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0017 - Germanicus of Rome celebrated his victory over the Germans.
1328 - William of Ockham was forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII.
1521 - Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings.
1647 - A new law banned Catholic priests from the colony of Massachusetts. The penalty was banishment or death for a second offense.
1660 - King Charles II of England landed at Dover after being exiled for nine years.
1670 - A treaty was signed in secret in Dover, England, between Charles II and Louis XIV ending the hostilities between them.
1691 - Jacob Leiser, leader of the popular uprising in support of William and Mary’s accession to the English throne, was executed for treason.
1736 - The British and Chickasaw Indians defeated the French at the Battle of Ackia.
1791 - The French Assembly forced King Louis XVI to hand over the crown and state assets.
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral.
1831 - Russians defeated the Poles at battle of Ostrolenska.
1835 - A resolution was passed in the U.S. Congress stating that Congress has no authority over state slavery laws.
1836 - The U.S. House of Representatives adopted what has been called the Gag Rule.
1864 - The Territory of Montana was organized.
1865 - Arrangements were made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted, by one vote, of all charges in his impeachment trial.
1896 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared for the first time in the "Wall Street Journal."
1896 - The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, was crowned.
1908 - In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East.
1913 - Actors’ Equity Association was organized in New York City.
1926 - In Morocco, rebel leader Abd el Krim surrendered.
1938 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the United States.
1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
1946 - A patent was filed in the United States for an H-bomb.
1946 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed a military pact with Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin promised a "close collaboration after the war."
1948 - The U.S. Congress passed Public Law 557 which permanently established the Civil Air Patrol as the Auxiliary of the new U.S. Air Force.
1956 - The first trailer bank opened for business in Locust Grove, Long Island, NY. The 46-foot-long trailer took in $100,000 in deposits its first day.
1958 - Union Square, San Francisco became a state historical landmark.
1959 - The word "Frisbee" became a registered trademark of Wham-O.
1961 - Civil rights activist group Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee was established in Atlanta, GA.
1961 - A U.S. Air Force bomber flew across the Atlantic in a record time of just over three hours.
1969 - The Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.
1972 - The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) was signed by the U.S. and USSR. The short-term agreement put a freeze on the testing and deployment of intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles for a 5-year period.
1973 - Kathy Schmidt set an American women’s javelin record with a throw of 207 feet, 10 inches.
1975 - American stuntman Evel Knievel suffered severe spinal injuries in Britain when he crashed while attempting to jump 13 buses in his car.
1977 - George H. Willig was arrested after he scaled the South Tower of New York's World Trade Center. It took him 3 1/2 hours.
1978 - The first legal casino in the Eastern U.S. opened in Atlantic City, NJ.
1988 - The Edmonton Oilers won their fourth NHL Stanley Cup in five seasons. They swept the series 4 games to 0 against the Boston Bruins.
1991 - A Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced that his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island was mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police officers in high-speed chases are liable for bystander injuries only if their "actions shock the conscience."
1998 - The Grand Princess cruise ship made its inaugural cruise. The ship measured 109,000 tons and cost approximately $450 million, making it the largest and most expensive cruise ship ever built.
marquis2
2008-05-26, 16:14
In 1946 Winston Churchill was no longer Prime Minister.Is the date wrong?
1647 - Achsah Young, a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."
1668 - Three colonists were expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists.
1813 - Americans captured Fort George, Canada.
1896 - 255 people were killed in St. Louis, MO, when a tornado struck.
1901 - The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized.
1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
1919 - A U.S. Navy seaplane completed the first transatlantic flight.
1926 - Bronze figures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were erected in Hannibal, MO.
1929 - Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Murrow were married.
1931 - Piccard and Knipfer made the first flight into the stratosphere, by balloon.
1933 - Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" was first released.
1933 - In the U.S., the Federal Securities Act was signed. The act required the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1935 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that President Franklin Roosevelt's National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional.
1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic. The bridge connected San Francisco and Marin County.
1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency" amid rising world tensions.
1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
1942 - German General Erwin Rommel began a major offensive in Libya with his Afrika Korps.
1944 - U.S. General MacArthur landed on Biak Island in New Guinea.
1960 - A military coup overthrew the democratic government of Turkey.
1964 - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharla Nehru died.
1968 - After 48 years as coach of the Chicago Bears, George Halas retired.
1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
1977 - George H. Willig was fined for scaling the World Trade Center in New York on May 26. He was fined $1.10.
1985 - In Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
1986 - Mel Fisher recovered a jar that contained 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha. The ship sank in the 17th century.
1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia. He had been in exile for two decades.
1995 - In Charlottesville, VA, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event.
1996 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiated a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the leader of the rebels.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.
1998 - Charlie Sheen was admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles for a drug overdose.
1998 - Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the plot to bomb an Oklahoma City federal building.
1999 - In The Hague, Netherlands, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo. It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.
Births:
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter
1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1936 - Louis Gossett Jr, American actor
1943 - Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer
Deaths:
1840 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer
585 BC - Thales Miletus predicted a solar eclipse.
585BC - The Persian-Lydian battle ended.
1533 - England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1774 - The First Continental Congress convened in Virginia.
1805 - Napoleon was crowned in Milan, Italy.
1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War.
1892 - The Sierra club was organized in San Francisco, CA.
1900 - Britain annexed the Orange Free State.
1908 - Ian Fleming, who created the character James Bond, was born.
1918 - Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, declared independence.
1926 - Portuguese General da Costa took over in a coup.
1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
1929 - Warner Brothers debuted "On With The Show" in New York City. It was the first all-color-talking picture.
1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington, DC, signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the newly opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.
1940 - During World War II, Belgium surrendered to Germany.
1953 - The Walt Disney film "Melody" premiered in the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood. The picture was the first 3-D cartoon.
1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco.
1961 - Amnesty International, a human rights organization, was founded.
1976 - The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty was signed, limiting any nuclear explosion - regardless of its purpose - to a yield of 150 kilotons.
1977 - Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, KY. 165 people were killed.
1985 - The first issue of "Vanity Fair" magazine went on sale. The issue had a picture of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy smooching on the cover.
1985 - David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers. He was freed 17 months later.
1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.
1995 - An earthquake in the Russian town Neftegorsk killed at least 2000 people. It had a magnitude of 7.5.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India."
1998 - Dr. Susan Terebey discoved a planet outside of our solar system with the use of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
1998 - Phil Hartman was shot to death at his home by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
1999 - In Milan, Italy, Leonardo de Vinci's "The Last Supper" was put back on display after 22 years of restoration work.
2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.
Births:
1908 - Ian Fleming, English author (James Bond novels etc)
1911 - Thora Hird, British actress
1944 - Gladys Knight, American singer
1947 - Sondra Locke, American actress
1962 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
1964 - David Baddiel, English comedian, novelist and television presenter
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
Deaths:
1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise)
1453 - Constantinople fell to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 - Charles II was restored to the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth.
1721 - South Carolina was formally incorporated as a royal colony.
1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
1790 - Rhode Island became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1827 - The first nautical school opened in Nantucket, MA, under the name Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin’s Lancasterian School.
1848 - Wisconsin became the 30th state to join the United States.
1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.
1910 - An airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.
1911 - The first running of the Indianapolis 500 took place.
1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
1916 - The official flag of the president of the United States was adopted.
1916 - U.S. forces invaded Dominican Republic and remained until 1924.
1922 - Ecuador became independent.
1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.
1932 - World War I veterans began arriving in Washington, DC. to demand cash bonuses they were not scheduled to receive for another 13 years.
1951 - C.F. Blair became the first man to fly over the North Pole in single engine plane.
1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1962 - Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.
1965 - Ralph Boston set a world record in the broad jump at 27-feet, 4-3/4 inches, at a meet held in Modesto, CA.
1973 - Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
1978 - In the U.S., postage stamps were raised from 13 cents to 15 cents.
1985 - 39 people were killed and 400 were injured in a riot at a European Cup soccer match in Brussels, Belgium.
1988 - U.S. President Reagan began his first visit to the Soviet Union in Moscow.
1988 - NBC aired "To Heal A Nation," the story of Jan Scruggs' effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
1995 - The last 3 bodies were recovered from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
1997 - The ruling party in Indonesia, Golkar, won the Parliament election by a record margin. There was a boycott movement and rioting that killed 200 people.
1999 - Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
2000 - Fiji's military took control of the nation and declared martial law following a coup attempt by indigenous Fijians in mid-May.
2001 - In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments
Births:
1903 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor
1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
1949 - Francis Ross, English musician (Status Quo)
1958 - Annette Bening, American actress
1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
1975 - Mel B (Spice Girls)
Deaths:
1829 - Humphry Davy, English chemist (inventor of miner’s lamp)
gunslingingbird
2008-05-29, 21:15
I really like the new "Births and Deaths" feature that you've added at the end of your posts. You rock! :thumbsup:
1416 - Jerome of Prague was burned as a heretic by the Church.
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.
1527 - The University of Marburg was founded in Germany.
1539 - Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, landed in Florida with 600 soldiers to search for gold.
1783 - The first daily newspaper was published in the U.S. by Benjamin Towner called "The Pennsylvania Evening Post"
1814 - The First Treaty of Paris was declared, which returned France to its 1792 borders.
1848 - W.G. Young patented the ice cream freezer.
1854 - The U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1868 - Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the U.S.
1879 - William Vanderbilt renamed New York City's Gilmore’s Garden to Madison Square Garden.
1883 - Twelve people were trampled to death in New York City in a stampede when a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing occurred.
1889 - The brassiere was invented.
1896 - The first automobile accident occurred in New York City.
1903 - In Riverdale, NY, the first American motorcycle hill climb was held.
1911 - Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis Sweepstakes. The 500-mile auto race later became known as the Indianapolis 500. Harroun's average speed was 74.59 miles per hour.
1912 - The U.S. Marines were sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
1913 - The First Balkan War ended.
1921 - The U.S. Navy transferred the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1933 - Sally Rand introduced her exotic and erotic fan dance to audiences at Chicago’s Century of Progress Exposition.
1943 - American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1967 - Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped 16 automobiles in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.
1967 - The state of Biafra seceded from Nigeria and Civil war erupted.
1971 - Mariner 9, the American deep space probe blasted off on a journey to Mars.
1982 - Spain became the 16th NATO member. Spain was the first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.
1989 - The "Goddess of Democracy" statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
1997 - Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, NJ, of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka. The 1994 murder inspired "Megan's Law," requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
1998 - A powerful earthquake hit northern Afghanistan killing up to 5,000.
2003 - Peter Jennings was sworn in as a U.S. citizen.
Births:
1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor
1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian
Deaths:
1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (burned at the stake)
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter
1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher and author
1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers)
1967 - Claude Rains, English actor
2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer
1433 - Sigismund was crowned emperor of Rome.
1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act passed by the U.S. Congress.
1859 - The Philadelphia Athletics were formally organized to play the game of Town Ball.
1870 - E.J. DeSemdt patented asphalt.
1879 - New York's Madison Square Garden opened.
1880 - The first U.S. national bicycle society was formed in Newport, RI. It was known as the League of American Wheelman.
1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."
1889 - In Johnstown, PA, more than 2,200 people died after the South Fork Dam collapsed.
1900 - U.S. troops arrived in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 - The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
1907 - The first taxis arrived in New York City. They were the first in the United States.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first conference.
1910 - The Union of South Africa was founded.
1913 - The 17th Amendment went into effect. It provided for popular election of U.S. senators.
1915 - A German zeppelin made an air raid on London.
1926 - Frank Lockhart won the 14th Indy 500. He averaged 95.9 mph.
1927 - Ford Motor Company produced the last "Tin Lizzie" in order to begin production of the Model A.
1929 - In Beverly, MA, the first U.S. born reindeer were born.
1941 - The first issue of the still popular "Parade: The Weekly Picture Newspaper" went on sale.
1943 - "Archie" was aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System for the first time.
1947 - Communists seized control of Hungary.
1955 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed."
1961 - South Africa became an independent republic.
1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust.
1970 - An earthquake in Peru killed tens of thousands of people.
1974 - Israel and Syria signed an agreement on the Golan Heights.
1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.
1979 - Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence.
1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrived in Moscow in an effort to relieve Cold War tensions. He was the first president to do so in 14 years.
1994 - The U.S. announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
1995 - Bob Dole singled out Time Warner for "the marketing of evil" in movies and music. Dole later admitted that he had not seen or heard much of what he had been criticizing.
2003 - In North Carolina, Eric Robert Rudolph was captured. He had been on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for five years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing.
Births:
1872 - Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (best known for drawings of eccentric machines, so "Heath Robinson" entered our language as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contraption)
1922 - Denholm Elliott, English actor
1923 – Prince Rainer of Monaco
1930 - Clint Eastwood, American film director and actor
1939 - Terry Waite, British humanitarian
1943 - Sharon Gless, American actress
1948 - John Bonham, English musician/drummer (Led Zeppelin)
1949 - Tom Berenger, American actor
1959 - Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver
1965 - Brooke Shields, American model/actress
1976 - Colin Farrell, Irish actor
Deaths:
1594 – Tintoretto, Italian artist. Works included The Last Judgement and The Last Supper
1809 – Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
1837 - Joseph Grimaldi, British clown
1983 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1919-1926)
0193 - The Roman Emperor, Marcus Didius, was murdered in his palace.
1533 - Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen, was crowned.
1774 - The British government ordered the Port of Boston closed.
1789 - The first U.S. congressional act on administering oaths became law.
1792 - Kentucky became the 15th state of the U.S.
1796 - Tennessee became the 16th state of the U.S.
1861 - The first skirmish of the U.S. Civil War took place at the Fairfax Court House, Virginia.
1869 - Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric voting machine.
1877 - U.S. troops were authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico.
1915 - Germany conducted the first zeppelin air raid over England.
1916 - The National Defense Act increased the strength of the U.S. National Guard by 450,000 men.
1921 - A race riot erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 85 people were killed.
1935 - The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney.
1938 - Baseball helmets were worn for the first time.
1938 - Superman, the world's first super hero, appeared in the first issue of Action Comics.
1939 - The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.
1941 - The German Army completed the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ended.
1942 - The U.S. began sending Lend-Lease materials to the Soviet Union.
1943 - During World War II, Germans shot down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London.
1944 - The French resistance was warned by a coded message from the British that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1944 - Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
1953 - Raymond Burr mad his network-TV acting debut. It was in "The Mask of Medusa" on ABC-TV's "Twilight Theater."
1954 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Linus' security blanket made its debut.
1958 - Charles de Gaulle became the premier of France.
1961 - Radio listeners in New York, California, and Illinois were introduced to FM multiplex stereo broadcasting. A year later the FCC made this a standard.
1963 - Governor George Wallace vowed to defy an injunction that ordered the integration of the University of Alabama.
1968 - Helen Keller died. She had been deaf and blind since the age of 18 months. During her life she learned to speak, ride horses, and the waltz. She also graduated from Radcliffe cum laude.
1970 - Zimbabwe came into existence. It was formerly known as Rhodesia.
1973 - The James Bond movie "Live and Let Die" opened.
1977 - The Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. He was imprisoned until 1986.
1978 - The U.S. reported the finding of wiretaps in the American embassy in Moscow.
1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.
1989 - Disney World's "Typhoon Lagoon" opened.
1995 - At Disneyland Paris, the attraction "Space Mountain: From The Earth to the Moon" opened.
1998 - In the U.S., the FDA approved a urine-only test for the AIDS virus.
1998 - A $124 million suit was brought against Goodyear Tire & Rubber that alleged discrimination towards black workers.
Births:
1907 - Frank Whittle, English Royal Air Force officer and inventor
1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress
1928 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian
1934 - Pat Boone, American singer
1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
1939 - Jackie Stewart, British race car driver
1953 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer, a.k.a. The Son of Sam
1968 - Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer
1973 - Heidi Klum, German model
1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter
Deaths:
1960 - Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler's final living sibling
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (hovercraft)
1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.
1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.
1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.
1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.
1851 - Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 - Grover Cleveland became the first U.S. president to get married while in office.
1896 - Guglieimo Marconi's radio was patented in the U.S.
1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.
1910 - Charles Stewart Roll became the first person to fly across the English Channel.
1924 - All American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship by the U.S. Congress.
1928 - Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captured Peking, China.
1930 - Mrs. M. Niezes of Panama gave birth to the first baby to be born on a ship while passing through the Panama Canal.
1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House.
1935 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball.
1937 - "The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy" was broadcast on NBC radio for the first time.
1941 - Lou Gehrig died in New York of the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1946 - Italians voted by referendum to form a republic instead of of a monarchy.
1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.
1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
1957 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV.
1966 - Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.
1969 - The National Arts Center in Canada opened its doors to the public.
1969 - Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half off the shore of South Vietnam.
1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate.
1985 - Tommy Sandt was ejected from a major-league baseball game before the national anthem was played. He had complained to the umpire about a call against his team the night before.
1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed.
1998 - Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed to pay $9 million to settle charges of dumping waste at sea.
1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.
1999 - In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) won a major victory. ANC leader Thabo Mbeki was to succeed Nelson Mandela as the nation's president.
2003 - In the U.S., federal regulators voted to allow companies to buy more television stations and newspaper-broadcasting combinations in the same city. The previous ownership restrictions had not been altered since 1975.
2003 - In Seville, Spain, a chest containing the supposed remains of Christopher Columbus were exhumed for DNA tests to determine whether the bones were really those of the explorer. The tests were aimed at determining if Colombus was currently buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral or in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that companies could not be sued under a trademark law for using information in the public domain without giving credit to the originator. The case had originated with 20th Century Fox against suing Dastar Corp. over their use of World War II footage.
2003 - William Baily was reunited with two paintings he had left on a subway platform. One of the works was an original Picasso rendering of two male figures and a recreation of Picasso's "Guernica" by Sophie Matisse. Sophie Matisse was the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.
Births:
1731 - Martha Washington, First American first lady
1740 - Marquis de Sade, French author
1840 - Thomas Hardy, English writer
1857 - Edward Elgar, English composer
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (Tarzan)
1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer “the “Yorkshire Ripper”
1960 - Kyle Petty, American race car driver
1960 - Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
Deaths:
1970 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer
1990 - Rex Harrison, English actor
1615 - The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege.
1647 - The British army seized King Charles I and held him as a hostage.
1674 - Horse racing was prohibited in Massachusetts.
1717 - The Freemasons were founded in London.
1784 - Marie Thible became the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon. The flight was 45 minutes long and reached a height of 8,500 feet.
1792 - Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Britain.
1794 - British troops captured Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1805 - Tripoli was forced to conclude peace with U.S. after conflicts over tribute.
1812 - The Louisiana Territory had its name changed to the Missouri Territory.
1816 - The Washington was launched at Wheeling, WV. It was the first stately, double-decker steamboat.
1878 - Turkey turned Cyprus over to Britain.
1892 - The Sierra Club was incorporated in San Francisco.
1896 - Henry Ford made a successful test drive of his new car in Detroit, MI. The vehicle was called a quadricycle.
1911 - Gold was discovered in Alaska's Indian Creek.
1918 - French and American troops halted Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.
1919 - The U.S. Senate passed the Women's Suffrage bill.
1924 - An eternal light was dedicated at Madison Square in New York City in memory of all New York soldiers who died in World War I.
1931 - The first rocket-glider flight was made by William Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.
1935 - "Invisible" glass was patented by Gerald Brown and Edward Pollard.
1939 - The first shopping cart was introduced by Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City, OK. It was actually a folding chair that had been mounted on wheels.
1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France.
1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
1943 - In Argentina, Juan Peron took part in the military coup that overthrew Ramon S. Castillo.
1944 - The U-505 became the first enemy submarine captured by the U.S. Navy.
1944 - During World War II, the U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, which began the liberation of the Italian capital.
1944 - "Leonidas Witherall" was first broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1946 - Juan Peron was installed as Argentina's president.
1947 - The House of Representatives approved the Taft-Hartley Act. The legislation allowed the President of the United States to intervene in labor disputes.
1954 - French Premier Joseph Laniel and Vietnamese Premier Buu Loc initialed treaties in Paris giving "complete independence" to Vietnam.
1960 - The Taiwan island of Quemoy was hit by 500 artillery shells fired from the coast of Communist China.
1972 - Angela Davis was found not guilty of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy.
1974 - The Cleveland Indians had "Ten Cent Beer Night". Due to the drunken and unruly fans the Indians forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
1974 - Sally Murphy became the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army.
1984 - For the first time in 32 years, Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the U.S. Open golf tournament.
1985 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law that provided for a daily minute of silence in public schools.
1986 - Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, pled guilty in Washington to spying for Israel. He was sentenced to life in prison.
1989 - 645 people were killed in the Soviet Union when a gas explosion engulfed two passing trains.
1989 - In Beijing, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square to crush the pro-democracy movement. It is believed that hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators were killed.
1992 - The U.S. Postal Service announced that people preferred the "younger Elvis" stamp design in a nationwide vote.
1998 - Terry Nichols received a life sentence for his role in the bombing of an Oklahoma City Federal Building.
1998 - George and Ira Gershwin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000 - Julius "Dr. J" Erving reported his 19-year-old son, Cory, missing. His body was found on July 6, 2000.
2001 - Nepal's King Dipendra died. Three days earlier, he had reportedly shot and killed most members of the royal family before turning the gun on himself.
2003 - Martha Stewart was indicted on federal charges of using illegal privileged information and then obrstructing an investigation. She resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of her company the same day.
2003 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban "partial birth" abortions with a 282-139 vote.
2003 - Amazon.com announced that it had received more than 1 million orders for the book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." The released date was planned for June 21.
Births:
1965 - Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1975 - Angelina Jolie, American actress and humanitarian
Deaths:
1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor
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1595 - Henry IV's army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.
1637 - American settlers in New England massacred a Pequot Indian village.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.
1783 - A hot-air balloon was demonstrated by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier. It reached a height of 1,500 feet.
1794 - The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
1827 - Athens fell to the Ottomans.
1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era."
1865 - The first safe deposit vault was opened in New York. The charge was $1.50 a year for every $1,000 that was stored.
1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."
1917 - American men began registering for the World War I draft.
1924 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson transmitted the first facsimile message across the Atlantic Ocean.
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set two world records in swimming events. Weissmuller set marks in the 100-yard, and 200-yard, free-style swimming competition.
1933 - President Roosevelt signed the bill that took the U.S. off of the gold standard.
1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.
1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.
1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.
1946 - The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit, MI.
1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan.
1956 - Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin to the Soviet Communist Party Congress.
1967 - The National Hockey League (NHL) awarded three new franchises. The Minnesota North Stars (later the Dallas Stars), the California Golden Seals (no longer in existence) and the Los Angeles Kings.
1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.
1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died early the next morning.
1973 - The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made by Jim Crowford.
1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.
1986 - A federal jury in Baltimore convicted Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus 10 years.
1987 - Ted Koppel and guests discussed the topic of AIDS for four hours on ABC-TV’s "Nightline".
1994 - An earthquake in East Java killed 264 people.
1998 - A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S. for seven weeks.
1998 - Volkswagen AG won approval to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars for $700 million, outbidding BMW's $554 million offer.
1998 - C-Span reported that Bob Hope had died. The report was false and had begun with an inaccurate obituary on the Associated Press Web site.
1998 - A strike at a General Motors parts factory began. It lasted for seven weeks.
2001 - Amazon.com announced that it would begin selling personal computers later in the year.
2004 - The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter was christened in the U.S. Navy in Groton, CT.
Births:
469 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher
1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker
1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman
1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary
1945 - Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (Williams F1)
1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer and actor
Deaths:
2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
1674 - Sivaji crowned himself King of India.
1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.
1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.
1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association was founded in London.
1865 - Confederate raider Wiliam Quantrill died from shot in the back that he received while escaping from a Union patrol near Taylorsville, KY.
1882 - The first electric iron was patented by H.W. Seely.
1890 - The United States Polo Association was formed in New York City, NY.
1904 - The National Tuberculosis Association was formed in Atlantic City, NJ.
1924 - The German Reichtag accepted the Dawes Plan. It was an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
1932 - In the U.S., the first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon.
1933 - In Camden, NJ, the first drive-in movie theater opened.
1934 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act, which established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
1936 - The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany.
1941 - The U.S. government authorized the seizure of foreign ships in U.S. ports.
1942 - The first nylon parachute jump was made by Adeline Gray in Hartford, CT.
1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.
1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.
1946 - The Basketball Association of America was formed in New York City, NY.
1966 - James Meridith was shot and wounded while on a solo march in Mississippi to promote voter registration among blacks.
1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1971 - "The Ed Sullivan Show" aired for the last time. It was canceled after 23 years on the air. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests on show.
1978 - "20/20" debuted on ABC.
1982 - Israel invaded southern Lebanon in an effort to drive PLO guerrillas out of Beirut.
1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death."
1993 - Mongolia held its first direct presidential elections.
2001 - U.S. District Court Judge Matsch rejected a request to delay the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The date was left at June 11.
2005 - The United States Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities could prosecute sick people who smoke marijuana on doctor's orders. The ruling concluded that state medical marijuana laws did not protect uses from the federal ban on the drug.
Births:
1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer
1956 - Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
Deaths:
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist
1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Taggart)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress
maildude
2008-06-06, 14:19
1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.
Thank you for bringing this up. Many kudos. :thumbsup:
gunslingingbird
2008-06-06, 23:33
Deaths:
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist
1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Taggart)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress
I'd also like to add to this list the 10,000 soldiers who died during the D-Day invasion.
68 A.D. - Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide.
1064 - Coimbra, Portugal fell to Ferdinand, the King of Castile.
1534 - Jacques Cartier became the first to sail into the river he named Saint Lawrence.
1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia Spelling Book." It was the first American book to be copyrighted.
1790 - Civil war broke out in Martinique.
1860 - The book, "Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime. It was the first published "dime novel."
1861 - Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke began working in Union hospitals.
1923 - Bulgaria’s government was overthrown by the military.
1931 - Robert H. Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design.
1934 - Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen."
1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).
1953 - A tornado struck Worcester, Massachusetts, killing about 100 people.
1959 - The first ballistic missile carrying submarine, the USS George Washington, was launched.
1965 - Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds. He broke the record set by Peter Snell in 1964.
1972 - American advisor John Paul Vann was killed in a helicopter accident in Vietnam.
1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.
1980 - Richard Pryor was severely burned by a "free-base" mixture that exploded. He was hospitalized more than two months.
1985 - Thomas Sutherland, an American educator, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He was not released until November 1991.
1985 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA title by defeating the Boston Celtics.
1986 - The Rogers Commission released a report on the Challenger disaster. The report explained that the spacecraft blew up as a result of a failure in a solid rocket booster joint.
1998 - In Jasper, TX, three white men were charged in the dragging death of African-American James Byrd Jr.
1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.
2000 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it had not uncovered reliable evidence of conspiracy behind 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.
2001 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to win three Conn Smythe Trophies. The award is given to the playoff's Most Valuable Player.
Births:
1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
Deaths:
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author
Great read miniD, love it as always!
1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).
Never had heard of this! Love baseball trivia!
Thank you very much miniD! :thumbsup:
1190 - Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army of the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem.
1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.
1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.
1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.
1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first U.S. newspapter to cover the sport of harness racing.
1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, held its first graduation.
1889 - Hattie McDaniel was born. She, for her role in "Gone With the Wind," was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.
1898 - U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan.
1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.
1916 - Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.
1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.
1924 - The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascists in Rome.
1924 - The Republican National Convention was broadcast by NBC radio. It was the first political convention to be on radio.
1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.
1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.
1942 - The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.
1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.
1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).
1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.
1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.
1954 - General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced successfully.
1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day War.
1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.
1971 - The U.S. ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.
1977 - James Earl Ray escaped with 6 others from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee. Ray was recaptured June 13, 1977.
1983 - Johnny Bench announced his plans to retire. He was a catcher in the major leagues for 16 years.
1984 - The U.S. Army successfully tested an antiballistic missile.
1985 - Frank Sinatra was portrayed as a friend of organized crime in a "Doonesbury" comic strip. Over 800 newspapers carried the panel.
1985 - The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.
1987 - An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to South Carolina.
1988 - Author Louis L'Amour died at age 80.
1990 - The Civic Forum movement won Czechoslovakia's first free elections since 1946. The movement was founded by President Vaclav Havel.
1990 - Bulgaria's former Communist Party won the country's first free elections in more than four decades.
1993 - It was announced by scientists that genetic material was extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.
1995 - 26 people were killed in Medellin, Columbia, by a bomb blast that was blamed on drug traffickers.
1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers in a 1-0 triple overtime game. The win ended a four-game sweep for the Stanley Cup.
1996 - Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.
1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed his defense chief Son Sen and 11 members of his family. He then fled his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.
1998 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.
1999 - NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.
Births:
1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress
1923 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born newspaperman
1962 - Gina Gershon, American actress
1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, British actress
Deaths:
323 BC - Alexander the Great
1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor
1993 - Les Dawson, British comedian
2004 - Ray Charles, American musician
dick van cock
2008-06-10, 14:15
1942 - The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.Reinhard Heydrich. For further information, please watch Fritz Lang & Bert Brecht's Hangmen Also Die :thumbsup:
1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day War. Six Days War stands out as the greatest military achievement in human history... :2 cents:
Deaths:
1967 - Spencer Tracy, American actor
2004 - Ray Charles, American musicianTwo of my household idols :bowdown:
david2006
2008-06-10, 14:24
On June 8,2008 my 6 year old daughter Amanda died due to a car accident that was caused by a drunk driver!
1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.
1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.
1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. The was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.
1838 - The Iowa Territory was organized.
1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. However, evidence has surfaced that indicates that the game of baseball was played before 1800.
1849 - The gas mask was patented by L.P. Haslett.
1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
1898 - Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain.
1900 - The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the expansion of the German navy.
1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.
1912 - Lillian Russel retired from the stage and was married for the fourth time.
1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.
1921 - U.S. President Warren Harding urged every young man to attend military training camp.
1923 - Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.
1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.
1929 - Anne Frank was born in Germany. She wrote in her diary about growing up in occupied Amsterdam during World War II. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.
1931 - Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws.
1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
1935 - The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932.
1937 - The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
1939 - The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. This was exactly one hundred years to the day on which the game was invented by Abner Doubleday.
1941 - In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.
1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan.
1948 - Ben Hogan won his first U.S. Open golf classic.
1963 - "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS.
1967 - State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1971 - Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.
1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971.
1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for six killings.
1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
1981 - Major league baseball players began a 49 day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation.
1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.
1985 - Wayne "The Great One" Gretsky was named winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy. The award is given to the the league Most Valuable Player.
1985 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan contras.
1986 - South Africa declared a national state of emergency. Virtually unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were put on news coverage of the unrest.
1987 - Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa was sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.
1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
1992 - In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings, but he was held liable in a civil suit.
1996 - In Philadelphia a panel of federal judges blocked a law against indecency on the internet. The panel said that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.
1997 - Interleague play began in baseball, ending a 126-year tradition of separating the major leagues until the World Series.
1997 - The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
1998 - Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corp. in largest high-tech acquisition.
1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, MS, convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.
1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia.
2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.
Births:
1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
1981 - Adriana Lima, Brazilian supermodel
Deaths:
2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor
1415 - Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa.
1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.
1789 - Ice cream was served to General George Washington by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.
1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.
1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1886 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowned in Lake Starnberg.
1888 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Labor.
1898 - The Canadian Yukon Territory was organized.
1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.
1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.
1913 - Ralph Edwards, the host of "This is Your Life" and "Truth or Consequences" was born. Ronald Reagan was the only person to ever substitute for him.
1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.
1922 - Charlie Osborne started the longest attack on hiccups. He hiccuped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991, 11 months after his hiccups ended.
1923 - The French set a trade barrier between the occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1927 - For the first time an American Flag was displayed from the right hand of the Statue of Liberty.
1940 - Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.
1943 - German spies landed on Long Island, New York. They were soon captured.
1944 - Germany launched 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from a position near the Channel coast. Of the 10 rockets only 5 landed in Britain and only one managed to kill (6 people in London).
1944 - Marvin Camras patented the wire recorder.
1949 - Bao Dai entered Saigon to rule Vietnam. He had been installed by the French.
1951 - U.N. troops seized Pyongyang, North Korea.
1966 - The landmark "Miranda vs. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.
1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers". The articles were a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam.
1977 - James Earl Ray was recaptured after his escape from prison 3 days earlier.
1978 - Israelis withdrew the last of their invading forces from Lebanon.
1979 - Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of their Black Hills in South Dakota.
1981 - At a parade in London a teen-ager fired six-blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1983 - The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in March 1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by Pioneer 10.
1988 - The Ligger Group, a cigarette manufacturer, was found liable for a lung-cancer death. They were, however, found innocent by the federal jury of misrepresenting the risks of smoking.
1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title. They beat the L.A. Lakers in four games.
1989 - U.S. President George Bush exercised his first Presidential veto on a bill dealing with minimum wage.
1991 - In the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament a spectator was killed when lightning struck.
1992 - Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites.
1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Exxon Corp. and Captain Joseph Hazelwood to be reckless in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
1994 - O.J. Simpson was questioned by Los Angeles police concerning the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1995 - France announced that they would conduct eight more nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
1996 - In Montana, the 81-day standoff between the Freemen and the FBI ended when the anti-government group surrendered.
1997 - The same Denver jury that convicted Timothy McVeigh of the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahama City recommended the death penalty for his crime.
2000 - Julius "Dr. J." Erving issued a public appeal for help finding his 19-year-old son, Cory. Cory had been missing since May 28, 2000. His body was found July 6, 2000.
2000 - In Pyongyang, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South Korea's President Kim Dae for a three-day summit. It was the first such meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea.
Births:
1865 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate
1943 - Malcolm McDowell, English actor
1953 - Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
1968 - David Gray, British musician
1986 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses
Deaths:
232BC - Alexander the Great
Yes, more Today In History from our very own miniD!
historylover
2008-06-14, 18:05
What site are you getting this from, minidog?
June 14th
1535 Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1541 Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret
1565 Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists
1647 English New Model-army installed
1658 Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish
1673 Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1755 1e edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"
1775 US Army founded
1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1789 Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
1800 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 1st Henley Regatta held
1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
1846 California declares independence from Mexico
1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 Fire destroys part of SF
1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
1863 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay
1864 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1880 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1898 France signs Niger Convention
1900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
1901 1st golf championship is played
1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights
1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
1922 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v S Africa
1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
1929 Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 German govt of von Papen forms
1933 Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1934 Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1934 WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1938 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 French govt of Reynaud resigns
1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 Canadian Library Association established
1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1952 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
1952 General strike in Tunisia
1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus
1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
1954 Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
1956 "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
1958 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 106øF, hottest temperature in SF
1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1966 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1967 Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1967 Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV
1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
maleonetwo
2008-06-14, 18:53
What site are you getting this from, minidog?
wikipedia
1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
1979 NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1980 Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1981 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
June 14th 1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1987 "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4« years
1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1987 "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4« years
1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall
1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1990 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
1990 Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1992 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1992 46th NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
1992 Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
1992 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1994 Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
1995 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
1995 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
1996 "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
1996 Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
1998 wins Oldsmobile Golf Classic
historylover
2008-06-15, 00:32
wikipedia
That's what I was guessing - Thanks for confirming, maleonetwo.
gunslingingbird
2008-06-15, 01:05
Hey, Fresno, no offense or nothing, but it's just not the same with someone other than MiniD running the thread. It's kind of like the evening news. You're used to one reporter, and then one day there's a replacement, and, even though it's the same news you would've heard from the regular reporter, it just seems like the sub is out of place. Will MiniD be resuming control of the thread?
Hey, Fresno, no offense or nothing, but it's just not the same with someone other than MiniD running the thread. It's kind of like the evening news. You're used to one reporter, and then one day there's a replacement, and, even though it's the same news you would've heard from the regular reporter, it just seems like the sub is out of place. Will MiniD be resuming control of the thread?
I don't know if miniD is going to do this thread again, I always thought she did a great job.
She wasn't here so I just thought I would hep. Sorry
0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
1487 - The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
1815 - Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, Netherlands.
1858 - In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
1890 - The second Madison Square Gardens opened.
1883 - The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day.
1897 - The U.S. government signed a treaty of annexation with Hawaii.
1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
1904 - The novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce took place. The main character of the book was Leopold Bloom.
1907 - The Russian czar dissolved the Duma in St. Petersburg.
1909 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss sold his first airplane, the "Gold Bug" to the New York Aeronautical Society for $5,000.
1910 - The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1922 - Henry Berliner accomplished the first helicopter flight at College Park, MD.
1925 - France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.
1932 - The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.
1940 - Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of the Vichy government of occupied France.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the closure of all German consulates in the United States. The deadline was set as July 10.
1952 - "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS-TV.
1952 - "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" was published in the United States.
1952 - A Swedish rescue plane was shot down by Soviet fighters over Swedish territorial waters. The rescue plane was searching for a lost aircraft.
1955 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Selective Service until 1959.
1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Peron. The ban was lifted eight years later.
1955 - Argentine naval officers launched an attack on President Juan Peron's headquarters. The revolt was suppressed by the army.
1958 - Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy was hanged for treason. He had been the prime minister during the 1956 uprising that was crushed by Soviet tanks.
1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Soviet Union while in Paris, traveling with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet.
1963 - 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days. She was the first female space traveler.
1971 - An El Greco sketch, "The Immaculate Conception," was recovered in New York City by the FBI. The work had been stolen 35 years earlier.
1972 - Ulrike Meinhof was captured by West German police in Hanover. He was co-founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group.
1975 - The Simonstown agreement on naval cooperation between Britain and South Africa ended. The agreement was formally ended by mutual agreement after 169 years.
1976 - In Soweto, thousands of school children revolted against the South African government's plan to enforce Afrikaans as the language for instruction in black schools.
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev was named the first Soviet president of the USSR. He was the first person to hold the post of president and Communist Party General Secretary. He replaced Nikolai Podgorny.
1978 - U.S. President Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos ratified the Panama Canal treaties.
1978 - The film adaptation of "Grease" premiered in New York City.
1979 - General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was executed for corruption. He was the former military ruler of Ghana from 1972-1978.
1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.
1981 - The "Chicago Tribune" purchased the Chicago Cubs baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million.
1983 - Yuri Andropov was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The position was the equivalent of president.
1984 - Wilson Ferreira Aldunate was arrested upon his return from an eleven year exile. Aldunate had been a popular Uruguayan opposition leader.
1985 - Willie Banks broke the world record for the triple jump with a leap of 58 feet, 11-1/2 inches in the U.S.A. championships in Indianapolis, IN.
1987 - A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him. He was convicted of illegal possession of a weapon. Also, in 1996 a civil jury ordered Goetz to pay $43 million to one of the people he shot.
1989 - Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy was reburied. The funeral brought at least a quarter of a million people to the streets of Budapest. Nagy had been prime minister during the 1956 uprising that was crushed by Soviet tanks. He was hanged for treason on June 16, 1958.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush welcomed Russian President Boris Yeltsin to a meeting in Washington, DC. The two agreed in principle to reduce strategic weapon arsenals by about two-thirds by the year 2003.
1993 - The U.S. Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley.
1996 - Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.
1996 - "Batman Forever" opened in the U.S.
1999 - Kathleen Ann Soliah was arrested by the FBI in St. Paul, MN. She had been wanted since 1976 after being indicted on murder conspiracy and explosives charges.
1999 - The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that a 1992 federal music piracy law does not prohibit a palm-sized device that can download high-quality digital music files from the Internet and play them at home.
2000 - U.S. federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation's largest local phone company.
2000 - U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson reported that an employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had discovered that two computer hard drives were missing.
Births:
1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader
1890 - Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian
1912 - Enoch Powell, British politician
gunslingingbird
2008-06-16, 21:18
^ Welcome back, MiniD! :D Great to see you posting again! :hatsoff:
0362 - Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.
1579 - Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England.
1775 - The British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.
1789 - The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly, and began to frame a constitution.
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte incorporated Italy into his empire.
1837 - Charles Goodyear received his first patent. The patent was for a process that made rubber easier to work with.
1848 - Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushed a Czech uprising in Prague.
1854 - The Red Turban revolt broke out in Guangdong, China.
1856 - The Republican Party opened its first national convention in Philadelphia.
1861 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed Dr. Thaddeus Lowe demonstrate the use of a hydrogen balloon.
1872 - George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.
1876 - General George Crook’s command was attacked and bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse.
1879 - Thomas Edison received an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the trustees of Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ.
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
1912 - The German Zeppelin SZ 111 burned in its hanger in Friedrichshafen.
1913 - U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
1917 - The Russian Duma met in a secret session in Petrograd and voted for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.
1924 - The Fascist militia marched into Rome.
1926 - Spain threatened to quit the League of Nations if Germany was allowed to join.
1928 - Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
1930 - The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill became law. It placed the highest tariff on imports to the U.S.
1931 - British authorities in China arrested Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
1932 - The U.S. Senate defeated the bonus bill as 10,000 veterans massed around the Capitol.
1940 - The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
1940 - France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.
1941 - WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S.
1942 - Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began publication. The term "G.I. Joe" was first used in a comic strip by Dave Breger.
1942 - "Suspense" debuted on CBS Radio.
1944 - French troops landed on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1944 - The republic of Iceland was established.
1950 - Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.
1953 - Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were rioting against the East German government.
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.
1965 - Twenty-seven B-52’s hit Viet Cong outposts but lost two planes in South Vietnam.
1969 - Boris Spasky became chess champion of the world after checkmating former champion Tigran Petrosian in Moscow.
1970 - North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.
1972 - Five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men all worked for the reelection of President Nixon. The event was the beginning of the Watergate affair.
1982 - Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon was interviewed by Diane Sawyer on "The CBS Morning News."
1985 - Judy Norton-Taylor was photographed for "Playboy" magazine.
1987 - American journalist Charles Glass was kidnapped. He was held captive for 62 days until he escaped on August 18, 1987.
1991 - The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans for classified by race at birth.
1994 - O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Los Angeles with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1994 - O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Los Angeles with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
I moved up the coast in 2005 but in '94 I was living in LA and got hung up in the traffic stop behind the chase. What a trippy situation that was. Hard to believe it's been 14 years.
Friday on my mind
2008-06-17, 14:13
Actually some interesting events this day in history
1932 - The U.S. Senate defeated the bonus bill as 10,000 veterans massed around the Capitol.
And then President Hoover sicked General MacArthur and the army on them soon after and burned out the shantys they had erected.Probably the closest the govt ever came to being overthrown
1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court banned the required reading of the Lord's prayer and Bible in public schools.
And to think some think we should force this stuff on school children again.
1972 - Five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men all worked for the reelection of President Nixon. The event was the beginning of the Watergate affair.
The day of the begining of the death of faith in govt IMO.
1991 - The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans for classified by race at birth.
The whole south african thing I still find unbeleiveable.20% white population totally controlling and discriminating against the 80% black population.It's amazing they got away with it at all and for so long.
marquis2
2008-06-17, 17:26
What is burglarizing? Is it the same as simply burgling or am I missing something?
