database Directive passed
1997 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2003 - The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
2004 - Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid (Spain) kill 192 people.
2006 - Michelle Bachelet inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2007 - A suicide bomber strikes at Casablanca, Morocco

[The Captain]

Births

* 106 BC - Pompey the Great, consul of Rome, (d. 48 BC)
* 4 BC - Jesus Christ, most probable date of birth (d. 33 AD)
* 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)

yea, jesus christ.

[TGilb2007]

You win.

[sherwood]

the devil was born on mine...666 baby!!

edit:
cool part...1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
was born on my bday.
weird part....2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
my names Ryan Sherwood and he died on my birthday...kinda creepy

[james_ls]

Events

* 780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
* 1039 - Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
* 1615 - Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
* 1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians.
* 1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past.
* 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
* 1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain.
* 1794 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
* 1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
* 1859 - Italian Independence wars: in the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeats an Austrian army.
* 1862 - American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
* 1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
* 1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
* 1912 - Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
* 1913 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness.
* 1917 - The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
* 1919 - Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
* 1920 - Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
* 1928 - President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin assassinated by Japanese agents.
* 1936 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1939 - Holocaust: The SS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, most of its passengers later died in Nazi concentration camps.
* 1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
* 1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid).
* 1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
* 1943 - Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
* 1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
* 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
* 1967 - Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
* 1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* 1973 - Patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
* 1974 - The Cleveland Indians attempt an ill-advised ten cent beer promotion for a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits 9-0 after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
* 1979 - Jerry John Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup in which General Acheampong is overthrown.
* 1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
* 1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests was violently ended in Chinese capital city - Beijing with armed soliders and tanks.
* 1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe and leads to creation of the so-called Contract Sejm.
* 1989 - Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
* 1991 - The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others—the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
* 1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
* 2007 - Dream Theater is going to release their 9th full-length studioalbum Systematic Chaos.

[edit] Births

* 470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC)
* 460 BC - Hippocrates, Greek historian (d. 370 BC)
* 1489 - Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
* 1665 - Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
* 1694 - François Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774)
* 1704 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
* 1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820)
* 1744 - Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (killed in action) (d. 1780)
* 1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
* 1787 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
* 1801 - James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
* 1821 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
* 1866 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (d. 1952)
* 1867 - C.G.E. Mannerheim, President of Finland (d. 1951)
* 1877 - Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
* 1880 - Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962)
* 1881 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
* 1894 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
* 1899 - Hassan Fathy, Arabic architect (d. 1989)
* 1907 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)
* 1907 - Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
* 1910 - Christopher Sydney ****erell, British engineer and inventor (d. 1999)
* 1916 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1916 - Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
* 1919 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
* 1923 - Daniel Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist
* 1924 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
* 1928 - Ruth Westheimer, German-born sex therapist and author
* 1929 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
* 1929 - Karolos Papoulias, President of Greece
* 1930 - Morgana King, American actress
* 1930 - Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach
* 1932 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
* 1932 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
* 1934 - Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971)
* 1936 - Bruce Dern, American actor
* 1937 - Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006)
* 1937 - Robert Fulghum, American author
* 1937 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
* 1937 - Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher
* 1938 - Art Mahaffey, baseball player
* 1943 - Joyce Meyer, Christian evangelical author and speaker
* 1944 - Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
* 1945 - Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon)
* 1945 - Anthony Braxton, American composer and instrumentalist
* 1947 - Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
* 1950 - George Noory, American radio personality
* 1952 - Parker Stevenson, American actor and director
* 1953 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002)
* 1953 - Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
* 1956 - Martin Adams, English darts player
* 1956 - Keith David, American actor
* 1956 - John Hockenberry, American journalist
* 1956 - Terry Kennedy, baseball player
* 1957 - John Treacy, Irish athlete
* 1960 - Bradley Walsh, British actor
* 1961 - El DeBarge, American singer (DeBarge)
* 1961 - Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
* 1962 - Zenon Jaskuła, Polish cyclist
* 1962 - John P. Kee, American Gospel singer
* 1964 - Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
* 1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
* 1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
* 1966 - Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
* 1968 - Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
* 1969 - Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
* 1970 - Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
* 1970 - David Pybus, British musician
* 1971 - Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* 1971 - Noah Wyle, American actor
* 1972 - Nikka Costa, American singer
* 1972 - Derian Hatcher, American hockey player
* 1972 - Rob Huebel, American comedian
* 1974 - Andrew Gwynne, British politician
* 1974 - Stefan Lessard, American musician
* 1975 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
* 1975 - Russell Brand, British comedian and television personality
* 1975 - Cynthia Loebe, American actress and photographer
* 1977 - Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player
* 1977 - Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
* 1977 - Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor
* 1979 - Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
* 1979 - Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player
* 1980 - Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
* 1981 - Yourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
* 1982 - Jin Au-Yeung, Chinese-American rapper
* 1983 - Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
* 1984 - Ian White, Canadian hockey player
* 1985 - Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
* 1985 - Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
* 1985 - Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
* 1985 - Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
* 1986 - Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
* 1991 - Jordan Hinson, American actress
* 1992 - Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
* 1993 - Christian Mowatt, British noble