Friday on my mind
2008-06-17, 18:45
What is burglarizing? Is it the same as simply burgling or am I missing something?
Same thing ,they broke in and were caught in the act.
1155 - Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome.
1429 - French forces defeated the English at the battle of Patay. The English had been retreating after the siege of Orleans.
1621 - The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
1667 - The Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames toward London.
1778 - Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary War.
1812 - The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions.
1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.
1817 - London's Waterloo Bridge opened. The bridge, designed by John Rennie, was built over the River Thames.
1861 - The first American fly-casting tournament was held in Utica, NY.
1873 - Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.
1898 - Atlantic City, NJ, opened its Steel Pier.
1915 - During World War I, the second battle of Artois ended.
1918 - Allied forces on the Western Front began their largest counter-attack against the German army.
1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.
1927 - The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."
1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales.
1936 - Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.
1936 - The first bicycle traffic court was established in Racine, WI.
1939 - The CBS radio network aired "Ellery Queen" for the first time.
1942 - The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.
1951 - General Vo Nguyen Giap ended his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.
1953 - Seventeen major league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.
1953 - Egypt was proclaimed to be a republic with General Neguib as its first president.
1959 - A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.
1959 - The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.
1961 - "Gunsmoke" was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio.
1966 - Samuel Nabrit became the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.
1972 - A BEA Trident crashed just after takeoff from London Airport. All 118 people on board were killed.
1975 - Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox hit three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers.
1979 - In Vienna, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2.
1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 - Alan Berg was shot to death outside his home. Two white supremacists were convicted of civil rights violations in the murder.
1996 - Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.
1997 - Sirhan Sirhan was denied parole for the 10th time. He had assissinated presidential candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968.
1998 - The Walt Disney Co. purchased a 43% stake in the Web search engine company Infoseek Corp.
1998 - Nine commemorative U.S. postage stamps were reissued. The stamps were considered to be classically beautiful examples of stamp engraving.
1998 - "The Boston Globe" asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.
1999 - Walt Disney's "Tarzan" opened.
2000 - In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.
2002 - In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Births
1886 - George Mallory, English mountaineer
1942 - Paul McCartney, songwriter and singer, member of the Beatles.
1952 - Isabella Rossellini Italian born film actress
1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer
Deaths
1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer.
marquis2
2008-06-18, 13:58
Same thing ,they broke in and were caught in the act.
I'm sure it is-but why do people have to make ugly complicated words when a simpler version exists?
We had guys who made comments on the radio and were called commenters.For some reason they later became commentators.
Once, if you want someone to do something you press them.This became that you pressure them and now you pressurise them (like an aircraft cabin I suppose)
meesterperfect
2008-06-19, 06:16
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed 1953
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
0240 BC - Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth using two sticks.
1586 - English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1778 - U.S. General George Washington's troops finally left Valley Forge after a winter of training.
1821 - The Ottomans defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani.
1846 - The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was the first organized baseball game.
1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.
1864 - The USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama off of Cherbourg, France.
1865 - The emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas.
1867 - Mexican Emperor Maximillian was executed.
1867 - In New York, the Belmont Stakes was run for the first time.
1903 - The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland.
1910 - Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, WA.
1911 - In Pennsylvania, the first motion-picture censorship board was established.
1912 - The U.S. government established the 8-hour work day.
1917 - During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. On July 17, 1917, the family took the name "Windsor".
1933 - France granted Leon Trotsky political asylum.
1934 - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration was established.
1934 - The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The commission was to regulate radio and TV broadcasting (later).
1937 - The town of Bilbao, Spain, fell to the Nationalist forces.
1939 - In Atlanta, GA, legislation was enacted that disallowed pinball machines in the city.
1942 - Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty were married. They were divorced in June of 1946.
1942 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington, DC, to discuss the invasion of North Africa with U.S. President Roosevelt.
1943 - Henry Kissinger became a naturalized United States citizen.
1943 - The National Football League approved the merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
1944 - The U.S. won the battle of the Philippine Sea against the Imperial Japanese fleet.
1951 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extended Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowered the draft age to 18.
1952 - "I’ve Got a Secret" debuted on CBS-TV.
1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY. They had been convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
1958 - In Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism.
1961 - Kuwait regained complete independence from Britain.
1961 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution that required state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
1965 - Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky became South Vietnam's youngest premier at age 34.
1968 - 50,000 people marched on Washington, DC. to support the Poor People's Campaign.
1973 - The Case-Church Amendment prevented further U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
1973 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) got his 2,000th career hit.
1973 - The stage production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opened in London.
1973 - Gordie Howe left the NHL to join his sons Mark and Marty in the WHA (World Hockey League).
1976 - During three days of violence, black student protestors were massacred in Soweto, South Africa.
1978 - Garfield was in newspapers around the U.S. for the first time.
1981 - "Superman II" set the all-time, one-day record for theater box-office receipts when it took in $5.5 million.
1981 - The European Space Agency sent two satellites into orbit from Kourou, French Guiana.
1983 - Lixian-nian was chosen to be China's first president since 1969.
1986 - University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of a cocaine-induced seizure.
1987 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Louisiana law that required that schools teach creationism.
1989 - The movie "Batman" premiered.
1997 - William Hague became the youngest leader of Britain's Conservative party in nearly 200 years.
1998 - Gateway was fined more than $400,000 for illegally shipping personal computers to 16 countries subject to U.S. export controls.
1998 - A study released said that smoking more than doubles risks of developing dementia and Alzheimer's.
1998 - Switzerland's three largest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they'd stolen the assets of Holocaust victims during World War II. Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low.
1999 - Stephen King was struck from behind by a mini-van while walking along a road in Maine.
1999 - The Dallas Stars won their first NHL Stanley Cup by defeating the Buffalo Sabres in the third overtime of game six.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a group prayer led by students at public-school football games violated the 1st Amendment's principle that called for the separation of church and state.
Births:
1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
1954 - Kathleen Turner, American actress
1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer
1965 - Sadie Frost, English actress
Deaths:
1937 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author
0451 - Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.
1397 - The Union of Kalmar united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.
1756 - In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."
1782 - The U.S. Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.
1791 - King Louis XVI of France was captured while attempting to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a cotton gin patent. He received the patent on March 14. The cotton gin initiated the American mass-production concept.
1837 - Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.
1863 - West Virginia became the 35th state to join the U.S.
1863 - The National Bank of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA, became the first bank to receive a charter from the U.S. Congress.
1893 - A jury in New Bedford, MA, found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
1898 - The U.S. Navy seized the island of Guam enroute to the Phillipines to fight the Spanish.
1910 - Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law and arrested hundreds.
1910 - Fanny Brice debuted in the New York production of the "Ziegfeld Follies".
1923 - France announced it would seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying its war debts.
1941 - The U.S. Army Air Force was established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
1943 - Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit. Federal troops were sent in two days later to end the violence that left more than 30 dead.
1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills, CA, at the order of mob associates angered over the soaring costs of his project, the Flamingo resort in Las Vegas, NV.
1948 - "Toast of the Town" debuted on CBS-TV. The show was hosted by Ed Sullivan.
1950 - Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with the New York Giants.
1955 - The AFL and CIO agreed to combine names and a merge into a single group.
1963 - The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two countries.
1966 - The U.S. Open golf tournament was broadcast in color for the first time.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the conviction.
1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline began operation.
1979 - ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart was shot to death in Managua, Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard.
1994 - In Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson pled innocent to the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1997 - The tobacco industry agreed to a massive settlement in exchange for major relief from mounting lawsuits and legal bills.
2001 - Barry Bonds, of the San Francisco Giants, hit his 38th home run of the season. The home run broke the major league baseball record for homers before the midseason All-Star break.
2001 - In Texas, Andrea Yates was arrested for drowning her five children in a bathtub.
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution of mentally retarded murderers was unconstitutionally cruel. The vote was 6 in favor and 3 against.
Births:
1909 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
1931 - Olympia Dukakis, Greek-American actress
1967 - Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
1968 - Robert Rodriguez, Mexican-American Film Director
Deaths:
1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (behind the large-scale development of Las Vegas)
1972 - Howard Johnson, American businessman, originator of restaurant and motel chain
1404 - Owain Glyndwr established a Welsh Parliament at Machynlleth and was crowned Prince of Wales.
1788 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
1834 - Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical reaper for farming. His invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size.
1859 - Andrew Lanergan received the first rocket patent.
1913 - Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane.
1937 - In Paris, Leon Blum's Popular Front Cabinet resigned.
1938 - In Washington, U.S. President Roosevelt signed the $3.75 billion Emergency Relief Appropriation Act.
1939 - Lou Gehrig quit baseball due to illness.
1940 - Richard M. Nixon and Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan were married.
1941 - German troops entered Russia on a front from the Arctic to Black Sea.
1942 - Ben Hogan recorded the lowest score (to that time) in a major golf tournament. Hogan shot a 271 for 72 holes in Chicago, IL.
1945 - Pan Am announced an 88-hour round-the-world flight at a cost of $700.
1954 - The American Cancer Society reported significantly higher death rates among cigarette smokers than among non-smokers.
1954 - NBC radio presented the final broadcast of "The Railroad Hour."
1954 - Australian John Landy ran the mile in 3:58. He was the second person to achieve the feat.
1958 - In Arkansas, a federal judge let Little Rock delay school integration.
1958 - Linus Pauling and Detlev Bronke, both Americans, were elected to the Soviet Academy of Science.
1960 - In Zurich, German, Armin Hary ran 100-meters in a record 10.0 seconds.
1963 - In St. Louis, Bob Hayes set a record when he ran the 100-yard dash in 0:09.1.
1963 - France announced that they were withdrawing from the North Atlantic NATO fleet.
1964 - Three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, MS. Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964 in an earthen dam. Eight Ku Klux Klan members later went to federal prison on conspiracy charges.
1969 - In South Carolina, civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy was jailed on riot charges.
1970 - Tony Jacklin became the second British golfer in 50 years to win the U.S. Open golf tournament.
1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
1981 - "Raiders of the Lost Ark" opened.
1982 - A jury in Washington, DC, found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of U.S. President Reagan and three other men.
1985 - Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.
1993 - In Madrid, five senior military officers and two civilians were killed by a car bomb. 24 people were injured. The Basque terror group claimed responsibility.
2001 - Former Haitian Army colonel Carl Dorelien taken into custody in Port St. Lucie. Dorelien had been in exile since 1994 when he was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 1994 massacre.
2001 - In Alexandria, VA, a U.S. federal grand jury indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2003 - The fifth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," was published by J.K. Rowling. Amazon.com shipped out more than one million copies on this day making the day the largest distribution day of a single item in e-commerce history. The book set sales records around the world with an estimated 5 million copies were sold on the first day.
2004 - SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Mike Melvill, reached 328,491 feet above Earth in a 90 minute flight. The height is about 400 feet above the distance scientists consider to be the boundary of space.
Deaths:
1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer
gunslingingbird
2008-06-21, 14:00
1993 - In Madrid, five senior military officers and two civilians were killed by a car bomb. 24 people were injured. The Basque terror group claimed responsibility.
ETA, I assume?
dick van cock
2008-06-21, 14:02
ETA, I assume?Who else? Athletic Bilbao? :1orglaugh
gunslingingbird
2008-06-21, 14:17
Who else? Athletic Bilbao? :1orglaugh
I was trying not to be a dick while pointing out that she forgot to write the name of the terrorist group. ;)
1558 - The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England.
1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
1868 - Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870 - The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.
1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
1909 - The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
1911 - King George V of England was crowned.
1915 - Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925 - France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.
1940 - France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
1942 - A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1942 - In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German vitory".
1942 - V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.
1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
1956 - The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up.
1959 - Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned.
1969 - Judy Garland died from an accidental overdose of prescription sleeping aids. She was 47.
1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973 - Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1977 - John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. He served 19 months.
1978 - James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1980 - The Soviet Union announceed a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981 - Mark David Chapman pled guilty to killing John Lennon.
1989 - The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal's parole.
1998 - The 75th National Marbles Tournament begins in Wildwood, NJ.
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
Births:
1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber
1936 - Kris Kristofferson, American singer and actor
1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer
1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards)
Deaths:
1969 - Judy Garland, American singer and actress
1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor
historylover
2008-06-22, 16:02
1941 - Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
Ya have to be glad that dictators are sometimes ignorant of history. Russia was backward comparatively until the early 20th century, when all of Europe tried to conquer the others, yet no one then went into Russia. Couldn't Hitler see a connection there?
BlueBalls
2008-06-22, 16:06
On this day in 1921 I was born.
JohnnyThompson
2008-06-22, 16:07
Ya have to be glad that dictators are sometimes ignorant of history. Russia was backward comparatively until the early 20th century, when all of Europe tried to conquer the others, yet no one then went into Russia. Couldn't Hitler see a connection there?
Napoleon tried in 1812 and failed. But from 1815-1914 most of the Europe saw peace.
bigbadbrody
2008-06-22, 16:07
1996 - The Equalizer defeated Eddie Bruiser for the SSW Heavyweight title
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the thread doesnt go unread
gunslingingbird
2008-06-22, 16:21
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the thread doesnt go unread
Of course it doesn't! I have it bookmarked as a favorite thread! :cool:
historylover
2008-06-22, 17:38
Napoleon tried in 1812 and failed. But from 1815-1914 most of the Europe saw peace.
Yeah, I was thinking that I should've went back further. My knowledge of post-Napoleanic Europe sometimes is too sketchy for my own good.
1683 - William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1700 - Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1758 - British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 - The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.
1757 - Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control of Bengal.
1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.
1848 - A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted.
1860 - The U.S. Secret Service was created to arrest counterfeiters.
1865 - Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer."
1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.
1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration.
1904 - The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson River in New York.
1926 - The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA.
1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.
1934 - Italy gained the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Authority was established.
1938 - Marineland opened near St. Augustine, Florida.
1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1951 - Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.
1952 - The U.S. Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1964 - Henry Cabot Lodge resigned as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and was succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.
1964 - The burned car of three civil rights workers was found prompting the FBI to begin a search. The men had been missing since June 21, 1964. Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964.
1966 - Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi were dispersed by tear gas.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.
1985 - All 329 people aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland. The cause was thought to be a bomb.
1989 - The movie "Batman" was released nationwide.
1992 - John Gotti was sentenced in New York to life in prison after being convicted of racketeering charges.
1993 - Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, VA, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her.
1997 - Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, died in New York of burns suffered in a fire set by her 12-year old grandson. She was 61.
2003 - Apple Computer Inc. unveiled the new Power Mac desktop computer.
2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits.
2005 - Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Births:
1947 - Bryan Brown, Australian actor
1964 - Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
1972 - Selma Blair, American actress
1975 - K.T. Tunstall, Scottish singer and songwriter
Deaths:
1999 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. Uncle Albert – Only Fools and Horses)
2006 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer
1314 - Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1340 - The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1664 - New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812 - Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.
1859 - At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
1861 - Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862 - U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
1869 - Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA.
1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1913 - Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1931 - The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy.
1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1953 - John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.
1955 - Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1962 - The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 - "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1970 - The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1975 - 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1985 - Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
1997 - 18-year-old Melissa Drexler was charged with murder in the death of her baby. Drexler had given birth during her prom.
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report on the "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2002 - A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2 million.
2003 - In Paris, France, manuscripts by novelist Georges Simenon brought in $325,579. The original manuscript of "La Mort de Belle" raised $81,705.
Births:
1895 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer
1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula one 5 time World Champion
1947 - Mick Fleetwood, English musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1979 - Petra Němcová, Czechoslovakian-born supermodel
Deaths:
1968 - Tony Hancock, British comedian
1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician
0841 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated Lothar at Fontenay.
1080 - At Brixen, a council of bishops declared Pope Gregory to be deposed and Archbishop Guibert as antipope Clement III.
1580 - The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.
1658 - Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.
1767 - Mexican Indians rioted as Jesuit priests were ordered home.
1788 - Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution and became the 10th state of the United States.
1864 - Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1867 - Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.
1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1870 - In Spain, Queen Isabella abdicated in favor of Alfonso XII.
1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
1877 - In Philadelphia, PA, Alexander Graham Bell demonstated the telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition.
1906 - Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premeire of Mamzelle Champagne in New York.
1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.
1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1920 - The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
1921 - Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.
1938 - Gaelic scholar Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first president of the Irish Republic.
1941 - Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.
1948 - The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
1951 - In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV's at the time.
1952 - John Christie, the British murderer of 10 Rillington Place, was sentenced to death for killing six women.
1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
1959 - Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1966 - "Dark Shadows" began running on ABC-TV.
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1970 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
1973 - Erskine Childers Jr. became president of Ireland after the retirement of Eamon De Valera.
1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 - Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule.
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1985 - ABC’s "Monday Night Football" began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson.
1985 - New York Yankees officials enacted the rule that mandated that the team’s bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games.
1986 - The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
1987 - Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to allegations that Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
1991 - The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
1991 - The Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 - Kim Campbell took office as Canada's first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
1996 - Outside the Khobar Towers near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia a truck bomb exploded. The bomb killed 19 Americans and injured over 500 Saudis and Americans.
1997 - The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station's Spektr module was severely damaged.
1997 - U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
1998 - Microsoft's "Windows 98" was released to the public.
1999 - Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.
2000 - U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
2000 - A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against American Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view "pop-up" advertisements.
Births:
1903 - George Orwell, British writer
1945 - Carly Simon, American singer
1963 - George Michael, British singer
Deaths:
1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water
historylover
2008-06-26, 05:13
0841 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated Lothar at Fontenay.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
841 one - It took decades for Charlemange to almost re-create the Western Roman Empire, then about a decade and a half to solidify his gains. Yet, it cracked apart within mere years afterwards. Makes one wonder whether genius ever is hereditary.
1962 one - Since when did organized religion become the State's enemy? Isn't that how people become fanatical, through denial?
Violator79
2008-06-26, 05:28
June 26
363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
1409 - Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
1541 - Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Diego is later caught and executed.
1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians.
1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1917 - the first U.S. troops arrived in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1934 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 - The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1959 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 - Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence
1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 - Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.
1975 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1976 - The CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
1991 - Ten-Day War- Yugoslav people's army began Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1995 - Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.- "I am a jelly donut"
gunslingingbird
2008-06-26, 12:11
June 26
363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
1409 - Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
1541 - Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Diego is later caught and executed.
1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians.
1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1917 - the first U.S. troops arrived in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1934 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 - The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1959 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 - Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence
1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 - Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.
1975 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1976 - The CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
1991 - Ten-Day War- Yugoslav people's army began Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1995 - Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.- "I am a jelly donut"
Where the fuck is MiniD??? :helpme:
:wave2:
1096 - Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary.
1243 - The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by the Mongols.
1483 - Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru, was murdered by his former followers.
1794 - The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1844 - John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.
1870 - The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was opened to the public.
1894 - The American Railway Union called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
1900 - The United States announced that it would send troops to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China.
1900 - A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever.
1907 - Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.
1908 - Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelched the reform elements of Parliament in Persia.
1917 - General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
1925 - Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered in Hollywood.
1926 - A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France was unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1924 - After eight years of occupation, American troops left the Dominican Republic.
1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.
1945 - The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
1951 - The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War.
1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed Lee Remick. It was his 500th and final guest on "Person to Person."
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1961 - A Kuwaiti vote opposed Iraq's annexation plans.
1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.
1971 - The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."
1976 - The CN (Canadian National) Tower in Toronto, Canada, opened.
1979 - Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1981 - In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts.
1985 - Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor.
1987 - The movie "Dragnet" opened in the U.S.
1996 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on the Internet.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban on doctor-assisted suicides.
1998 - The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee.
2000 - The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly announced that they had created a working draft of the human genome.
2000 - Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency in the Moluccas due to the escalation of fighting between Christians and Muslims.
2001 - Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just 17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bouque retired after 22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games.
2002 - David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for treatment of alcoholism.
2002 - WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
dick van cock
2008-06-26, 13:04
1483 - Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.I was named after him because I resemble him in looks and character
I was named after him because I resemble him in looks and character
soooo handsome you lil devil you
0363 - The death of Roman Emperor Julian brought an end to the Pagan Revival.
1693 - "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
1743 - King George II of England defeated the French at Dettingen, Bavaria, in the War of the Austrian Succession.
1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
1801 - British forces defeated the French and took control of Cairo, Egypt.
1844 - Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by mob in Carthage, IL.
1847 - New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1871 - The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. It was granted on May 4, 1886.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1905 - The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the Black Sea.
1918 - Two German pilots were saved by parachutes for the first time.
1923 - Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch was wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.
1924 - Democrats offered Mrs. Leroy Springs for vice presidential nomination. She was the first woman considered for the job.
1927 - The U.S. Marines adopted the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929 - Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a system for transmitting television pictures.
1931 - Igor Sikorsky filed U.S. Patent 1,994,488, which marked the breakthrough in helicopter technology.
1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow was measured by Dr. Cyril MacBryde and Dr. C. M. Charles. They recorded his height at 8' 11.1." He was only 22 at the time of his death on July 15, 1940.
1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1944 - During World War II, American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the German army.
1949 - "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" premiered on the Dumont Television Network.
1950 - Two days after North Korea invaded South Korea, U.S. President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict. The United Nations Security Council had asked for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
1954 - The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.
1955 - The first "Wide Wide World" was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1955 - The state of Illinois enacted the first automobile seat belt legislation.
1957 - More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey hit the coastal area of Louisiana and Texas.
1958 - NBC's "Matinee Theatre" was seen for the final time.
1959 - The play, "West Side Story," with music by Leonard Bernstein, closed after 734 performances on Broadway.
1961 - Arthur Michael Ramsey was enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury.
1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted 38 days.
1967 - The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England. The device was invented by John Sheppard-Barron. The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum withdrawal was $28.
1967 - Two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in Buffalo, NY.
1969 - Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police. This incident is considered to be the birth of the homosexual rights movement.
1972 - Bobby Hull signed a 10-year hockey contract for $2,500,000. He became a player and coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association.
1973 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" that was kept by the Nixon White House.
1973 - Nixon vetoed a Senate ban on bombing Cambodia.
1976 - Palestinian extremists hijacked an Air France plane in Greece. There were 246 passengers and 12 crew onboard. The plane eventually was taken to Entebbe, Uganda where Israeli commandos stormed it on July 4. The raid resulted in the deaths of seven pasengers.
1980 - U.S. President Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals.
1984 - The Federal Communications Commission moved to deregulate U.S. commercial TV by lifting most programming requirements and ending day-part restrictions on advertising.
1985 - Officials decertified Route 66.
1985 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua.
1986 - The World Court ruled that the U.S. had broken international law by aiding Nicaraguan rebels.
1991 - Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court. He had been appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson.
1992 - The body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso was found buried in a makeshift grave in a state park in New Jersey. Arthur and Irene Seale were later convicted and sentenced to prison for the crime.
1995 - Qatar's Crown Prince Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani ousted his father in a bloodless palace coup.
1995 - Actor Hugh Grant was arrested in Los Angeles for engaging in "lewd behavior" with a prostitute in a rented BMW.
1998 - An English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's sperm after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm.
1998 - In a live joint news conference in China U.S. President Clinton and President Jiang Zemin offered an uncensored airing of differences on human rights, freedom, trade and Tibet.
2002 - In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial reports.
2005 - In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed Cretaceous period dinosaur.
Births:
1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer
1962 - Michael Ball, British singer
1966 - J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
Deaths:
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor
Wierd. I'm reading Sharpe novels (Bernard Cornwell) and read the battle of Trafalgar a while ago. Obviously it was from Sharpe's (fictional) point of view but still a great read. The English seemed to annihilate the French back then :P
Thanks miniD, If you're not feeling good and want me to do this for a few days let me know!
JohnnyThompson
2008-06-27, 20:22
841 one - It took decades for Charlemange to almost re-create the Western Roman Empire, then about a decade and a half to solidify his gains. Yet, it cracked apart within mere years afterwards. Makes one wonder whether genius ever is hereditary.
1962 one - Since when did organized religion become the State's enemy? Isn't that how people become fanatical, through denial?
I love debating you historylover ;):D
It was part of Frankish tradition to pass down the monarchy to all of the sons the monarch was survived by. Charlemagne was survived by Louis I only. That is why the Holy Roman Empire evolved into a confederacy by the end of the middle ages. Its pretty amazing that from about 843 until 1945 dozens and dozens of wars were fought over the land that once belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and was unified under one single monarch.
btw...I would not define Charlemagne as a genius since he was essentially barbaric and illiterate.
1635 - The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the Caribbean.
1675 - Frederick William of Brandenburg crushed the Swedes.
1709 - The Russians defeated the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.
1776 - American Colonists repulsed a British sea attack on Charleston, SC.
1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.
1869 - R. W. Wood was appointed as the first Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy.
1894 - The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday.
1902 - The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
1911 - Samuel J. Battle became the first African-American policeman in New York City.
1914 - Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Mrs. Archduke were assassinated by Serb nationalist in (what is now known as) Sarajevo, Bosnia.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established the League of Nations.
1921 - A coal strike in Great Britain was settled after three months.
1930 - More than 1,000 communists were routed during an assault on the British consulate in London.
1939 - Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger service.
1938 - The U.S. Congress created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans.
1940 - The "Quiz Kids" was heard on NBC radio for the first time.
1942 - German troops launched an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.
1943 - "The Dreft Star Playhouse" debuted on NBC radio.
1944 - "The Alan Young Show" debuted on NBC radio.
1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines.
1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1951 - "Amos ’n’ Andy" moved to CBS-TV from radio.
1954 - French troops began to pull out of Vietnam’s Tonkin Province.
1960 - In Cuba, Fidel Castro confiscated American-owned oil refineries without compensation.
1964 - Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
1965 - The first commercial satellite began communications service. It was Early Bird (Intelsat II).
1967 - Fourteen people were shot in race riots in Buffalo, New York.
1967 - Israel formally declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the June 1967 war.
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon announced that no new draftees would be sent to Vietnam.
1976 - The first women entered the U.S. Air Force Academy.
1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, a white man, argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
1996 - The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
1996 - Charles M. Schulz got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1997 - Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear after three rounds of their WBA heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas, NV.
1998 - Poland, due to shortage of funds, is allowed to lease, U.S. aircraft to bring military force up to NATO standards.
1998 - The Cincinnati Enquirer apologized to Chiquita banana company and retracted their stories that questioned company's business practices. They also agreed to pay more than $10 million to settle legal claims.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that a Nebraska law that outlawed "partial birth abortions" was unconstitutional. About 30 U.S. states had similar laws at the time of the ruling.
2000 - Darva Conger announced that she had done a layout for Playboy magazine. Conger had married Rick Rockwell on Fox-TV's "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire."
2000 - The European Commission announced that they had blocked the planned merger between the U.S. companies WorldCom Inc. and Sprint due to competition concerns.
2000 - Six-year-old Elián González returned to Cuba from the U.S. with his father. The child had been the center of an international custody dispute.
2001 - Slobodan Milosevic was taken into custody and was handed over to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The indictment charged Milosevic and four other senior officials, with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war in Kosovo.
2001 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit set aside an order that would break up Microsoft for antitrust violations. However, the judges did agree that the company was in violation of antitrust laws.
2004 - The U.S. turned over official sovereignty to Iraq's interim leadership. The event took place two days earlier than previously announced to thwart insurgents' attempts at undermining the transfer.
2004- The U.S. resumed diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.
Births:
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter
1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism
1902 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1935 - John Inman, English actor
1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress
dick van cock
2008-06-28, 13:26
Births:
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmakerThe rest is irrelevant!
May you stay forever young, Mr. Brooks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2NqfISm9k
gunslingingbird
2008-06-28, 23:05
1902 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
What about Rodgers and Hart? As in "My Funny Valentine" Rodgers and Hart? :confused:
1236 - Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon took Cordoba in Spain.
1652 - Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.
1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.
1776 - The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.
1804 - Privates John Collins and Hugh Hall of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were found guilty by a court-martial consisting of members of the Corps of Discovery for getting drunk on duty. Collins received 100 lashes on his back and Hall received 50.
1860 - The first iron-pile lighthouse was completed at Minot’s Ledge, MA.
1880 - France annexed Tahiti.
1888 - Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.
1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a game against Louisville, setting a record for runs scored by a team in a single game.
1901 - The first edition of "Editor & Publisher" was issued.
1903 - The British government officially protested Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
1905 - Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country. Many ships were looted.
1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
1925 - Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
1926 - Fascists in Rome added an hour to the work day in an economic efficiency measure.
1932 - Siam’s army seized Bangkok and announced an end to the absolute monarchy.
1932 - "Vic and Sade" debuted on NBC radio.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 42nd consecutive game. He broke George Sisler's record from 1922.
1946 - British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.
1950 - U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.
1951 - The United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonson Harbor.
1953 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast.
1954 - The Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information.
1955 - The Soviet Union sent tanks to Pozan, Poland, to put down anti-Communist demonstrations.
1956 - Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were married. They were divorced on January 20, 1961.
1966 - The U.S. bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, at age 34, and two male companions died when their car struck a trailer truck east of New Orleans.
1967 - Israel removed barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." The ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment laws.
1982 - Israel invaded Lebanon.
1987 - Vincent Van Gogh’s "Le Pont de Trinquetaille" was bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
1995 - The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
1995 - 501 people were killed when a department store in Seoul, South Korea collapsed. 900 others were injured.
1998 - With negotiations on a new labor agreement at a standstill, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that a lockout would be imposed at midnight.
2000 - In Santa Rosa, CA, the official groundbreaking ceremony took place for the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
2007 - The Apple iPhone went on sale.
Births:
1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor
1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer, dancer, and actress
Deaths:
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress
1995 - Lana Turner, American actress
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress
historylover
2008-06-29, 20:06
1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.
Post-Stamp Act, sewing the Revolutionary seeds. What government has ever truly succeeded in over-taxing its citizens?
1097 - The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum.
1841 - The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train.
1859 - Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1894 - Korea declared independence from China and asked for Japanese aid.
1908 - An explosion in Siberia, which knocked down trees in a 40-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away. It was believed by some scientists to be caused by a falling fragment from a meteorite.
1912 - Belgian workers went on strike to demand universal suffrage.
1913 - Fighting broke out between Bulgaria and Greece and Spain. It was the beginning of the Second Balkan War.
1915 - During World War I, the Second Battle Artois ended when the French failed to take Vimy Ridge.
1921 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.
1922 - Irish rebels in London assassinate Sir Henry Wilson, the British deputy for Northern Ireland.
1930 - France pulled its troops out of Germany’s Rhineland.
1934 - Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives."
1935 - Fascists caused an uproar at the League of Nations when Haile Selassie of Ethiopia speaks.
1936 - Margaret Mitchell’s book, "Gone with the Wind," was published in New York City.
1950 - U.S. President Harry Truman ordered U.S. troops into Korea and authorizes the draft.
1951 - On orders from Washington, General Matthew Ridgeway broadcasts that the United Nations was willing to discuss an armistice with North Korea.
1952 - CBS-TV debuted "The Guiding Light."
1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250.
1955 - The U.S. began funding West Germany’s rearmament.
1957 - The American occupation headquarters in Japan was dissolved.
1958 - The U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union.
1960 - The Katanga province seceded from Congo (upon Congo's independence from Belgium).
1962 - Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax pitched his first no-hitter in a game with the New York Mets.
1964 - The last of U.N. troops left Congo after a four-year effort to bring stability to the country.
1970 - The Cincinnati Reds moved to their new home at Riverfront Stadium.
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the New York Times to continue publishing the Pentagon Papers.
1971 - The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. The three cosmonauts were found dead inside.
1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified when Ohio became the 38th state to approve it. The amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18.
1974 - Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto, Canada.
1974 - The July 4th scene from the Steven Spielberg movie "Jaws" was filmed.
1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to the B-1 bomber.
1984 - The longest professional football game took place in the United States Football League (USFL). The Los Angeles Express beat the Michigan Panthers 27-21 after 93 minutes and 33 seconds.
1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages were freed from a hijacked TWA jetliner in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1985 - Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600 performances in "The King and I."
1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1994 - The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
1998 - Officials confirmed that the remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.
2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the E-Signature bill to give the same legal validity to an electronic signature as a signature in pen and ink.
0096 - Vespasian, a Roman Army leader, was hailed as a Roman Emperor by the Egyptian legions.
1543 - England and Scotland signed the peace of Greenwich.
1596 - An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere captured and sacked Cadiz, Spain.
1690 - The French defeated the forces of the Grand Alliance at Fleurus in the Netherlands.
1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took Alexandria, Egypt.
1847 - The U.S. Post Office issued its first adhesive stamps.
1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.
1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.
1874 - The Philadelphia Zoological Society zoo opened as the first zoo in the United States.
1876 - Montenegro declared war on the Turks.
1893 - The first bicycle race track in America to be made out of wood was opened in San Francisco, CA.
1897 - Three years after the first issue of "Billboard Advertising" was published, the publication was renamed, "The Billboard".
1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
1905 - The USDA Forest Service was created within the Department of Agriculture. The agency was given the mission to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive forests and grasslands for present and future generations.
1909 - Thomas Edison began commercially manufacturing his new "A" type alkaline storage batteries.
1916 - The massive Allied offensive known as the Battle of the Somme began in France. The battle was the first to use tanks.
1934 - The Federal Communications Commission replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the regulator of broadcasting in the United States.
1940 - In Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened to traffic. The bridge collapsed during a wind storm on November 7, 1940.
1941 - Bulova Watch Company sponsored the first TV commercial in New York City, NY.
1942 - German troops captured Sevestpol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union.
1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.
1945 - New York established the New York State Commission Against Discrimination to prevent discrimination in employment because of race, creed or natural origin. It was the first such agency in the U.S.
1946 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed Public Law 476 that incorporated the Civil Air Patrol as a benevolent, nonprofit organization. The Civil Air Patrol was created on December 1, 1941.
1946 - The U.S. exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1948 - The price of a subway ride in New York City was increased from 5 cents to 10.
1950 - American ground troops arrived in South Korea to stem the tide of the advancing North Korean army.
1951 - Bob Feller set a major league baseball record as he pitched his third no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians.
1960 - Somalia gained its independence from Britain through the unification of Somaliland with Italian Somalia.
1961 - British troops landed in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.
1961 - The first community air-raid shelter was built. The shelter in Boise, ID had a capacity of 1,000 people and family memberships sold for $100.
1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.
1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
1968 - The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed by 60 countries. It limited the spreading of nuclear material for military purposes. On May 11, 1995, the treaty was extended indefinitely.
1969 - Britain's Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales.
1974 - Isavel Peron became the president of Argentina upon the death of her husband, Juan.
1979 - Susan B. Anthony was commemorated on a U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman.
1980 - "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that provided for 2 acres of land near the Lincoln Memorial for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that candidates for federal office had an "affirmative right" to go on national television.
1985 - Robin Yount (Milwaukee Brewers) got the 1,800th hit of his career.
1987 - John Kevin Hill, at age 11, became the youngest to fly across the U.S. when he landed at National Airport in Washington, DC.
1989 - The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty, went into effect. It limited the production of ozone-destroying chemicals.
1991 - Court TV began airing.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact dissolved.
1994 - Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation Organization visited the Gaza Strip.
1996 - Margaux Hemingway was found dead in her apartment. It was concluded that she had committed suicide.
1997 - The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from Great Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong as a colony for 156 years.
1999 - The U.S. Justice Department released new regulations that granted the attorney general sole power to appoint and oversee special counsels. The 1978 independent-counsel statute expired on June 30.
2003 - In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their opposition to anti-subversion legislation.
Births:
1872 - Louis Blériot, French aviator ( achieved the first flight over a large body of water )
1903 - Amy Johnson, English pilot (first woman to fly solo from England to Australia)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie)
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1977 - Liv Tyler, American actress
Deaths:
1991 - Michael Landon, American actor
1997 - Robert Mitchum, American actor
1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer
2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor
2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor
2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer
2006 - Fred Trueman, English cricketer
1298 - An army under Albert of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany.
1566 - French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died.
1625 - The Spanish army took Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege.
1644 - Lord Cromwell crushed the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor near York, England.
1747 - Marshall Saxe led the French forces to victory over an Anglo-Dutch force under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld.
1776 - Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was adopted by the Continental Congress.
1850 - Prussia agreed to pull out of Schlewig and Holstein, Germany.
1850 - B.J. Lane patented the gas mask.
1857 - New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened for business.
1858 - Czar Alexander II freed the serfs working on imperial lands.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield in Washington, DC.
1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1926 - The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.
1937 - American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
1939 - At Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt's face was dedicated.
1944 - American bombers, as part of Operation Gardening, dropped land mines, leaflets and bombs on German-occupied Budapest.
1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1961 - Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, ID.
1964 - U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate against others because of their race.
1967 - The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Buffalo in response to the North Vietnamese Army's efforts to seize the Marine base at Con Thien.
1976 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
1976 - North Vietnam and South Vietnam were reunited.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.
1985 - General Motors announced that it was installing electronic road maps as an option in some of its higher-priced cars.
1994 - Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin. 10 days earlier he had accidentally scored a goal against his own team in World Cup competition.
1995 - "Forbes" magazine reported that Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, was the worth $12.9 billion, making him the world's richest man. In 1999, he was worth about $77 billion.
1998 - Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.
2000 - In Mexico, Vicente Fox Quesada of the National Action Party (PAN) defeated Francisco Labastida Ochoa of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the presidential election. The PRI had controlled the presidency in Mexico since the party was founded in 1929.
Births:
1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress
1973 - Peter Kay, British comedian
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
Deaths:
1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer
1850 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and helped create the modern concept of the police force
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate
1973 - Betty Grable, American actress
1997 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor
1608 - The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1775 - U.S. Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, MA.
1790 - In Paris, the marquis of Condorcet proposed granting civil rights to women.
1844 - Ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiated a commercial treaty with China that opened five Chinese ports to U.S. merchants and protected the rights of American citizens in China.
1863 - The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended after three days. It was a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
1871 - The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma."
1878 - John Wise flew the first dirigible in Lancaster, PA.
1880 - "Science" began publication. Thomas Edison had provided the principle funding.
1890 - Idaho became the 43rd state to join the United States of America.
1898 - During the Spanish American War, a fleet of Spanish ships in Cuba's Santiago Harbor attempted to run a blockade of U.S. naval forces. Nearly all of the Spanish ships were destroyed in the battle that followed.
1901 - The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, committed its last American robbery near Wagner, MT. They took $65,000 from a Great Northern train.
1903 - The first cable across the Pacific Ocean was spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
1912 - Rube Marquand of the New York Giants set a baseball pitching record when earned his 19th consecutive win.
1922 - "Fruit Garden and Home" magazine was introduced. It was later renamed "Better Homes and Gardens."
1924 - Clarence Birdseye founded the General Seafood Corp.
1930 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
1934 - U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) made its first payment to Lydia Losiger.
1937 - Del Mar race track opened in Del Mar, CA.
1939 - Chic Young’s comic strip character, "Blondie" was first heard on CBS radio.
1940 - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted on NBC radio.
1944 - The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
1944 - During World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.
1945 - U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
1945 - The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Production had been diverted due to World War II.
1950 - U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.
1954 - Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1974 - The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed, prohibiting underground nuclear weapons tests with yields greater than 150 kilotons.
1976 - 103 hostages were rescued by an Israeli commando unit at the raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. The hostages had been taken from an Air France jetliner.
1981 - The Associated Press ran its first story about two rare illnesses afflicting homosexual men. One of the diseases was later named AIDS.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1986 - Mikhail Baryshnikov became a U.S. citizen at Ellis Island, New York Harbor.
1988 - The USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. The jetliner was misidentified as an Iranian F-14 fighter.
1991 - U.S. President George Bush formally inaugurated the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
1997 - U.S. President Clinton made his first formal response to the charges of sexual harassment from Paula Jones. He denied all the charges and asked that the judge dismiss the case.
Births:
1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born playwright
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
Deaths:
1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer
1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors)
1712 - Twelve slaves were executed for starting a slave uprising in New York that killed nine whites.
1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America.
1802 - The U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West Point, NY.
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase was announced in newspapers. The property was purchased, by the U.S. from France, was for $15 million (or 3 cents an acre). The "Corps of Discovery," led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, began the exploration of the territory on May 14, 1804.
1817 - Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
1845 - American writer Henry David Thoreau began his two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond, near Concord, MA.
1848 - In Washington, DC, the cornerstone for the Washington Monument was laid.
1855 - The first edition of "Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman, was published in Brooklyn, NY.
1863 - The Confederate town of Vicksburg, MS, surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant.
1881 - Tuskegee Institute opened in Alabama.
1884 - Bullfighting was introduced in the U.S. in Dodge City, KS.
1886 - The first rodeo in America was held at Prescott, AZ.
1892 - The first double-decked street car service was inaugurated in San Diego, CA.
1894 - After seizing power, Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii a republic.
1901 - William H. Taft became the American governor of the Philippines.
1910 - Race riots broke out all over the United States after African-American Jack Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match.
1934 - Boxer Joe Louis won his first professional fight.
1934 - At Mount Rushmore, George Washington's face was dedicated.
1939 - Lou Gehrig retired from major league baseball.
1946 - The Philippines achieved full independence for the first time in over four hundred years.
1955 - The first king cobra snakes born in captivity in the U.S. hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1957 - The U.S. Postal Service issued the 4¢ Flag stamp.
1959 - The 49-star U.S. flag was debuted.
1960 - The 50-star U.S. flag made its debut in Philadelphia, PA.
1966 - U.S. President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year.
1976 - The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
1987 - Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon," was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison.
1997 - The Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft, landed on Mars. A rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather data about the surface of the planet.
1997 - Ferry service between Manhattan and Staten Island was made free of charge. Previously, the charge had ranged from 5 cents to 50 cents.
2004 - In New York, the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower was laid on the former World Trade Center site.
2005 - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft took pictures as a space probe smashed into the Tempel 1 comet. The mission was aimed at learning more about comets that formed from the leftover buidling blocks of the solar system. The Deep Impact mission launched on January 12, 2005.
Births:
1790 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mount Everest
1845 - Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian and founder of Dr Barnado’s Homes
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
1938 - Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter
1962 - Pam Shriver, American tennis player
Deaths:
2003 - Barry White, American singer
1806 - A Spanish army repelled the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1811 - Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
1814 - U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeated a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.
1830 - France occupied the North African city of Algiers.
1832 - The German government began curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.
1839 - British naval forces bombarded Dingai on Zhoushan Island in China and then occupied it.
1863 - U.S. Federal troops occupied Vicksburg, MS, and distributed supplies to the citizens.
1865 - William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London.
1892 - Andrew Beard was issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1916 - Adelina and August Van Buren started on the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They started in New York City and arrived in San Diego, CA, on September 12, 1916.
1935 - "Hawaii Call" was broadcast for the first time.
1935 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law. The act authorized labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.
1940 - During World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in France broke diplomatic relations.
1941 - German troops reached the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.
1943 - The battle of Kursk began as German tanks attack the Soviet salient. It was the largest tank battle in history.
1946 - The bikini bathing suit, created by Louis Reard, made its debut during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. Micheline Bernardini wore the two-piece outfit.
1947 - Larry Doby signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in the American League.
1948 - Britain's National Health Service Act went into effect, providing government-financed medical and dental care.
1950 - U.S. forces engaged the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.
1951 - Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented the junction transistor.
1962 - Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1975 - Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title when he defeated Jimmy Connors.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old "exclusionary rule," deciding that evidence seized with defective court warrants could be used against defendants in criminal trials.
1989 - Former U.S. National Security Council aide Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in the Iran-Contra affair. The convictions were later overturned.
1991 - Regulators shut down the Pakistani-managed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in eight countries. The charge was fraud, drug money laundering and illegal infiltration into the U.S. banking system.
1995 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to take antitrust action against Ticketmaster.
1998 - Japan joined U.S. and Russia in space exploration with the launching of the Planet-B probe to Mars.
2000 - Jordanian security agents shot and killed a Syrian hijacker after he threw a grenade that exploded and wounded 15 passengers aboard a Royal Jordanian airliner.
2000 - 10 Bengal tigers, including 7 rare white tigers, died at the Nandankanan Zoo in India. The tigers died of trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).
2000 - Euan Blair, the oldest son of British prime minister Tony Blair, was arrested after police found him drunk and lying on the ground in London's Leicester Square.
2002 - In Algeria, 35 people were killed in violent attacks on the day that the country celebrated its 40 years of independence from France.
2002 - Former Nazi SS officer Friedrich Engel was convicted of 59 counts of murder stemming from massacre of Italian resistance fighters on May 19, 1944.
Births:
1781 - British colonial administrator Sir Stamford Raffles - founder of Singapore
1810 - P.T. Barnum, American circus owner
1853 - South African statesman Cecil Rhodes - founder of Rhodesia
1879 - American tennis player and politician Dwight Davis. Founder of the Davis Cup competition
1946 - Paul Smith, British fashion designer
1980 - Eva Green, French actress
marquis2
2008-07-05, 13:42
A little snippet of useless information-Mt Everest was named after George Everest but we've all been pronouncing it wrongly ever since.He pronounced his name "Eave-rest"
A little snippet of useless information-Mt Everest was named after George Everest but we've all been pronouncing it wrongly ever since.He pronounced his name "Eave-rest"
:hatsoff:thanks for the info
Friday on my mind
2008-07-05, 13:51
1935 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law. The act authorized labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.
A president who acted in the interest of workers,good job FDR!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup:
gunslingingbird
2008-07-06, 02:15
1935 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law. The act authorized labor to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.
A president who acted in the interest of workers,good job FDR!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup:
Unfortunately, the NLRB today acts mostly in the interest of big corporations. That was evident last year when two of the venues where I work were trying to organize, and the NLRB did its damnest to come to the rescue of the parent company, Live Nation/Clearchannel.
1483 - King Richard III of England was crowned.
1535 - Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.
1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA, and deported back to England.
1777 - British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
1854 - In Jackson, MI, the Republican Party held its first convention.
1858 - Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his anti-rabies vaccine. The child used in the test later became the director of the Pasteur Institute.
1893 - In northwest Iowa 71 people were killed by a tornado.
1905 - Fingerprints were exchanged for the first time between officials in Europe and the U.S. The person in question was John Walker.
1917 - During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
1919 - A British dirigible landed in New York at Roosevelt Field. It completed the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1923 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established.
1928 - "The Lights of New York" was previewed in New York's Strand Theatre. It was the first all-talking movie.
1932 - The postage rate for first class mail in the U.S. went from 2-cents to 3-cents.
1933 - The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago. The American League beat the National League 4-2.
1942 - Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.
1944 - A fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Brother, Barnum and Bailey Circus. 169 people died.
1945 - U.S. President Truman signed an order creating the Medal of Freedom.
1945 - Nicaragua became the first nation to formally accept the United Nations Charter.
1947 - "Candid Microphone" began airing on ABC radio.
1948 - Frieda Hennok became the first woman to serve as the commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. She was the first black athlete to win the event.
1966 - Malawi became a republic within the Commonwealth with Dr. Hastings Banda as its first president.
1967 - The Biafran War erupted. The war lasted two-and-a-half years. About 600,000 people died.
1981 - The Dupont Company announced an agreement to purchase Conoco, Inc. (Continental Oil Co.) for $7 billion. At the time it was the largest merger in corporate history.
1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that retirement plans could not pay women smaller monthly payments solely because of their gender.
1983 - Fred Lynn of the California Angels hit the first grand slam in an All-Star game. The American League defeated the National League 13-3.
1985 - Martina Navratilova won her 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title.
1985 - The submarine Nautilus arrived in Groton, Connecticut. The vessel had been towed from Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
1987 - Sikh extremists made their first of three attacks over a two day period. The gunmen attacked a bus loaded with Hindu passengers. Over the two day period a total of 72 people were killed by the extremists.
1988 - 167 North Sea oil workers were killed by explosions and fires that destroyed the Piper Alpha drilling platform.
1988 - Several popular beaches were closed in New York City due to medical waste and other debris began washing up on the seashores.
1989 - The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, TX. The dismantling was under the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
1994 - On Storm King Mountain, in Colorado, 14 firefighters were killed while fighting a several-day-old fire.
1995 - In Los Angeles, the prosecution rested at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
1996 - Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.
1997 - The Mars Pathfinder released Sojourner, a robot rover on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft landed on the red planet on July 4th.
1997 - In Cambodia, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen ousted First Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh and claimed to have the capital under his control.
1998 - Protestants rioted in many parts of Northern Ireland after British authorities blocked an Orange Order march in Portadown.
2000 - In Orlando, FL, the body of Cory Erving was found in his vehicle in a pond near his families home. Julius "Dr. J" Erving had reported his son missing on June 4, 2000.
2000 - A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for the unauthorized use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount.
1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.
1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
1862 - The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.
1865 - Four people were hanged in Washington, DC, after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate U.S. President Lincoln.
1885 - G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1917 - Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia.
1920 - A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, VA.
1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.
1937 - Japanese forces invaded China.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.
1949 - "Dragnet" was first heard on NBC radio.
1950 - The UN Security Council authorized military aid for South Korea.
1969 - Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1983 - Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
1987 - Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began.
1998 - A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery.
1999 - In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation's civil war.
2000 - Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it would buy Netiverse Inc. for $210 million in stock. It was the 13th time Cisco had purchased a company in 2000.
2000 - Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.
2003 - In Liberia, a team of U.S. military experts arrived at the U.S. embassy compound to assess whether to deploy troops as part of a peacekeeping force in the country.
2005 - In London, at least 66 people were killed and at least 700 were injured when several bombs were set off in subway cars and double-decker buses.
Births:
1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor
1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
Deaths:
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A.
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer - creator of Sherlock Holmes
1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.
1608 - The first French settlement at Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.
1663 - King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island.
1693 - Uniforms for police in New York City were authorized.
1709 - Peter the Great defeated Charles XII at Poltava, in the Ukraine, The Swedish empire was effectively ended.
1755 - Britain broke off diplomatic relations with France as their disputes in the New World intensified.
1776 - Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia.
1794 - French troops captured Brussels, Belgium.
1795 - Kent County Free School changed its name to Washington College. It was the first college to be named after U.S. President George Washington. The school was established by an act of the Maryland Assembly in 1723.
1815 - Louis XVIII returned to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon.
1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
1879 - The first ship to use electric lights departed from San Francisco, CA.
1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1919 - U.S. President Wilson returned from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.
1947 - Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
1950 - General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
1953 - Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.
1960 - The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane.
1963 - All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen.
1969 - The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."
1970 - The San Francisco Giant’s Jim Ray Hart became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted (RBI) during a single inning.
1986 - Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
1993 - Charles Keating, chief of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for violating California security and fraud laws.
1997 - The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that the diet-drug combination known as "fen-phen" could cause serious heart and lung damage.
1997 - NATO invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join the alliance in 1999.
2000 - J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.
marquis2
2008-07-08, 15:07
1794 - French troops captured Brussels, Belgium.
In 1794 there was no country of Belgium :-)
historylover
2008-07-08, 18:17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars:_Campaigns_of_1794
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Belgium_before_1830
0118 - Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.
0455 - Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, became Emperor of the West.
1540 - England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
1553 - Maurice of Saxony was mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
1609 - In a letter to the crown, the emperor Rudolf II granted Bohemia freedom of worship.
1755 - General Edward Braddock was killed when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia.
1776 - The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
1789 - In Versailles, the French National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly and began to prepare a French constitution.
1790 - The Swedish navy captured one third of the Russian fleet at the naval battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.
1792 - S.L. Mitchell of Columbia College in New York City became the first Professor of Agriculture.
1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker.
1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain.
1847 - A 10-hour work day was established for workers in the state of New Hampshire.
1850 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor died in office at the age of 55. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Taylor had only served 16 months.
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel.
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.
1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe.
1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act of the British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
1910 - W.R. Brookins became the first to fly an airplane a mile in the air.
1918 - 101 people were killed when an inbound local train collided with an outbound express in Nashville, TN.
1922 - Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 meters freestyle in less than a minute.
1935 - Norman Bright ran the two mile event in the record time of 9 minutes, 13.2 seconds at a meet in New York City.
1943 - American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily.
1947 - The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
1951 - U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.
1953 - New York Airways began the first commuter passenger service by helicopter.
1968 - The first All-Star baseball game to be played indoors took place at the Astrodome in Houston, TX.
1971 - The United States turned over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units.
1982 - A Pan Am Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, LA, all 146 people aboard and eight people on the ground were killed.
1985 - Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals was named the Most Valuable Player in the United States Football League (USFL).
1985 - Joe Namath, signed a five-year pact with ABC-TV to provide commentary for "Monday Night Football".
1997 - Mike Tyson was banned from the boxing ring and fined $3 million for biting the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield.
2005 - Danny Way, a daredevil skateboarder, rolled down a large ramp and jumped across the Great Wall of China. He was the first person to clear the wall without motorized aid.
Births:
1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist
1938 - Brian Dennehy, American actor
1946 - Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC)
1947 - O.J. Simpson, American football player and actor
1956 - Tom Hanks, American actor
1957 - Kelly McGillis, American actress
Deaths:
1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor of disposable razor blade
2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor
1609 - The Catholic states in Germany set up a league under the leadership of Maximillian of Bavaria.
1679 - The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
1747 - Persian ruler Nadir Shah was assassinated at Fathabad in Persia.
1776 - The statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City.
1778 - In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declared war on England.
1821 - U.S. troops took possession of Florida. The territory was sold by Spain.
1832 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1866 - Edison P. Clark patented his indelible pencil.
1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state to join the United States.
1900 - ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
1913 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was hand delivered to the U.S. Senate by President Wilson.
1925 - The official news agency of the Soviet Union, TASS, was established.
1928 - George Eastman first demonstrated color motion pictures.
1929 - The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the small size.
1938 - Howard Hughes completed a 91 hour flight around the world.
1940 - The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.
1943 - Arthur Ashe, the first African-American inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was born. He had won 33 career titles.
1949 - The first practical rectangular television was presented. The picture tube measured 12 by 16 and sold for $12.
1951 - Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights as Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown.
1953 - American forces withdraw from Pork Chop Hill in Korea after heavy fighting.
1962 - The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between Europe and the U.S.
1962 - Fred Baldasare swam the English Channel underwater. It was a 42 miles and took 18 hours.
1969 - The National League was divided up into two baseball divisions.
1973 - Britain granted the Bahamas their independence after three centuries of British colonial rule.
1984 - Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden, of the New York Mets, became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. He was 19 years, 7 months, and 24 days old.
1985 - Coca-Cola resumed selling the old formula of Coke, it was renamed "Coca-Cola Classic." It was also announced that they would continue to sell "New" Coke.
1989 - Mel Blanc, the "man of a thousand voices," died at age 81. He was known for such cartoon characters as Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev won re-election as the leader of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.
1991 - U.S. President Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" toward racial equality.
1992 - In Miami, a federal judge sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to 40 years in prison. He was convicted of drug and racketeering charges.
1992 - In New York, a jury found Pan Am responsible for allowing a terrorist to destroy Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 people.
1993 - Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki became the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes.
1997 - NATO forces captured one Serb war crimes suspect and killed another in a warning to Bosnia's most wanted.
1997 - Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an "African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1998 - The World Bank approved a $700 million loan to Thailand.
1998 - The U.S. military delivered the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie to his family in St. Louis. He had been placed in Arlington Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown in 1984. His identity had been confirmed with DNA tests.
1998 - The Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who said they had been molested by a priest.
1999 - The heads of six African nations that had troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a cease-fire agreement that would end the civil war in that nation.
2000 - A pipeline explosion in southern Nigeria killed about 250 villagers.
2000 - A woman was sentenced to nine years in prison for allowing three men to have sex with her 13-year-old daughter. The men involved were sentenced from six to seven years in prison.
2000 - Justin Pierce commited suicide the day before the premiere of his last movie "Pigeonholed."
2000 - Jean-Claude Van Damme was given three years probation and fined $1,200 for drunk driving and driving without a license. Van Damme had been arrested after he crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a restaurant on September 23, 1999.
2002 - Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" sold for $76.2 million at Sotheby's.
Births:
1908 - American food manufacturer Henry John Heinz
1921 - Jake LaMotta, (The Raging Bull) American boxer
1943 - American tennis player Arthur Ashe - the first black player to become men's champion at Wimbledon
1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
1970 - John Simm, British actor
1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
Deaths:
138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor
1977 - English snooker player Joe Davis, 15 times winner of the world championship
1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (voiced Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Barney Rubble, etc.)
Today in
Sports History
1943 - Arthur Ashe, the first African-American inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was born. He had won 33 career titles.
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights as Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown.
1969 - The National League was divided up into two baseball divisions.
1984 - Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden (New York Mets) became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. He was 19 years, 7 months, and 24 days old.
1993 - Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki became the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes.
1999 - The U.S. Women's soccer team defeated China to win the 1999 World Cup tournament.
1940 - The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.
Here's to the courage and fortitude of the British people and the RAF :hatsoff:
:hatsoff:bodie replys in the unread thread
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Thanks as always for the today in history post, always a good read!
bodie replys in the unread thread
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I read it most days. It's a great thread :)
(July 7) 1865 - Four people were hanged in Washington, DC, after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate U.S. President Lincoln.
One of the four was Mary Surratt, the first woman to be hanged by the U.S. government.
gunslingingbird
2008-07-10, 15:53
:hatsoff:bodie replys in the unread thread
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I read your thread every day! I don't know how many other people do, but you have at least one loyal follower right here.
apologies gsb no offence:thumbsup:
BlueBalls
2008-07-10, 15:57
The only fact I know about today is that 50 years ago the first parking meter was installed.
historylover
2008-07-10, 18:10
I read your thread every day! I don't know how many other people do, but you have at least one loyal follower right here.
So do I!
1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
1533 - Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
1708 - The French were defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.
1742 - A papal decree was issued condemning the disciplining actions of the Jesuits in China.
1786 - Morocco agreed to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000.
1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by "An Act for Establishing a Marine Corps" passed by the U.S. Congress. The act also created the U.S. Marine Band. The Marines were first commissioned by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775.
1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.
1864 - In the U.S., Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an invasion of Washington, DC. They turned back the next day.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.
1918 - Enrico Caruso recorded "Over There" written by George M. Cohan.
1934 - The first appointments to the newly created Federal Communications Commission were made.
1934 - U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first American chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal while in office.
1955 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated in Colorado Springs, CO, at Lowry Air Base.
1960 - In Honolulu, HI, the first tournament held outside the continental U.S., sanctioned by the U.S. Golf Association, began.
1962 - The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the Telstar I satellite.
1972 - U.S. forces broke the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam.
1977 - The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony.
1978 - 216 people were killed when a tanker truck overfilled with propylene gas exploded on a coastal highway south of Tarragona, Spain.
1979 - The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth. It burned up in the atmosphere and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the release of hostage Richard Queen due to illness. Queen was flown to Zurich, Switzerland. Queen had been taken hostage with 62 other Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
1985 - Dr. H. Harlan Stone announced that he had used zippers for stitches on 28 patients. The zippers were used when he thought he may have to re-operate.
1985 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first major league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career.
1987 - Bo Jackson signed a contract to play football for the L.A. Raiders for 5 years. He was also continued to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals.
1994 - Shawn Eckardt was sentenced in Portland, OR, to 18 months in prison for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1995 - Full diplomatic relations were established between the United States and Vietnam.
1998 - U.S. Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest near his Missouri home. He had been positively identified from his remains that had been enshrined in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, VA.
1999 - A U.S. Air Force jet flew over the Antarctic and dropped off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nelson after she had discovered a lump in her breast. Nelso was at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center.
2000 - Comedian Jimmy Walker was cited for failing to maintain his lane after his car collided with another vehicle.
2000 - Arkansas Judge Leon Johnson announced that he would preside over the disbarment case against U.S. President Clinton. Several other judges had stepped aside from the case citing the appearance of conflict of interest.
2000 - The video "Jaws," the Anniversary Collector's Edition, was released.
2000 - Liam Neeson broke his pelvis after hitting a deer with his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Births:
1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian born actor
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
1953 - Leon Spinks, American heavyweight boxer
1959 - Richie Sambora, American musician (Bon Jovi)
1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
Deaths:
1937 - George Gershwin, American composer
1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor
BlueBalls
2008-07-11, 13:36
2000 - Liam Neeson broke his pelvis after hitting a deer with his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
I hope someone close by shouted WANKAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
1096 - Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Sofia, Bulgaria. There they met their Byzantine escort, which brought them safely the rest of the way to Constantinople. by August 1.
1543 - England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
1690 - Protestant forces led by William of Orange defeated the Roman Catholic army of James II.
1691 - William III defeated the allied Irish and French armies at the Battle of Aughrim, Ireland.
1790 - The French Assembly approved a Civil Constitution providing for the election of priests and bishops.
1806 - The Confederation of the Rhine was established in Germany.
1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln witnessed the battle where Union forces repelled Jubal Early's army on the outskirts of Washington, DC.
1912 - The first foreign-made film to premiere in America, "Queen Elizabeth", was shown.
1931 - A major league baseball record for doubles was set as the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs combined for a total of 23.
1933 - A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour was established in the U.S.
1941 - Moscow was bombed by the German Luftwaffe for the first time.
1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" was heard on ABC radio for the first time.
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
1954 - The Major League Baseball Players Association was organized in Cleveland, OH.
1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1960 - The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale.
1974 - John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
1982 - "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" broke all box-office records by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket sales in the first 31 days of its opening.
1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
1984 - Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
1990 - Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation from the the Soviet Communist Party.
1993 - 196 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter Scale struck northern Japan.
1998 - In Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, three young brothers were burned to death in an arson attack while they slept.
1998 - 1.7 billion people watched soccer's World Cup finals between France and Brazil. France won 3-0.
1999 - Walt Disney Co. announced that it was merging all of its Internet operations together with Infoseek into Go.com.
2000 - Russia launched the Zvezda after two years of delays. The module was built to be the living quarters for the International Space Station (ISS.)
2000 - A car bomb exploded in central Madrid injuring nine people. The attack was blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA.
2000 - The movie "X-Men" premiered in New York.
Births:
100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter
1895 - American composer Oscar Hammerstein. (Combines with Richard Rodgers to write The Desert Song; South Pacific and Sound Of Music).
1937 - Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
1951 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress
1976 - Anna Friel, British actress
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
Deaths:
1859 - Scottish writer and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson
1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and pioneer pilot and co-founder of Rolls-Royce cars
1973 - Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor
1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.
1534 - The Ottoman armies captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.
1558 - Led by the court of Egmont, the Spanish army defeated the French at Gravelines, France.
1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
1643 - In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.
1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.
1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
1793 - French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday. She was executed four days later.
1812 - The first pawnbroking ordinance was passed in New York City.
1832 - Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.
1835 - John Ruggles received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 previous patents were not numbered.
1863 - Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.
1875 - David Brown patented the first cash-carrier system.
1878 - The Congress of Berlin divided the Balkans among European powers.
1896 - Philadelphia’s Ed Delahanty became the second major league player to hit four home runs in a single game.
1931 - A major German financial institution, Danabank, failed. This led to the closing of all banks in Germany until August 5.
1941 - Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that provided the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviet Union.
1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.
1967 - Race-related rioting broke out in Newark, NJ. At the end of four days of violence 27 people had been killed.
1971 - The Army of Morocco executed ten leaders accused of leading a revolt.
1972 - Carroll Rosenbloom (owner of the Baltimore Colts) and Robert Irsay (owner of the Los Angeles Rams) traded teams.
1973 - David Bedford set a new world record in the 10,000-meter race in London. His time was 27 minutes, 31 seconds.
1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
1979 - A 45-hour siege began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Four Palestinian guerrillas killed two security men and seized 20 hostages.
1982 - The All-Star Game was played outside the United States for the first time. They played in Montreal, Canada.
1984 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and was left comatose. He came out of the coma in June of 2003.
1994 - Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, was sentenced in Portland, OR, to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
1998 - "Image of an Assassination" went on sale. The video documentary is of Abraham Zapruder's home video of U.S. President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.
1998 - Four young cousins in Gallup, NM, died after becoming trapped in a car trunk.
1998 - RealNetworks Inc. rolled out a test version of RealSystem G2. G2 is a streaming video and audio delivery system.
2000 - The United States and Vietnam singed a major trade agreement. The pact still needed to be approved by the U.S. Congress.
2000 - Sprint Corp. and WorldCom canceled their planned merger due to opposition by regulators in the United States and Europe
Births:
1918 - Italian racing driver Alberto Ascari - the first man to win successive world titles in 1952 and 1953
1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor
1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor
1960 - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
Deaths:
1955 - Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Great Britain
1223 - In France, Louis VIII succeeded his father, Philip Augustus.
1430 - Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
1456 - Hungarians defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Belgrade.
1536 - France and Portugal signed the naval treaty of Lyons, which aligned them against Spain.
1789 - French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
1798 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sedition Act. The act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
1868 - Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.
1891 - The primacy of Thomas Edison's lamp patents was upheld in the court decision Electric Light Company vs. U.S. Electric Lighting Company.
1900 - European Allies retook Tientsin, China, from the rebelling Boxers.
1908 - "The Adventures of Dolly" opened at the Union Square Theatre in New York City.
1911 - Harry N. Atwood landed an airplane on the lawn of the White House to accept an award from U.S. President William Taft.
1914 - Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.
1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1940 - A force of German Ju-88 bombers attacked Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete.
1941 - Vichy French Foreign Legionaries signed an armistice in Damascus, which allowed them to join the Free French Foreign Legion.
1945 - American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.
1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was first published.
1951 - The first sports event to be shown in color, on CBS-TV, was the Molly Pitcher Handicap at Oceanport, NJ.
1951 - The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, MO, became the first national park to honor an African American.
1958 - The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.
1965 - The American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, and sent back photographs of the planet.
1966 - In a Chicago dormitory, Richard Speck murdered eight student nurses.
1967 - Eddie Mathews of the Houston Astros hit his 500th career home run.
1968 - Hank Aaron, while with the Atlanta Braves, hit his 500th career home run.
1981 - The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. The game was held on August 9.
1998 - Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of secondhand smoke.
2001 - Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics. It was the first time that the China had been awarded the games.
2003 - Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio
Births:
1910 - William Hanna, American animator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbara
1911 - Terry-Thomas, British actor
1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor (“Jack” in Lost)
Deaths:
1881 – Willian Bonney aka “Billy the Kid”, American outlaw
1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur
1099 - Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders.
1410 - Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic knights at Tannenburg, Prussia.
1685 - The Duke of Monmouth was executed in Tower Hill in England, after his army was defeated at Sedgemore.
1788 - Louis XVI jailed 12 deputies who protested new judicial reforms.
1789 - The electors of Paris set up a "Commune" to live without the authority of the government.
1806 - Lieutenant Zebulon Pike began his western expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine, near St. Louis, MS.
1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte's representatives met with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.
1834 - Lord Napier of England arrived in Macao, China as the first chief superintendent of trade.
1857 - British women and children were murdered in the second Cawnpore Massacre during the Indian Mutiny.
1863 - Confederate raider Bill Anderson and his Bushwhackers attacked Huntsville, MO, where they stole $45,000 from the local bank.
1870 - Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1876 - George Washington Bradley of St. Louis pitched the first no-hitter in baseball in a 2-0 win over Hartford.
1888 - "Printers’ Ink" was first sold.
1895 - Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stephen Stambulov, was murdered by Macedonian rebels.
1901 - Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike.
1904 - The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles, CA.
1916 - In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co.
1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1922 - The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1940 - Robert Wadlow died at the age of 22. At that time he was 8 feet, 11-1/10 inches tall and weighed 439 pounds.
1942 - The first supply flight from India to China over the 'Hump' was carried to help China's war effort.
1958 - Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958.
1965 - The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars.
1965 - Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg were married.
1968 - ABC-TV premiered "One Life to Live".
1968 - Commercial air travel began between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations."
1973 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels became the first pitcher in two decades to win two no-hitters in a season.
1976 - A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver when they were abducted by three gunmen near Chowchilla, CA. All of the captives escaped unharmed.
1981 - Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in a seduction scene of "The Young and the Restless" on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy.
1985 - Baseball players voted to strike on August 6th if no contract was reached with baseball owners. The strike turned out to be just a one-day interruption.
1997 - Gianni Versace was shot to death by Andrew Phillip Cunanan outside his home in Miami, FL. Cunanan was found dead eight days later.
1999 - Harold Greene received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2002 - John Walker Lindh plead guilty to two felonies. The crimes were supplying services to Afghanistan's former Taliban government and for carrying explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agreed to spend 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
Births:
1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist
1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer
1914 - Hammond Innes, English writer
1946 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer
1952 - Terry O'Quinn, American actor (“Locke” in Lost)
1961 - Forest Whitaker, American actor
1976 - Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model
Deaths:
1940 - Robert Wadlow, American - at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known
1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer
historylover
2008-07-15, 18:25
1099 - Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders.
1685 - The Duke of Monmouth was executed in Tower Hill in England, after his army was defeated at Sedgemore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_%281099%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
Great work as always miniD!
1863 - Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.
The second largest civil inserrection in U.S. history. As best I can recall from history class most of those 1000 were blacks, which might seem ironic, but goes to show just how little enthusiasm there was, in general, to fight for emancipation.
1765 - Prime Minister of England Lord Greenville resigned and was replaced by Lord Rockingham.
1774 - Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed the treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji, ending their six-year war.
1779 - American troops under General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, NY.
1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
1791 - Louis XVI was suspended from office until he agreed to ratify the constitution.
1845 - The New York Yacht Club hosted the first American boating regatta.
1862 - Two Union soldiers and their servant ransacked a house and raped a slave in Sperryville, VA.
1862 - David G. Farragut became the first rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
1875 - The new French constitution was finalized.
1912 - Bradley A. Fiske patented the airplane torpedo.
1918 - Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia.
1926 - The first underwater color photographs appeared in "National Geographic" magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys.
1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to make use of parking meters.
1940 - Adolf Hitler ordered the preparations to begin on the invasion of England, known as Operation Sea Lion.
1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.
1944 - Soviet troops occupied Vilna, Lithuania, in their drive toward Germany.
1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
1950 - The largest crowd in sporting history was 199,854. They watched the Uruguay defeat Brazil in the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," was first published.
1957 - Marine Major John Glenn set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
1964 - Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1970 - The Pittsburgh Pirates played their first game at Three Rivers Stadium.
1973 - Alexander P. Butterfield informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of recorded tapes.
1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.
1985 - The All-Star Game, televised on NBC-TV, was the first program broadcast in stereo by a TV network.
1990 - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale devastated the Philippines, killing over 1600 people.
1999 - The plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were also on board the plane. The body of John Kennedy was found on July 21, 1999.
2004 - Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison for lying about a stock sale. She was also ordered to spend five months confined to her home and fined $30,000. She was allowed to remain free pending her appeal.
2005 - J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter series. The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day of release.
Births:
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer that led the first successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer
1952 - Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police)
1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
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gunslingingbird
2008-07-16, 18:11
The second largest civil inserrection in U.S. history. As best I can recall from history class most of those 1000 were blacks, which might seem ironic, but goes to show just how little enthusiasm there was, in general, to fight for emancipation.
Well, from my understanding of the matter, the people of the north were ok with abolition, but the opposed equal rights. Basically, they were just unhappy about the slave status that people had.
Well, from my understanding of the matter, the people of the north were ok with abolition, but the opposed equal rights. Basically, they were just unhappy about the slave status that people had.
Hey there GSB :hatsoff:
"We're willing to die by the hundreds of thousands to free you but don't even think about living in our neighborhoods or taking our jobs"
That would seem pretty contradictory, no?
Anyway, my answer to your interesting question is fairly long and complex, so I'll pursue it via PM rather than sidetrack the thread.
1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.
1453 - France defeated England at Castillon, France, which ended the 100 Years' War.
1762 - Peter III of Russia was murdered. Catherine II the Great took the throne.
1785 - France limited the importation of goods from Britain.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.
1862 - National cemeteries were authorized by the U.S. government.
1866 - Authorization was given to build a tunnel beneath the Chicago River. The three-year project cost $512,709.
1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
1898 - U.S. troops under General William R. Shafter took Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.
1920 - Sinclair Lewis finished his novel "Main Street".
1941 - The longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games.
1941 - Brigadier General Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The building became known as the Pentagon.
1944 - 232 people were killed when 2 ammunition ships exploded in Port Chicago, CA.
1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that "Hitler had escaped."
1946 - Chinese communists opened a drive against the Nationalist army on the Yangtze River.
1950 - The television show "The Colgate Comedy Hour" debuted featuring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
1954 - The Brooklyn Dodgers made history as the first team with a majority of black players.
1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.
1960 - Francis Gary Powers pled guilty to spying charges in a Moscow court after his U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
1966 - Ho Chi Minh ordered a partial mobilization of North Vietnam forces to defend against American air strikes.
1975 - An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
1979 - Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to Miami in exile.
1981 - Two skywalks suspended from the ceiling over the atrium lobby at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO, collapsed. 114 people were killed. Five years later two design engineers were convicted for their negligence.
1986 - The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history took place when LTV Corporation asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors. LTV Corp. had debts in excess of $4 billion.
1987 - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and rear Admiral John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress at the "Iran-Contra" hearings.
1995 - The Nasdaq composite stock index rose above 1,000 for the first time.
1996 - 230 people were killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed off Long Island, NY.
1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.
1998 - Nicholas II, the last of Romanov czars, was buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
1998 - An entire village was swept away in Papua New Guinea by a 23-foot wave that was triggered by an undersea earthquake. Eight days later the government reported that 1,500 people were dead, 2,000 were missing and thousands were homeless.
1998 - Biologists reported that they had deciphered the genome (genetic map) of the syphilis bacterium.
Births:
1910 - William Hanna, American animator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbara
1911 - Terry-Thomas, British actor
1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor (“Jack” in Lost)
Deaths:
1881 – Willian Bonney aka “Billy the Kid”, American outlaw
1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur
dave_rhino
2008-07-17, 14:46
Births:
1910 - William Hanna, American animator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbara
1911 - Terry-Thomas, British actor
1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor (“Jack” in Lost)
Where are you pasting this from? I can't believe they didn't mention Donald Sutherland!
dave_rhino
2008-07-17, 14:50
Where are you copying it from then? (Copy/paste... Pasting ;))
Friday on my mind
2008-07-18, 08:58
Filling in for MiniD while she vacations.
0064 - The Great Fire of Rome began.
1536 - The authority of the pope was declared void in England.
1743 - "The New York Weekly Journal" published the first half-page newspaper ad.
1789 - Robespierre, a deputy from Arras, France, decided to back the French Revolution.
1812 - Great Britain signed the Treaty of Orebro, making peace with Russia and Sweden.
1830 - Uruguay adopted a liberal constitution.
1872 - The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
1914 - Six planes of the U.S. Army helped to form an aviation division called the Signal Corps.
1927 - Ty Cobb set a major league baseball record by getting his 4,000th career hit. He hit 4,191 before he retired in 1928.
1932 - The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1935 - Ethiopian King Haile Selassie urged his countrymen to fight to the last man against the invading Italian army.
1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
1936 - "The Columbia Workshop" debuted on CBS radio.
1942 - The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.
1944 - U.S. troops captured Saint-Lo, France, ending the battle of the hedgerows.
1944 - Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister due to setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.
1947 - U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
1964 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds hit the only grand slam home run of his career.
1970 - Ron Hunt of the San Francisco Giants was hit by a pitch for the 119th time in his career.
1971 - New Zealand and Australia announced they would pull their troops out of Vietnam.
1984 - A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in San Ysidro, CA. He killed 21 people before being shot dead by police.
1985 - Jack Nicklaus II, at age 23 years old, made his playing debut on the pro golf tour at the Quad Cities Open in Coal Valley, IL.
1994 - In Buenos Aires, a massive car bomb killed 96 people belonging to Argentinean Jewish organizations.
2000 - It was announced that Christopher Reeve would direct and serve as executive producer on the TV movie "Rescuing Jeffrey."
2000 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana. He was stopped for speeding and then failed to pass a sobriety test. Abdul-Jabbar was the leading scorer in National Basketball Association (NBA) history at the time.
2001 - A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days.
Friday on my mind
2008-07-19, 08:55
1525 - The Catholic princes of Germany formed the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.
1553 - Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen.
1788 - Prices plunged on the Paris stock market.
1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
1848 - The Women's Rights Convention took place in Seneca Fall, NY. Bloomers were introduced at the convention.
1870 - France declared war on Prussia.
1909 - The first unassisted triple play in major-league baseball was made by Cleveland Indians shortstop Neal Ball in a game against Boston.
1939 - Dr. Roy P. Scholz became the first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.
1942 - German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures.
1943 - During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.
1960 - Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants became the first pitcher to get a one-hitter in his major league debut.
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
1975 - The Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
1979 - The Marxist Sandinistas seized control of Nicaragua.
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President.
1985 - George Bell won first place in a biggest feet contest with a shoe size of 28-1/2. Bell, at age 26, stood 7 feet 10 inches tall.
1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.
1989 - 112 people were killed when a United Airline DC-10 airplane crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. 184 people did survive the accident.
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President.
Knowing Mondale was going to get crushed by Reagan regardless, the dems had nothing to lose and a minor PR victory to gain by nominating her.
dick van cock
2008-07-19, 09:29
Knowing Mondale was going to get crushed by Reagan regardless, the dems had nothing to lose and a minor PR victory to gain by nominating her.Still, Ferraro stands out --- only because Mondale was unable to recruit a transsexual Jewish negro lesbian from an Indian reservation.
Still, Ferraro stands out --- only because Mondale was unable to recruit a transsexual Jewish negro lesbian from an Indian reservation.
Well yes of course. I'd have included that in my post but figured it was common knowledge :dunno:
Facetious
2008-07-19, 21:51
*Yesterday*
'69 Was the year
It has to do with Ted Kennedy, a woman, a bridge, swimming, a drowning . .
A cover up.
Nice going ! You f'en katholik slickster ! :hatsoff:
How convenient they / we forget :(
Yep !!!
DrMotorcity
2008-07-20, 09:05
July 20, 1969
The Eagle has landed. (http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html)
Friday on my mind
2008-07-20, 09:31
July 20, 1969
The Eagle has landed. (http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html)
Yeah next year its the 40th anniversary,heard to beleive it been that long.One of the greatest achievements in mans history if not the greatest.
Here is the rest of the history for today,MininD should be back tommorow.
1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
1810 - Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1859 - Brooklyn and New York played baseball at Fashion Park Race Course on Long Island, NY. The game marked the first time that admission had been charged for to see a ball game. It cost $.50 to get in and the players on the field did not receive a salary (until 1863).
1861 - The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, VA.
1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed.
1871 - British Columbia joined Confederation as a Canadian province.
1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
1917 - The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
1935 - NBC radio debuted "G-men." The show was later renamed "Gangbusters."
1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
1944 - U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1947 - The National Football League (NFL) ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining.
1951 - Jordan's King Abdullah Ibn Hussein was assassinated in Jerusalem.
1961 - "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opened in London.
1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
1974 - Turkish forces invaded Cyprus.
1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.
1977 - A flash flood hit Johnstown, PA, killing 80 people and causing $350 million worth of damage.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
1984 - Hank Aaron broke Ty Cobb’s record, as he appeared in the 3,034th game of his career.
1985 - Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha." The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL.
1992 - Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia.
1993 - White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster Jr. was found shot to death, a suicide, in a park near Washington, DC.
1997 - Seven people were arrested after New York City police found scores of deaf Mexicans kept in slave-like conditions and forced to peddle trinkets for the smugglers who had brought them to the U.S.
1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.
1733 - John Winthrop was granted the first honorary Doctor of Law Degree in the U.S. The honor was given by Harvard College in Cambridge, MA.
1831 - Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.
1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle.
1873 - Jesse James and his gang pulled off the first train robbery in the U.S. They took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express at Adair, IA.
1925 - The "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes was convicted of violating the state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned.
1930 - The Veterans’ Administration of the United States was established.
1931 - CBS aired the first regularly scheduled program to be simulcast on radio and television. The show featured singer Kate Smith, composer George Gershwin and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker.
1931 - The Reno Race Track inaugurated the daily double in the U.S.
1940 - Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia were annexed by the Soviet Union.
1944 - American forces landed on Guam during World War II.
1947 - Loren MacIver’s portrait of Emmett Kelly as Willie the Clown appeared on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 - The Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title when she won the Women’s National clay-court singles competition.
1958 - The last of "Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts" programs aired on CBS-TV.
1959 - A U.S. District Court judge in New York City ruled that "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" was not a dirty book.
1961 - Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth. He was flying on the Liberty Bell 7.
1968 - Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to make a million dollars in career earnings after he tied for second place at the PGA Championship.
1980 - Draft registration began in the United States for 19 and 20-year-old men.
1987 - Mary Hart, of "Entertainment Tonight", had her legs insured by Lloyd’s of London for $2 million.
1997 - The U.S.S. Constitution, which defended the United States during the War of 1812, set sail under its own power for the first time in 116 years.
1998 - Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, 17, was paralyzed after a fall while practicing for the women's vault competition at the Goodwill Games in New York. Spinal surgery 4 days later failed to restore sensation below her upper chest.
1999 - The missing plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. was found off of the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. The bodies of Kennedy, his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette were found on board. The plane had crashed on July 16, 1999.
2000 - NBC announced that they had found nearly all of Milton Berle's kinescopes. The filmed recordings of Berle's early TV shows had been the subject of a $30 million lawsuit filed by Berle the previous May.
2002 - WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time it was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2004 - White House officials were briefed on the September 11 commission's final report. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to the public the next day.
Births:
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer
1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
1978 - Josh Hartnett, American actor
Deaths:
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet
1967 - Basil Rathbone, English actor
2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor
Facetious
2008-07-22, 10:40
1926 - Babe Ruth proved that he could catch a baseball. In a stunt at Mitchell Field in New York, Ruth, a private in the National Guard, caught a baseball that was dropped from an airplane. The plane was at 250 feet and traveling at about 100 miles-per-hour. As the cowhide hit the leather of Ruth’s glove, the ‘Bambino’ said, “Eeeeeeeooooooowwwwwcccchhh!”
1933 - Aviator Wiley Post ended his first around-the-world flight on this day. Post traveled 15,596 miles in just over a week (7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes). His famous plane was called the Winnie Mae.July 22
1955 - U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C. It was the first time that a Vice President had carried out this task.
1977 - Tony Orlando announced his retirement from show business. Orlando was performing in Cohasset, MA when he said that he had finally decided to call it quits. Orlando had two solo hits in 1961 (Halfway to Paradise and Bless You) and 14 hits with his backup singers (known as Dawn) through the mid-1970s. He also hosted a weekly TV variety show with Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent) from 1974-1976.
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded “absolutely, 100 percent not guilty” to charges he murdered his ex-wife, Nicole and restaurant worker, Ronald Goldman; and the case was assigned to Superior Court Judge Lance A. Ito in Los Angeles.
1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a bill designed to mold the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) into a friendlier, fairer tax collector. Democrat and Republican lawmakers attended the bill-signing ceremony at White House. Now that it’s been a few years, what do you think of this fuzzy, warm IRS?
1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.
1587 - A second English colony was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The colony vanished under mysterious circumstances.
1796 - Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
1798 - The USS Constitution was underway and out to sea for the firs time since being launched on October 21, 1797.
1812 - English troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.
1916 - 10 people were killed when a bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, CA.
1926 - Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field in New York. The ball had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.
1933 - Wiley Post ended his around-the-world flight. He had traveled 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 - John Dillinger was mortally wounded by FBI agents at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL.
1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.
1941 - Plans for the Pentagon were presented to the House Subcommittee on Appropriations.
1946 - 90 people were killed when Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
1955 - U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, DC. It was the first time that a Vice-President had carried out the task.
1965 - "Till Death Us Do Part" debuted on England’s BBC-TV.
1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress.
1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.
1991 - Police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer after finding the remains of 11 victims in his apartment in Milwaukee. Dahmer confessed to 17 murders and was sentenced to life in prison.
1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He was killed by security forces in December 1993.
1998 - Iran tested medium-range missile, capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.
2000 - Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter.
2003 - In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces.
2003 - In Paris, France, a fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower. About 4,000 visitors were evacuated and no injuries were reported.
2004 - The September 11 commission's final report was released. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government." The report was released to White House officials the day before.
Births:
1784 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer
1844 - Rev. William Spooner is born in London . His verbal confusions are later dubbed 'Spoonerisms' such as: 'It is kisstomary to cuss the bride' and 'you hissed my mistery lecture.'
1926 - English actor, film director and novelist Bryan Forbes
1939 - Terence Stamp, English actor
1946 - Danny Glover, American actor
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (The Eagles)
1955 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
Deaths:
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer
1715 - The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
1827 - The first swimming school in the U.S. opened in Boston, MA.
1829 - William Burt patented the typographer, which was the first typewriter.
1877 - The first municipal railroad passenger service began in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1886 - Steve Brodie, a New York saloonkeeper, claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River.
1904 - The ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO.
1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin. The dispute led to World War I.
1938 - The first federal game preserve was approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The area was 2,000 acres in Utah.
1945 - The first passenger train observation car was placed in service by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
1952 - Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I.
1954 - A law is passed that states that "The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to repair, equip, and restore the United States Ship Constitution, as far as may be practicable, to her original appearance, but not for active service, and thereafter to maintain the United States Ship Constitution at Boston, Massachusetts."
1958 - The submarine Nautilus departed from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, under orders to conduct "Operation Sunshine." The mission was to be the first vessel to cross the north pole by ship. The Nautils achieved the goal on August 3, 1958.