Tienanmen Square.

[redline]

UMM, I'm not sure what Wikipedia has to say about it. All I know is I woke up with a massive hangover and lost a boatload of money in AC.

[240sxDann]

1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, only days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1796 - The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1862 - American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.
1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1923 - The F.A cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was played at Wembley, soon named the White Horse Final.
1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1950 - King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, got married with his queen, Queen Sirikit, after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.
1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1977 - The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 - President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1981 - Galician current Statute of Autonomy.
1986 - United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
1987 - U.S. engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 - In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.
1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week.
2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
2006 - Akeelah and the Bee in theathers

[edit] Births
1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1545 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
1630 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
1686 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1715 - Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1834)
1819 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
1838 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)
1868 - Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
1868 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
1874 - Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet (d. 1913)
1889 - António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
1900 - Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)
1903 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
1906 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
1908 - Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974)
1912 - Odette Sansom, French resistance worker (d. 1995)
1914 - Philip E. High, Science fiction author (d. 2006)
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1921 - Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)
1922 - William Guarnere, WWII Veteran
1924 - Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
1925 - T. John Lesinski, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
1926 - Harper Lee, American author
1928 - Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
1930 - James Baker, American politician
1930 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
1937 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
1938 - Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995)
1941 - Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
1941 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
1941 - Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
1943 - Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
1944 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
1944 - Alice Waters, American chef
1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author
1948 - Marcia Strassman, American actress
1949 - Indian Larry, American stuntsman
1949 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
1952 - Mary McDonnell, American actress
1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1955 - Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
1955 - Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
1956 - Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
1957 - Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
1958 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
1960 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993)
1960 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
1960 - Walter Zenga, Italian footballer
1964 - Barry Larkin, American baseball player
1965 - Steve Blum, American voice actor
1966 - John Daly, American golfer
1966 - Too $hort, American rapper
1967 - Kari Wührer, American actress
1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1970 - Nicklas Lidström, Swedish hockey player
1970 - Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer
1972 - Violent J, Insane Clown Posse
1973 - Elisabeth Röhm, American actress
1973 - Jorge Garcia, American actor
1974 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
1974 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
1974 - Vernon Kay, British TV/radio presenter
1978 - Nate Richert, American actor
1980 - Josh Howard, basketball player (Dallas Mavericks)
1981 - Jessica Alba, American actress
1996 - Zanger Bob, Dutch singer

[edit] Deaths
1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s)
1498 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
1533 - Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
1695 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
1710 - Thomas Betterton, English actor
1726 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
1741 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)
1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
1841 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
1853 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1936 - King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
1944 - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)
1945 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot) (b. 1912)
1945 - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
1954 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
1964 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
1970 - Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
1973 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
1975 - Tom Donahue, American FM radio DJ (pioneer, freeform radio) (b. 1928)
1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
1991 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
1992 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909)
1992 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
1993 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
1999 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)
2000 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
2002 - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
2005 - Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)

[edit] Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - first day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jamál (Beauty) - First day of the third month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
National Day of Mourning in Canada to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness due to occupational hazards and accidents.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work, which developed from the Canadian observance.
Arbor Day - legal state holiday in Nebraska, USA.
National Heroes Day - Barbados.
Workers Memorial Day - International Workers Memorial Day

[bastid]

Jesus Christ doesn't have **** on Danny Devito.

[.brian.]

i got ****faced