1962 - The "Telstar" communications satellite sent the first live TV broadcast to Europe.
1967 - In Detroit, MI, rioting that claimed some 43 lives.
1972 - Eddie Merckx of Belgium won his fourth consecutive Tour de France bicycling competition.
1972 - The U.S. launched Landsat 1 (ERTS-1). It was the first Earth-resources satellite.
1977 - A jury in Washington, DC, convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.
1984 - Miss America, Vanessa Williams, turned in her crown after it had been discovered that nude photos of her had appeared in "Penthouse" magazine. She was the first to resign the title.
1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. They divorced in 1996.
1997 - Police in Miami Beach, FL, found the body of Andrew Cunanan. He was the suspected killer of Gianni Versace.
1998 - U.S. scientists at the University of Hawaii turned out more than 50 "carbon-copy" mice, with a cloning technique.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.
Births:
1888 - Raymond Chandler American crime novelist (creator of the fictional detective 'Philip Marlowe)
1942 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (Moors Murderer)
1947 - David Essex, English singer
1961 - Woody Harrelson, American actor
1965 - Slash, English guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1970 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
Deaths:
1875 - Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (developed the first practical sewing machine and founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company)
1966 - Montgomery Clift, American actor
BlueBalls
2008-07-23, 13:30
No offence MiniD but your happenings are very American oriented surly more stuff happened in the world. You must be getting you onfo from an American website.
Good thread, keep up the good work, I just thought i'd put in my :2 cents:
gunslingingbird
2008-07-23, 13:41
No offence MiniD but your happenings are very American oriented surly more stuff happened in the world. You must be getting you onfo from an American website.
Good thread, keep up the good work, I just thought i'd put in my :2 cents:
I see your point, but remember that history is written by the winners of wars. You're generally not gonna read about WWII from the Japanese point of view because they lost the war. I know that MiniD doesn't just post only about what happened in wars, but, from my understanding of the matter, America is quite involved everywhere, and has a great influence everywhere. I'm not saying that she shouldn't post about happenings in places other than the US, but I'm just giving a possible reason for history being so American-oriented.
Friday on my mind
2008-07-23, 13:45
I see your point, but remember that history is written by the winners of wars. You're generally not gonna read about WWII from the Japanese point of view because they lost the war. I know that MiniD doesn't just post only about what happened in wars, but, from my understanding of the matter, America is quite involved everywhere, and has a great influence everywhere. I'm not saying that she shouldn't post about happenings in places other than the US, but I'm just giving a possible reason for history being so American-oriented.
The site she is using(I posted for her while she was on vacation) is based out of Texas so the american slant is understandable.
BlueBalls
2008-07-23, 13:49
I see your point, but remember that history is written by the winners of wars. You're generally not gonna read about WWII from the Japanese point of view because they lost the war. I know that MiniD doesn't just post only about what happened in wars, but, from my understanding of the matter, America is quite involved everywhere, and has a great influence everywhere. I'm not saying that she shouldn't post about happenings in places other than the US, but I'm just giving a possible reason for history being so American-oriented.
Yeah I see your point but when was the first American won war 1776 or somthing (forgive my lack of knowledge on American history) there is plenty of historic events that happened before that. I think the website being used probably has alot of American events because it is American Im not saying change it, im just pointing out something Ive noticed.
And as FOMM just pointed out, the website is American so theres an obvious leaning towards American issues.
marquis2
2008-07-23, 14:16
Yeah I see your point but when was the first American won war 1776 or somthing (forgive my lack of knowledge on American history) there is plenty of historic events that happened before that. I think the website being used probably has alot of American events because it is American Im not saying change it, im just pointing out something Ive noticed.
And as FOMM just pointed out, the website is American so theres an obvious leaning towards American issues.
One thing is when there is a statement like "the first something or other happened" relates to the US giving the impression it was a world first rather than an American one.
1498 - Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, arrived at the island of Trinidad.
1790 - The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for his process for making potash and pearl ashes. The substance was used in fertilizer.
1792 - The cornerstone of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, PA, was laid. It was the first building to be used only as a U.S. government building.
1919 - Germany's Weimar Constitution was adopted.
1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."
1932 - Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name.
1945 - Pierre Laval of France surrendered to Americans in Austria.
1948 - U.S. President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.
1955 - Marilyn Bell of Toronto, Canada, at age 17, became the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
1961 - The first tie in All-Star Game major league baseball history was recorded when it was stopped in the 9th inning due to rain at Boston's Fenway Park.
1964 - The American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon's surface.
1971 - Men rode in a vehicle on the moon for the first time in a lunar rover vehicle (LRV).
1981 - The seven-week baseball players’ strike came to an end when the players and owners agreed on the issue of free agent compensation.
1989 - A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a videotape reportedly showing the hanged body of American hostage William R. Higgins.
1991 - U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
1995 - The Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire Capital Cities/ABC in a $19 billion deal.
1997 - In New York City, NY, police seized five bombs believed to be bound for terrorist attacks on city subways.
1998 - More than 50 people died in Kashmir due to crossfire between India and Pakistan.
1998 - Nicolas Cage received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - The spacecraft Lunar Prospect crashed into the moon. It was a mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. The craft had been launched on January 6, 1998.
Births:
1883 - Fred Quimby, American film producer (Tom and Jerry cartoons)
1955 - American athlete Ed Moses
1956 - Michael Biehn, American actor
1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor
Deaths:
1886 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer
1964 - Jim Reeves, American singer
1498 - Christopher Columbus landed on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela).
1619 - The first black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, VA.
1774 - Oxygen was isolated from air successfully by chemist Carl Wilhelm and scientist Joseph Priestly.
1779 - Francis Scott Key was born. He was an American composer, attorney, poet, and social worker. He was the composer of the poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" which later became known as the "Star-Spangled Banner."
1790 - The first U.S. census was completed. The population of the 17 states was 3,929,214.
1818 - Maria Mitchell was born. She was the first female professional astronomer and the first women to be elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1819 - Herman Melville was born, the author of "Moby Dick."
1834 - Slavery was outlawed in the British empire with an emancipation bill.
1873 - Andrew S. Hallidie successfully tested a cable car. The design was done for San Francisco, CA.
1876 - Colorado became the 38th state to join the United States.
1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford.
1894 - The first Sino-Japanese War erupted. The dispute was over control of Korea.
1907 - The U.S. Army established an aeronautical division that later became the U.S. Air Force.
1914 - Germany declared war on Russia at the beginning of World War I.
1936 - Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in Berlin.
1943 - Several deaths occurred in a race-related riot in Harlem, New York City.
1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt only lasted two months.
1946 - In the U.S., the Atomic Energy Commission was established.
1953 - The first aluminum-faced building was completed. It was the first of this type in America.
1956 - The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children.
1957 - The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was created by the United States and Canada.
1966 - Fifteen people were shot and killed and 31 others were injured by Charles Joseph Whitman from a tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Whitman was killed in the tower.
1973 - The movie "American Graffiti" opened.
1975 - The Helsinki accords pledged the signatory nations to respect human rights.
1976 - The Seattle Seahawks played their first (preseason) game. The Seahawks lost 27-20 to San Francisco.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds ended his streak of hitting in 44 consecutive games.
1986 - John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal were married.
1986 - Bert Blyleven became only the 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in his career.
1988 - Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" opened.
1991 - Actress Hedy Lamar, 77, was arrested for shoplifting in Florida.
1993 - Reggie Jackson was admitted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1995 - Westinghouse Electric Corporation announced a deal to buy CBS for $5.4 billion.
1998 - The U.S. books and music chain Borders opens its first European outlet with a 40,000-square-foot store on London's Oxford Street.
2006 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro turned over absolute power when he gave his brother Raul authority while he underwent an intestinal surgery.
Births:
10BC - Roman Emperor Claudius. Proclaimed Emperor in AD41 following the murder of Caligula.
1933 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
1965 - Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
Deaths:
1903 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman
gunslingingbird
2008-08-01, 16:26
1774 - Oxygen was isolated from air successfully by chemist Carl Wilhelm and scientist Joseph Priestly.
Ah! That's true, however, Priestly didn't isolate oxygen, he isolated "phlogiston". ;)
1776 - Members of the Continental Congress began adding their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
1782 - George Washington invented the Honorary Badge of Distinction.
1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent.
1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue was opened.
1858 - In Boston and New York City the first mailboxes were installed along streets.
1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
1876 - "Wild Bill" Hickok was killed (shot from behind) while playing poker in Deadwood, SD. Jack McCall was later hanged for the shooting.
1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
1921 - Eight White Sox players were acquitted of throwing the 1919 World Series.
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell died.
1926 - John Barrymore and Mary Astor starred in the first showing of the Vitaphone System. The system was the combining of picture and sound for movies.
1934 - German President Paul von Hindenburg died. His successor was Adolf Hitler.
1938 - Bright yellow baseballs were used in a major league baseball game between the Dodgers and the Cardinals. It was hoped that the balls would be easier to see.
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
1943 - The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy.
1945 - The Allied conference at Potsdam was concluded.
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1974 - John Dean was sentenced to 1-4 years in prison for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
1980 - A bomb exploded in a train station in Bologna, Italy. 85 people were killed.
1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.
1985 - 137 people were killed when a jumbo jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The Delta jet was attempting to land at the time of the crash.
1987 - "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was re-released. The film was 50 years old at the time of its re-release.
1988 - U.S. military investigators concluded that "crew errors" were the cause of the shooting down of an Iranian passenger jet on July 3, 1988.
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.
1995 - China ordered the expulsion of two U.S. Air Force officers. The two were said to have been caught spying on military sights.
1999 - In eastern India, at least 278 people were killed when two trains collided at a station.
Births:
1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (designed Statue of Liberty)
1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (head of Warner Brothers)
1925 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
Deaths:
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist
1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor
1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer
Great job miniD, keep it up! Thank You
1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage would lead him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
1750 - Christopher Dock completed the first book of teaching methods. It was titled "A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management."
1880 - The American Canoe Association was formed at Lake George, NY.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. was founded.
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
1922 - WGY radio in Schenectady, NY, presented the first full-length melodrama on radio. The work was "The Wolf", written by Eugene Walter.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.
1933 - The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.
1936 - The U.S. State Department advised Americans to leave Spain due to the Spanish Civil War.
1936 - Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals.
1943 - Gen. George S. Patton verbally abused and slapped a private. Later, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered him to apologize for the incident.
1949 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed. The league was formed by the merger between the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
1956 - Bedloe's Island had its name changed to Liberty Island.
1958 - The Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The mission was known as "Operation Sunshine."
1979 - "More American Graffiti" was released.
1979 - Johnny Carson, the "Tonight Show" host, was on the cover of the Burbank, CA, telephone directory.
1981 - U.S. traffic controllers with PATCO, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, went on strike. They were fired just as U.S. President Reagan had warned.
1984 - Mary Lou Retton won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
1985 - Mail service returned to a nudist colony in Paradise Lake, FL. Residents promised that they’d wear clothes or stay out of sight when the mailperson came to deliver.
1988 - The Iran-Contra hearings ended. No ties were made between U.S. President Reagan and the Nicaraguan Rebels.
1988 - The Soviet Union released Mathias Rust. He had been taken into custody on May 28, 1987 for landing a plane in Moscow's Red Square.
1989 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers suspended their threat to execute another hostage. It had been reported that the terrorist in Lebanon had hung Lt. Col. William R. Higgins three days before.
1989 - Hashemi Rafsanjani was sworn in as the president of Iran.
1990 - Thousands of Iraqi troops pushed within a few miles of the border of Saudi Arabia. This heightened world concerns that the invasion of Kuwait could spread.
1992 - The U.S. Senate voted to restrict and eventually end the testing of nuclear weapons.
1992 - Russia and Ukraine agreed to put the Black Sea Fleet under joint command. The agreement was to last for three years.
1994 - Arkansas executed three prisoners. It was the first time in 32 years.
1995 - Eyad Ismoil was flown from Jordan to the U.S. to face charges that he had driven the van that blew up in New York's World Trade Center.
2001 - A grand jury indicted Robert Iler on charges that he and two teen-agers robbed two other teen-age boys for $40.
2004 - In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2004 - NASA launched the spacecraft Messenger. The 6 1/2 year journey was planned to arrive at the planet Mercury in March 2011.
Births:
1920 - P. D. James, English novelist
1938 - Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter
1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor
1950 - John Landis, American film director
1979 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model/actress
Deaths:
1881 - American entrepreneur William George Fargo (established Wells, Fargo & Company)
1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."
1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.
1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.
1821 - "The Saturday Evening Post" was published for the first time as a weekly.
1892 - Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, MA. Lizzie, Andrew's daughter, was accused of the killings but was later acquitted.
1914 - Britain declared war on Germany in World War I. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.
1921 - The first radio broadcast of a tennis match occurred. It was in Pittsburgh, PA.
1922 - The death of Alexander Graham Bell, two days earlier, was recognized by AT&T and the Bell Systems by shutting down all of its switchboards and switching stations. The shutdown affected 13 million phones.
1934 - Mel Ott became the first major league baseball player to score six runs in a single game.
1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.
1949 - An earthquake in Ecuador destroyed 50 towns and killed more than 6000 people.
1954 - The uranium rush began in Saskatchewan, Canada.
1956 - William Herz became the first person to race a motorcycle over 200 miles per hour. He was clocked at 210 mph.
1957 - Florence Chadwick set a world record by swimming the English Channel in 6 hours and 7 minutes.
1957 - Juan Fangio won his final auto race and captured the world auto driving championship. It was his the fifth consecutive year to win.
1958 - The first potato flake plant was completed in Grand Forks, ND.
1958 - Billboard Magazine introduced its "Hot 100" chart, which was part popularity and a barometer of the movement of potential hits. The first number one song was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool."
1964 - The bodies of Michael H. Schwerner, James E. Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were found in an earthen dam in Mississippi. The three were civil rights workers. They had disappeared on June 21, 1964.
1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.
1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the Department of Energy.
1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal."
1984 - Carl Lewis won a gold medal in the Los Angeles Olympics.
1984 - Upper Volta, and African republic, changed its name to Burkina Faso.
1985 - Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox achieved his 300th victory.
1985 - Rod Carew of the California angels got his 3,000th major league hit.
1986 - The United States Football League called off its 1986 season. This was after winning only token damges in its antitrust lawsuit against the National Football League.
1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.
1987 - A new 22-cent U.S. stamp honoring noted author William Faulkner, went on sale in Oxford, MS. Faulkner had been fired as postmaster of that same post office in 1924.
1988 - U.S. Rep. Mario Biaggi of New York was sentenced to prison. The conviction included charges of extortion, tax evasion, and acceptance of bribes in relation to the Wedtech scandal. Biaggi was paroled in 1990.
1989 - Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani offered to assist end the hostage crisis in Lebanon.
1990 - The European Community imposed an embargo on oil from Iraq and Kuwait. This was done to protest the Iraqi invasion of the oil-rich Kuwait.
1991 - The Oceanos, a Greek luxury liner, sank off of South Africa's southeast coast. All of the 402 passengers and 179 crewmembers survived.
1992 - Wang Hongwen died of a liver ailment. Hongwen was a member of the radical "Gang of Four". The gang had terrorized China during the Cultural Revolution.
1993 - Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell, Los Angeles police officers were sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for violating Rodney King's civil rights.
1994 - Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs. The border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia was sealed.
1996 - Josia Thugwane won a gold medal after finishing first in the marathon. He became the first black South African to win a gold medal.
1997 - Teamsters began a 15-day strike against UPS (United Parcel Service). The strikers eventually won an increase in full-time positions and defeated a proposed reorganization of the companies pension plan.
Births:
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician
1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
1968 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
Deaths:
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer
Births:
1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man
1930 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut
1952 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer and creator of Band Aid and Live Aid
1961 - Tawny Kitaen, American actress
Deaths:
1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer
1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress
1984 - Richard Burton, British actor
2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor
1861 The federal government levied an income tax for the first time.
1864 Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" as he led his fleet against Mobile Bay, Ala., during the Civil War.
1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1924 The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray made its debut.
1957 "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark, made its network TV debut on ABC.
1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home at age 36. Her death was ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills..
1966 The album "Revolver" by the Beatles was released.
1969 The U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data.
1981 The federal government began firing air traffic controllers who had gone on strike.
1992 Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were later convicted.
2001 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban jailed eight foreign aid workers, including two Americans, for allegedly preaching Christianity.
2002 The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised from the floor of the Atlantic.
Births:
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist (discovered penicillin)
1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress
1917 - Robert Mitchum, American actor
1926 - Frank Finlay, British actor
1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist
1937 - Barbara Windsor, English actress
1972 - Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)
1976 - Melissa George, Australian actress
Deaths:
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)
1987 - Quinn Martin, American television producer
1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated.
1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.
1825 - Bolivia declared independence from Peru.
1879 - The first Australian rules football game to be played at night took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The game was to promote the introduction of electricity to the city of Melbourne.
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time when Auburn State Prison in New York executed convicted murderer William Kemmler.
1890 - Cy Young achieved his first major league victory. He would accumulate 511 in his career.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. Serbia declared war against Germany.
1926 - Gertrude Ederle became the first American woman to swim the English Channel. She was 19 years old at the time. The swim took her 14 1/2 hours.
1926 - Warner Brothers premiered its Vitaphone system in New York. The movie was "Don Juan," starring John Barrymore.
1930 - Joseph Force Crater, a New York Supreme Court Justice, mysteriously disappeared. He was declared legally dead in 1939.
1939 - Dinah Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue radio network.
1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed.
1949 - Chicago White Sox player Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game of his 19-year, major league career.
1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game.
1960 - Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began.
1962 - Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1965 - The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1969 - The first fair ball to be hit completely out of Dodger Stadium occurred. Willie "Pops" Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit the ball 506 feet from home plate.
1981 - Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire.
1981 - Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, GA when he had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself.
1985 - The 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing brought tens of thousands of Japanese and foreigners to Hiroshima.
1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart.
1986 - Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named "James Bond."
1989 - Jaime Paz Zamora was inaugurated as the president of Bolivia.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.
1991 - Harry Reasoner died at the age of 68. He was a newsman for CBS-TV.
1993 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Louis Freeh to be the director of the FBI.
1993 - Morihiro Hosokawa was elected prime minister of Japan.
1994 - Randolph County High School, in Wedowee, AL, was destroyed by fire. The principle's stand against interracial dating had caused much tension in the school.
1995 - Thousands of glowing lanterns were set afloat in rivers in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing.
1996 - NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil.
1997 - Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.
1998 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - The last new episode of Magic Johnson's talk show, "The Magic Hour," aired.
1999 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) got the 500th homerun of his major league career. He also set a record for the fewest at-bats to hit the 500 homerun mark.
1782 George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and noncommissioned officers.
1789 The War Department was established by Congress.
1912 The Progressive Party nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president.
1934 The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the government's attempt to ban the James Joyce novel "Ulysses."
1942 U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
1947 The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a six-man crew 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago.
1957 Oliver Hardy of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy died at age 65.
1959 The United States launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.
1964 Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers to deal with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1971 Apollo 15 returned to Earth after a manned mission to the moon.
1974 French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.
1990 President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard the oil-rich desert kingdom against a possible invasion by Iraq.
1998 Al Qaida set off bombs at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people - including 12 Americans - and injuring more than 5,500.
2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore selected Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman to be the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.
2004 Greg Maddux became the 22nd pitcher in major league history to reach 300 victories as he led the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory over San Francisco.
2005 ABC anchorman Peter Jennings died at age 67.
2005 Seven people in a Russian mini-submarine trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away undersea cables that snarled their vessel.
2007 Barry Bonds became baseball's career home run leader when he hit No. 756 during a home game in San Francisco, passing Hank Aaron's mark
Births:
1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1960 - David Duchovny, American actor
1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
1983 - Tina O'Brien, British actress
Deaths:
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor
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1588 - The Spanish Armada was defeated by the English fleet ending an invasion attempt.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic. The remainder of his life was spent there in exile.
1844 - After the killing of Joseph Smith, Bringham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons.
1866 - African-American explorer Matthew A. Henson was born. Henson, along with Robert Peary and their Eskimo guide, were the first people to reach the North Pole.
1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a "method of preparing autographic stencils for printing."
1899 - The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.
1900 - In Boston, the first Davis Cup series began. The U.S. team defeated Great Britain three matches to zero.
1911 - The number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives was established at 435. There was one member of Congress for every 211,877 residents.
1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain.
1942 - Six Nazi saboteurs were executed in Washington after conviction. Two others were cooperative and received life in prison.
1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by U.S. President Truman.
1945 - During World War II, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
1953 - The U.S. and South Korea initiated a mutual security pact.
1956 - Japan launched an oil tanker that was 780 feet long and weighed 84,730 tons. It was the largest oil tanker in the world.
1963 - The "Great Train Robbery" took place in Britain. A gang of 15 thieves stole 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
1966 - Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial heart pump in a patient.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day.
1978 - The U.S. launched Pioneer Venus II, which carried scientific probes to study the atmosphere of Venus.
1985 - Near Frankfurt, outside the Rhein-Mein U.S. air base, a bomb exploded killing two Americans. The bomb was blamed on the Red Army Faction.
1986 - A car bomb exploded in Beirut, the third in 12 days, killing 17 people.
1988 - It was announced that a cease-fire between Iraq and Iran had begun.
1989 - The space shuttle Columbia took off from Cape Canaveral, FL. The trip was said to be a secret five-day military mission.
1990 - American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia.
1991 - John McCarthy, a British TV producer was released by his Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than five years. A rival group abducted Jerome Leyraud in retaliation and threatened to kill him if any more hostages were released.
1991 - The slain bodies of former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhriar and his chief of staff were found.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council approved North and South Korea for membership.
1992 - The "Dream Team" clinched the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beat Croatia 117-85.
1993 - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Somalia when a land mine detonated underneath their vehicle.
1994 - The first road link between Israel and Jordan opened.
1994 - Representatives from China and Taiwan signed a cooperation agreement.
1995 - Saddam Hussein's two eldest daughters, their husbands, and several senior army officers defected.
1999 - Wade Boggs got his 3,000th hit of his major league baseball career.
2000 - The submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.
1854 Henry David Thoreau published "Walden," which described his experiences living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
1902 Edward VII was crowned king of England following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1936 Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics as the United States took first place in the 400-meter relay.
1969 Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found murdered in Los Angeles; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime.
1974 Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon.
1985 A federal judge in Norfolk, Va., found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union.
1988 President Ronald Reagan nominated Lauro Cavazos to be secretary of education and the first Hispanic to serve in the Cabinet.
1995 Rock musician Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead died at age 53.
2000 Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced it was recalling 6.5 million tires that had been implicated in hundreds of accidents and at least 46 deaths.
2001 President George W. Bush approved federal funding for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.
2002 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th homer, becoming the fourth major leaguer to reach the mark.
Current Birthdays
Gillian Anderson turns 40 years old today.
89 Ralph Houk
Baseball manager
80 Bob Cousy
Basketball Hall of Famer
70 Rod Laver
Tennis Hall of Famer
66 Jack DeJohnette
Jazz drummer
66 David Steinberg
Comedian
65 Ken Norton
Boxing Hall of Famer
64 Sam Elliott
Actor
61 Barbara Mason
R&B singer
51 Melanie Griffith
Actress
50 Amanda Bearse
Actress ("Married...With Children")
49 Kurtis Blow
Rapper
45 Whitney Houston
Singer, actress
44 Brett Hull
Hockey player
44 Hoda Kotb
TV host ("Today")
42 Pat Petersen
Actor
39 Troy Percival
Baseball player
44 Chris Cuomo
TV host ("Good Morning America")
41 Deion Sanders
Athlete, sportscaster
40 Eric Bana
Actor
38 Arion Salazar
Rock musician (Third Eye Blind)
37 Mack 10
Rapper
36 Juanes
Rock singer
36 Liz Vassey
Actress ("CSI")
34 Matt Morris
Baseball player
33 Rhona Mitra
Actress
32 Jessica Capshaw
Actress
31 Chamique Holdsclaw
Basketball player
Historic Birthdays
Jean Piaget
8/9/1896 - 9/17/1980
Swiss psychologist whose work with children contributed immensely to the growth of developmental psychology
(Go to obit.)
90 Izaak Walton
8/9/1593 - 12/15/1683
English biographer and author of "The Compleat Angler"
68 John Dryden
8/9/1631 (O.S.) - 5/1/1700 (O.S.)
English poet, dramatist, and literary critic
48 William Morton
8/9/1819 - 7/15/1868
American dental surgeon who first demonstrated anesthesia
63 Gaston Paris
8/9/1839 - 3/6/1903
French philologist, educator, and writer
83 Janie Porter Barrett
8/9/1865 - 8/27/1948
American welfare worker and educator
82 Leonide Massine
8/9/1896 - 3/15/1979
Russian dancer and choreographer of over 50 ballets
96 P. L. Travers
8/9/1899 - 4/23/1996
Australian-born English writer of the "Mary Poppins" books
83 William Fowler
8/9/1911 - 3/14/1995
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1983)
65 Robert Aldrich
8/9/1918 - 12/5/1983
American motion-picture director
51 Robert Shaw
8/9/1927 - 8/28/1978
English actor, novelist, and playwright
1821 Missouri became the 24th state.
1846 Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution, named after English scientist James Smithson, whose bequest of $500,000 made it possible.
1874 Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.
1885 America's first commercially operated electric streetcar began operation in Baltimore.
1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
1944 American forces overcame Japanese resistance on Guam during World War II.
1949 The National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.
1969 Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
1988 President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans interred by the U.S. government during World War II.
1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female Supreme Court justice.
1994 President Bill Clinton claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
1995 Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" in the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
2003 Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history against the St. Louis Cardinals.
2006 British authorities announced they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the United States.
Current Birthdays
Antonio Banderas turns 48 years old today.
86 Al Alberts
Singer (Four Aces)
85 Rhonda Fleming
Actress
80 Jimmy Dean
Country singer
80 Eddie Fisher
Singer
69 Kate O'Mara
Actress
65 Ronnie Spector
Singer (The Ronettes)
62 James Reynolds
Actor ("Days of Our Lives")
61 Ian Anderson
Rock singer, musician (Jethro Tull)
60 Patti Austin
R&B singer
59 Gene Johnson
Country musician (Diamond Rio)
56 Daniel Hugh Kelly
Actor
49 Rosanna Arquette
Actress
47 Jon Farriss
Rock musician (INXS)
46 Julia Fordham
Rock singer
44 Neneh Cherry
R&B singer
44 Aaron Hall
R&B singer
41 Lorraine Pearson
R&B singer (Five Star)
40 Michael Bivins
Singer, producer
37 Justin Theroux
Actor
36 Angie Harmon
Actress
35 Jennifer Hanson
Country singer
29 JoAnna Garcia
Actress
28 Nikki Bratcher
R&B singer (Divine)
24 Ryan Eggold
Actor ("Dirt")
Historic Birthdays
Herbert Hoover
8/10/1874 - 10/20/1964
31st president of the United States
89 Eugenius Bulgaris
8/10/1716 - 6/10/1806
Greek Orthodox theologian and scholar
83 Jay Cooke
8/10/1821 - 2/18/1905
American financier
67 Charles Keene
8/10/1823 - 1/4/1891
English artist and illustrator for Punch magazine
83 Joseph McKenna
8/10/1843 - 11/21/1926
American Supreme Court justice (1898-1925)
70 Aleksandr Glazunov
8/10/1865 - 3/21/1936
Russian symphonic composer
75 Douglas Stuart Moore
8//1893 - 7/25/1969
American composer of folk operas
52 Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca
8/10/1894 - 8/16/1946
Latvian-born American labor leader
55 Eugene Dennis
8/10/1905 - 1/31/1961
American Communist Party leader and labor organizer
81 Leo Fender
8/10/1909 - 3/21/1991
American inventor and manufacturer of musical instruments
1848 The Oregon Territory was established.
1900 International forces, including U.S. Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
1917 China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression.
1947 Pakistan became independent of British rule.
1951 Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst died at age 88.
1956 German dramatist Bertolt Brecht died at age 58.
1969 British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
1973 U.S. bombing of Cambodia came to a halt.
1980 Workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland - a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.
1980 President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.
1996 The Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
1997 An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 A blackout hit the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.
2006 Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.
2007 The Mattel toy company recalled 18.6 million lead-tainted, Chinese-made toys worldwide.
Current Birthdays
Halle Berry turns 42 years old today.
83 Russell Baker
Newspaper columnist
82 Buddy Greco
Singer
78 Earl Weaver
Baseball Hall of Famer
70 Dash Crofts
Singer (Seals and Crofts)
67 David Crosby
Singer-musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
67 Connie Smith
Country singer
63 Steve Martin
Actor, comedian
62 Antonio Fargas
Actor
62 Larry Graham
Rock singer, musician (Sly and the Family Stone)
62 Susan Saint James
Actress ("Kate and Allie," "McMillan and Wife")
61 Danielle Steel
Author
58 Terry Adams
Rock singer, musician (NRBQ)
58 Gary Larson
Cartoonist ("Far Side")
57 Carl Lumbly
Actor
55 James Horner
Film composer
52 Jackee Harry
Actress
49 Magic Johnson
Basketball Hall of Famer
49 Marcia Gay Harden
Actress
48 Sarah Brightman
Singer
47 Susan Olsen
Actress ("The Brady Bunch")
43 Emmanuelle Beart
Actress
40 Catherine Bell
Actress ("Army Wives," "JAG")
40 Cody McCarver
Country musician (Confederate Railroad)
38 Kevin Cadogan
Rock musician
37 Scott Michael Campbell
Actor
36 Lalanya Masters
Actress
34 Christopher Gorham
Actor ("Ugly Betty")
33 Mike Vrabel
Football player
25 Mila Kunis
Actress ("That 70's Show")
Historic Birthdays
Arthur J. Dempster
American physicist, inventor of the first mass spectrometer
70 Paolo Sarpi
8/14/1552 - 1/14/1623
Venetian patriot and scholar
81 Cosimo III
8/14/1642 - 10/31/1723
Italian - 6th duke of Tuscany
36 Letitia Landon
8/14/1802 - 10/15/1838
English poet and novelist
86 Ernest Thompson Seton
8/14/1860 - 10/23/1946
British/Canadian naturalist and writer; helped found the Boy Scouts of America
77 Ernest Thayer
8/14/1863 - 8/21/1940
American writer; wrote "Casey at the Bat"
65 John Galsworthy
8/14/1867 - 1/31/1933
English Nobel Prize-winning novelist and playwright (1932)
86 Daniel Jackling
8/14/1869 - 3/13/1956
American mining engineer and metallurgist
79 Eduardo Mallea
8/14/1903 - 11/12/1982
Argentine novelist, essayist and short-story writer
85 Pierre Schaeffer
8/14/1910 - 8/19/1995
French composer, acoustician and electronics engineer
77 Max Klein
8/14/1915 - 5/20/1993
American painter; invented "paint by numbers
On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation
On Aug. 25, 1918, Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer and pianist, was born. Following his death on Oct. 14, 1990, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On August 25, 1860, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the presidential election of 1860
On this date in:
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.
1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
1916 The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
1921 The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
1943 U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1975 The album "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen was released.
1981 The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet.
1984 Author Truman Capote was found dead at age 59.
1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the communist country, was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine.
1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.
1998 Former Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell died at age 90.
2003 Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York.
Current Birthdays
Tim Burton turns 50 years old today.
92 Van Johnson
Actor
87 Monty Hall
Game show host ("Let's Make a Deal")
78 Sean Connery
Actor
78 Page Johnson
Actor
77 Regis Philbin
Talk show host ("Live With Regis and Kelly")
75 Wayne Shorter
Jazz saxophonist
75 Tom Skerritt
Actor ("Picket Fences")
72 Hugh Hudson
Director
70 David Canary
Actor
69 John Badham
Director
67 Marshall Brickman
Filmmaker
66 Walter Williams
R&B singer (The O'Jays)
64 Anthony Heald
Actor
62 Rollie Fingers
Baseball Hall of Famer
61 Anne Archer
Actress
59 Henry Paul
Country singer, musician (Outlaws, Blackhawk)
59 John Savage
Actor
59 Gene Simmons
Rock musician (Kiss)
57 Rob Halford
Rock singer (Judas Priest)
56 Geoff Downes
Rock musician (Asia)
54 Elvis Costello
Rock musician
47 Billy Ray Cyrus
Country singer
47 Ally Walker
Actress
46 Vivian Campbell
Rock musician (Def Leppard)
44 Blair Underwood
Actor
44 Joanne Whalley
Actress
42 Albert Belle
Baseball player
42 Terminator X
Rap DJ (Public Enemy)
41 Jeff Tweedy
Rock singer (Wilco)
40 David Alan Basche
Actor ("United 93")
40 Rachael Ray
TV chef
39 Cameron Mathison
Actor ("All My Children")
38 Robert Horry
Basketball player
38 Jo Dee Messina
Country singer
38 Claudia Schiffer
Model
37 Brice Long
Country singer
36 Marvin Harrison
Football player
34 Eric Millegan
Actor ("Bones")
30 Kel Mitchell
Actor
27 Rachel Bilson
Actress ("The O.C.")
14 Josh Flitter
Actor ("License to Wed," "Nancy Drew
Historic Birthdays
79 George Wallace
8/25/1919 - 9/13/1998
American four-time governor of Alabama and 1968 third-party candidate
60 Walt Kelly
8/25/1913 - 10/18/1973
American creator of the comic strip "Pogo"
81 Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
8/25/1900 - 11/22/1981
German-born English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1953)
84 Sean O'Kelly
8/25/1882 - 11/23/1966
Irish president (1945-59) and leader of the Sinn Fein Party
77 Arthur Hinsley
8/25/1865 - 3/17/1943
English Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Westminster
45 Bill Nye
8/25/1850 - 2/22/1896
American journalist and humorist
40 Louis II ("mad king Ludwig")
8/25/1845 - 6/13/1886
German king of Bavaria (1864-86)
64 Allan Pinkerton
8/25/1819 - 7/1/1884
Scottish-born American founder of the Pinkerton detective agency
53 Ivan lV
8/25/1530 - 3/18/1584
Russian tsar remembered as "Ivan the Terrible"
30 B.C. - Cleopatra, the seventh queen of Egypt, committed suicide.
1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow.
1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York.
1682 - William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.
1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.
1806 - New York City's second daily newspaper, the "Daily Advertiser," was published for the last time.
1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1918 - Fanny Dora Kaplan fired three shots at Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in an assassination attempt.
1928 - The Independence of India League was established in India.
1941 - During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union.
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.
1951 - The Philippines and the United States signed a defense pact.
1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany.
1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation.
1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.
1979 - Hurricane David hit the Caribbean island of Dominica. The hurricane took 1,100 lives in its journey through the Caribbean and the eastern U.S. seaboard.
1982 - P.L.O. leader Yasir Arafat left Beirut for Greece.
1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.
1984 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the first time. On the voyage three communications satellites were deployed.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
1989 - Leona Helmsley was found guilty of income tax evasion by a New York federal jury.
1991 - The Soviet republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence.
1992 - 15 people were killed and 31 injured in a Sarajevo market when an artillery shell exploded.
1993 - On CBS-TV "The Late Show with David Letterman" premiered.
1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.
1994 - The largest U.S. defense contractor was created when the Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to a merger.
1996 - An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped.
1999 - The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4.
Current Birthdays
Cameron Diaz turns 36 years old today.
89 Kitty Wells
Country singer
81 Bill Daily
Actor ("I Dream of Jeannie," "The Bob Newhart Show")
69 Elizabeth Ashley
Actress
67 Ben Jones
Actor
65 R. Crumb
Cartoonist ("Fritz the Cat")
65 Jean-Claude Killy
Skier
61 Peggy Lipton
Actress ("The Mod Squad")
60 Lewis Black
Comedian ("The Daily Show")
57 Timothy Bottoms
Actor
55 Robert Parish
Basketball Hall of Famer
54 David Paymer
Actor
51 Gerald Albright
Jazz saxophonist
45 Michael Chiklis
Actor ("The Shield")
44 Robert Clivilles
Music producer
42 Michael Michele
Actress
40 Geoff Firebaugh
Country musician
37 Sherrie Austin
Country singer
35 Leon Caffrey
Rock musician (Space)
35 Lisa Ling
TV personality
34 Aaron Barrett
Rock musician (Reel Big Fish)
33 Rich Cronin
Singer (LFO)
31 Shaun Alexander
Football player
30 Matt Taul
Rock musician (Tantric)
26 Andy Roddick
Tennis player
22 Ryan Ross
Rock musician (Panic at the Disco)
21 Cameron Finley
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Shirley Booth
8/30/1898 - 10/16/1992
American stage, screen, radio, and television actress
77 Jacques-Louis David
8/30/1748 - 12/29/1825
French Neoclassicist painter
53 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8/30/1797 - 2/1/1851
English novelist; wrote "Frankenstein"
58 Jacobus Hoff
8/30/1852 - 3/1/1911
Dutch/German first winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry (1901)
66 Ernest Rutherford
8/30/1871 - 10/19/1937
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1908)
42 Huey Long
8/30/1893 - 9/10/1935
American senator (1932-5) and powerful governor (1928-32) of Louisiana
86 Raymond Massey
8/30/1896 - 7/29/1983
Canadian-American actor, director and producer
68 John Gunther
8/30/1901 - 5/29/1970
American journalist and author
83 Fred MacMurray
8/30/1908 - 11/5/1991
American motion-picture and television actor
84 E. M. Purcell
8/30/1912 - 3/7/1997
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1952)
78 Sir Richard Stone
8/30/1913 - 12/6/1991
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1984)
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On August 30th, 1923, Turkish Army defeated British, French, Italian and Greek Army and won the ultimate victory of the Turkish Indepence War which was the first war against imperialism and imperialism lost, encourages many nations for their independence.
1823 - Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero.
1852 - The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of the U.S. Congress.
1881 - The first tennis championships in the U.S. were played.
1886 - 110 people were killed when an earthquake struck Charleston, SC.
1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
1888 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nicholls was found murdered in London. The murder is generally accepted as the first "Jack the Ripper" crime.
1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
1935 - The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1940 - Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were married.
1941 - The radio program "The Great Gildersleeve" made its debut on NBC.
1946 - Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year.
1950 - Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game off of four different pitchers.
1954 - 70 people were killed when Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern coast of the U.S.
1959 - Sandy Koufax set a National League record by striking out 18 batters.
1962 - The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth.
1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.
1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1969 - The boxer Rocky Marciano died in an airplane crash in Iowa.
1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.
1981 - The 30-year contract between Milton Berle and NBC-TV expired.
1985 - The "Night Stalker" killer, Richard Ramirez, was captured by residents in Los Angeles, CA.
1986 - 82 people were killed when a small private plane collided with a Aeromexico DC-9 over Cerritos, CA.
1986 - The Admiral Nakhimov, a Soviet passenger ship, collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea. 448 people were killed when both ships sank.
1988 - A Delta Boeing 727 crashed during takeoff at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas. Fourteen people were killed in the accident that was later blamed on the crew's failure to set the wing flaps in their proper position.
1989 - Jim Bakker had an apparent breakdown in his attorney's office. This interrupted the fraud and conspiracy trial the PTL founder was undergoing.
1989 - Great Britain's Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old.
1990 - U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf.
1990 - East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.
1991 - Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to secede.
1991 - In a "Solidarity Day" protest hundreds of thousands of union members marched in Washington, DC.
1992 - Randy Weaver, a white separatist, surrendered to authorities after an 11 day siege at his cabin in Naples, ID.
1993 - Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania.
1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
1994 - Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century.
1995 - Judge Lance Ito ruled that only two tapes of racist comments by Mark Fuhrman could be played in the trial of O.J. Simpson.
1996 - Nadine Lockwoods body was found in her family's apartment by New York City police. The four-year-old girl had been starved to death.
1997 - Princess Diana of Wales died at age 36 in a car crash in Paris. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur were also killed.
1998 - A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known target.
1998 - U.S. embassies in Ghana and Togo were closed indefinitely because of security threats.
1998 - An explosion in a market in Algiers, Algeria killed at least 17 and wounded approximately 60.
1998 - "Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million.
1999 - At least 69 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed just after take off in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, of England, was born in Greenwich.
1812 - Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I at the battle of Borodino.
1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.
1822 - Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1860 - American painter Anna Mary (Robertson Moses) was born in New York. Today it is known as "Grandma Moses Day."
1880 - George Ligowsky was granted a patent for his device that threw clay pigeons for trapshooters.
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.
1896 - A.H. Whiting won the first automobile race held on a racetrack. The race was held in Cranston, RI.
1901 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China ending the Peace of Beijing.
1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.
1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.
1930 - The cartoon "Blondie" made its first appearance in the comic strips.
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1942 - During World War II, the Russian army counter attacked the German troops outside the city of Stalingrad.
1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.
1966 - The final episode of the original "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV.
1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1977 - The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter and General Omar Torrijos Herrera. The treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal's waterway to Panama in the year 2000.
1977 - G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison. He had been incarcerated for more than four years for his involvement in the Watergate conspiracy.
1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.
1984 - American Express Co. issued the first of its Platinum charge cards.
1986 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins threw his 100th career touchdown pass, in only his 44th NFL game, which set a NFL record.
1986 - President Augusto Pinochet survived an assassination attempt made by guerrillas.
1986 - Desmond Tutu was the first black to be installed to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
1989 - Legislation was approved by the U.S. Senate that prohibited discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.
1992 - 28 people African National Congress supporters were killed and 200 were wounded when fired upon by troops in South Africa.
1995 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood announced that he would resign after 27 years in the Senate.
1998 - Mark McGwire set a new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961.
1999 - The White House announced that 12 jailed members of the Puerto Rican independence group Armed Forces of National Liberation had accepted a clemency offer proposed by U.S. President Clinton.
1999 - Viacom Inc. announced that it had plans to buy CBS Corp.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the only the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
Current Birthdays
Michael Emerson turns 54 years old today.
87 Arthur Ferrante
Pianist
84 Daniel Inouye
U.S. senator, D-Hawaii
78 Sonny Rollins
Jazz saxophonist
62 Alfa Anderson
Singer (Chic)
59 Gloria Gaynor
Singer
57 Chrissie Hynde
Rock singer (The Pretenders)
57 Julie Kavner
Actress ("The Simpsons," "Rhoda")
55 Benmont Tench
Rock musician (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
54 Corbin Bernsen
Actor ("L.A. Law")
52 Michael Feinstein
Pianist
51 Margot Chapman
Singer (Starland Vocal Band)
45 W. Earl Brown
Actor ("Deadwood")
42 Toby Jones
Actor
39 Angie Everhart
Model, actress
38 Tom Everett Scott
Actor
38 Chad Sexton
Rock musician (311)
37 Diane Farr
Actress
36 Jason Isringhausen
Baseball player
35 Shannon Elizabeth
Actress
32 Oliver Hudson
Actor
30 Devon Sawa
Actor
21 Evan Rachel Wood
Actress ("Across the Universe")
Historic Birthdays
Grandma Moses
69 Elizabeth I
9/7/1533 - 3/24/1603
English queen (1558-1603)
85 William Butterfield
9/7/1814 - 2/23/1900
English Gothic Revival architect
58 Ferdinand Hayden
9/7/1829 - 12/22/1887
American geologist
75 John Morgan Jr.
9/7/1867 - 3/13/1943
American banker and financier
43 Elinor Wylie
9/7/1885 - 12/16/1928
American poet and novelist
77 Dame Edith Sitwell
9/7/1887 - 12/9/1964
English poet
84 Taylor Caldwell
9/7/1900 - 8/30/1985
American novelist
83 David Packard
9/7/1912 - 3/26/1996
American engineer; cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
76 Sir Anthony Quayle
9/7/1913 - 10/20/1989
English stage and screen actor and director
22 Buddy Holly
9/7/1936 - 2/3/1959
American singer and songwriter
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
Hats off to our courageous brethren in the U.K., who withstood a rain of terror the likes of which the United States has thus far been spared :hatsoff:
1998 - Mark McGwire set a new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961
:ban:
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the only the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.
:ban:
gunslingingbird
2008-09-08, 00:17
1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, of England, was born in Greenwich.
The First? Are you sure it wasn't the current Queen Elizabeth that was born that year? :D
The First? Are you sure it wasn't the current Queen Elizabeth that was born that year? :D
Oh man.....that was cold!
:1orglaugh
I actually think she looks damn good for her age :)
1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL.
1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York.
1866 - The first recorded birth of sextuplets took place in Chicago, IL. The parents were James and Jennie Bushnell.
1892 - An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in "The Youth's Companion."
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was passed by the Legislative Council. It was consented by the governor on September 19 giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1888 - In London, The body of Annie Champman was found. She was the second victim of "Jack The Ripper."
1900 - Galveston, TX, was hit by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.
1934 - A fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast killed 134 people.
1935 - U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later.
1945 - In Washington, DC, a bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time.
1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
1951 - A peace treaty with Japan was signed by 48 other nations in San Francisco, CA.
1952 - The Ernest Hemingway novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was published.
1960 - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, was dedicated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The facility had been activated in July earlier that year.
1966 - NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek" entitled "The Man Trap". The show was canceled on September 2, 1969.
1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated. The opening featured the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass."
1973 - Hank Aaron hit his 709th home run.
1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.
1975 - In Boston, MA, public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1986 - Herschel Walker made his start in the National Football League (NFL) after leaving the New Jersey Generals of the USFL.
1994 - 132 people were killed when A USAir Boeing 737 crashed as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport.
1997 - America Online acquired CompuServe.
1997 - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, OK.
1998 - Mark McGwire, of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit his 62nd home run of the season. He had beaten a record that had stood for 37 years by Roger Maris. McGwire would eventually reach 70 home runs on September 27.
1999 - Russia's Mission Control switched off the Mir space station's central computer and other systems to save energy during a planned six months of unmanned flights.
1999 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno named former U.S. Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation into the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX.
Current Birthdays
Rock singer Aimee Mann turns 48 years old today.
86 Sid Caesar
Comedian ("Your Show of Shows")
70 Sam Nunn
Former U.S. senator, D-Ga.
68 Willie Tyler
Ventriloquist ("Laugh-In")
67 Alan Feinstein
Actor
66 Sal Valentino
Singer (The Beau Brummels)
58 Zachary Richard
Singer
56 Will Lee
Rock musician ("Late Show with David Letterman")
51 Heather Thomas
Actress
48 David Steele
Rock musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
46 Thomas Kretschmann
Actor
44 Marc Gordon
R&B singer (Levert)
43 Darlene Zschech
Gospel singer
38 Neko Case
Singer
38 Latrell Sprewell
Basketball player
37 David Arquette
Actor
37 Martin Freeman
Actor ("The Office")
33 Richard Hughes
Rock musician (Keane)
34 Amani Toomer
Football player
33 Larenz Tate
Actor
31 Nathan Corddry
Actor
27 Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Actor ("Home Improvement")
Historic Birthdays
Claude Pepper
American senator (1936-51) and U.S. representative (1963-89) from Florida; championed help for the elderly
58 Ludovico Ariosto
9/8/1474 - 7/6/1533
Italian poet
59 Marin Mersenne
9/8/1588 - 9/1/1648
French philosopher and theologian
90 Margaret Olivia Sage
9/8/1828 - 11/4/1918
American philanthropist
83 Frederic Mistral
9/8/1830 - 3/25/1914
French Nobel Prize-winning poet (1904 )
62 Antonin Dvorak
9/8/1841 - 5/1/1904
Bohemian composer
71 Jessie Willcox Smith
9/8/1863 - 5/3/1935
American painter and illustrator
63 Robert A. Taft
9/8/1889 - 7/31/1953
American senator from Ohio (1939-53) and powerful Republican Party leader
35 Jimmie Rodgers
9/8/1897 - 5/26/1933
American country and western singer and guitarist
90 Buck Leonard
9/8/1907 - 11/27/1997
American baseball player
30 Patsy Cline
9/8/1932 - 3/5/1963
American country and western singer
1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
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1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.
Gad what a charade that was. A total miscarriage of justice.
:ban:
gunslingingbird
2008-09-09, 23:40
What, nothing historical happened on my birthday? :confused: MiniD? :helpme:
What, nothing historical happened on my birthday? :confused: MiniD? :helpme:
Oooops!
Sorry, my fault!
She asked me to post historical occurrences for September 9th, but I got busy with.....errrrr......other things.
Anyway, here goes:
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. State with Bodie as its first governor.
1943 - The Bodie Expeditionary Forces land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time (as an opening act for Bodie).
2005 - Bodie considers joining Freeones but gets distracted by a "Cops" marathon on TV and doesn't join until October.
2008 - While double teaming Nastia Lukin and Alicia Sacaramone, Bodie forgets to post to the "today in history" thread.
gunslingingbird
2008-09-11, 01:23
Oooops!
Sorry, my fault!
She asked me to post historical occurrences for September 9th, but I got busy with.....errrrr......other things.
Anyway, here goes:
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. State with Bodie as its first governor.
1943 - The Bodie Expeditionary Forces land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time (as an opening act for Bodie).
2005 - Bodie considers joining Freeones but gets distracted by a "Cops" marathon on TV and doesn't join until October.
2008 - While double teaming Nastia Lukin and Alicia Sacaramone, Bodie forgets to post to the "today in history" thread.
:rofl: Thanks bodie! I didn't realize you were such a prominent historical figure! :D
Facetious
2008-09-11, 04:03
A bunch of "little Eichmann" were attacked in NYC -
As per W Churchill - University of Colorado Professor of whatever :dunno:,
A supposed indigenous American :rolleyes:
What, nothing historical happened on my birthday? :confused: MiniD? :helpme:
a 1000 apologies my humble gsb
sept 9th
gsb's birthday
490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle.
1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies."
1836 - Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
1850 - California became the 31st state to join the union.
1898 - In Omaha, NE, Tommy Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first logrolling championship.
1890 - Harland Sanders was born. He was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
1893 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland's wife, Frances Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther. It was the first time a president's child was born in the White House.
1904 - Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York.
1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa.
1919 - The majority of Boston's police force went on strike. The force was made up of 1,500 men.
1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries over Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.
1943 - During World War II Allied forces landed at Taranto and Salerno.
1946 - Ben Alexander hosted "Heart’s Desire" for the first time on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1948 - North Korea became the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
1950 - Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.
1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.
1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization.
1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history.
1971 - Inmates seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, NY. Nine prisoners were held hostage and died along with their 32 captors when the prison was stormed four days later.
1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL).
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died at the age of 82.
1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title.
1983 - The Soviet Union announced that the Korean jetliner the was shot down on September 1, 1983 was not an accident or an error.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record when he reached 15,517 yards.
1986 - Frank Reed was taken hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian kidnappers. The director of a private school in Lebanon was released 44 months later.
1986 - Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films on WTBS in Atlanta, GA.
1986 - Gennadiy Zakharov was indicted by a New York jury on espionage charges. Zakharov was a Soviet United Nations employee.
1987 - Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer aired for the last time on CBS.
1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was captured and killed by rebels.
1993 - Israeli and PLO leaders agreed to recognize each other.
1993 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was buried in his homeland. The event occurred about four years after his death in exile.
1993 - U.S. and Pakistani peacekeepers opened fire on Somalis that were attacking other peacekeepers. About a hundred Somali gunmen and civilians were killed.
1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.
1994 - Los Angeles prosecutors announced that they would not seek the death penalty against O.J. Simpson.
1994 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.
1995 - Amtrak's Broadway Limited service made its final run between New York City, NY and Chicago, IL.
1997 - Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland.
1999 - At least 93 people were killed when a bomb exploded in an apartment building in Moscow, Russia.
1999 - The Sega Dreamcast game system went on sale. By 1:00pm all Toys R Us locations in the U.S. had sold out.
gsb shared his birthday with
Adam Sandler 42
85 Cliff Robertson
Actor
73 Topol
Actor ("Fiddler on the Roof")
66 Inez Foxx
Singer
66 Luther Simmons
R&B singer
63 Dee Dee Sharp
R&B singer
62 Doug Ingle
Rock singer, musician (Iron Butterfly)
61 Freddy Weller
Country singer
59 Joe Theismann
Football player, sportscaster
57 Tom Wopat
Actor ("Dukes of Hazzard")
56 Angela Cartwright
Actress ("The Danny Thomas Show," "Lost in Space")
56 Dave Stewart
Rock musician, producer (Eurythmics)
48 Hugh Grant
Actor
42 David Bennent
Actor
40 Paul Durham
Rock singer (Black Lab)
39 Rachel Hunter
Model
37 Henry Thomas
Actor
36 Goran Visnjic
Actor ("ER")
33 Michael Buble
Singer
31 Maria Rita
Singer
30 Shane Battier
Basketball player
28 Michelle Williams
Actress ("Brokeback Mountain")
and the less fortunate ones who didnt live to see our very own gsbs birthday were
Alfred Landon
9/9/1887 - 10/12/1987
American governor of Kansas (1933-7) and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate (1936)
61 Luigi Galvani
9/9/1737 - 12/4/1798
Italian physician and physicist
63 William Bligh
9/9/1754 - 12/7/1817
English admiral; commanded the HMS Bounty
74 Fremont Lawson
9/9/1850 - 8/19/1925
American newspaper editor and publisher
70 Max Reinhardt
9/9/1873 - 10/31/1943
Austrian stage and screen director
69 James Agate
9/9/1877 - 6/6/1947
English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923-47)
54 James Hilton
9/9/1900 - 12/20/1954
English novelist
80 Granville Hicks
9/9/1901 - 6/18/1982
American critic, novelist and teacher
26 Otis Redding
9/9/1941 - 12/10/1967
American soul singer and songwriter
44 John Curry
9/9/1949 - 4/15/1994
English Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater (1976
a belated many happy returns gsb
am i forgiven?:thumbsup:
a belated many happy returns gsb
from me as well, gsb :hatsoff:
:rofl: Thanks bodie! I didn't realize you were such a prominent historical figure! :D
well.....I don't like to brag, but....
:D
1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed down what is now known as the Hudson River.
1814 - During the War of 1812, the Battle of North Point was fought in Maryland.
1866 - "The Black Crook" opened in New York City. It was the first American burlesque show.
1873 - The first practical typewriter was sold to customers.
1878 - Patent litigation involving the Bell Telephone Company against Western Union Telegraph Company and Elisha Gray began. The issues were over varios telephone patents.
1914 - The first battle of Marne ended when the allied forces stopped the German offensive in France.
1916 - Adelina and August Van Buren finished the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They started in New York City on July 5, 1916.
1918 - During World War I, At the Battle of St. Mihiel, U.S. Army personnel operate tanks for the first time. The tanks were French-built.
1922 - The Episcopal Church removed the word "Obey" from the bride's section of wedding vows.
1928 - Katharine Hepburn made her stage debut in the play "The Czarina." Four years later she made her film debut in "A Bill of Divorcement."
1938 - In a speech, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1940 - The Lascaux paintings were discovered in France. The cave paintings were 17,000 years old and were some of the best examples of art from the Paleolithic period.
1943 - During World War II, Benito Mussolini was taken by German paratroopers from the Italian government that was holding him.
1944 - U.S. Army troops entered Germany, near Trier, for the first time during World War II.
1953 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
1953 - Nikita Krushchev was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1954 - "Lassie" made its television debut on CBS. The last show aired on September 12, 1971.
1963 - The last episode of "Leave it to Beaver" was aired. The show had debuted on October 4, 1957.
1966 - "Family Affair" premiered on CBS television.
1974 - Violence occurred on the opening day of classes in Boston, MA, due opposition to court-ordered school "busing."
1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie was taken out of power by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1977 - South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died at the age of 30. The student leader died while in police custody which triggered an international outcry.
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits and 400 career home runs.
1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini listed four conditions for the release of American hostages taken on November 4, 1979. The conditions were the unfreezing of Iranian assets, the return of the shah’s wealth to Iran, the cancellation of U.S. claims against Iran, and a U.S. pledge of noninterference in Iran’s internal affairs.
1983 - Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen. He had emigrated from Austria 14 years earlier.
1984 - Michael Jordan signed a seven-year contract to play basketball with the Chicago Bulls.
1984 - Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record with his 251st strikeout of the season.
1986 - Joseph Cicippio was kidnapped in Beirut. He was the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut. Cicippio was released in December of 1991.
1986 - The U.S. released Soviet physicist Gennadiy Zakharov and the Soviet Union released journalist Nicholas Daniloff. Both were put into the custody of their respective countries pending their espionage trials.
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert hit Jamaica killing 45 people and causing about $1 billion in damage.
1991 - The space shuttle Discovery took off on a mission to deploy an observatory that was to study the Earth's ozone layer.
1992 - Police in Peru captured Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman.
1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African-American woman in space. She was the payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. Also onboard were Mission Specialist N. Jan Davis and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Mark C. Lee. They were the first married couple to fly together in space. And, Mamoru Mohri became the first Japanese person to fly into space.
1994 - Frank Corder was killed when he crashed a stolen, single-engine Cessna on the South Lawn of the White House.
1995 - Two Americans were killed when their hydrogen balloon was shot down by the Belarussian military during an international race.
Current Birthdays
Joe Pantoliano turns 57 years old today.
88 Irene Dailey
Actress
83 Dickie Moore
Actor ("Our Gang" films)
81 Freddie Jones
Actor
77 Ian Holm
Actor
77 George Jones
Country singer
69 Henry Waxman
U.S. congressman, D-Calif.
68 Linda Gray
Actress ("Dallas")
65 Maria Muldaur
Rock singer
56 Gerry Beckley
Rock musician (America)
56 Neil Peart
Rock musician (Rush)
53 Peter Scolari
Actor ("Newhart," "Bosom Buddies")
52 Sam Brownback
U.S. senator, R-Kansas
51 Rachel Ward
Actress
46 Amy Yasbeck
Actress
43 Norwood Fisher
Rock musician (Fishbone)
42 Darren E. Burrows
Actor
42 Ben Folds
Rock singer, musician (Ben Folds Five)
40 Larry LaLonde
Rock musician (Primus)
38 Josh Hopkins
Actor
35 Paul Walker
Actor
34 Jennifer Nettles
Country singer (Sugarland)
30 Benjamin McKenzie
Actor ("The O.C.")
30 Ruben Studdard
R&B singer ("American Idol")
28 Yao Ming
Basketball player
27 Jennifer Hudson
Singer, actress ("American Idol," "Dreamgirls")
22 Emmy Rossum
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Jesse Owens
9/12/1913 - 3/31/1980
American Olympic medal-winning track and field athlete (1936)
26 Lorenzo de' Medici
9/12/1492 - 5/4/1519
Florentine ruler (1513-9)
52 Francis I
9/12/1494 - 3/31/1547
French king and patron of the arts and scholarship (1515-47)
77 Sir David Macpherson
9/12/1818 - 8/16/1896
Scottish-born American politician and railway builder
84 Richard Gatling
9/12/1818 - 2/26/1903
American inventor
75 H. L. Mencken
9/12/1880 - 1/29/1956
American journalist and critic
83 Maurice Chevalier
9/12/1888 - 1/1/1972
French musical comedy star of stage and screen
91 Alfred Knopf
9/12/1892 - 8/11/1984
American publisher; founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
89 Giuseppe Saragat
9/12/1898 - 6/11/1988
Italian founder of the Socialist Party of Italian Workers
70 Ben Shahn
9/12/1898 - 3/14/1969
American painter and graphic artist
gunslingingbird
2008-09-13, 13:14
a belated many happy returns gsb
from me as well, gsb :hatsoff:
Thank you both! :hatsoff:
am i forgiven?:thumbsup:
Why, soitenly! :thumbsup:
1709 - The creator of the first dictionary of the English language, Samuel Johnson, was born in England.
1759 - The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.
1763 - It was reported, by the Boston Gazette, that the first piano had been built in the United States. The instrument was named the spinet and was made by John Harris.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $191,608.81.
1793 - U.S. President George Washington laid the actual cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810 - Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1830 - The "Tom Thumb", the first locomotive built in America, raced a horse on a nine-mile course. The horse won when the locomotive had some mechanical difficulties.
1850 - The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
1851 - The first issue of "The New York Times" was published.
1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first white woman to ever be named chief of an Indian tribe. The tribe was the Six Nations Tribe at Towanda Reservation in New York.
1895 - Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment.
1927 - Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System made its debut with its network broadcast over 16 radio stations. The name was later changed to CBS.
1940 - "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe was published by Harper and Brothers.
1947 - The U.S. Air Force was established as a separate military branch by the National Security Act.
1955 - The "Ed Sullivan Show" began on CBS-TV. The show had been "The Toast of the Town" since 1948.
1961 - United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
1963 - "The Patty Duke Show" premiered on ABC-TV.
1965 - The first episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" was shown on NBC-TV. The last show was televised on September 1, 1970.
1975 - The FBI captured newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in San Francisco, CA. 19 months earlier she had been kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1981 - A museum honoring former U.S. President Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, MI.
1984 - The 39th session of the U.N. General Assembly was opened with an appeal to the U.S. and Soviet Union to resume arms negotiations.
1990 - Charles H. Keating was jailed in Los Angeles after being indicted on criminal fraud charges concerning saving-and-loans.
1991 - U.S. President Bush said that he would send warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters that were searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if it became necessary.
1994 - Haiti's military leaders agreed to depart on October 15th. This action averted a U.S.-led invasion to force them out of power.
1997 - Ted Turner, U.S. Media magnate, announced that over the next ten years he would give $1 billion to the United Nations.
1998 - 18 people, including adults and children, were massacred by gunmen in el Sauzal, Mexico. The victims were lined up in firing squad style after being dragged from their beds.
1998 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted to release to videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony from August 17.
1998 - The FDA approved a once-a-day easier-to-swallow medication for AIDS patients.
2003 - Robert Duvall received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
BlueBalls
2008-09-18, 17:12
Jimi Hendrix died on this day in 1970.
1777 - The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
1796 - U.S. President Washington's farewell address was published.
1819 - John Keats wrote "Ode to Autumn."
1876 - Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.
1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds from an assassin. The 20th U.S. president lived for 11 weeks after the wounds were inflicted.
1891 - "The Merchant of Venice" was performed for the first time at Manchester.
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was consented to giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 - Bruno Hauptman was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh.
1945 - William Joyce, also known as "Lord Haw-Haw", was sentenced to death by a British court for his role as a Nazi propagandist.
1955 - Eva Marie Saint, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman starred in the "Producer's Showcase" presentation of "Our Town" on NBC-TV.
1955 - Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.
1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.
1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelburne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management.
1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use :-) in an online message.
1983 - Lebanese army units defending Souk el-Gharb were supported in their effort by two U.S. Navy ships off Beirut.
1983 - The final episode of "M*A*S*H" was aired on CBS-TV.
1984 - China and Britain completed a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.
1985 - An earthquake registering 8.1 on the Richter Scale hit the Mexico City area. About 6,000 people were killed.
1986 - U.S. health officials announced that AZT, though an experimental drug, would be made available to AIDS patients.
1988 - Israel successfully launched the Horizon-I test satellite.
1989 - A DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA disappeared while carrying 171 people to Paris. The wreckage of the plane was found the next day in Niger. It was believed a bomb was responsible.
1990 - Iraq began confiscating foreign assets of countries that were imposing sanctions against the Iraqi government.
1992 - The U.N. Security Council recommended suspending Yugoslavia due to its role in the Bosnian civil war.
1994 - U.S. troops entered Haiti peacefully to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - The Unabomber's manifesto was published by The Washington Post and the New York Times.
1995 - The U.S. Senate passed a welfare overhaul bill.
1995 - The commander of American forces in Japan and the U.S. ambassador apologized for the rape of a schoolgirl committed by three U.S. servicemen.
1996 - The government of Guatemala and leftist rebels signed a peace treaty to end their long war.
2002 - In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. U.S. troops landed on September 25th to help move foreigners, including Americans, to safer areas.
2003 - It was reported that AOL Time Warner was going to drop "AOL" from its name and be known as Time Warner Inc. The company had announced its merger and name change on January 10, 2000.
Current Birthdays
James Lipton turns 82 years old today.
88 Roger Angell
Author
82 Duke Snider
Baseball Hall of Famer
81 Harold Brown
Former defense secretary
78 Adam West
Actor ("Batman")
75 David McCallum
Actor
68 Bill Medley
Singer (The Righteous Brothers)
68 Sylvia Tyson
Singer
68 Paul Williams
Singer, actor
65 Joe Morgan
Baseball Hall of Famer, sportscaster
63 David Bromberg
Rock singer
63 Randolph Mantooth
Actor ("Emergency")
63 Freda Payne
R&B singer
61 Lol Creme
Rock musician (10cc)
60 Jeremy Irons
Actor
59 Twiggy Lawson
Actress, model
58 Joan Lunden
TV personality
57 Daniel Lanois
Rock singer, producer
56 Scott Colomby
Actor
56 Nile Rodgers
Musician, producer
53 Rex Smith
Singer, actor
51 Dan Hampton
Football Hall of Famer
50 Kevin Hooks
Actor
49 Carolyn McCormick
Actress
45 Jeff Bates
Country singer
44 Trisha Yearwood
Country singer
43 Cheri Oteri
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
42 Soledad O'Brien
Broadcast journalist
39 Espraronza Griffin
R&B singer
37 Sanaa Lathan
Actress
35 A. Jay Popoff
Rock singer (Lit)
34 Jimmy Fallon
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
32 Carter Oosterhouse
TV personality ("Trading Spaces")
32 Alison Sweeney
Actress
31 Ryan Dusick
Rock musician (Maroon 5)
26 Columbus Short
Actor
25 Eamon
Rapper
24 Kevin Zegers
Actor
21 Danielle Panabaker
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Sir William Golding
9/19/1911 - 6/19/1993
English Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1983)
78 Augustin Pajou
9/19/1730 - 5/8/1809
French sculptor and decorator
95 Charles Carroll
9/19/1737 - 11/14/1832
American patriot leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence
83 George Cadbury
9/19/1839 - 10/24/1922
English social reformer and chocolate manufacturer
73 William Hesketh Lever
9/19/1851 - 5/7/1925
English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm
79 Charles Mauguin
9/19/1878 - 4/25/1958
French mineralogist and crystallographer
73 Bergen Evans
9/19/1904 - 2/4/1978
English lexicographer and educator
77 Leon Jaworski
9/19/1905 - 12/9/1982
American lawyer; Watergate special prosecutor
90 Lewis F. Powell Jr.
9/19/1907 - 8/25/1998
American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1972 -1987)
64 Elizabeth Stern
9/19/1915 - 8/18/1980
Canadian-born American pathologist
1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
1870 - The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops, leading to the unification of Italy.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1884 - The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA.
1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S.
1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. The original premier was delayed in 1939 due to World War II.
1946 - WNBT-TV in New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. Scenes from "The Jolson Story" were shown.
1953 - The TV show "Letter to Loretta" premiered. The name was changed to "The Loretta Young Show" on February 14, 1954.
1953 - Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western "The Six Shooter" on NBC.
1955 - "You'll Never Be Rich" premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to "The Phil Silvers Show."
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest at a New York City department store by an apparently deranged black woman.
1962 - James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
1977 - The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.
1984 - A Hizbulla suicide bomber destroyed the rebuilt U.S. Embassy in Beirut. 25 people were killed.
1984 - "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC-TV.
1985 - A second major earthquake hit Mexico City.
1988 - The United Nations opened it 43rd General Assembly.
1989 - The wreckage of a DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA was found in Niger. The plane disappeared on September 19 with 171 passengers onboard. The Paris-bound plane was believed to have been brought down by a bomb.
1989 - F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa.
1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
1992 - French voters approved the Maastricht Treaty.
1995 - AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies. The three companies were AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR Corp.
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
1999 - Raisa Gorbachev, wife of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorvachev, died of leukemia.
Current Birthdays
Sophia Loren turns 74 years old today.
84 Gogi Grant
Singer
79 Anne Meara
Actress, comedian
61 Chuck Panozzo
Rock musician (Styx)
57 Guy LaFleur
Hockey Hall of Famer
54 Peter White
Jazz guitarist
53 Betsy Brantley
Actress
52 Gary Cole
Actor
48 Deborah Roberts
Broadcast journalist ("20/20")
44 Randy Bradbury
Rock musician (Pennywise)
41 Kristen Johnston
Actress ("3rd Rock From the Sun")
41 Gunnar Nelson
Rock singer (Nelson)
41 Matthew Nelson
Rock singer (Nelson)
40 Ben Shepherd
Rock musician (Soundgarden)
29 Rick Woolstenhulme
Rock musician (Lifehouse)
26 Yung Joc
Rapper
Historic Birthdays
Upton Sinclair
9/20/1878 - 11/25/1968
American novelist and activist
94 Sir Richard Griffith
9/20/1784 - 9/22/1878
Irish geologist and civil engineer
58 Sterling Price
9/20/1809 - 9/29/1867
American governor of Missouri and Confederate general
80 Sir James Dewar
9/20/1842 - 3/27/1923
English chemist and physicist
93 Herbert Putnam
9/20/1861 - 8/14/1955
American librarian; led the Library of Congress (1899-1939)
62 Maxwell Perkins
9/20/1884 - 6/17/1947
American editor
83 Sue Sophia Dauser
9/20/1888 - 3/8/1972
American nurse; oversaw the Navy Nurse Corps in World War II
74 Leo Strauss
9/20/1899 - 10/18/1973
German-born American political philosopher
68 Stevie Smith
9/20/1902 - 3/7/1971
English poet, novelist and short story writer
69 Sid Chaplin
9/20/1916 - 1/11/1986
English novelist and short story writer
Thank miniD great as always!
marquis2
2008-09-20, 15:56
I remember the Phil Silvers show , it was immensely popular in the UK in the 50s.
1792 - The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1784 - "The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser" was published for the first time in Philadelphia. It was the first daily paper in America.
1893 - Frank Duryea took what is believed to be the first gasoline- powered automobile for a test drive. The "horseless carriage" was designed by Frank and Charles Duryea.
1897 - The New York Sun ran the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon.
1931 - Britain went off the gold standard.
1931 - Japanese forces began occupying China's northeast territory of Manchuria.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was first published.
1938 - A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England killing more than 600 people.
1941 - "The Second Mrs. Burton" premiered to the entire CBS Radio Network.
1948 - Milton Berle debuted as the host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC-TV. The show later became "The Milton Berle Show." Berle was the regular host until 1967.
1948 - "Life With Luigi" debuted on CBS Radio.
1949 - Communist leaders proclaimed The People's Republic of China.
1957 - "Perry Mason", the television series, made its debut on CBS-TV. The show was on for 9 years.
1961 - Antonio Abertondo swam the English Channel (in both directions) in 24 hours and 25 minutes.
1964 - Malta gained independence from Britain.
1966 - The Soviet probe Zond 5 returned to Earth. The spacecraft completed the first unmanned round-trip flight to the moon.
1970 - "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV. The game was between the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets. The Browns won 31-21.
1973 - Henry Kissinger was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become 56th Secretary of State. He was the first naturalized citizen to hold the office of Secretary of State.
1976 - Orlando Letelier, former foreign minister for President Salvador Allende of Chili, was killed by a car bomb in Washington, DC.
1981 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1982 - National Football League (NFL) players began a 57-day strike. It was their first regular-season walkout.
1982 - Amin Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon. He was the brother of Bashir Gemayel who was the president-elect when he was assassinated.
1984 - General Motors and the United Auto Workers union reached an agreement that would end the previous six days of spot strikes.
1985 - North and South Korea opened their borders for their family reunion program.
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, SC, causing $8 billion in damage.
1989 - 21 students were killed in Alton, TX, when their bus was in an accident with a truck causing the bus to careen into a water-filled pit.
1991 - Richard L. Worthington finally freed his nine hostages at the end of 18 hours in Sandy, UT. Worthington had killed a nurse before seizing control of a hospital maternity ward.
1993 - Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin announced that he was ousting the Communist-dominated Congress. The action was effectively seizing all state power.
1996 - The board of all-male Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1996 - John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, GA.
1998 - The videotaped grand jury statement that U.S. President Bill Clinton made concerning the Monica Lewinsky case was made public.
Current Birthdays
Leonard Cohen turns 74 years old today.
90 Karl Slover
Actor ("The Wizard of Oz")
77 Larry Hagman
Actor ("I Dream of Jeannie," "Dallas")
73 Henry Gibson
Actor, comedian
67 James Woolsey
Former CIA director
64 Steve Beshear
Governor of Kentucky
64 Fannie Flagg
Author, comedian
61 Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer ("CSI")
61 Don Felder
Rock musician (The Eagles)
61 Stephen King
Author
58 Bill Murray
Actor
54 Philthy Animal
Rock musician (Motorhead)
51 Ethan Coen
Writer, producer
49 Dave Coulier
Actor, comedian ("Full House")
48 David James Elliott
Actor ("JAG")
47 Nancy Travis
Actress
46 Rob Morrow
Actor ("Numb3rs," "Northern Exposure")
43 Cheryl Hines
Actress ("Curb Your Enthusiasm")
42 Mike Richter
Hockey player
41 Faith Hill
Country singer
41 Tyler Stewart
Rock musician (Barenaked Ladies)
40 Dave
Rapper (De La Soul)
40 Ricki Lake
Actress, talk show host
40 Ronna Reeves
Country singer
37 James Lesure
Actor
37 Alfonso Ribeiro
Actor
37 Luke Wilson
Actor
35 Virginia Ruano Pascual
Tennis player
30 Paulo Costanzo
Actor ("Joey")
29 Brian Westbrook
Football player
27 Nicole Richie
TV personality ("The Simple Life")
25 Maggie Grace
Actress ("Lost")
25 Joseph Mazzello
Actor
10 Lorenzo Brino
Actor ("7th Heaven")
10 Nikolas Brino
Actor ("7th Heaven")
Historic Birthdays
Henry Stimson
/21/1867 - 10/20/1950
American statesman; served under five presidents
80 John Loudon McAdam
9/21/1756 - 11/26/1836
Scottish inventor of macadamized road construction
69 Charles Nicolle
9/21/1866 - 2/28/1936
French Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist (1928)
79 H. G. Wells
9/21/1866 - 8/13/1946
English novelist, historian and science fiction writer
59 Gustav Holst
9/21/1874 - 5/25/1934
English composer and teacher
67 Sir Allen Lane
9/21/1902 - 7/7/1970
English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing
63 Westbrook Van Voorhis
9/21/1904 - 7/14/1968
American radio announcer
85 Hans Hartung
9/21/1904 - 12/7/1989
German-born French painter
1656 - An all-female jury heard the case of a woman murdering her child. The jury in Patuxent, MD, voted for acquittal.
1776 - During the Revolutionary War, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British.
1789 - The U.S. Congress authorized the office of Postmaster General.
1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed.
1828 - Shaka, the African ruler and founder of the Zulu kingdom, was murdered by his half-brother Dingane. Shaka's mental illness had begun to compromise his leadership.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
1914 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were killed. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine.
1927 - In Chicago, IL, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight.
1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.
1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.
1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps.
1964 - "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." debuted on NBC-TV.
1966 - The U.S. lunar probe Surveyor 2 crashed into the moon.
1969 - Willie Mays hit his 600th career home run.
1975 - Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. 17 days earlier Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme made an assassination attempt against Ford.
1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the U.N. General Assembly and voiced a new hope for arms control. He also criticized the Soviet Union for arresting U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
1988 - Canada's government apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadian's during World War II. They also promised compensation.
1990 - Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yememin and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh. The Saudi accusations were unspecific.
1991 - An article in the London newspaper "The Mail" revealed that John Cairncross admitted to being the "fifth man" in the Soviet Union's British spy ring.
1992 - The U.N. General Assembly expelled Yugoslavia for its role in the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1993 - 47 people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Mobile, AL.
1994 - The U.S. upgraded its military control in Haiti.
1995 - AWACS plane crashed on takeoff at Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, AK. All 24 of the U.S. and Canadian military personnel were killed.
1996 - Robert Dent, in Australia, became the first person to commit legally assisted suicide under a voluntary euthanasia law. Dent was suffering from terminal cancer.
1998 - The U.S. and Russia signed two agreements. One was to privatize Russia's nuclear program and the other was to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton, addressed the United Nations, and told world leaders to "end all nuclear tests for all time". He then sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty to the U.S. Senate.
1998 - Keely Smith received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Current Birthdays
Opera singer Andrea Bocelli turns 50 years old today.
81 Tommy Lasorda
Hall of Fame baseball manager
74 Lute Olson
Hall of Fame basketball coach
66 David Stern
NBA commissioner
62 King Sunny Ade
Musician
62 Paul Le Mat
Actor
57 David Coverdale
Rock singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
54 Shari Belafonte
Actress
52 Debby Boone
Singer
52 June Forester
Country singer (The Forester Sisters)
51 Nick Cave
Singer
51 Johnette Napolitano
Rock singer (Concrete Blond)
50 Joan Jett
Rock singer-musician
47 Scott Baio
Actor ("Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi")
47 Catherine Oxenberg
Actress ("Dynasty")
46 Rob Stone
Actor
39 Matt Sharp
Rock musician
38 Dave Hernandez
Rock musician (The Shins)
37 Big Rube
R&B singer (Society of Soul)
32 Ronaldo
Soccer player
29 Swin Cash
Basketball player
21 Tom Felton
Actor ("Harry Potter" movies)
Historic Birthdays
John Houseman
9/22/1902 - 10/31/1988
American stage, film and radio actor
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75 Michael Faraday
9/22/1791 - 8/25/1867
English physicist and chemist
78 Caroline Astor
9/22/1830 - 10/30/1908
American aristocratic leader of New York high society
91 Victor Shelford
9/22/1877 - 12/27/1968
American zoologist and animal ecologist
77 Dame Christabel Pankhurst
9/22/1880 - 2/13/1958
English women's suffragist
71 Erich von Stroheim
9/22/1885 - 5/12/1957
Austrian film director, writer and actor
87 Babette Deutsch
9/22/1895 - 11/13/1982
American poet, critic, translator and novelist
71 Paul Muni
9/22/1895 - 8/25/1967
Austrian-born American stage and film actor
66 William Spratling
9/22/1900 - 8/8/1967
American silver designer and architect
95 Charles Huggins
9/22/1901 - 1/12/1997
Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning surgeon and urologist (1966)
58 Eugen Sanger
9/22/1905 - 2/10/1964
German rocket propulsion engineer
63 B.C. - Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.
1642 - The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, MA, was held.
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain was born in Madrid. He was king from 1746 to 1759.
1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!"
1780 - John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British.
1806 - The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reached St. Louis, MO, and ended the trip to the Pacific Northwest.
1838 - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull was born. She became the first female candidate for the U.S. Presidency.
1845 - The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.
1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
1897 - The first recorded traffic fatality in Great Britain occurred. It happened 2 years before the first fatality in the U.S.
1912 - "Keystone Comedy" by Mack Sennett was released.
1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier.
1939 - Sigmund Freud died in London. He was recognized as the founder of psychoanalysis.
1951 - The first transcontinental telecast was received on the west coast. The show "Crusade for Freedom" was broadcast by CBS-TV from New York.
1952 - The first Pay Television sporting event took place. The Marciano-Walcott fight was seen in 49 theaters in 31 cities.
1952 - Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.
1953 - "The Robe" premiered in Hollywood a week after its premiere in New York. The 20th Century Fox movie had been filmed using the Cinemascope wide screen process.
1957 - Nine black students withdrew from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas due to the white mob outside.
1962 - New York's Philharmonic Hall opened. It was the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The hall was later renamed the Avery Fisher Hall.
1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.
1964 - The new ceiling painting of the Paris Opera house was unveiled. The work was done by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall.
1973 - Overthrown Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power. He had been overthrown in 1955. His wife, Eva Duarte, was the subject of the musical "Evita."
1981 - The Reagan administration announced its plans for what became known as Radio Marti.
1986 - Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America.
1990 - Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to attack Israel if any nation tried to force it from Kuwait.
1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.
1993 - The Israeli parliament ratified the Israel-PLO accord.
1993 - Blacks were allowed a role in the South African government after a parliamentary vote.
1998 - Jamie Lee Curtis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Bryan, TX, Lawrence Russell Brewer was sentenced to death for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. John William King was sentenced to die on February 25, 1999.
1999 - A 17-month-old girl fell 230 feet from the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The girl had bruises but no broken limbs from the fall onto a rocky ledge.
1999 - Siegfried & Roy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - Jean-Claude Van Damme was arrested for drunk driving and driving without a license after he crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a restaurant. On July 10, 2000, Van Damme was given three years probation and fined $1,200.
Current Birthdays
Bruce Springsteen turns 59 years old today.
88 Mickey Rooney
Actor
85 Margaret Pellegrini
Actress ("The Wizard of Oz")
65 Julio Iglesias
Singer
65 Marty Schottenheimer
Football cooach
63 Paul Petersen
Actor ("The Donna Reed Show")
61 Mary Kay Place
Actress
53 Leon Taylor
Rock musician (The Ventures)
51 Rosalind Chao
Actress
49 Jason Alexander
Actor ("Seinfeld")
47 Chi McBride
Actor
47 Elizabeth Pena
Actress
46 Don Herron
Country musician (BR549)
44 Erik Todd Dellums
Actor
42 LisaRaye
Actress
38 Ani DiFranco
Rock singer
36 Sarah Bettens
Rock singer (K's Choice)
36 Jermaine Dupri
Rapper, producer
28 Aubrey Dollar
Actress
28 Joba Chamberlain
N.Y. Yankees pitcher
Historic Birthdays
Victoria Clafin Woodhull Martin
9/23/1838 - 6/9/1927
American women's rights advocate
75 Caesar Augustus
9/23/63 BC - 8/19/14 AD
lst Roman emperor
72 William McGuffey
9/23/1800 - 5/4/1873
American educator; published popular elementary school readers
54 Helen Almira Shafer
9/23/1839 - 1/20/1894
American educator; president of Wellesley College (1888-94)
80 Robert Bosch
9/23/1861 - 3/9/1942
German engineer and industrialist
90 Mary Eliza Terrell
9/23/1863 - 7/24/1954
American social activist and civil rights advocate
82 Emmuska Orczy
9/23/1865 - 11/12/1947
Hungarian-born English novelist; wrote "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
85 Walter Lippmann
9/23/1889 - 12/14/1974
American newspaper commentator and author
77 Tom C. Clark
9/23/1899 - 6/13/1977
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
61 Aldo Moro
9/23/1916 - 5/9/1978
Italian five times premier; murdered by terrorists
40 John Coltrane
9/23/1926 - 7/17/1967
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer
1755 - John Marshall was born. He was the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His court was credited with defining the principles of government and the role of the Supreme Court.
1789 - The U.S. Congress passed the First Judiciary Act. The act provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.
1869 - Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
1880 - Sarah Knauss was born. She was the world's oldest person when she died at 119 years old on December 31, 1999.
1915 - "The Lamb," Douglas Fairbanks first film, was shown at the Knickerbocker Theater in New York City, NY.
1929 - The first all-instrument flight took place in New York when Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchell Field.
1933 - "Roses and Drums" was heard on WABC in New York City. It was the first dramatic presentation for radio.
1934 - Babe Ruth played his last game as a New York Yankee player.
1938 - Don Budge became the first tennis player to win all four of the major titles when he won the U.S. Tennis Open. He had already won the Australian Open, the French Open and the British Open.
1948 - Mildred Gillars, known as "Axis Sally", pleaded innocent to charges of treason. She ended up serving 12 years for being a Nazi wartime radio propagandist.
1953 - The discovery of the antibiotic tetracycline was reported.
1955 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO.
1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
1957 - U.S. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.
1960 - The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.
1961 - "The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as "Rocky and His Friends."
1963 - The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty that limited nuclear testing. The treaty was between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.
1968 - "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS-TV.
1968 - "The Mod Squad" premiered on ABC-TV.
1969 - The trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1976 - Patricia Hearst was sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery. An executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter set her free after only 22 months.
1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV. The theme song was sung by Jack Jones and was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox.
1991 - Jack Mann, a British hostage, was set free by Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than two years.
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The children's author is better known as Dr. Seuss.
1994 - Ten Haitians were killed when a firefight erupted between U.S. Marines and a group of armed Haitians in Cap-Haitian.
1995 - Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 - The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 - Gianluigi Assennato, 34, will be tried for one count of stalking and three counts of making terrorist threats towards Andrea Thompson.
1998 - The U.S. Federal Reserve released into circulation $2 billion in new harder-to-counterfeit $20 bills.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush froze the assets of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2003 - Anthony Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 - The USS Crommelin stopped the fishing boat San Jose. The Coast Guard team found 26,000 pounds of cocaine.
Current Birthdays
Nia Vardalos turns 46 years old today.
Actress, screenwriter Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding")
84 Sheila MacRae
Actress
69 Sonny Turner
R&B singer (The Platters)
68 Barbara Allbut
Singer (The Angels)
66 Phyliss "Jiggs" Allbut
Singer (The Angels)
66 Gerry Marsden
Singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
62 Joe Greene
Football Hall of Famer
60 Gordon Clapp
Actor ("NYPD Blue")
56 Joseph Kennedy II
Former U.S. representative, D-Mass.
50 Kevin Sorbo
Actor
46 Cedric Dent
R&B singer (Take 6)
44 Rafael Palmeiro
Baseball player
39 Marty Mitchell
Country musician (Ricochet)
39 Megan Ward
Actress
37 Marty Cintron
Singer-musician (No Mercy)
37 Kevin Millar
Baltimore Orioles first baseman
35 Eddie George
Football player
26 Paul Hamm
Olympic gymnast
20 Kyle Sullivan
Actor
Historic Birthdays
F. Scott Fitzgerald
9/24/1896 - 12/21/1940
American novelist and short story writer
50 Albrecht Wallenstein
9/24/1583 - 2/25/1634
Bohemian statesman and general in the Thirty Years' War
46 Johan de Witt
9/24/1625 - 8/20/1672
Dutch statesman and political leader of Holland (1653-72)
79 John Marshall
9/24/1755 - 7/6/1835
American congressman, secretary of state and 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
66 Mark Hanna
9/24/1837 - 2/15/1904
American industrialist and political kingmaker
81 Sir A. P. Herbert
9/24/1890 - 11/11/1971
English novelist, playwright, poet and politician
88 Stephen Bechtel
9/24/1900 - 3/14/1989
American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp.
88 Severo Ochoa
9/24/1905 - 11/1/1993
Spanish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist (1959)
66 Svetlana Beriosova
9/24/1932 - 11/10/1998
Lithuanian-born prima ballerina
53 Jim Henson
9/24/1936 - 5/16/1990
American puppeteer; creator of the Muppets
1492 - The crew of the Pinta, one of Christopher Columbus' ships, mistakenly thought that they had spotted land.
1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1690 - One of America's earliest newspapers published its first and last edition. The "Publik Occurences Both Foreign and Domestik" was published at the London Coffee House in Boston, MA, by Benjamin Harris.
1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born. He was the inventor and builder of two steam-propelled tractors. They are considered to be the world's first automobiles.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the attack on Montreal.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1847 - During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces led by General Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey Mexico.
1882 - The first major league double header was played. It was between the Worcester and Providence teams.
1890 - The Sequoia National Park was established as a U.S. National Park in Central California.
1890 - Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced.
1897 - Author William Faulkner was born. He is remembered for his works "As I Lay Dying," "Light in August" and "The Sound and the Fury."
1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, CO. The speaking tour was in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1933 - Tom Mix was heard on NBC Radio for the first time. His show ran until June of 1950.
1956 - A transatlantic telephone-cable system began operation between Newfoundland and Scotland.
1957 - 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1973 - The three crewmen of Skylab II landed in the Pacific Ocean after being on the U.S. space laboratory for 59 days.
1978 - 144 people were killed when a private plane and a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided over San Diego, CA.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - 38 Irish nationalist guerillas shot their way out of prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.
1986 - An 1894-S Barber Head dime was bought for $83,000 at a coin auction in California. It is one of a dozen that exist.
1987 - The booty collected from the Wydah, which sunk off Cape Cod in 1717, was auctioned off. The worth was around $400 million.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose an air embargo against Iraq. Cuba was the only dissenting vote.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a worldwide arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all of its warring factions.
1992 - In Orlando, FL, a judge ruled in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley. He had sought a divorce from his biological parents.
1992 - The Mars Observer blasted off on a mission that cost $980 million. The probe has not been heard from since it reached Mars in August of 1993.
1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.
1997 - NBC sportscaster Marv Albert plead guilty to assault and battery of a lover. He was fired from NBC within hours.
1997 - Mark & Brian received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - The death toll due to Hurricane Georges rose to 307 after the storm passed through Caribbean.
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
2002 - In Karachi, Pakistan, seven people were killed and another were wounded by gunmen in the offices of a Christian welfare organization.
2002 - U.S. forces landed in Ivory Coast to aid in the rescue foreigners trapped in a school by fighting between government troops and rebel troops. Rebels had attempted to take over the government on September 19.
Current Birthdays
Will Smith turns 40 years old today.
79 Barbara Walters
TV personality ("The View")
75 Ian Tyson
Folk singer (Ian and Sylvia)
69 Joe Russell
R&B singer (The Persuasions)
65 Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
65 Robert Walden
Actor ("Lou Grant")
64 Michael Douglas
Actor
61 Cheryl Tiegs
Model
59 Mimi Kennedy
Actress
59 Anson Williams
Actor ("Happy Days")
57 Mark Hamill
Actor ("Star Wars")
57 Bob McAdoo
Basketball Hall of Famer
57 Jimmy Sturr
Polka bandleader
56 Colin Friels
Actor
50 Michael Madsen
Actor
47 Heather Locklear
Actress ("Melrose Place," "Spin City")
46 Aida Turturro
Actress ("The Sopranos")
45 Tate Donovan
Actor ("Damages")
42 Jason Flemyng
Actor
43 Scottie Pippen
Basketball player
39 Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress
39 Hal Sparks
Actor ("Queer as Folk")
37 Mike Luce
Rock musician (Drowning Pool)
35 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Actress
33 Matt Hasselbeck
Football player
28 Chris Owen
Actor
28 T.I.
Rapper
27 Rocco Baldelli
Baseball player
27 Lee Norris
Actor
23 Diana Ortiz
Singer (Dream)
17 Emmy Clarke
Actress ("Monk")
Historic Birthdays
William Faulkner
9/25/1897 - 7/6/1962
American Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer (1949)
67 Francesco Borromini
9/25/1599 - 8/2/1667
Italian Baroque architect
75 Claude Perrault
9/25/1613 - 10/9/1688
French physician, architect and engineer
45 Melville Bissell
9/25/1843 - 3/15/1889
American inventor of the carpet sweeper
66 Mark Rothko
9/25/1903 - 2/25/1970
American Abstract Expressionist painter
66 Columbus Iselin
9/25/1904 - 1/5/1971
American oceanographer
76 Red Smith
9/25/1905 - 1/15/1982
American syndicated sports columnist
68 Dmitry Shostakovich
9/25/1906 - 8/9/1975
Russian composer
81 John V. Dodge
9/25/1909 - 4/23/1991
American publishing executive of the Encyclopedia Britannica
50 Glenn Gould
9/25/1932 - 10/4/1982
Canadian pianist
1774 - John Chapman was born. He was better known as Johnny Appleseed. He planted orchards, befriended wild animals, and was considered at great medicine man by Native Americans.
1777 - Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General.
1892 - "The King of Marches" was introduced to the general public.
1908 - Ed Eulbach of the Chicago Cubs became the first baseball player to pitch both games of a doubleheader and win both with shutouts.
1908 - In "The Saturday Evening Post" an ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared.
1914 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.
1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.
1950 - U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict.
1955 - The New York Stock Exchange suffered its worst decline since 1929 when the word was released concerning U.S. President Eisenhower's heart attack.
1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL.
1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS-TV.
1964 - "Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967.
1969 - "The Brady Bunch" series premiered on ABC-TV.
1980 - The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981 - The Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA.
1984 - Britain and China initialed a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong when the Chinese take over ruling the British Colony.
1985 - Shamu was born at Sea World in Orlando, FL. Shamu was the first killer whale to survive being born in captivity.
1986 - The episode of "Dallas" that had Bobby Ewing returning from the dead was aired.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court following the retirement of Warren Burger.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films.
1991 - Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the "Biosphere II." The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies.
1991 - The U.S. Congress heard a plea from Kimberly Bergalis concerning mandatory AIDS testing for health care workers.
1992 - 163 people were killed when a Nigerian military transport crashed shortly after takeoff.
1993 - The eight people who had stayed in "Biosphere II" emerged from their sealed off environment.
1995 - The warring factions of Bosnia agreed on guidelines for elections and a future government.
1996 - Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, CA.
1996 - Shannon Lucid returned to Earth after being in space for 188 days. The time set a record for a U.S. astronaut and a woman.
1997 - In Indonesia, a Garuda Airlines Airbus crashed killing 234 people.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The act states that an infant would be considered to have been born alive if he or she is completely extracted or expelled from the mother and breathes and has a beating heart and definite movement of the voluntary muscles.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that Vojislav Kostunica had won Yugoslavia's presidential election and declared a runoff. The declared runoff prompted mass protests.
2001 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the terror attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11.
2001 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced plans to formalize a cease-fire and end a year of fighting in the region.
2001 - In New York City, hundreds of people began the process of filing for death certificates for family members still missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center. At the time more than 6,300 people were still missing
2004 Pakistani forces killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. (She was later sentenced to three years in prison.)
2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists.
2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
2007 Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks.
Current Birthdays
Serena Williams turns 27 years old today.
94 Jack LaLanne
Fitness expert
78 Philip Bosco
Actor
67 David Frizzell
Country singer
66 Kent McCord
Actor ("Adam 12")
64 Anne Robinson
Game show host ("The Weakest Link")
63 Bryan Ferry
Rock singer (Roxy Music)
62 Christie Todd Whitman
Former EPA administrator, former N.J. governor
61 Lynn Anderson
Singer
60 Mary Beth Hurt
Actress
60 Olivia Newton-John
Actress, singer
56 James Keane
Actor
54 Cesar Rosas
Rock musician (Los Lobos)
53 Carlene Carter
Country singer
52 Linda Hamilton
Actress
48 Doug Supernaw
Country singer
47 Cindy Herron
R&B singer (En Vogue)
46 Melissa Sue Anderson
Actress ("Little House on the Prairie")
46 Patrick Bristow
Actor
46 Al Pitrelli
Rock musician (Megadeth)
46 Tracey Thorn
Singer (Everything But The Girl)
42 Jillian Barberie Reynolds
TV weather reporter
40 Jim Caviezel
Actor
36 Shawn Stockman
R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
35 Nicholas Payton
Jazz trumpeter
31 T.J. Houshmandzadeh
Football player
29 Mark Famiglietti
Actor
27 Christina Milian
R&B singer-actress
Historic Birthdays
Paul VI
9/26/1897 - 8/6/1978
Italian pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1963-78)
86 Ivan Pavlov
9/26/1849 - 2/27/1936
Russian physiologist
56 Moses Mendelssohn
9/26/1729 - 1/4/1786
German-Jewish philosopher, critic and Bible translator
32 Jean-Louis Gericault
9/26/1791 - 1/26/1824
French painter and lithographer
66 Arthur B. Davies
9/26/1862 - 10/24/1928
American painter, printmaker and tapestry designer
76 T. S. Eliot
9/26/1888 - 1/4/1965
American-born poet, playwright, critic and editor
86 Martin Heidegger
9/26/1889 - 5/26/1976
German philosopher
77 Charles Munch
9/26/1891 - 11/6/1968
German-born conductor
82 Freda Kirchwey
9/26/1893 - 1/3/1976
American editor and publisher of "The Nation"
38 George Gershwin
9/26/1898 - 7/11/1937
American composer of operatic music and Broadway musicals
55 Albert Anastasia
9/26/1902 - 10/25/1957
American gangster
1779 - John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms.
1825 - George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train.
1840 - Thomas Nast was born. He was a political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey.
1854 - The steamship Arctic sank off Cape Race, Newfoundland, with 300 people onboard. It was the first major disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1894 - The Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York City, NY.
1928 - The U.S. announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government.
1938 - The League of Nations branded the Japanese as aggressors in China.
1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.
1959 - The Japanese island of Honshu was hit by Typhoon Vera. Nearly 5,000 people were killed.
1962 - The U.S. sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel.
1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. The report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
1968 - The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.
1970 - "The Original Amateur Hour" aired for the last time on CBS. It had been on television for 22 years.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pleaded "no contest" to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th.
1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.
1982 - Italian and French soldiers entered the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut. The move was made by the members of a multinational force due to hundreds of Palestinians being massacred by Christian militiamen.
1983 - Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.
1986 - The U.S. Senate approved federal tax code changes that were the most sweeping since World War II.
1989 - Columbia Pictures Entertainment agreed to buyout Sony Corporation for $3.4 billion.
1989 - Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.
1990 - The deposed emir of Kuwait addressed the U.N. General Assembly and denounced the "rape, destruction and terror" that Iraq had inflicted upon his country.
1991 - U.S. President Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.
1993 - U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson, Rep.-TX, was indicted on charges that she misused state facilities and employees while she was the Texas state treasurer. The charges were later dropped.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1995 - The U.S. government unveiled the redesigned $100 bill. The bill featured a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
1996 - The Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged the former president Najibullah.
1998 - In Germany, Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor. The election ended 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.
2001 - In Zug, Switzerland, an armed man killed 14 people and himself after entering the local parliament.
2002 - In Senegal, over 1,000 people were killed when the ocean ferry MS Joola capsized.
2004 - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea.
2005 Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2006 A gunman took six girls hostage at a high school in Bailey, Colo.; he molested them and killed one girl before committing suicide.
2007 Soldiers fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators in Yangon, Myanmar, killing at least nine people.
Current Birthdays
Gwyneth Paltrow turns 36 years old today.
89 Charles Percy
Former U.S. senator, R-Ill.
88 Jayne Meadows
Actress
86 Arthur Penn
Director ("The Miracle Worker," "Bonnie and Clyde")
79 Sada Thompson
Actress
75 Kathleen Nolan
Actress
74 Wilford Brimley
Actor
74 Claude Jarman Jr.
Actor
72 Don Cornelius
Producer ("Soul Train")
65 Randy Bachman
Rock singer, musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
61 Liz Torres
Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
60 A Martinez
Actor
59 Mike Schmidt
Baseball Hall of Famer
58 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagaw
Actor
57 Meat Loaf
Rock singer
55 Greg Ham
Rock musician (Men at Work)
50 Shaun Cassidy
Singer
44 Stephan Jenkins
Rock singer (Third Eye Blind)
40 Patrick Muldoon
Actor
38 Mark Calderon
Singer (Color Me Badd)
37 Amanda Detmer
Actress
30 Brad Arnold
Rock singer (3 Doors Down)
26 Lil' Wayne
Rapper
24 Avril Lavigne
Rock singer
Historic Birthdays
Alfred Thayer Mahan
9/27/1840 - 12/1/1914
American naval strategist
74 Cosimo de Medici
9/27/1389 - 8/1/1464
Florentine ruler
90 St. Alfonso Liguori
9/27/1696 - 8/1/1787
Italian theologian
81 Samuel Adams
9/27/1722 - 10/2/1803
American revolutionary leader
72 Benjamin Gould
9/27/1824 - 11/26/1896
American astronomer
62 Thomas Nast
9/27/1840 - 12/7/1902
American political cartoonist
80 Harry Blackstone
9/27/1885 - 11/16/1965
American magician and illusionist
88 Samuel Ervin
9/27/1896 - 4/23/1985
American senator from North Carolina; chairman of the committee that investigated Watergate
47 Vincent Youmans
9/27/1898 - 4/5/1946
American songwriter
66 Sir Martin Ryle
9/27/1918 - 10/14/1984
English physicist and astronomer
73 William Conrad
9/27/1920 - 2/11/1994
American radio, film and television actor and producer
37 Earl "Bud" Powell
9/27/1924 - 8/1/1966
American jazz pianist and composer
48 B.C. - Pompey the Great was murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.
551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher Confucius was born. He dedicated most of his life to teaching, starting at the age of 22 when he opened his first school.
1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
1542 - San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.
1687 - The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1787 - The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1850 - U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.
1892 - The first nighttime football game in the U.S. took place under electric lights. The game was between the Mansfield State Normal School and the Wyoming Seminary.
1915 - The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.
1920 - Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted in what was called the "Black Sox" scandal. They were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
1924 - The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.
1936 - "Bachelor's Children" debuted on CBS Radio.
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1939 - "Fleischmann Hour" aired for the last time on radio.
1944 - "The Boys From Boise" was shown on WABD in New York as the first full-length comedy written for television.
1950 - The United Nations admitted Indonesia.
1955 - The World Series was televised in color for the first time. The game was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1967 - The first mayor of Washington, DC, Walter Washington, took office.
1968 - The Atlanta Chiefs won the first North American Soccer League Championship.
1972 - Communist China and Japan agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1978 - Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1978 - Don Sherman, editor of Car & Driver, set a new Class E record in Utah. Driving the Mazda RX7 he reached a speed of 183.904 mph.
1984 - Bob Hope showed outtakes of his 34 years in television on NBC.
1985 - Rioting erupted in London's Brixton district that lasted for two days. The incident occurred after a black woman was shot by a police officer during a raid on her home.
1987 - Mehdi Hashemi was executed for treason in an Iranian prison. Hashemi had at one time been a close aide to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 - Ferdinand E. Marcos died in Hawaii, in exile, at the age of 72.
1991 - In response to U.S. President Bush's reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.
1991 - Marion Barry, former mayor of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of crack cocaine.
1992 - In Nepal, 167 people were killed when a Pakistani jetliner crashed.
1994 - 900 people were killed when an Estonian ferry capsized in the Baltic Sea.
1994 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu was assassinated. He was the No. 2 man in the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
2004 - The U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Secret Service introduced the first newly redesigned $50 bill.
2004 - Nate Olive and Sarah Jones arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to complete the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They started the trek on June 8.
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2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws. (The charge was later thrown out. Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering and conspiracy charges.)
2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
Current Birthdays
Naomi Watts turns 40 years old today.
85 William Windom
Actor
83 Arnold Stang
Actor
80 Koko Taylor
Blues singer
74 Brigitte Bardot
Actress
70 Ben E. King
R&B singer
65 Joel Higgins
Actor
62 Jeffrey Jones
Actor ("Deadwood")
62 Helen Shapiro
Singer
58 John Sayles
Writer, director
56 Sylvia Kristel
Actress
54 Steve Largent
Football Hall of Famer
54 George Lynch
Rock musician
51 C.J. Chenier
Zydeco singer, musician
46 Grant Fuhr
Hockey Hall of Famer
44 Janeane Garofalo
Actress, comedian
42 Matt King
Country singer
41 Mira Sorvino
Actress
41 Moon Zappa
TV personality
40 Carre Otis
Actress, model
35 Chuck Crawford
Country musician (Heartland)
33 Mandy Barnett
Country singer
31 Young Jeezy
Rapper
31 Se Ri Pak
Golfer
21 Hilary Duff
Actress, singer ("Lizzie McGuire")
16 Skye McCole Bartusiak
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Ed Sullivan
9/28/1901 - 10/13/1974
American television host
60 Pierre-Louis Maupertuis
9/28/1698 - 7/27/1759
French mathematician, biologist and astronomer
66 Prosper Merimee
9/28/1803 - 9/23/1870
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer
88 Georges Clemenceau
9/28/1841 - 11/24/1929
French statesman; premier of the Third Republic (1917-20)
87 Avery Brundage
9/28/1887 - 5/8/1975
American president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72)
74 Elmer Rice
9/28/1892 - 5/8/1967
American playwright, director and novelist
89 William Paley
9/28/1901 - 10/26/1990
American broadcaster; led CBS for over 50 years
70 Al Capp
9/28/1909 - 11/5/1979
American cartoonist; created "Li'l Abner"
77 Alice Marble
9/28/1913 - 12/13/1990
American tennis player
76 Michael Somes
9/28/1917 - 11/18/1994
English ballet dancer
70 Tom Harmon
9/28/1919 - 3/15/1990
American football player; won Heisman Trophy in 1940
72 Marcello Mastroianni
9/28/1924 - 12/19/1996
Italian actor
1758 - England's Admiral Horatio Nelson was born.
1789 - A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men.
1829 - The first public appearance by London's re-organized police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard.
1902 - David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater.
1930 - Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He was in the radio business for the next 46 years.
1930 - Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee were married.
1940 - The radio quiz show "Double or Nothing" debuted on the Mutual Radio Network.
1943 - U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson.
1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" debuted on CBS Radio.
1951 - The first network football game was televised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy" premiered on ABC-TV.
1955 - "A View From the Bridge," a play by Arthur Miller, opened in New York at the Coronet Theater.
1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA.
1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV.
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
1963 - "My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV.
1963 - "The Judy Garland Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.
1977 - Eva Shain became the first woman to officiate a heavyweight title boxing match. About 70 million people watched Muhammad Ali defeat Ernie Shavers on NBC-TV.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead after only one month of serving as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.
1983 - The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.
1983 - "A Chorus Line" with performance number 3,389 became the longest running show on Broadway.
1984 - Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world's most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem.
1986 - Nicholas Daniloff was released by the Soviet Union. He had been held on spying charges.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton announced that she was quitting gymnastics.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.
1990 - "Millie's Book" by First Lady Barbara Bush was the best-selling non-fiction book in the U.S.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November.
1992 - Brazilian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello.
1993 - Bosnia's parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by force.
1994 - The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
1995 - Three U.S. servicemen were indicted on rape charges concerning a 12-year-old Okinawan girl. The men were handed over to Japanese authorities.
1998 - Hasbro announced plans to introduce an action figure of retired U.S. General Colin Powell.
1998 - In Austin, TX, nine carnival ride executives were indicted by a grand jury for the death of teenage girl who had been killed when thrown from a ride.
2000 Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2005 John Roberts was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
2006 Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.
Current Birthdays
Zachary Levi turns 28 years old today
86 Lizabeth Scott
Actress
84 Steve Forrest
Actor
77 Eddie Barth
Actor
77 Anita Ekberg
Actress
76 Robert Benton
Director, writer
73 Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock singer, musician
66 Ian McShane
Actor ("Deadwood")
66 Bill Nelson
U.S. senator, D-Fla.
66 Jean-Luc Ponty
Jazz violinist
64 Mike Post
TV, film theme composer
62 Patricia Hodge
Actress
60 Mark Farner
Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad)
60 Bryant Gumbel
TV personality
60 Mike Pinera
Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
58 Alvin Crow
Country singer
55 Drake Hogestyn
Actor ("Days of Our Lives")
53 Gwen Ifill
Broadcast journalist
52 Suzzy Roche
Singer (The Roches)
51 Andrew "Dice" Clay
Comedian
50 John Payne
Rock singer (Asia)
46 Roger Bart
Actor
45 Les Claypool
Rock singer, musician (Primus)
42 Jill Whelan
Actress ("The Love Boat")
40 Brad Smith
Rock musician (Blind Melon)
39 Erika Eleniak
Actress
39 Devante Swing
R&B singer (Jodeci)
38 Brad Cotter
Country singer ("Nashville Star")
38 Emily Lloyd
Actress
38 Natasha Gregson Wagner
Actress
37 Rachel Cronin
Actress ("Ed")
35 Danick Dupelle
Country musician (Emerson Drive)
26 Katie McNeill
Country singer (3 of Hearts)
21 Josh Farro
Rock musician (Paramore)
Historic Birthdays
Enrico Fermi
9/29/1901 - 11/28/1954
Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1938)
57 Pompey The Great
9/29/106 BC - 9/28/48 BC
Roman statesman and general of the Roman Republic
68 John Leslie
9/29/1527 - 5/31/1596
Scottish bishop; advisor to Queen Mary
66 Francois Boucher
9/29/1703 - 5/30/1770
French painter, engraver and designer
47 Horatio Nelson
9/29/1758 - 10/21/1805
English naval commander
84 Caroline Yale
9/29/1848 - 7/2/1933
American educator of the deaf
54 Walther Rathenau
9/29/1867 - 6/24/1922
German statesman, industrialist and philosopher
80 Miguel Aleman
9/29/1902 - 5/14/1983
Mexican president (1946-52)
91 Greer Garson
9/29/1904 - 4/6/1996
English-born motion-picture actress
71 Trevor Howard
9/29/1913 - 1/7/1988
English stage and screen actor
1399 - Henry Bolingbroke became the King of England as Henry IV.
1630 - John Billington was hanged for murder. He was the first criminal to be executed in the American colonies.
1777 - The Congress of the United States moved to York, PA, due to advancing British forces.
1787 - The Columbia left Boston and began the trip that would make it the first American vessel to sail around the world.
1846 - Ether, an experimental anesthetic at the time, was used for the first time by Dr. William Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital.
1861 - Chewing gum tycoon William Wrigley, Jr. was born.
1868 - Spain's Queen Isabella was deposed and fled to France.
1882 - In Appleton, WI, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operating.
1924 - Truman Streckfus Persons was born in New Orleans, LA. He later changed his name to Truman Capote.
1927 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth hit his 60th homerun of the season. He broke his own record with the homerun. The record stood until 1961 when Roger Maris broke the record.
1930 - "Death Valley Days" was heard for the first time on the NBC Blue radio network.
1935 - "The Adventures of Dick Tracey" debuted on Mutual Radio Network.
1935 - "Porgy and Bess" premiered in Boston.
1938 - The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.
1939 - "Captain Midnight" was heard for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 - The World Series was televised for the first time. The sponsors only paid $65,000 for the entire series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
1949 - The Berlin Airlift came to an end. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.
1951 - "The Red Skelton Show" debuted on NBC-TV.
1954 - The U.S. Navy commissioned the Nautilus submarine at Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered vessel. The submarine had been launched on January 21, 1954.
1954 - Julie Andrews made her first Broadway appearance in "The Boy Friend".
1955 - Actor James Dean was killed in a car accident at the age of 24 near Cholame, CA. Dean's mechanic, who was also in the vehicle, eventually recovered from his injuries.
1962 - James Meredith succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register.
1963 - The Soviet Union publicly declared itself on the side of India in their dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.
1966 - Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released at midnight from Spandau prison after completing their 20-year sentences. Speer was the Nazi minister of armaments and von Schirach was the founder of Hitler Youth.
1971 - The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.
1971 - A committee of nine people was organized to investigate the prison riot at Attica, NY. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were killed when National Guardsmen stormed the prison on September 13, 1971.
1976 - California enacted the Natural Death Act of California. The law was the first example of right-to-die legislation in the U.S.
1980 - Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.
1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.
1984 - 107 Moslem extremists were sentenced to prison for their actions after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
1984 - Mike Witt became only the 11th pitcher to throw a perfect game in major league baseball.
1984 - "Doonesbury" by Garry Trudeau returned. The comic strip had not been printed in nearly 20 months.
1985 - Four Soviet diplomats were kidnapped in Beirut by the Islamic Liberation Organization. One of the diplomats was killed and the other three were later released.
1986 - The U.S. released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the Nicholas Daniloff had been released by the Soviets.
1987 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a shake-up at the Kremlin.
1989 - Thousands of East Germans began emigrating under an accord between the NATO nations and the Soviet Union.
1989 - Non-Communist Cambodian guerrillas claimed that they had captured 3 towns and 10 other positions from the residing government forces.
1990 - The Soviet Union and South Korea opened diplomatic relations.
1991 - Haiti's first freely elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras. Aristide was later returned to power.
1992 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached his 3,000th career hit during a game against the California Angels.
1992 - Moscow banks distributed privatization vouchers aimed at turning millions of Russians into capitalists.
1993 - About 10,000 people were killed in India when an earthquake that measured 6.4 hit the southern part of the country.
1993 - U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell retired.
1994 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.
1997 - France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the persecution and deportation of Jews the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
1998 - Gov. Pete Wilson of California signed a bill into law that defined "invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a celebrity or crime victim engaging in a personal of family activity." The law went into effect January 1, 1999.
1999 - The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers in the last baseball game to be played at Candlestick Park (3Com Park). The Dodgers won 9-4.
1999 - In Tokaimura, Japan, radiation escaped a nuclear facility after workers accidentally set off an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.
2003 - The FBI began a criminal investigation concerning the possibility that White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer
2004 Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis drug, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Current Birthdays
Marion Cotillard turns 33 years old today
82 Robin Roberts
Baseball Hall of Famer
80 Elie Wiesel
Author, Nobel Peace Prize winner
77 Angie Dickinson
Actress ("Police Woman")
75 Cissy Houston
Gospel singer
73 Johnny Mathis
Singer
69 Len Cariou
Actor
66 Dewey Martin
Rock musician (Buffalo Springfield)
65 Marilyn McCoo
Singer (The Fifth Dimension)
62 Sylvia Peterson
Singer (The Chiffons)
56 John Finn
Actor ("Cold Case")
56 John Lombardo
Rock musician (10,000 Maniacs)
55 Deborah Allen
Country singer
54 Calvin Levels
Actor
54 Patrice Rushen
Singer
54 Barry Williams
Actor ("The Brady Bunch")
52 Vondie Curtis-Hall
Actor
51 Fran Drescher
Actress ("The Nanny")
50 Marty Stuart
Country singer
49 Debrah Farentino
Actress
48 Blanche Lincoln
U.S. senator, D-Ark.
47 Crystal Bernard
Actress ("Wings")
47 Eric Stoltz
Actor
46 Marley Marl
Rapper, producer
45 Eddie Montgomery
Country singer (Montgomery Gentry)
44 Trey Anastasio
Rock singer, musician (Phish)
44 Monica Bellucci
Actress ("Matrix" movies)
44 Robby Takac
Rock musician (Goo Goo Dolls)
42 Lisa Thornhill
Actress
41 Andrea Roth
Actress
38 Tony Hale
Actor
37 Jenna Elfman
Actress ("Dharma and Greg")
36 Jose Lima
Baseball player
34 Ashley Hamilton
Actor
33 Carlos Guillen
Baseball player
29 Mike Damus
Actor
28 Martina Hingis
Tennis player
26 Lacey Chabert
Actress ("Mean Girls," "Party of Five")
26 Kieran Culkin
Actor
24 T-Pain
Singer-rapper
Historic Birthdays
Truman Capote
9/30/1924 - 8/25/1984
American novelist, short-story writer and playwright
64 Etienne Bonnot Condillac
9/30/1715 - 8/2/3/1780
French philosopher, psychologist, logician and economist
73 Zacharias Frankel
9/30/1801 - 2/13/1875
Bohemian rabbi and theologian; founded Conservative Judaism
73 Antoine-Jerome Balard
9/30/1802 - 3/30/1876
French chemist; discovered the element bromine
71 Sir Charles Stanford
9/30/1852 - 3/29/1924
Irish-born English composer, conductor and teacher
77 Thomas Lamont
9/30/1870 - 2/2/1948
American banker and financier
71 Jean Perrin
9/30/1870 - 4/17/1942
French Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1926)
62 Hans Geiger
9/30/1882 - 9/24/1945
German physicist; introduced the Geiger Counter
87 Nora Stanton Barney
9/30/1883 - 1/18/1971
American civil engineer, architect and suffragist
90 Sir Nevill Mott
9/30/1905 - 8/8/1996
English physicist
72 Kenny Baker
9/30/1912 - 8/10/1985
American movie and radio singer and actor
1596 - The Duke of Norfolk was imprisoned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth for trying to marry Mary the Queen of Scots.
1781 - James Lawrence was born. He was the American naval officer whose dying words were "Don't give up the ship."
1800 - Spain ceded the territory of Louisiana back to France. Later the property would be purchased by the U.S. effectively doubling its size.
1880 - Thomas Edison began the commercial production of electric lamps at Edison Lamp Works in Menlo Park.
1885 - Special delivery mail service began in the United States. The first routes were in West Virginia.
1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the McKinley Tariff Act. The act raised tariffs to a record level.
1896 - Rural Free Delivery was established by the U.S. Post Office.
1903 - The first modern World Series took place between the Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.
1918 - Damascus was captured from the Turks during World War I by a force made up of British and Arab forces.
1933 - Babe Ruth made his final pitching appearance. He pitched all nine innings and hit a home run in the 5th inning.
1936 - General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of the Spanish state.
1938 - German forces enter Czechoslovakia and seized control of the Sudetenland. The Munich Pact had been signed two days before.
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened as the first toll superhighway in the United States.
1943 - Naples was captured by the Allied forces during World War II.
1946 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 Nazi officials to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms and 3 were acquitted.
1946 - The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2.
1949 - Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China when the communist forces had defeated the Nationalists. The Nationalist forces fled to Taiwan.
1952 - "This is Your Life" began airing on NBC-TV.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season to beat Babe Ruth's major league record of 60.
1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement was started at the University of California at Berkeley.
1968 - "Night of the Living Dead" premiered in Pittsburgh, PA.
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL.
1972 - The Chinese government approved friendly relations with the United States.
1979 - The United States handed control of the Canal Zone over to Panama.
1980 - Robert Redford became the first male to appear alone on the cover of "Ladies' Home Journal." He was the only male to achieve this in 97 years.
1981 - EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) Center opened in Florida. The concept was planned by Walt Disney.
1984 - U.S. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan announced that he was taking a leave of absence following his indictment on charges of larceny and fraud. He was later acquitted.
1985 - The PLO's headquarters in Tunisia was raided by Israeli jet fighters.
1987 - Eight people were killed in Los Angeles when an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale hit the area.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the Soviet presidency.
1989 - The authorized Charles Schulz biography, Good Grief, was published.
1989 - 7,000 East Germans were welcomed into West Germany after they were allowed to leave by the communist government.
1990 - U.S. President Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly and once again condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait.
1990 - In Croatia, minority Serbs proclaimed autonomy.
1991 - U.S. President Bush condemned the military coup in Haiti that removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power. U.S. economic and military aid was suspended.
1991 - The U.S. trust territory of Palau became independent.
1992 - The USS Saratoga accidentally fired missiles at a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea. Five people were killed in the incident.
1992 - The Strategic Arm Reduction Treaty was approved by the U.S. Senate.
1993 - 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from her home in Petaluma, CA, by an intruder.
1994 - The U.S. and Japan avoided a trade war by reaching a series of trade agreements.
1994 - The National Hockey League (NHL) team owners began a lockout of the players that lasted 103 days.
1995 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants were convicted in New York of conspiring to attack the U.S. through bombings, kidnappings and assassinations.
1995 - Southwestern Turkey experienced an earthquake that killed about 90 people.
1996 - Lucent Technologies became an independent company.
1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb murder of an ad executive.
1998 - The U.S. government posted a $2.2 million reward for the capture of Augustin Vasquez Mendoza. He is accused of killing an undercover U.S. agent during a drug purchase in 1994.
1999 - The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China was celebrated in Beijing.
2001 - San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban Internet filters designed to keep pornography away from children at city libraries. The board left the decision up to the Library Commission to decide whether to install filtering software in children's areas. A federal law in the U.S. mandated the use of the filters.
Current Birthdays
Jimmy Carter turns 84 years old today.
87 James Whitmore
Actor
84 Roger Williams
Pianist
81 Tom Bosley
Actor ("Happy Days")
73 Julie Andrews
Actress, singer
65 Jerry Martini
Rock musician (Sly and the Family Stone)
63 Rod Carew
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Dave Holland
Actor ("7th Heaven")
61 Stephen Collins
Jazz bassist
58 Randy Quaid
Actor
51 Yvette Freeman
Actress ("ER")
49 Youssou N'Dour
Singer
46 Esai Morales
Actor
45 Mark McGwire
Baseball player
44 Christopher Titus
Actor
43 Cindy Margolis
Actress, model
40 Kevin Griffin
Rock musician (Better Than Ezra)
34 Keith Duffy
Singer
22 Jurnee Smollett
Actress
19 Brie Larson
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Vladimir Horowitz
10/1/1903 - 11/5/1989
Ukraine-born American pianist
65 Henry III
10/1/1207 - 11/16/1272
King of England (1216-72)
50 Richard Stockton
10/1/1730 - 2/8/1781
American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece
31 James Lawrence
10/1/1781 - 6/1/1813
American naval officer
85 Annie Besant
10/1/1847 - 9/20/1933
British theosophist writer, educator and politician
69 Paul Abraham Dukas
10/1/1865 - 5/17/1935
French composer
74 William Boeing
10/1/1881 - 9/28/1956
American engineer
91 Stanley Holloway
10/1/1890 - 1/30/1982
British actor
74 Otto R. Frisch
10/1/1904 - 9/22/1979
Austrian physicist
23 Bonnie Parker
10/1/1910 - 5/23/1934
American bank robber
1452 - Richard III was born. He married the widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his mother-in-law for life.
1492 - King Henry VII of England invaded France.
1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.
1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.
1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) K Gandhi was born. He was known for his advocacy of non-violent resistance to fight tyranny.
1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was the state's first venture into public higher education. The school was formally dedicated 2 days later by Texas Gov. Richard Coke.
1889 - The first international Conference of American States began in Washington, DC.
1890 - Groucho Marx was born in New York. He is known for the "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life."
1895 - Ruth Cheney Streeter was born. She became the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve.
1908 - Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched the fourth perfect game in major league baseball history.
1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
1920 - The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates played the only triple-header in baseball history. The Reds won 2 of the 3 games.
1924 - The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.
1925 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.
1929 - "The National Farm and Home Hour" debuted on NBC radio.
1933 - "Red Adams" debuted on NBC radio.
1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.
1940 - During World War II, the HMS Empress was sunk while carrying child refugees from Britain to Canada.
1941 - Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
1947 - The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.
1948 - The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.
1949 - "The Aldrich Family" debuted on NBC-TV.
1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.
1953 - "Person to Person" debuted on CBS-TV.
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.
1958 - Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence. Sekou Toure was the first president of the Republic of Guinea.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
1962 - U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the transport of U.S. goods was banned on ships owned by companies that traded with Cuba.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1985 - Rock Hudson died from the AIDS virus at the age of 59.
1988 - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered free elections.
1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany a protest took place demanding the legalization of opposition groups and the adoption of democratic reforms.
1990 - The Allies ceded their rights to areas they occupied in Germany.
1993 - Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades.
1996 - Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury at O.J. Simpson's trial.
1998 - Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.
1998 - About 10,000 Turkish soldiers cross into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels.
2001 - The U.S. Postmaster unveiled the "Tribute to America" stamp. The stamp was planned for release the next month.
2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
2002 A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2005 Playwright August Wilson died at age 60.
2006 An man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five and wounding five others before committing suicide.
2007 A federal jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive, concluding that she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite.
Current Birthdays
Sting turns 57 years old today
81 Leon Rausch
Country musician (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys)
76 Maury Wills
Baseball player
70 Rex Reed
Movie critic
63 Don McLean
Singer, songwriter
62 Jo-el Sonnier
Cajun, country singer
60 Avery Brooks
Actor
59 Annie Leibovitz
Celebrity photographer
58 Mike Rutherford
Rock musician (Genesis)
54 Lorraine Bracco
Actress ("The Sopranos")
54 Greg Jennings
Country musician (Restless Heart)
53 Phil Oakey
Rock singer (The Human League)
50 Freddie Jackson
R&B singer
50 Robbie Nevil
Singer, producer
46 James Hunter
Soul singer
41 Bud Gaugh
Rock musician
41 Gillian Welch
Folk, country singer
40 Jana Novotna
Tennis Hall of Famer
40 Kelly Willis
Country singer
38 Dion Allen
R&B singer (Az Yet)
38 Kelly Ripa
Actress, talk show host ("Live with Regis and Kelly")
37 Tiffany
Singer
35 Lene Nystrom
Rock singer
35 Efren Ramirez
Actor
35 LaTocha Scott
R&B singer (Xscape)
32 Mandisa
Gospel singer ("American Idol")
Historic Birthdays
Mahatma Mohandask Gandhi
10/2/1869 - 1/30/1948
Spiritual and political leader of Indian independence movement
32 Richard III
10/2/1452 - 8/22/1485
King of England
46 Saint Charles Borromeo
10/2/1538 - 11/3/1584
Italian Roman Catholic bishop
31 Nat Turner
10/2/1800 - 11/11/1831
American slave hanged for leading violent slave uprising
86 Paul Von Hindenburg
10/2/1847 - 8/2/1934
German military officer and politician
77 Ferdinand Foch
10/2/1851 - 3/20/1929
French army general
63 Sir William Ramsay
10/2/1852 - 7/23/1916
British chemist
83 Cordell Hull
10/2/1871 - 7/23/1955
American diplomat
75 Wallace Stevens
10/2/1879 - 8/2/1955
American poet
86 Groucho Marx
10/2/1890 - 8/19/1977
American comedian
77 Bud Abbott
10/2/1897 - 4/24/1974
American comedian
85 Charles Stark Draper
10/2/1901 - 7/25/1987
American engineer
86 Graham Greene
10/2/1904 - 4/3/1991
English novelist
1226 - St. Francis of Assisi died. He was the founder of the Franciscan order.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
1888 - "The Yeomen of the Guard" was performed for the first time. It was the first of 423 shows.
1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.
1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor.
1902 - Harvey Kurtzman, founder of "Mad" magazine, was born.
1906 - W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton became the first female to hold office of U.S. Senator. She was appointed by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill a vacancy.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1932 - Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate their mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during World War I.
1935 - Italian forces invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again."
1942 - The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and farm prices.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. troops broke through the Siegfried Line.
1946 - "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day" began airing on NBC-TV.
1951 - CBS-TV aired the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prizefight. Dave Sands defeated Carl Olson at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1952 - Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The U.S. and Russia were the only other nuclear powers.
1954 - "Father Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
1955 - Rock Hudson was featured on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV.
1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV.
1962 - The Sigma VII blasted off from Cape Canaveral for a nine-hour flight.
1962 - The play, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!" opened on Broadway.
1974 - Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in major league baseball.
1981 - Irish Nationalist in Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland called off their hunger strike. The strike had lasted 7 months and ten people had died.
1986 - "Tough Guys" was released. It was the first comedy to feature Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. It was, however, their seventh movie together.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1988 - Mithileshwar Singh, an Indian educator, was released by kidnappers in Lebanon. He had been held captive for almost two years with three Americans.
1989 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted against Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1989 - East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the flow of refugees to the West.
1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany were dissolved. The unification of Germany ended 45 years of division.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made a visit to Kuwait since his country had seized control of the oil-rich nation.
1994 - The headquarters of the Haitian pro-army militia was raided by U.S. soldiers.
1995 - O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial.
1997 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that U.S. President Clinton had broken the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
2001 - Near Manchester, TN, a passenger on a Greyhound bus slashed the throat of the driver. The resulting wreck killed six and injured 34 others. The driver survived his injuries. The attacker was killed in the accident and was identified as Damir Igric.
2001 - ESPN began its 10th season of National Hockey League (NHL) coverage.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks at 171.
2003 - Ray Horn, of the duo "Siegfried & Roy," was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the attack after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.
2006 - North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. attack. A date for the test was not announced.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a new high ending the day at 11,727.34. Earlier in the session, the Dow had risen to 11,758.95. Both previous records had been set on January 14, 2000.
Current Birthdays
Clive Owen turns 44 years old today.
83 Gore Vidal
Author
82 Marques Haynes
Basketball Hall of Famer
72 Steve Reich
Composer
70 David Obey
U.S. congressman, D-Wis.
68 Alan O'Day
Singer
67 Chubby Checker
Rock singer
66 Alan Rachins
Actor
65 Jeff Bingaman
U.S. senator, D-N.M.
64 Roy
Magician (Siegfried & Roy)
64 Bob Riley
Governor of Alabama
59 Lindsey Buckingham
Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)
58 Ronnie Laws
Jazz saxophonist
57 Keb' Mo'
Blues singer
57 Dave Winfield
Baseball Hall of Famer
54 Dennis Eckersley
Baseball Hall of Famer
54 Al Sharpton
Civil rights activist
52 Hart Bochner
Actor
52 Peter Frechette
Actor
49 Jack Wagner
Actor
46 Tommy Lee
Rock musician (Motley Crue)
39 Janel Moloney
Actress ("The West Wing")
39 Gwen Stefani
Rock singer (No Doubt)
37 Kevin Richardson
Singer (Backstreet Boys)
36 G. Love
Rock singer
35 Keiko Agena
Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
35 Neve Campbell
Actress
33 India.Arie
R&B singer
33 Talib Kweli
Rapper
33 Alanna Ubach
Actress
32 Seann William Scott
Actor
30 Shannyn Sossamon
Actress
27 Seth Gabel
Actor ("Dirty Sexy Money")
26 Erik Von Detten
Actor
24 Ashlee Simpson-Wentz
Singer, actress
Historic Birthdays
Emily Post
10/3/1873 - 9/25/1960
American writer
75 John Ross
10/3/1790 - 8/1/1866
American Cherokee leader
90 George Bancroft
10/3/1800 - 1/17/1891
American historian
77 Sir Patrick Manson
10/3/1844 - 4/9/1922
Scottish physician
65 William Crawford Gorgas
10/3/1854 - 7/3/1920
American physician
65 Eleonora Duse
10/3/1858 - 4/21/1924
Italian actress
79 Pierre Bonnard
10/3/1867 - 1/23/1947
French painter
37 Thomas Clayton Wolfe
10/3/1900 - 9/15/1938
American novelist
1535 - The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland.
1648 - The first volunteer fire department was established in New York by Peter Stuyvesant.
1777 - At Germantown, PA, Patriot forces and British forces both suffer heavy losses in battle. The battle was seen as British victory, which actually served as a moral boost to the Americans.
1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas formally dedicated by Texas Gov. Richard Coke. It was the state's first venture into public higher education. The college opened for classed two days earlier.
1881 - Edward Leveaux received a patent for the player piano.
1887 - The Paris Herald Tribune was published for the first time. It was later known as the International Herald Tribune.
1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh AC.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI. Horace Rawlins, 19 years old, won the tournament.
1909 - The first airship race in the U.S. took place in St. Louis, MO.
1915 - The Dinosaur National Monument was established. The area covered part of Utah and Colorado.
1927 - The first actual work of carving began on Mount Rushmore.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.
1933 - "Esquire" magazine was published for the first time.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British.
1948 - The Railroad Hour" debuted on ABC radio.
1953 - "I Led Three Lives" was first seen in syndication. The TV show was never on network.
1954 - "December Bride" debuted on CBS-TV.
1956 - "Playhouse 90" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space. Sputnik I fell out of orbit on January 4, 1958.
1958 - British Overseas Airways Corporation became the first jetliner to offer trans-Atlantic service to passengers with flights between London, England and New York.
1959 - The first World Series to be played west of St. Louis began in Los Angeles, CA.
1965 - Pope Paul VI addressed the U.N. General Assembly and became the first reigning pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere.
1976 - Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the "ABC Evening News" for the first time.
1981 - Bruce Jenner and Harry Belafonte debuted in their first dramatic roles in NBC-TV's "Grambling's White Tiger".
1985 - The Shiite Muslim group Islamic Jihad announced that they had killed American hostage William Buckley. Later another American hostage said that he believed that Buckley had died four months earlier from torture.
1986 - Two men mugged Dan Rather in New York City, NY.
1987 - NFL owners used replacement personnel to play games despite the player's strike.
1989 - Fawaz Younis, a Lebanese hijacker, was sentenced in Washington for commandeering a Jordanian jetliner with two Americans aboard in 1985.
1990 - The German parliament had its first meeting since reunification.
1992 - The 16-year civil war in Mozambique ended.
1993 - Russian Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrendered to Boris Yeltsin after a ten-hour tank assault on the Russian White House. The two men had barricaded themselves in after Yeltsin called for general elections and dissolved the legislative body.
1993 - Dozens of Somalis dragged an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. A videotape showed Michael Durant being taken prisoner by Somali militants.
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela was welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Clinton.
1997 - Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, DC.
1998 - The Vincent Van Gogh exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The exhibit featured 70 paintings.
1998 - Davis Gaines performed as the Phantom in the show "Phantom of the Opera" for the 2,000th time.
2001 - NATO granted the United States open access to their airfields and seaports and agreed to deploy ships and early-warning radar planes in the war on terrorism.
2001 - A Russian airliner blew up as it flew over the Black Sea. There were no survivors of the 76 people on the plane. U.S. intelligence sources stated that they likely cause of the accident was a missile strike from a Ukrainian military exercise.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGwire's major league record. Bonds also moved past Reggie Jackson on the all-time list with his 564th career home run.
2001 - Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb's major league record.
2001 - Shannen Doherty was sentenced to serve five days in a work-release program for a drunken driving arrest on December 28, 2000. The sentence came after Doherty had given lectures to teens about the dangers of driving under the influence.
2001 - In Washington, DC, Reagan National Airport re-opened. The airport had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
2004 - SpaceShipOne reached an altitude of 368,000 feet. It was the first privately built, manned rocket ship to fly in space twice within a two week window. The ship won the Ansari X Prize of $10 million dollars for their success.
Current Birthdays
Susan Sarandon turns 62 years old today.
79 Leroy Van Dyke
Country singer
76 Felicia Farr
Actress
74 Sam Huff
Football Hall of Famer
73 Eddie Applegate
Actor ("The Patty Duke Show")
67 Roy Blount Jr.
Author
67 Anne Rice
Author
67 Lori Saunders
Actress
63 Clifton Davis
Actor
62 Chuck Hagel
U.S. senator, R-Neb.
60 Duke Robillard
Blues guitarist
59 Lee Blessing
Playwright
59 Armand Assante
Actor
58 Alan Rosenberg
Actor
51 Bill Fagerbakke
Actor
51 Russell Simmons
Music producer
49 Chris Lowe
Rock musician (The Pet Shop Boys)
48 Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard
Country musician (Sawyer Brown)
47 David W. Harper
Actor ("The Waltons")
47 Jon Secada
Singer
41 Liev Schreiber
Actor
39 Abraham Benrubi
Actor
38 Heidi Newfield
Country musician
38 Andy Parle
Rock musician
32 Alicia Silverstone
Actress ("Clueless")
30 Phillip Glasser
Actor
30 Marc Roberge
Rock singer, musician (O.A.R.)
29 Rachael Leigh Cook
Actress
28 Jimmy Workman
Actor
21 Jessica Benson
R&B singer (3lw)
21 Michael Charles Roman
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Buster Keaton
10/4/1895 - 2/1/1966
American actor
26 Louis X
10/4/1289 - 6/5/1316
King of Navarre (1305-14) and king of France (1314-16)
61 Charles IX
10/4/1550 - 10/30/1611
King of Sweden (1604-11)
85 Lord Richard Cromwell
10/4/1626 - 7/12/1712
English lord protector (1658-9)
60 Jean Francois Millet
10/4/1814 - 1/20/1875
French painter
70 Rutherford Birchard Hayes
10/4/1822 - 1/17/1893
19th president of the United States (1877-81)
48 Frederic Remington
10/4/1861 - 12/26/1909
American artist; specialized in western themes
67 Edward L. Stratemeyer
10/4/1862 - 5/10/1930
American writer
62 Damon Runyon
10/4/1884 - 12/10/1946
American writer
69 John Kelly
10/4/1890 - 6/20/1960
American oarsman
1813 - Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors.
1877 - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Army after a 1,000-mile retreat towards the Canadian border.
1882 - Robert H. Goddard , known as the "Father of the Space Age", was born.
1892 - The Dalton gang was nearly wiped out while attempting to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, KS. Four members of the gang and four citizens were killed. The only survivor of the gang, Emmett Dawson, was sentenced to life after surviving his wounds.
1902 - Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, was born.
1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.
1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight.
1930 - "The Fighting Priest" began airing on CBS radio.
1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon landed in Washington after flying non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. The flight originated in Japan and took about 41 hours.
1934 - "Hollywood Hotel" became the first major network radio to originate from Hollywood, CA.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.
1952 - "Inner Sanctum" was heard for the last time on ABC radio.
1955 - The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.
1969 - Dianne Linkletter jumps to her death from her apartment in West Hollywood. Art Linkletter, her father, claimed that she was under the influence of LSD at the time of her death.
1969 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television.
1970 - Anwar Sadat took office as President of Egypt replacing Gamal Abdel Nassar. Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
1974 - American David Kunst completed the first journey around the world on foot. It took four years and 21 pairs of shoes. He crossed four continents and walked 14,450 miles.
1985 - An Egyptian policeman went on a shooting rampage at a Sinai beach. Seven Israeli tourists were killed. The policeman died in prison the following January of an apparent suicide.
1986 - "Business World" began airing on ABC-TV.
1986 - Sandinista soldiers captured American Eugene Hasenfus after shooting him down over southern Nicaragua.
1988 - In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S., Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 - Jim Bakker was convicted of using his television show to defraud his viewers.
1989 - The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet. Gyatso was the 15th Dalai Lama.
1990 - The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall opened.
1990 - A jury in Cincinnati, OH, acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was initiated by U.S. President George Bush.
1993 - China set off an underground nuclear explosion.
1994 - 48 people found dead in two Swiss villages. The people were members of a secret religious doomsday cult. Five other people were found in Montreal, Canada.
1995 - A 60-day cease-fire was agreed upon by Bonsian combatants. The civil war had lasted 3 1/2.
1997 - In London, the Express Newspapers printed an article claiming that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were homosexual and that their marriage was a sham to cover the truth. The paper paid damages in a settlement on October 29, 1998.
1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.
1999 - Kevin Spacey received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - MCI Worldcom Inc. and Sprint Corp. announced plans to merge.
2006 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.
Current Birthdays
Parminder Nagra turns 33 years old today
86 Bil Keane
Cartoonist ("Family Circus")
85 Glynis Johns
Actress
84 Bill Dana
Comedian
75 Diane Cilento
Actress
72 Vaclav Havel
Former Czech president, playwright
67 Arlene Smith
R&B singer (The Chantels)
66 Richard Street
R&B singer (The Temptations)
65 Steve Miller
Rock musician
61 Brian Johnson
Rock singer (AC/DC)
58 Jeff Conaway
Actor ("Taxi")
57 Karen Allen
Actress
56 Clive Barker
Writer, director
54 David Bryson
Rock musician (Counting Crows)
54 Bob Geldof
Rock singer, activist
48 Daniel Baldwin
Actor
46 Michael Andretti
Auto racer
44 Dave Dederer
Rock musician
43 Mario Lemieux
Hockey Hall of Famer
43 Patrick Roy
Hockey Hall of Famer
41 Guy Pearce
Actor
38 Josie Bissett
Actress
36 Grant Hill
Basketball player
34 Heather Headley
R&B singer-actress
33 Brian Mashburn
Rock musician (Save Ferris)
33 Scott Weinger
Actor
33 Kate Winslet
Actress
30 James Valentine
Rock musician (Maroon 5)
28 Paul Thomas
Rock musician (Good Charlotte)
25 Nicky Hilton
TV personality
23 Brooke Valentine
R&B singer
Historic Birthdays
Ray A. Kroc
10/5/1902 - 1/14/1984
American fast-food entrepeneur; built McDonalds restaurant chain
54 Jonathan Edwards
10/5/1703 - 3/22/1758
American evangelical religious leader
70 Denis Diderot
10/5/1713 - 7/31/1784
French philosopher
67 William Scoresby
10/5/1789 - 3/21/1857
British explorer
57 Chester Alan Arthur
10/5/1829 - 11/18/1886
21st president of the United States
83 Louis Jean Lumiere
10/5/1864 - 6/6/1948
French chemist
62 Robert Hutchings Goddard
10/5/1882 - 8/10/1945
American scientist
65 Walter Bedell Smith
10/5/1895 - 8/9/1961
American Army chief of staff for U.S. forces in Europe during World War II
79 Joshua Logan
10/5/1908 - 7/12/1988
American stage and film director, producer and writer
Torre82min
2008-10-05, 14:10
::bows to this reminder of history::
Nicely done, miniMod. ;)
Choronzon
2008-10-05, 14:11
Parminder Nagra turns 33 years old today
From Bend it Like Beckham to ER. Parminder Nagra has made it as an actress.
Nevertheless, I would still do ungodly things to her. She's so cute and fragile looking.
1536 - Anglican priest William Tyndale was captured at Antwerp where he was strangled and burnt. He is credited with making the first English translation of the Bible.
1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.
1846 - Inventor George Westinghouse was born. He was the founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems.
1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1857 - The American Chess Congress held their first national chess tournament in New York City.
1863 - The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.
1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.
1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, RI.
1889 - In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time.
1889 - The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.
1890 - Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer" opened in New York starring Al Jolson. The film was based on the short story "The Day of Atonement" by Sampson Raphaelson.
1928 - War-torn China was reunited under the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek.
1937 - "Hobby Lobby" debuted on CBS radio.
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1948 - "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose."
1949 - U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.
1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
1962 - Robert Goulet began the role of Sir Lancelot in "Camelot".
1972 - South of Saltillo, Mexico, a train derailed killing 208 people and injuring 1,200.
1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 - Egyptian president Anwar-el Sadat was assassinated at a military rally in Cairo. Muslim extremists were responsible the other eight deaths that occurred during the attack. Hosni Mubarak became president.
1986 - A Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,200 miles from New York.
1989 - Two workers for the Swiss Red Cross were kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon.
1991 - Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky. The ceremony was held at Michael Jackson's estate near Los Angeles, CA. It was Taylor's 8th marriage and Fortensky's 3rd.
1991 - Cable News Network aired a videotape of American hostage Terry Anderson that had been made in Beirut, Lebanon.
1992 - Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after entering the U.S. presidential race.
1998 - Imelda Marcos was acquitted by the Philippine Supreme Court on the charge of graft. The ruling overturned the guilty verdict that had been found in 1993.
2004 The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
2007 Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf won a presidential election boycotted by most of his opponents.
Current Birthdays
Jeremy Sisto turns 34 years old today.
66 Britt Ekland
Actress
66 Fred Travalena
Comedian
62 Millie Small
Singer
58 Thomas McClary
R&B musician
57 Kevin Cronin
Rock musician (REO Speedwagon)
54 David Hidalgo
Rock musician (Los Lobos)
53 Tony Dungy
Football coach
45 Elisabeth Shue
Actress
44 Matthew Sweet
Rock singer
42 Jacqueline Obradors
Actress
42 Tim Rushlow
Country singer
42 Tommy Stinson
Rock musician
37 Emily Mortimer
Actress
35 Ioan Gruffudd
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Helen Wills-Moody
10/6/1905 - 1/1/1998
American athlete
16 Wenceslas III
10/6/1289 - 8/4/1306
King of Hungary (1301-4)
69 James McGill
10/6/1744 - 12/19/1813
Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, merchant and politician
43 Sir Isaac Brock
10/6/1769 - 10/13/1812
British politician and soldier; important figure in War of 1812
67 Jenny Lind
10/6/1820 - 11/2/1887
Swedish singer
67 George Westinghouse
10/6/1846 - 3/12/1914
American industrial engineer
70 George Horace Lorimer
10/6/1867 - 10/22/1937
American editor of the Saturday Evening Post
54 Karol Szymanowski
10/6/1882 - 3/29/1937
Polish composer
77 Le Corbusier
10/6/1887 - 8/27/1965
Swiss-born French architect
77 Janet Gaynor
10/6/1906 - 9/14/1984
American actress
33 Carole Lombard
10/6/1908 - 1/16/1942
American actress
1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances."
1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga began.
1868 - Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, NY.
1913 - For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.
1918 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball 978 yards and never threw a pass.
1939 - "Kate Hopkins, Angel of Mercy" was heard for the first time on CBS radio.
1940 - "Portia Faces Life" debuted on the NBC Red network.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1951 - The Western Hills Hotel in Fort Worth, TX, became the first hotel to feature all foam-rubber mattresses and pillows.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted the film-rating system that ranged for "G" to "X."
1981 - The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt.
1985 - Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. There were 440 people onboard. They surrendered after two days and killing American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
1985 - 91 people were killed in Ponce, Puerto Rico, by a mudslide.
1989 - In Budapest, Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism.
1992 - In Peru, a secret military tribunal sentenced Abimael Guzman to life in prison without parole. He was the leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval firepower to Somalia.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
1995 - More than 80 people were killed in Indonesia when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter Scale hit.
1998 - The U.S. government filed an antitrust suit that alleged Visa and MasterCard inhibit competition by preventing banks from offering other cards.
1999 - American Home Products Corp. agreed to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug caused dangerous problems with heart valves.
2000 - Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia's first popularly elected president.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 73rd home run of the season and set a new major league record.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
2003 - Randy Quaid received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 - Billy Bob Thornton got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Current Birthdays
Desmond Tutu turns 77 years old today.
81 Al Martino
Singer
65 Oliver North
Former National Security Council aide
63 Kevin Godley
Rock musician (10cc)
61 Jill Larson
Actress ("All My Children")
59 Kieran Kane
Country singer
58 Dick Juaron
Football coach
57 John Mellencamp
Rock singer, musician
56 Mary Badham
Actress ("To Kill a Mockingbird")
55 Christopher Norris
Actor
55 Tico Torres
Rock musician (Bon Jovi)
53 Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
51 Michael W. Smith
Gospel singer
50 Dylan Baker
Actor
49 Simon Cowell
TV personality ("American Idol")
49 Charlie Marinkovich
Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
46 Dale Watson
Country singer
47 Tony Sparano
Football coach
45 Ann Curless
Singer
41 Toni Braxton
R&B singer
40 Thom Yorke
Rock singer, musician (Radiohead)
39 Leeroy Thornhill
Musician, dancer
38 Nicole Ari Parker
Actress
33 Damian Kulash
Rock musician (OK Go)
32 Taylor Hicks
Singer ("American Idol")
32 Charles Woodson
Football player
30 Omar Benson Miller
Actor
23 Evan Longoria
Baseball player
Historic Birthdays
Elijah Muhammad
10/7/1897 - 2/25/1975
American leader of the Nation of Islam (1934-75)
71 William Laud
10/7/1573 - 1/10/1645
English Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45)
66 James Witcomb Riley
10/7/1849 - 7/22/1916
American poet
50 George Cram Cook
10/7/1873 - 1/14/1924
American writer
77 Niels Henrik David Bohr
10/7/1885 - 11/18/1962
American scientist
77 Henry Agard Wallace
10/7/1888 - 11/18/1965
American vice president (1941-5); Progressive Party candidate for president (1948)
44 Heinrich Himmler
10/7/1900 - 5/23/1945
German National Socialist politician, administrator and military commander
73 Joe Jo Jones
10/7/1911 - 9/3/1985
American musician
77 Alfred Drake
10/7/1914 - 7/25/1992
American singer
1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings. About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless.
1871 - Peshtigo, WI, was destroyed by a forest fire. Over 1,100 people were killed by the fire that eventually burned across 6 counties.
1895 - The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1904 - "Little Johnny Jones" opened in Hartford, CT.
1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for the murder of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1935 - "The O’Neills" debuted on CBS radio.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1950 - U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first time.
1956 - Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.
1957 - Jack Soble, a confessed Soviet spy, was sentenced to seven years in prison for espionage.
1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.
1966 - The U.S. Government declares that LSD is dangerous and an illegal substance.
1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.
1979 - "Sugar Babies" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.
1982 - In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.
1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.
1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear. The condition had happened in a three month period.
2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.
2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
2003 - It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.
2003 - Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the "Siegfried and Roy" show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.
2004 - At Alderson Federal Prison Camp, WV, Martha Stewart began her five-month prison sentence. The sentence was imposed for Stewart lying about a stock sale.
Current Birthdays
Chevy Chase turns 65 years old today.
72 Rona Barrett
Entertainment reporter
70 Fred Stolle
Tennis Hall of Famer
69 Paul Hogan
Actor ("Crocodile Dundee" movies)
68 Fred Cash
R&B singer (The Impressions)
67 Jesse Jackson
Civil rights leader
65 R.L. Stine
Author
64 Susan Raye
Country singer
60 Sarah Purcell
TV personality
59 Sigourney Weaver
Actress
58 Robert "Kool" Bell
R&B singer (Kool & the Gang)
56 Edward Zwick
Director, producer
55 Ricky Lee Phelps
Country musician
54 Michael Dudikoff
Actor
53 Darrell Hammond
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
52 Stephanie Zimbalist
Actress
47 Mitch Marine
Rock musician
45 Steve Perry
Rock singer (Cherry Poppin' Daddies)
44 Ian Hart
Actor
44 CeCe Winans
Gospel, R&B singer
43 C.J. Ramone
Rock musician (The Ramones)
42 Teddy Riley
R&B singer, producer
40 Emily Procter
Actress ("CSI: Miami")
38 Matt Damon
Actor
29 Kristanna Loken
Actress
29 Byron Reeder
R&B singer (Mista)
28 Nick Cannon
Actor
15 Angus T. Jones
Actor ("Two and a Half Men")
Historic Birthdays
Edward V. Rickenbacker
10/8/1890 - 7/23/1973
American World War I fighter pilot and aviation industrialist
87 Heinrich Schutz
10/8/1585 - 11/6/1672
German composer
74 Edmund Steadman
10/8/1833 - 1/18/1908
American poet and banker
66 John Milton Hay
10/8/1838 - 7/1/1905
American politician; U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905)
78 Juan D. Peron
10/8/1895 - 7/1/1974
Argentinian president (1946-55, 1973-4)
65 Frank Herbert
10/8/1920 - 2/11/1986
American writer
1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1812 - During the War of 1812 American forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.
1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.
1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard received a patent for his calliope.
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1914 - During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.
1919 - The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series. The win would be later tainted when 8 Chicago White Sox were charged with throwing the game. The incident became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.
1930 - Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.
1935 - "Cavalcade of America" was first broadcast on CBS radio.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.
1943 - "Land of the Lost" debuted on ABC radio.
1946 - "The Iceman Cometh" opened in New York City, NY.
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.
1947 - The Broadway show, "High Button Shoes", opened.
1963 - Over 2,000 people were killed in northeast Italy when the Vaiont Dam was overrun by water. The incident was caused by landslide that occurred behind the dam.
1967 - Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian soldiers for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1974 - Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb."
1983 - Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member.
1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1986 - U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
1986 - Joan Rivers debuted her new "The Late Show" on the FOX network.
1986 - The musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.
1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.
1991 - The play revival "On Borrowed Time" opened.
1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1995 - Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed killing one and injuring a hundred.
2000 - Brett Hull (Dallas Stars) scored his 611th National Hockey League (NHL) goal. The goal allowed him to pass his father, Bobby Hull, on the all time scoring list bringing him to number 9.
2001 - Prosecutors in Miami, FL, announced that they would seek a prison sentence if O.J. Simpson was convicted in his road rage trial. Jury selection began for the trial just after the announcement.
2003 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
Current Birthdays
Annika Sorenstam turns 38 years old today
86 Fyvush Finkel
Actor
67 Trent Lott
U.S. senator, R-Miss.
64 Nona Hendryx
R&B singer
60 Jackson Browne
Rock singer
58 Gary Frank
Actor
57 Richard Chaves
Actor
57 Robert Wuhl
Actor
56 Sharon Osbourne
TV personality ("The Osbournes")
55 Tony Shalhoub
Actor ("Monk," "Wings")
54 Scott Bakula
Actor ("Star Trek: Enterprise," "Quantum Leap")
54 James Fearnley
Rock musician (The Pogues)
54 John O'Hurley
Actor
50 Mike Singletary
Football Hall of Famer
50 Michael Pare
Actor
48 Kenny Garrett
Jazz saxophonist
47 Kurt Neumann
Rock singer, musician (The BoDeans)
44 Gary Bennett
Country singer
44 Guillermo del Toro
Director ("Pan's Labyrinth")
39 P.J. Harvey
Rock singer
35 Tommy Shane Steiner
Country singer
33 Sean Lennon
Rock musician
30 Randy Spelling
Actor
29 Brandon Routh
Actor ("Superman Returns")
27 Zachery Ty Bryan
Actor ("Home Improvement")
16 Tyler James Williams
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Bruce Catton
10/9/1899 - 8/28/1978
American historian
72 Robert de Sorbon
10/9/1201 - 8/15/1274
French theologian
79 King Charles X
10/9/1757 - 11/6/1836
French king (1824-30)
86 Camille Saint-Saens
10/9/1835 - 12/16/1921
French composer
66 Leonard Wood
10/9/1860 - 8/7/1927
American medical officer and governor general of the Philippines (1921-7)
66 Charles R. Walgreen
10/9/1873 - 12/11/1939
American pharmacist
53 Aimee Semple McPherson
10/9/1890 - 9/27/1944
Canadian-born American evangelist
75 Walter O'Malley
10/9/1903 - 8/9/1979
American lawyer
1845 - The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, MD.
1865 - The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its U.S. debut in New York City.
1887 - Thomas Edison organized the Edison Phonograph Company.
1911 - China's Manchu dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike that ended the construction of the Panama Canal.
1928 - "Hold Everything" opened on Broadway.
1932 - "Betty and Bob" began on radio.
1932 - "Judy and Jane" began on radio.
1933 - Dreft, the first synthetic detergent, went on sale.
1937 - The Mutual Broadcasting System debuted "Thirty Minutes in Hollywood".
1938 - Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1943 - Chaing Kai-shek took the oath of office as the president of China.
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official had been refused service in a Dover, DE, restaurant.
1959 - Pan American World Airways announced the beginning of the first global airline service.
1963 - A dam burst in Italy killing 3,000 people.
1965 - The Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
1970 - Pierre Laporte, the labor minister of Quebec, was kidnapped by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) during the October Crisis in Canada. He was found eight days later strangled to death.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1973 - Fiji became independent after of nearly a century of British rule.
1977 - Joe Namath played the last game of his National Football League (NFL) career.
1978 - The U.S. bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1985 - U.S. fighter jets forced an Egyptian plane to land in Italy so that the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achilles Lauro could be arrested.
1986 - An estimated 1,500 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale struck San Salvador, El Salvador.
1987 - Tom McClean finished rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. It set the record at 54 days and 18 hours.
1991 - The United States cut all foreign aid to Haiti in reaction to a military coup that forced President Jean-Claude Aristide into exile.
1994 - Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras resigned as Haiti's commander-in-chief of the army and pledged to leave the country.
1994 - Iraq announced it was withdrawing its forces from the Kuwaiti border. No signs of a pullback were observed.
1995 - Gary Kasparov won a chess championship against Viswanathan Anand that had lasted about a month.
1997 - The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened to the public. Architect Frank Gehry designed the 450 ft. long and 98 ft. wide building.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush presented a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
2003 - Rush Limbaugh annouced that he was addicted to painkillers and that he was going to check into a rehab center
2004 Actor Christopher Reeve, who became a quadriplegic after a May 1995 horse riding accident, died at age 52.
2005 Angela Merkel struck a power-sharing deal that made her the first woman and the first politician from the ex-communist East to serve as Germany's chancellor
Current Birthdays
Brett Favre turns 39 years old today.
78 Harold Pinter
Nobel Prize-winning playwright
67 Peter Coyote
Actor
62 Charles Dance
Actor
62 John Prine
Rock, country singer
62 Ben Vereen
Actor, dancer
60 Cyril Neville
Rock singer, musician (The Neville Brothers)
59 Jessica Harper
Actress
55 Midge Ure
Singer, musician
54 David Lee Roth
Rock singer (Van Halen)
50 Tanya Tucker
Country singer
49 Julia Sweeney
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
49 Bradley Whitford
Actor ("The West Wing")
47 Martin Kemp
Rock musician (Spandau Ballet)
45 Jim Glennie
Rock musician (James)
43 Rebecca Pidgeon
Actress
41 Mike Malinin
Rock musician (Goo Goo Dolls)
39 Wendi McLendon-Covey
Actress ("Reno 911!")
34 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Auto racer
30 Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Actress
29 Mya
R&B singer
24 Cherie
R&B singer
19 Aimee Teegarden
Actress ("Friday Night Lights")
Historic Birthdays
Thelonious Monk
10/10/1917 - 2/17/1982
American jazz pianist and composer
36 Jean-Antoine Watteau
10/10/1684 - 7/18/1721
French painter
78 Henry Cavendish
10/10/1731 - 2/24/1810
American chemist
82 Benjamin West
10/10/1738 - 3/11/1820
American painter
71 Benjamin Wright
10/10/1770 - 8/24/1842
American engineer; directed construction of Erie Canal
87 Giuseppe Verdi
10/10/1813 - 1/27/1901
Italian operatic composer
73 Queen Isabella II
10/10/1830 - 4/9/1904
Spanish queen (1833-68)
64 Maurice Prendergast
10/10/1859 - 2/1/1924
American-born Canadian painter
92 Helen Hayes
10/10/1900 - 3/17/1993
American actress
64 Alberto Giacometti
10/10/1901 - 1/11/1966
Swiss sculptor
86 Frederick Douglass Patterson
10/10/1901 - 4/26/1988
American educator; president of Tuskegee Institute (1935-53) and founder of United Negro College Fund
1759 - Parson Mason Weems was born. He is remembered for his fictitious stories that he presented as fact. He was responsible for the story about George Washington cutting down his father's cherry tree.
1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The forces under Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses.
1779 - Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman, was killed while fighting during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah, GA. He was fighting for American independence.
1809 - Meriwether Lewis committed suicide along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, was put into operation by the inventor John Stevens. The ferry went between New York City, NY, and Hoboken, NJ.
1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for the U.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it.
1881 - David Henderson Houston patented the first roll film for cameras.
1890 - The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, DC.
1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1929 - JCPenney opened a store in Milford, DE, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.
1932 - In New York, the first telecast of a political campaign was aired.
1936 - The radio show, "Professor Quiz", aired for the first time.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.
1958 - Pioneer 1, a lunar probe, was launched by the U.S. The probe did not reach its destination and fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.
1968 - Apollo 7 was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.
1971 - Hugh Downs left the "Today" show and "Concentration". He later became the host of ABC's "20/20".
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.
1975 - Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in Fayetteville, AR.
1976 - The "Gang of Four" of China was charged with plotting a coup and were arrested and imprisoned.
1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond, ME, were switched to direct-dial service.
1984 - Construction began on the Kamric/Cinergy Futursonics Studio in Houston, TX.
1984 - American Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first female astronaut to space walk. She was aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his first NHL shift.
1994 - U.S. troops in Haiti took control of the National Palace.
1994 - Iraqi troops began moving away from the Kuwaiti border.
1994 - The Colorado Supreme Court declared that the anti-gay rights measure in the state was unconstitutional.
2002 - In Cedar Grove, WI, ten people were killed when more than two dozen vehicles crashed on a foggy highway
Current Birthdays
Jane Krakowski turns 40 years old today.
83 Elmore Leonard
Author
82 Earle Hyman
Actor
81 William Perry
Former defense secretary
71 Ron Leibman
Actor
65 Gene Watson
Country singer
58 Catlin Adams
Actress, director
58 Patty Murray
U.S. senator, D-Wash.
58 Andrew Woolfolk
R&B musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
55 Paulette Carlson
Country singer
55 David Morse
Actor
52 Stephen Spinella
Actor ("24")
47 Steve Young
Football Hall of Famer
46 Joan Cusack
Actress
46 Scott Johnson
Rock musician (Gin Blossoms)
44 Michael J. Nelson
TV writer, host ("Mystery Science Theater 3000")
43 Sean Patrick Flanery
Actor
43 Orlando Hernandez
Baseball player
42 Luke Perry
Actor
42 Todd Snider
Folk singer, songwriter
38 U-God
Rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
37 MC Lyte
Rapper
33 NeeNa Lee
R&B singer
32 Emily Deschanel
Actress ("Bones")
23 Michelle Trachtenberg
Actress ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
Historic Birthdays
Eleanor Roosevelt
10/11/1884 - 11/7/1962
American First Lady (1933-44), diplomat and social reformer
64 James Barry
10/11/1741 - 2/22/1806
Irish painter
62 John Thadeus Delane
10/11/1817 - 11/22/1879
British editor
73 Harlan Fisk Stone
10/11/1872 - 4/22/1946
American jurist; associate justice (1925-41) and chief justice (1941-6) of U.S. Supreme Court
84 Francois Mauriac
10/11/1885 - 9/1/1970
French writer
68 Charles Revson
10/11/1906 - 8/24/1975
American business entrepeneur; founded Revlon cosmetics line
78 Joseph W. Alsop Jr.
10/11/1910 - 8/28/1989
American journalist
79 Jerome Robbins
10/11/1918 - 7/29/1998
American choreographer
1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.
1792 - The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in Baltimore, MD.
1810 - Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The royalty invited the public to attend the event which became an annual celebration that later became known as Oktoberfest.
1860 - Inventor Elmer Sperry was born on this day. He held patents on more than 400 inventions. The most important being the Sperry Automatic Pilot.
1892 - In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Columbus landing the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in public schools.
1895 - In Newport, RI, the first amateur golf tournament was held.
1915 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized U.S. citizens who identified themselves by dual nationalities.
1915 - British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium during World War I.
1920 - Construction of the Holland Tunnel began. It opened on November 13, 1927. The tunnel links Jersey City, NJ and New York City, NY.
1933 - John Dillinger, bank robber, escaped from a jail in Allen County, OH. The sheriff was killed by his gang as they helped Dillinger escape.
1933 - The U.S. Department of Justice acquired Alcatraz Island from the U.S. Army.
1937 - "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons" debuted on radio.
1938 - Filming began on "The Wizard of Oz."
1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1945 - Private First Class Desmond T. Doss was presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery as a medical corpsman. He was the first conscientious objector in American history to win the award.
1950 - The Kefauver Crime Commission convened in New York to investigate interstate organized crime.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded a shoe on his desk during a dispute at a U.N. General Assembly.
1961 - The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made. Walter Cronkite interviewed Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1964 - The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around the Earth. It was the first space flight to have a multi-person crew and the first flight to be performed without space suits.
1972 - During the Vietnam War, a racial brawl broke out aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Nearly 50 sailors were injured.
1976 - China announced that Hua Guo-feng was named to succeed the late Mao Tse-tung as chairman of the Communist Party.
1984 - An attempt on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's life was unsuccessful, but did take the lives of five people. The bomb had been planted by the I.R.A.
1988 - Federal prosecutors announced that the Sundstrand Corp. would pay $115 million dollars to settle with the Pentagon for overbilling airplane parts over a five-year period.
1989 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a statutory federal ban on the destruction of the American flag.
1993 - The play "Mixed Emotions" opened at the John Golden Theatre.
1994 - Haitian military leader Raoul Cedras was granted political asylum by Panama.
1994 - The Magellan space probe ended its four-year mission to Venus for the purpose of mapping.
1997 - The St. Francis Basilica and 15th-century bell tower above Foligno city hall in Italy were damaged by 3 earthquakes.
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Online Copyright Bill.
1999 - Rob Reiner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf seized power in a bloodless coup that toppled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Supreme Court ruled that the coup was legal but insisted that a civilian government be restored within three years.
2000 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, experienced a large explosion while refueling. The explosion was the result of a terrorist attack using a small boat. 17 crewmembers were killed and at least 39 were injured.
2000 - In Denver, CO, the U.S. District Court denied Timothy McVeigh's request for a new trial.
2001 - A special episode of America's Most Wanted was aired that focused on 22 wanted terrorists. The show was specifically requested by U.S. President George W. Bush.
2001 - A car bomb exploded in Madrid, Spain, that injured 17 people. Basque separatists claimed responsibility.
2002 - In Bali, Indonesia, over 180 people were killed and over 300 were injured when a bomb was detonated in a nightclub district.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average advanced over 11,900 for the first time.
1066 - The Battle of Hastings occurred in England. The Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II of England.
1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England. She was accused of conspiring against Queen Elizabeth I. Mary was beheaded the following February.
1644 - William Penn was born. Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers.
1879 - Thomas Edison signed an agreement with Jose D. Husbands for the sale of Edison telephones in Chile.
1887 - Thomas Edison and George E. Gouraud reached an agreement for the international marketing rights for the phonograph.
1890 - Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower was born. He became the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II and eventually the 34th U.S. President.
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting.
1922 - Lieutenant Lester James Maitland set a new airplane speed record when he reached a speed of 216.1 miles-per-hour.
1926 - The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, made its debut.
1928 - The first televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL. James Fowlkes and Cora Dennison were married in a radio studio.
1930 - Ethel Merman debuted on Broadway in "Girl Crazy."
1933 - Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1934 - "Lux Radio Theater" began airing on the NBC Blue radio network.
1936 - The first SSB (Social Security Board) office opened in Austin, TX. From this point, the Board's local office took over the assigning of Social Security Numbers.
1943 - The Radio Corporation of America finalized the sale of the NBC Blue radio network. Edward J. Noble paid $8 million for the network that was renamed American Broadcasting Company.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.
1944 - During World War II, the Second British Parachute Brigade liberated the city of Athens.
1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1954 - C.B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 people.
1960 - U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggested the idea of a Peace Corps.
1961 - "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" opened on Broadway.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. reconnaissance aircrafts photographed Soviet construction of intermediate-range missile sites in Cuba.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1968 - The first live telecast to come from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.
1970 - Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt following the death of President Nasser.
1979 - The first national homosexual rights march took place in Washington, DC, involving over 100,000 people.
1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. (MLB)
1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev charged that the U.S. wanted to "bleed the Soviet Union economically" with the arms race in space.
1987 - Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours.
1992 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo, was sentenced to death after being convicted of 52 serial killings.
1993 - In Haiti, Justice Minister Guy Malary was assassinated by gunmen who were supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - An armed gunman seized control of bus of tourists in Moscow's Red Square. The next day commandos stormed the bus freeing the four remaining hostages and killing the gunman.
1998 - The FBI charged Eric Robert Rudolph with 6 bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta. Rudolph was not in custody at the time the charges were filed.
1998 - Kendall Francois pled innocent on charges of killing eight women in New York.
2000 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight was hijacked just after takeoff from Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. The plane was taken to Baghdad, Iraq, where the two men surrendered peacefully after negotiations.
2001 - Toys "R" Us introduced the new version of Geoffrey the giraffe in a 60-second commercial before WABC-TV aired Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove."
2002 - Britain stripped power from the Catholic and Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland. Britain resumed sole responsibility for running Northern Ireland.
Current Birthdays
Usher turns 30 years old today
98 John Wooden
Hall of Fame basketball coach
92 C. Everett Koop
Former surgeon general
81 Roger Moore
Actor
71 Carroll Ballard
Director
70 John Dean
Former White House counsel
70 Melba Montgomery
Country singer
69 Ralph Lauren
Fashion designer
68 Cliff Richard
Singer
64 Udo Kier
Actor
62 Justin Hayward
Rock musician (The Moody Blues)
56 Harry Anderson
Actor ("Night Court")
55 Greg Evigan
Actor ("My Two Dads")
52 Beth Daniel
Golf Hall of Famer
52 Arleen Sorkin
TV personality ("America's Funniest People")
50 Thomas Dolby
Rock singer, musician
47 Joe Girardi
New York Yankees manager
43 Karyn White
R&B singer
38 Jon Seda
Actor
38 Doug Virden
Country musician
34 Natalie Maines
Country singer (Dixie Chicks)
33 Shaznay Lewis
Actress, singer
27 Jordan Brower
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Dwight David Eisenhower
10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969
34th president of the United States and supreme commander of World War II Allied forces in Europe
62 Sir Peter Lely
10/14/1618 - 12/7/1680
English painter
67 James II
10/14/1633 - 9/16/1701
English king (1685-8)
73 William Penn
10/14/1644 - 7/30/1718
English Quaker and advocate for religious liberty; founded American colony of Pennsylvania
58 George Grenville
10/14/1712 - 11/13/1770
English first lord of the Treasury (1763-5)
62 Francis Lightfoot Lee
10/14/1734 - 1/11/1797
American revolutionary leader; signed Declaration of Independence
48 Ferdinand VII
10/14/1784 - 9/29/1833
Spanish king (1808, 1813-33)
67 Elwood Haynes
10/14/1857 - 4/13/1925
American industrialist
92 Eamon de Valera
10/14/1882 - 8/29/1975
Irish politician and patriot; prime minister (1932-48; 1951-4; 1957-9) and president (1959-73)
99 Lillian Gish
10/14/1893 - 2/27/1993
American actress
67 e. e. cummings
10/14/1894 - 9/3/1962
American poet
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1844 - German philosopher Friedich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born.
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
1914 - The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for Germany.
1931 - "Cat and the Fiddle" opened in New York for the first of 395 performances.
1937 - "To Have and Have Not" by Ernest Hemingway was published for the first time.
1939 - New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later changed to La Guardia Airport.
1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.
1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.
1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.
1953 - "Teahouse of the August Moon" opened on Broadway. It ran for 1,027 performances.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missle sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordred the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.
1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1973 - "Tomorrow" debuted on NBC-TV.
1983 - U.S. Marines killed five snipers who had pinned them down in Beirut International Airport.
1989 - South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky, while playing for the Los Angeles Kings, surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.
1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.
1997 - British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.
1997 - The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. On January 14, 2005, a probe sent back pictures of Saturn's moon Titan during and after landing.
1998 - Typhoon Zeb killed 24 people and drove 100,000 more from their homes when it hit the Philippines.
1998 - The U.N. condemned the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba for the seventh year in a row.
1998 - James Woods received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passed within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2002 ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty in New York in the biotech company's insider trading scandal. (He was later sentenced to more than seven years in prison.)
2003 China launched its first manned space mission.
2005 Iraqis voted to approve a constitution
Current Birthdays
Elena Dementieva turns 27 years old today.
84 Lee Iacocca
Former Chrysler chairman
77 Freddy Cole
Jazz pianist
73 Barry McGuire
Rock singer
71 Linda Lavin
Actress ("Alice")
66 Penny Marshall
Actress, director
66 Don Stevenson
Rock musician (Moby Grape)
63 Jim Palmer
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Victor Banerjee
Actor
62 Richard Carpenter
Singer, musician (The Carpenters)
55 Tito Jackson
Singer (The Jackson Five)
54 Jere Burns
Actor
53 Tanya Roberts
Actress
49 Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
49 Emeril Lagasse
TV chef
46 Mark Reznicek
Rock musician
40 Vanessa Marcil
Actress
39 Paige Davis
TV host ("Trading Spaces")
39 Dominic West
Actor ("The Wire")
38 Eric Benet
R&B singer
38 Ginuwine
R&B singer
29 Chris Olivero
Actor ("Kyle XY")
27 Keyshia Cole
R&B singer
16 Vincent Martella
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
10/15/1844 - 8/25/1900
German philosopher
48 Virgil
10/15/70 BC - 9/21/19 BC
Roman poet
39 Evangelista Torricelli
10/15/1608 - 10/25/1647
Italian physicist and mathematician
71 Allan Ramsay
10/15/1686 - 1/7/1758
Scottish poet
65 James Tissot
10/15/1836 - 8/8/1902
French artist
59 John Lawrence Sullivan
10/15/1858 - 2/2/1918
American professional boxer
89 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
10/15/1872 - 12/28/1961
American first lady (1915-1921)
77 Marie C. C. Stopes
10/15/1880 - 10/2/1958
Scottish scientist and advocate of birth control
93 Sir P. G. Wodehouse
10/15/1881 - 2/14/1975
English comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright
50 S.S. VanDine
10/15/1888 - 4/11/1939
American critic, editor and author of popular detective novels
86 Mervyn LeRoy
10/15/1900 - 9/13/1987
American film director
1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.
1758 - Author Noah Webster was born. He was a teacher and journalist whose name is associated with the word "dictionary."
1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
1829 - The first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.
1846 - Ether, the painkiller, was used for the first time. The drug was invented by dentist William T. Morton.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).
1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.
1898 - Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was born. He served for 36 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.
1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.
1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.
1939 - "Right To Happiness" debuted on the NBC-Blue network.
1939 - "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened on Broadway.
1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
1942 - The ballet "Rodeo" premiered in New York City.
1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
1944 - "The Robe," by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.
1945 - "His Honor the Barber" debuted on NBC Radio.
1946 - 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.
1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.
1970 - Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.
1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.
1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours.
1989 - U.S. President Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.
1990 - Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
1990 - The play "Stand Up Tragedy" closed after only 13 performances.
1991 - George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, TX and began a shooting rampage in which he killed 23 people before taking his own life.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders.
1994 - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term.
1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.
1997 - Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.
2000 - It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.
2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.
2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.
Current Birthdays
Angela Lansbury turns 83 years old today.
81 Gunter Grass
Nobel Prize-winning author
71 Tony Anthony
Actor
68 Barry Corbin
Actor
65 C.F. Turner
Rock musician (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
62 Suzanne Somers
Actress ("Three's Company")
61 Bob Weir
Rock musician (Grateful Dead, Ratdog)
61 David Zucker
Producer, director
60 Jim Ed Norman
Producer, record company executive
57 Daniel Gerroll
Actor
56 Christopher Cox
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman
50 Tim Robbins
Actor
49 Gary Kemp
Actor, musician (Spandau Ballet)
48 Bob Mould
Rock musician (Husker Du)
47 Randy Vasquez
Actor ("JAG")
46 Flea
Rock musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
40 Todd Stashwick
Actor
39 Roy Hargrove
Jazz musician
39 Terri J. Vaughn
Actress
39 Wendy Wilson
Singer (Wilson Phillips)
37 B-Rock
Rapper (B-Rock and the Bizz)
33 Kellie Martin
Actress
31 John Mayer
Rock musician
28 Sue Bird
Basketball player
28 Jeremy Jackson
Actor ("Baywatch")
27 Brea Grant
Actress ("Heroes")
Historic Birthdays
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
10/16/1888 - 11/27/1953
American dramatist
69 Albrecht Von Haller
10/16/1708 - 12/12/1777
Swiss biologist
84 Noah Webster
10/16/1758 - 5/28/1843
American lexicographer
46 Oscar Wilde
10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Irish dramatist
87 David Ben-Gurion, aka David Green
10/16/1886 - 12/1/1973
Israeli statesman; first prime minister and secretary of defense (1948-53, 1955-63)
31 Michael Collins
10/16/1890 - 8/22/1922
Irish revolutionary leader and statesman
81 William Orville Douglas
10/16/1898 - 1/19/1980
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939-75)
51 Ford Lee Buck Washington
10/16/1903 - 1/31/1955
American jazz musician
1777 - American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
1880 - Founder of the Kraft Food Company, Charles Kraft was born.
1888 - The first issue of "National Geographic Magazine" was released at newsstands.
1917 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed.
1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1933 - "News-Week" appeared for the first time at newsstands. The name was later changed to "Newsweek."
1933 - Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after leaving Germany.
1939 - "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" premiered.
1945 - Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw were married.
1945 - Colonel Juan Peron became the dictator of Argentina after staging a coup in Buenos Aires.
1973 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began an oil-embargo against several countries including the U.S. and Great Britain. The incident stemmed from Western support of Israel when Egypt and Syria attacked the nation on October 6, 1973. The embargo lasted until March of 1974.
1978 - U.S. President Carter signed a bill that restored full U.S. citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1979 - Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - U.S. first lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1989 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit the San Francisco Bay area in California. The quake caused about 67 deaths, 3,000 injuries, and damages up to $7 billion.
1994 - Israel and Jordan initialed a draft peace treaty.
1994 - The Angolan government and rebels agreed to a peace treaty that ended their 19 years of civil war.
1997 - The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
2000 - In New York City, Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum opened to the public. The 42nd Street location joined Tussaud's other exhibitions already in London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Las Vegas.
2000 - Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) achieved his 448th victory as a goalie in the NHL. Roy passed Terry Sawchuck to become the record holder for career victories.
2001 - Israel's tourism minister was killed. A radical Palestinian faction claimed that it had carried out the assassination to avenge the killing of its leader by Israel 2 months earlier.
2001 - Pakistan placed its armed forces on high alert because of troop movements by India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. India said that the movements were part of a normal troop rotation.
2001 - The U.S. Capitol building was closed because of an outside threat. The Capitol building and all House office buildings were closed for inspection following the discovery of anthrax in a Senate office building.
2001 - Italian priest Giuseppe "Beppe" Pierantoni was kidnapped by the terrorist group the "Pentagon." He was released on April 8, 2002.
2003 - In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug, known as memantine, to help people with Alzheimer's symptoms.
2003 - In Taipei, Taiwan, construction crews finished 1,676-foot-tall-building called Taipei 101. The building was planned to open for business in 2004.
2003 - In northwest England, the Carnforth railway station reopened as a heritage center.
Current Birthdays
Alan Jackson turns 50 years old today.
91 Marsha Hunt
Actress
82 Julie Adams
Actress
82 Beverly Garland
Actress
78 Jimmy Breslin
Newspaper columnist
67 Earl Thomas Conley
Country singer
66 Jim Seals
Singer (Seals & Crofts)
66 Gary Puckett
Singer
61 Michael McKean
Actor ("This is Spinal Tap," "Laverne and Shirley")
60 Margot Kidder
Actress
60 George Wendt
Actor ("Cheers")
53 Sam Bottoms
Actor
48 Rob Marshall
Director ("Chicago")
46 Mike Judge
Animator ("Beavis and Butthead")
45 Fred LeBlanc
Rock singer, musician (Cowboy Mouth)
45 Norm Macdonald
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
40 Ziggy Marley
Reggae musician
39 Ernie Els
Golfer
37 Chris Kirkpatrick
Singer ('N Sync)
36 Eminem
Rapper
36 Sharon Leal
Actress ("Boston Public")
34 Matthew Macfadyen
Actor ("MI-5")
31 Sergio Andrade
Rock musician
Historic Birthdays
Rita Hayworth
10/17/1918 - 5/14/1987
American film actress
54 Johann Gerhard
10/17/1582 - 8/17/1637
German theologian
75 Frederick Childe Hassam
10/17/1859 - 8/27/1935
American painter
73 Ernest Goodpasture
10/17/1886 - 9/20/1960
American pathologist
90 Jean Arthur
10/17/1900 - 6/19/1991
American actress
37 Nathanael West
10/17/1903 - 12/22/1940
American author
65 Pope John Paul I
10/17/1912 - 9/28/1978
Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1978)
81 Jerry Siegel
10/17/1914 - 1/28/1996
American cartoonist
89 Arthur Miller
10/17/1915 - 2/10/2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright
45 Montgomery Clift
10/17/1920 - 7/23/1966
American film actor
1469 - Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile. The marriage united all the dominions of Spain.
1685 - King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, which had established the legal toleration of the Protestant population.
1767 - The Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse laid his first telegraph cable.
1860 - British troops burned the Yuanmingyuan at the end of the Second Opium War.
1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre).
1873 - The first rules for intercollegiate football were drawn up by representatives from Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities.
1892 - The first long-distance telephone line between Chicago, IL, and New York City, NY, was opened.
1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico only one year after the Caribbean nation won its independence from Spain.
1929 - The Judicial Committee of England’s Privy Council ruled that women were to be considered as persons in Canada.
1931 - Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died at the age of 84.
1943 - The first broadcast of "Perry Mason" was presented on CBS Radio. The show went to TV in 1957.
1944 - Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Soviets during World War II.
1944 - "Forever Amber", written by Kathleen Windsor, was first published.
1950 - Connie Mack announced that he was going to retire after 50 seasons as the manager of the Philadelphia Athletics.
1956 - NFL commissioner Bert Bell disallowed the use of radio-equipped helmets by NFL quarterbacks.
1958 - The first computer-arranged marriage took place on Art Linkletter's show.
1961 - Henri Matiss' "Le Bateau" went on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was discovered 46 days later that the painting had been hanging upside down.
1967 - The American League granted permission for the A's to move to Oakland. Also, new franchises were awarded to Kansas City and Seattle.
1968 - Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee for giving a "black power" salute during a ceremony in Mexico City.
1969 - The U.S. government banned artificial sweeteners due to evidence that they caused cancer.
1970 - Quebec's minister of labor was found strangled to death after eight days of being held captive by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).
1971 - After 34 years, the final issue of "Look" magazine was published.
1977 - A German special forces team stormed a hijacked Lufthansa airliner and killed all four hijackers and freed 86 hostages. The Palestinian hijackers had demanded the release of members of the Red Army Faction.
1977 - Reggie Jackson tied Babe Ruth's record for hitting three homeruns in a single World Series game. Jackson was only the second player to achieve this.
1983 - General Motors agreed to hire more women and minorities for five years as part of a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1985 - South African authorities hanged black activist Benjamin Moloise. Moloise had been convicted of murdering a police officer.
1989 - Egon Krenz became the leader of East Germany after Erich Honecker was ousted. Honeker had been in power for 18 years.
1989 - The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on a mission that included the deployment of the Galileo space probe.
1990 - Iraq made an offer to the world that it would sell oil for $21 a barrel. The price level was the same as it had been before the invasion of Kuwait.
1997 - A monument honoring U.S. servicewomen, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.
2001 - In New York, four defendants were convicted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
2001 - It was announced that a New Jersey letter carrier and an employee in the office of CBS news anchorman Dan Rather's office had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2006 The Dow Jones industrial average passed 12,000 for the first time before pulling back to close at 11,992.68.
2007 Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, ending eight years of self-imposed exile; a suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming her killed more than 140 people, but Bhutto escaped unhurt.
Current Birthdays
Ne-Yo turns 29 years old today.
82 Chuck Berry
Rock musician
80 Keith Jackson
Sportscaster
70 Dawn Wells
Actress ("Gilligan's Island")
69 Mike Ditka
Hall of Fame football coach, sportscaster
61 Joe Morton
Actor
57 Pam Dawber
Actress ("Mork and Mindy")
57 Terry McMillan
Author
55 Vickie Winans
Gospel singer
52 Martina Navratilova
Tennis Hall of Famer
48 Erin Moran
Actress ("Happy Days")
48 Jean-Claude Van Damme
Actor
47 Wynton Marsalis
Trumpeter
46 Vincent Spano
Actor
42 Tim Cross
Rock musician (Sponge)
35 Nonchalant
R&B singer
34 Peter Svensson
Rock musician (The Cardigans)
30 Wesley Jonathan
Actor
28 Josh Gracin
Country singer ("American Idol")
27 Jesse Littleton
Country musician (Marshall Dyllon)
21 Zac Efron
Actor ("High School Musical" movies)
19 Joy Lauren
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
17 Tyler Posey
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
10/18/1919 - 9/28/2000
Prime minister of Canada
58 Pope Pius II
10/18/1405 - 8/14/1464
Italian Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1458-64)
59 Edward Winslow
10/18/1595 - 5/8/1655
English founder of Plymouth Colony
72 Luca Giordano
10/18/1632 - 1/3/1705
Italian painter
70 Canaletto
10/18/1697 - 4/20/1768
Italian painter
68 Robert L. Stevens
10/18/1787 - 4/20/1856
American poet
68 Christian Friedrich Schonbein
10/18/1799 - 8/29/1868
German chemist
81 Henri Bergson
10/18/1859 - 1/4/1941
French philosopher
81 Lotte Lenya
10/18/1898 - 11/27/1981
Austrian singer and actress
73 Melina Mercouri
10/18/1920 - 3/6/1994
Greek actress
1765 - In the U.S., The Stamp Act Congress met and drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 - British General Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered to U.S. General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. It was to be the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces began their retreat out of Russia after a month of chasing the retreating Russian army.
1885 - Charles Merrill, founder of Merrill-Lynch, was born.
1914 - In the U.S., government owned vehicles were first used to pick up mail in Washington, DC.
1915 - The U.S. recognized General Venustiano Carranza as the president of Mexico. The U.S. imposed embargo to all parts of Mexico except where Carranza was in control.
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1937 - "Woman's Day" was published for the first time.
1937 - "Big Town" made its debut on CBS.
1943 - The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began in Russia during World War II. Delegates from the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, the U.S., and China met to discuss war aims and cooperation between the nations.
1944 - The play "I Remember Mama" opened on Broadway. Marlon Brando made his debut with his appearance.
1944 - The U.S. Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
1950 - The United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.
1959 - Patty Duke, at the age of 12, made her Broadway debut in "The Miracle Worker." The play lasted for 700 performances.
1960 - The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.
1969 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1974 - The news program "Weekend" debuted on NBC.
1977 - The Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a bill establishing a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 - Four U.S. employees of the CIA were killed in El Salvador when their plane crashed.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 508 points. It was the worst one-day percentage decline, 22.6%, in history.
1989 - The Guilford Four were cleared of all charges and released after 14 years in prison. The charges were from the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford and Woolrich, England.
1989 - The U.S. Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that barred the desecration of the American flag.
1993 - Benazir Bhutto was returned to the premiership of Pakistan.
1998 - In Washington, DC, Microsoft went on trial to defend against an antitrust case.
1998 - Fires in Nigeria swept through villages killing 500 people.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2001 - Two U.S. Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan. The deaths were the first American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2001 - It was reported that a New Jersey postal worker and a New York Post employee had tested positive for skin anthrax.
2002 - In York, PA, former mayor Charlie Robertson was acquitted and two other men were convicted in the shotgun murder of a young black woman during race riots in 1969.
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box that had been suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on September 5.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day at 12,011.73. It was the first close above 12,000.
Current Birthdays
John Lithgow turns 63 years old today.
90 Robert S. Strauss
Former U.S. ambassador to Russia
77 John le Carre
Author
71 Peter Max
Artist
68 Michael Gambon
Actor
63 Patricia Ireland
Feminist activist
63 Jeannie C. Riley
Country singer
56 Charlie Chase
Talk show host
51 Karl Wallinger
Rock musician (World Party)
48 Jennifer Holliday
R&B singer
46 Evander Holyfield
Boxer
44 Ty Pennington
TV host ("Extreme Makeover: Home Edition")
43 Todd Park Mohr
Rock musician (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
42 Jon Favreau
Actor
41 Amy Carter
Daughter of former President Jimmy Carter
39 Trey Parker
TV producer ("South Park")
38 Chris Kattan
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
36 Pras Michel
Singer (The Fugees)
32 Omar Gooding
Actor
32 Cyndi Thomson
Country singer
32 Michael Young
Baseball player
31 Jason Reitman
Writer, director ("Thank You for Smoking," "Juno")
28 Benjamin Salisbury
Actor ("The Nanny")
Historic Birthdays
Charles E. Merrill
10/19/1885 - 10/6/1956
American financier
77 Sir Thomas Browne
10/19/1605 - 10/19/1682
English physican and author
33 Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
10/19/1748 - 9/6/1782
American wife of Thomas Jefferson
74 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
10/19/1784 - 8/28/1859
English essayist, critic, journalist and poet
82 Edmund Beecher Wilson
10/19/1856 - 3/3/1939
American biologist
75 Alfred Dreyfus
10/19/1859 - 7/12/1935
French army officer tried for treason in famous trial
91 Auguste Lumiere
10/19/1862 - 4/10/1954
French inventor
1740 - Maria Theresa became the ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia with the death of her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.
1774 - The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, passed an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies "discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment."
1803 - The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 - The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
1827 - The Battle of Navarino took place during the Greek War for Independence.
1873 - A Hippodrome was opened in New York City by showman Phineus T. (P.T.) Barnum.
1892 - The city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.
1903 - A joint commission ruled in favor of the U.S. concerning a dispute over the boundary between Canada and the District of Alaska.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for the first time.
1930 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" debuted on NBC radio.
1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.
1942 - Pierre Laval told the French labor that they must serve in Germany.
1944 - Allied forces invaded the Philippines.
1944 - During World War II, the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated.
1947 - Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry.
1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya.
1955 - "No Time for Sergeants" opened on Broadway.
1957 - Walter Cronkite began hosting "The 20th Century." The show aired until January 4, 1970.
1967 - Seven men were convicted in Meridian, MS, on charges of violating the civil rights of three civil rights workers. Of the men convicted one was a Ku Klux Klan leader and another was a sheriff's deputy.
1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.
1976 - More than 70 people were killed when the Norwegian tanker Frosta collided with the ferryboat George Prince on the Mississippi River.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was dedicated.
1984 - The U.S. State Department reduced the number of Americans assigned to the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1986 - American mercenary Eugene Hasenfus was formally charged by the Nicaraguan government on several charges including terrorism.
1993 - Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the violence in their programs.
1995 - Britain, France and the U.S. announced a treaty that banned atomic blasts in the South Pacific.
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
Current Birthdays
Viggo Mortensen turns 50 years old today.
76 William Christopher
Actor ("M*A*S*H")
71 Wanda Jackson
Country singer
71 Juan Marichal
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Elfriede Jelinek
Nobel Prize-winning author
56 Melanie Mayron
Actress
53 Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. senator, D-R.I.
50 Tom Petty
Rock singer, musician
44 David Ryan
Rock musician
44 Jim Sonefeld
Rock musician (Hootie & The Blowfish)
41 Doug Eldridge
Rock musician (Oleander)
37 Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Rapper
37 Dannii Minogue
Rock singer
32 Jeff Loberg
Country musician
29 John Krasinski
Actor ("The Office")
23 Jennifer Nicole Freeman
Actress ("My Wife and Kids")
Historic Birthdays
John Dewey
10/20/1859 - 6/1/1952
American philosopher
89 Andrea Della Robbia
10/20/1435 - 8/4/1525
Italian sculptor
90 Sir Christopher Wren
10/20/1632 - 2/25/1723
English architect
88 Daniel Sickles
10/20/1825 - 5/3/1914
American politician, soldier, diplomat
37 Arthur Rimbaud
10/20/1854 - 11/10/1891
French poet
79 Charles Edward Ives
10/20/1874 - 5/19/1954
American composer
71 Bela Lugosi
10/20/1882 - 8/16/1956
Hungarian actor
82 Sir James Chadwick
10/20/1891 - 7/24/1974
English physicist
81 Dame Anna Neagle
10/20/1904 - 6/3/1986
English actress and dancer
63 Mickey Mantle
10/20/1931 - 8/13/1995
American professional baseball player
47 Lewis Grizzard
10/20/1946 - 3/20/1994
American columnist
1797 - "Old Ironsides," the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston's harbor.
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet.
1849 - The first tattooed man, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York City, NY.
1858 - The Can-Can was performed for the first time in Paris.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France.
1918 - Margaret Owen set a typing speed record of 170 words per minute on a manual typewriter.
1925 - The photoelectric cell was first demonstrated at the Electric Show in New York City, NY.
1925 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620 people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.
1927 - Construction began on the Geoge Washington Bridge.
1944 - During World War II, the German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1950 - Chinese forces invaded Tibet.
1959 - The Guggenheim Museum was opened to the public in New York. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
1966 - In south Wales, 140 people were killed by a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and several houses.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
1980 - The Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1986 - Pro-Iranian kidnappers in Lebanon claimed that they had abducted American writer Edward Tracy. He was not released until August of 1991.
1986 - The U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave. The action was in reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats.
1988 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in New York on fraud and racketeering charges. Marcos died before his trial and Imelda was acquitted in 1990.
1991 - Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1993 - The play "The Twilight of the Golds" opened.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1994 - Rosario Ames, the wife of CIA agent Aldrich Ames, was sentenced to five years in prison for her role in her husband's espionage.
1998 - 68 people were arrested in Indonesia for the killing spree that left nine suspected murderers dead.
1998 - The New York Yankees set a major league baseball record of 125 victories for the regular and postseason combined.
1998 - Cancer specialist Dr. Jane Henney became the FDA's first female commissioner.
2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth abortions.
2003 - North Korea rejected U.S. President Bush's offer of a written pledge not to attack in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
Current Birthdays
Willis McGahee turns 27 years old today.
83 Joyce Randolph
Actress ("The Honeymooners")
80 Whitey Ford
Baseball Hall of Famer
68 Manfred Mann
Rock musician
67 Steve Cropper
Rock musician (Booker T. & the MG's)
66 Elvin Bishop
Singer
66 Judy Sheindlin
TV personality ("Judge Judy")
63 Everett McGill
Actor
62 Lee Loughnane
Rock musician (Chicago)
59 Benjamin Netanyahu
Former Israeli prime minister
55 Charlotte Caffey
Rock musician (The Go Go's)
52 Carrie Fisher
Actress, author
51 Julian Cope
Rock singer
51 Steve Lukather
Rock musician (Toto)
49 Ken Watanabe
Actor ("Letters from Iwo Jima")
38 Che Colovita Lemon
Rock musician
37 Nick Oliveri
Rock musician
35 Charlie Lowell
Rock musician (Jars of Clay)
32 Jeremy Miller
Actor ("Growing Pains")
30 Will Estes
Actor ("American Dreams")
28 Kim Kardashian
TV personality
26 Matt Dallas
Actor ("Kyle XY")
Historic Birthdays
Dizzy Gillespie
10/21/1917 - 1/6/1993
American jazz musician
61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10/21/1772 - 7/25/1834
English poet
? Samuel F. Smith
10/21/1808 - 11/16/1895
Boston-born Baptist minister and hymn writer ("America" (My Country 'Tis of Thee"))
64 Georg von Dollmann
10/21/1830 - 3/31/1895
German architect
63 Alfred Bernhard Nobel
10/21/1833 - 12/10/1896
Swedish chemist
58 Giuseppe Giacosa
10/21/1847 - 9/1/1906
Italian dramatist
85 Jay Norwood Darling
10/21/1876 - 2/12/1962
American political cartoonist
80 Ted Shawn
10/21/1891 - 1/9/1972
American dancer
62 Edna Purviance
10/21/1895 - 1/13/1958
American silent film-era actress
84 Sir George Solti
10/21/1912 - 9/5/1997
Hungarian conductor
42 B.C. - Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Philippi. He was a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar.
1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis defeated the Confederate forces in Missouri that were under Gen. Stirling Price.
1869 - John (William) Heisman was born. He is recognized as one of the greatest innovators of the game of football.
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight.
1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA.
1915 - Approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a march in New York City, NY.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.
1930 - J.K. Scott won the first miniature golf tournament. The event was held in Chattanooga, TN.
1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein, Egypt.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time.
1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungar and eventually suppress the uprising.
1956 - NBC broadcasted the first videotape recording. The tape of Jonathan Winters was seen coast to coast in the U.S.
1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval "quarantine" of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
1962 - The U.S. Navy reconnaissance squadron VFP-62 began overflights of Cuba under the code name "Blue Moon."
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications.
1980 - The resignation of Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin was announced.
1983 - At Beirut International Airport, a suicide bomber destroyed a U.S. Marine compound and killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. 58 French paratroopers were killed in a near-simultaneous attack.
1984 - "NBC Nightly News" aired footage of the severe drought in Ethiopia.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan arrived in New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1989 - In Boston, MA, Charles Stuart claimed he and his pregnant wife, Carol, had been shot in their car by a black robber. Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died. Charles Stuart later died, an apparent suicide, after he was implicated in the murder of his wife and child.
1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule.
1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
1992 - A former French health official was sentenced to four years in prison for allowing 1,200 hemophiliacs to receive AIDS-tainted blood.
1993 - Joe Carter (Toronto Blue Jays) became only the second player to end the World Series with a homerun.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1996 - The civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, CA. Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord.
1998 - Japan nationalized its first bank since World War II.
1998 - Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed legal abortions, was killed at his home in suburban Buffalo, NY, by sniper fire through his kitchen window. James Kopp was charged with second-degree murder.
2000 - Universal Studios Consumer Products Group (USCPG) and Amblin Entertainment announced an unprecedented and exclusive three-year worldwide merchandising program with Toys "R" Us, Inc. The deal was for the rights to exclusive "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" merchandise starting in fall 2001. The film was scheduled for re-release in the spring of 2002.
Current Birthdays
Jim Bunning turns 77 years old today.
72 Philip Kaufman
Director ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers")
68 Pele
Soccer player
66 Michael Crichton
Author
65 Barbara Ann Hawkins
R&B singer (The Dixie Cups)
62 Mel Martinez
U.S. senator, R-Fla.
57 Michael Rupert
Actor
54 Ang Lee
Director
52 Dianne Reeves
Jazz singer
52 Dwight Yoakam
Country singer
49 Sam Raimi
Director
49 Weird Al Yankovic
Musical parodist
46 Doug Flutie
Football player
44 Robert Trujillo
Rock musician (Metallica)
43 Al Leiter
Baseball player, sportscaster
42 Brian Nevin
Rock musician (Big Head Todd and the Monsters)
42 David Thomas
R&B singer (Take 6)
40 Junior Bryant
Country singer, musician
36 Jimmy Wayne
Country singer
34 Eric Bass
Rock musician (Shinedown)
33 Keith Van Horn
Basketball player
32 Ryan Reynolds
Actor
30 John Lackey
Baseball player
23 Masiela Lusha
Actress ("George Lopez")
22 Briana Evigan
Actress
22 Jessica Stroup
Actress ("90210")
Historic Birthdays
John William Heisman
10/23/1869 - 10/3/1936
American collegiate football coach
14 Peter II
10/23/1715 - 1/29/1730
Emperor of Russia (1727-30)
57 Pierre Larousse
10/23/1817 - 1/3/1875
French encyclopaedist
78 Adlai Ewing Stevenson
10/23/1835 - 6/14/1914
American lawyer and U.S. vice president (1893-7)
77 Frederick Lanchester
10/23/1868 - 3/8/1946
English engineer
101 William Coolidge
10/23/1873 - 2/3/1975
American inventor and engineer
77 Felix Bloch
10/23/1905 - 9/10/1983
Swiss-born American physicist
70 Frank Rizzo
10/23/1920 - 7/16/1991
American politician; mayor of Philadelphia (1972-80)
2137 B.C. - Chinese Royal astronomers, Ho and Hsi, were executed after not predicting a solar eclipse caused panic in the streets of China.
1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer died at the age of 57. He was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
1415 - In Northern France, England won the Battle of Agincourt over France during the Hundred Years' War. Almost 6000 Frenchmen were killed while fewer than 400 were lost by the English.
1760 - George III took the British throne after the death of King George II, his grandfather.
1812 - During the War of 1812, the U.S. frigate United States captured the British vessel Macedonian.
1854 - The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians. He took his troops into a valley and suffered 40 percent caualties. Later it was revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
1870 - The first U.S. trademark was given. The recipient was the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City.
1881 - The founder of "Cubism," Pablo Picasso, was born in Malaga, Spain.
1888 - Richard Byrd, the first person to see the North Pole, was born.
1917 - The Bolsheviks (Communists) under Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia.
1918 - The Canadian steamship Princess Sophia hit the reef off the coast of Alaska. Nearly 400 people died.
1920 - King Alexander of Greece died from blood poisoning that resulted from a bite from his pet monkey.
1929 - Alber B. Fall, of U.S. President Harding's cabinet, was found guilty of taking a bribe. He was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened to traffic.
1939 - "The Time of Your Life," by William Saroyan, opened in New York.
1951 - In Panmunjom, peace talks concerning the Korean War resumed after 63 days.
1954 - A U.S. cabinet meeting was televised for the first time.
1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.
1958 - U.S. Marines withdrew form Beirut, Lebanon. They had been sent in on July 25, 1958, to protect the nation's pro-Western government.
1960 - The Accutron watch by the Bulova Watch Company was introduced.
1962 - U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presented photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council. The photos were of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1962 - American author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and admit mainland China.
1983 - U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada's Communist (pro-Cuban) government.
1990 - It was announced by U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney that the Pentagon was planning to send 100,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. Smith was later convicted of drowning her children in a nearby lake.
1999 - Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet crashed in South Dakota. The plane flew uncontrolled for four hours before the crash.
2000 - AT&T Corp. announced that it would restructure into a family of four separately traded companies (consumer, business, broadband and wireless).
2001 - It was announced that scientists had unearthed the remains of an ancient crocodile which lived 110 million years ago. The animal, found in Gadoufaoua, Niger, grew as long as 40 feet and weighed as much as eight metric tons.
2002 Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., 58, was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota.
2003 Florida State's Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory as the Seminoles beat Wake Forest 48-24.
2005 U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000.
Current Birthdays
Ciara turns 23 years old today
91 Lee MacPhail
Hall of Fame baseball executive
85 Bobby Thomson
Baseball player
80 Jeanne Cooper
Actress ("The Young and the Restless")
80 Marion Ross
Actress ("Happy Days")
71 Jeanne Black
Country singer
68 Bobby Knight
Hall of Fame college basketball coach
67 Anne Tyler
Author
64 Jon Anderson
Rock singer (Yes)
64 Taffy Danoff
Singer (Starland Vocal Band)
61 Glenn Tipton
Rock musician (Judas Priest)
60 Dave Cowens
Bsaketball Hall of Famer
59 Brian Kerwin
Actor
53 Matthias Jabs
Rock musician (The Scorpions)
51 Nancy Cartwright
Actress ("The Simpsons")
50 Mark Miller
Country singer (Sawyer Brown)
46 Chad Smith
Rock musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
45 Tracy Nelson
Actress ("Father Dowling Mysteries")
44 Michael Boatman
Actor ("Spin City")
44 Kevin Michael Richardson
Actor
40 Speech
Singer
38 Adam Goldberg
Actor
38 Adam Pascal
Actor, singer
38 Ed Robertson
Rock musician (Barenaked Ladies)
38 Chely Wright
Country singer
37 Pedro Martinez
Baseball player
37 Midori
Violinst
37 Craig Robinson
Actor ("The Office")
35 Michael Weston
Actor
28 Mehcad Brooks
Actor ("Desperate Housewives")
28 Ben Gould
Actor
27 Young Rome
R&B singer
24 Katy Perry
Singer
Historic Birthdays
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
10/25/1881 - 4/8/1973
Spanish-born painter and sculptor
85 Samuel Heinrich Schwabe
10/25/1789 - 4/11/1875
German astronomer
20 Evariste Galois
10/25/1811 - 5/31/1832
French mathematician
73 Johann Strauss, Jr.
10/25/1825 - 6/3/1899
Austrian composer
36 Georges Bizet
10/25/1838 - 6/3/1875
French composer
79 Henry Norris Russell
10/25/1877 - 2/18/1957
American astronomer
68 Richard Evelyn Byrd
10/25/1888 - 3/11/1957
American naval officer
37 Floyd Bennett
10/25/1890 - 4/25/1928
American aviator
88 Charles Coughlin
10/25/1891 - 10/27/1979
American Roman Catholic priest and radio commentator
95 Henry Steele Commager
10/25/1902 - 3/2/1998
American writer and educator
30 Eddie Lang
10/25/1902 - 3/26/1933
American musician
84 Jack Kent Cooke
10/25/1912 - 4/6/1997
American businessman and sports team owner
83 Minnie Pearl
10/25/1912 - 3/4/1996
American country singer and entertainer
1774 - The First Continental Congress of the U.S. adjourned in Philadelphia.
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1854 - Charles William Post was born. He was the inventor of "Grape Nuts," "Postum" and "Post Toasties."
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the rotary-motion washing machine.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1914 - Jackie Coogan was born. He became the first child to appear in a full-length movie, "The Kid."
1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour.
1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.
1955 - New York City's "The Village Voice" was first published.
1957 - The Soviet Union announced that defense minister Marchal Georgi Zhukov had been relieved of his duties.
1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
1967 - The Shah of Iran crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1970 - "Doonesbury," the comic strip by Gary Trudeau, premiered in 28 newspapers across the U.S.
1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially visit to the United States.
1977 - The experimental space shuttle Enterprise successfully landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1979 - South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by Kim Jae-kyu, the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
1980 - Israeli President Yitzhak Navon became the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt.
1984 - "Baby Fae" was given the heart of baboon after being born with a severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the animal heart.
1985 - Approximately 110,000 people marched past the U.S. and Soviet embassies in London to pressure the two countries to end their arms race.
1988 - Roussel Uclaf, a French pharmaceutical company, announced it was halting the worldwide distribution of RU-486. The pill is used to induce abortions. The French government made the company reverse itself two days later.
1988 - Two whales were freed by Soviet and American icebreakers. The whales had been trapped for nearly 3 weeks in an Arctic ice pack.
1990 - The U.S. State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an attack on a passenger ship or aircraft.
1990 - William S. Paley died at the age of 89. He was the founder of CBS Inc.
1990 - Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to reach 2,000 points.
1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.
1992 - General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert Stempel resigned after the company recorded its highest losses in history.
1992 - In Canada, voters rejected the Charlottetown accord, which was designed to unify the country.
1993 - Deborah Gore Dean was convicted of 12 felony counts of defrauding the U.S. government and lying to the U.S. Congress. Dean was a central figure in the Reagan-era HUD scandal.
1994 - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty.
1995 - Alec Baldwin got into a fight with a paparazzi in front of his home when he and his wife Kim Bassinger were bringing their first baby home from the hospital.
1995 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 500th National Hockey League (NHL) career goal against the New York Islanders in his 605th game. He became the second-fastest player to attain the plateau. Wayne Gretzky had reached 600 goals by his 575th NHL game.
1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.
1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.
2001 - It was announced that Fort Worth's Lockheed Martin won a defense contract for $200 billion over 40 years. The contract, for the "joint strike fighter," was the largest defense contract in history.
2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas killed 116 hostages and all 50 hostage-takers were killed by the gas or gunshot wounds
Current Birthdays
Tom Cavanagh turns 40 years old today.
72 Shelley Morrison
Actress ("Will and Grace")
66 Bob Hoskins
Actor
63 Pat Conroy
Author
63 Jaclyn Smith
Actress ("Charlie's Angels")
62 Pat Sajak
TV game show host ("Wheel of Fortune")
61 Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. senator, D-N.Y.
57 Bootsy Collins
Musician
57 Maggie Roche
Singer (The Roches)
57 Julian Schnabel
Director
56 James Pickens Jr.
Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")
55 Keith Strickland
Rock musician (The B-52's)
54 D. W. Moffett
Actor
52 Rita Wilson
Actress
47 Dylan McDermott
Actor ("The Practice")
46 Cary Elwes
Actor
45 Natalie Merchant
Rock singer (10,000 Maniacs)
41 Keith Urban
Country singer
37 Anthony Rapp
Actor ("Rent")
31 Jon Heder
Actor ("Napoleon Dynamite")
30 Mark Barry
Singer (BB Mak)
24 Sasha Cohen
Figure skater
Historic Birthdays
Mahalia Jackson
10/26/1911 - 1/27/1972
American gospel singer
71 Domenico Scarlatti
10/26/1685 - 7/23/1757
Italian composer
34 Georges Jacques Danton
10/26/1759 - 4/5/1794
French Revolutionary leader
? Henry Deringer
10/26/1786 - 2/28/1868
American gunsmith
59 Charles William Post
10/26/1854 - 5/9/1914
U.S. manufacturer of breakfast cereals
81 Richard Dudley Sears
10/26/1861 - 4/8/1943
American tennis champion
86 John S. Knight
10/26/1894 - 6/16/1981
American journalist and publisher
83 Beryl Markham
10/26/1902 - 8/3/1986
British aviator, horse trainer and breeder, and writer
91 Jack Sharkey
10/26/1902 - 8/17/1994
Hall-of-fame heavyweight boxer
60 Primo Carnera
10/26/1906 - 6/29/1967
Italian-born U.S. heavyweight boxer
77 Charlie Barnet
10/26/1913 - 9/4/1991
American musician
69 Jackie Coogan
10/26/1914 - 3/1/1984
American silent film actor; played "The Kid"
79 Francois Mitterand
10/26/1916 - 1/8/1996
French president (1981-95)
60 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
10/26/1919 - 7/27/1980
Iranian Shah (1941-79)
1659 - William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed in America.
1787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York Independent. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius."
1795 - The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo. The treaty is also known as "Pinckney's Treaty."
1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.
1878 - The Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City was robbed of over $3,000,000. The robbery was credited to George "Western" Leslie even though there was not enough evidence to convict him, only two of his associates were convicted.
1880 - Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee.
1904 - The New York subway system officially opened. It was the first rapid-transit subway system in America.
1925 - Fred Waller received a patent for water skis.
1927 - The first newsreel featuring sound was released in New York.
1931 - Chuhei Numbu of Japan set a long jump record at 26' 2 1/4".
1938 - Du Pont announced "nylon" as the new name for its new synthetic yarn.
1947 - "You Bet Your Life," the radio show starring Grouch Marx, premiered on ABC. It was later shown on NBC television.
1954 - Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were divorced. They had been married on January 14, 1954.
1954 - The first Walt Disney television show "Disneyland" premiered on ABC.
1962 - The Soviet Union adds to the Cuban Missile Crisis by calling for the dismantling of U.S. missile basis in Turkey. U.S. President Kennedy agreed to the new aspect of the agreement.
1978 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.
1994 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population had exceeded one million for the first time in American history.
1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. The stock market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Reagan.
1998 - The reunion episode "CHiPs '99" aired for the first time on the cable network TNT.
1998 - A car bomb exploded in the car of a Palestinian leader Mahmoud Majzoub. Majzoub, his wife, and his nine-month-old son, and a passerby were injured in the blast.
1998 - "Lion King II: Simba's Pride" was released on video.
1998 - Two boats hit head-on in India. One of the boats suffered no damage. The other sank and 60 people were missing.
1999 - Armenia's Prime Minister and seven other government officials were killed during a parliamentary session. It was the believed that the gunmen were staging a coup.
2002 - The Anaheim Angels won their first World Series. The beat the San Francisco Giants in Game 7 of the series.
2002 - Emmitt Smith (Dallas Cowboys) became the all-time leading rusher in the NFL when he extended his career yardage to 16,743. He achieved the record in his 193rd game. He also scored his 150th career touchdown.
2002 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff. He was the country's first elected leftist leader.
2003 - Bank of America Corp. announced it had agreed to buy FleetBoston Financial Corp. The deal created the second largest banking company in the U.S.
Current Birthdays
John Cleese turns 69 years old today.
88 Nanette Fabray
Actress
86 Ralph Kiner
Baseball Hall of Famer
84 Ruby Dee
Actress
83 Warren Christopher
Former secretary of state
66 Lee Greenwood
Country singer
62 Ivan Reitman
Director, producer
59 Jack Daniels
Country musician
59 Garry Tallent
Rock musician (The E Street Band)
58 Fran Lebowitz
Author
57 K.K. Downing
Rock musician (Judas Priest)
56 Roberto Benigni
Actor, director ("Life is Beautiful")
55 Peter Firth
Actor
55 Robert Picardo
Actor
50 Simon LeBon
Singer (Duran Duran)
44 J.D. McFadden
Rock musician
41 Scott Weiland
Rock singer (Stone Temple Pilots)
41 Jason Finn
Rock musician (Presidents of the United States of America)
40 Sean Holland
Actor
31 Sheeri Rappaport
Actress
24 Kelly Osbourne
Rock singer, TV personality ("The Osbournes")
Historic Birthdays
Sylvia Plath
10/27/1932 - 2/11/1963
American poet
35 Catherine of Valois
10/27/1401 - 1/3/1437
French princess and wife of King Henry V
50 James Cook
10/27/1728 - 2/14/1779
British naval captain
57 Niccolo Paganini
10/27/1782 - 5/27/1840
Italian composer
63 Isaac Merrit Singer
10/27/1811 - 7/23/1875
American inventor; developed Singer sewing machine
79 Marcellin Berthelot
10/27/1827 - 3/18/1907
French chemist
60 Theodore Roosevelt
10/27/1858 - 1/6/1919
26th president of the United States (1901-9)
56 Alfred Whitney Griswold
10/27/1906 - 4/19/1963
American educator; president of Yale University (1950-63)
39 Dylan Marlais Thomas
10/27/1914 - 11/9/1953
Welsh writer
75 Oliver Tambo
10/27/1917 - 4/24/1993
South African president of the African National Congress (1969-91)
73 Roy Lichtenstein
10/27/1923 - 9/29/1997
American artist
67 H. R. Haldeman
10/27/1926 - 11/12/1993
American businessman and White House chief of staff (1969-73); convicted of Watergate crimes
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.
1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.
1682 - William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.
1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was electrocuted.
1911 - American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer died.
1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk.
1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.
1940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S.
1945 - The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.
1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal Crisis.
1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. The show replaced "The Camel News Caravan."
1959 - General Mills became the first corporation to use close-circuit television.
1960 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.
1964 - Three men stole the star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The men were later convicted of the crime.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school segregation.
1973 - O.J. Simpson, of the Buffalo Bills, set two NFL records. He carried the ball 39 times and he ran 157 yards putting him over 1,000 yards at the seventh game of the season.
1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status
1985 - It was announced that Maj. Gen. Samuel K. Doe had won the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1989 - A public mourning, involving over 20,000 East Berliners, was observed with a minute of silence for the people who had been killed while trying to flee over the Berlin Wall.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to hold Saddam Hussein's regime liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its occupation of Kuwait.
1991 - The U.S. Galileo spacecraft became the first to visit an asteroid (Gaspra).
1991 - Trade sanctions were imposed on Haiti by the U.S. to pressure the new leaders to restore the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
1992 - Depo Provera, a contraceptive, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
1993 - A group of U.S. athletes were attacked by skinheads in Germany.
1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania Ave. Duran was later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Clinton.
1995 - Palestinians swore revenge for the assassination of Dr. Fathi Shakaki.
1995 - Jerry Rice of the San Francisco 49ers became the NFL's career leader in receiving yards with 14,040 yards.
1996 - An auction was held to sell the artwork that had been stolen by the Nazis during the German occupation of Austria during World War II.
1998 - South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both apartheid and violence committed by the African National Congress.
1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board. Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
1998 - A Turkish Airlines flight was hijacked and ordered to fly to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The plane had 39 people on board.
1998 - In Freehold, NJ, Melissa Drexler was sentenced to 15 years in prison for strangling her baby after giving birth in the bathroom at her senior prom.
1998 - In London, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman accepted a substantial settlement from the Express Newspapers for an article that was run on October 5, 1997. The article claimed that both were homosexual and their marriage was a sham to cover the truth.
1998 - James Orr was sentenced to 3 years probation and ordered to do 100 hours of community service for slamming Farrah Fawcett's head to the ground and choking her during a fight.
1998 - A dance hall in Goteborg, Sweden, was gutted with fire killing 60 people. 173 were also injured in the fire.
1998 - The oldest known copy of Archimedes' work sold for $2 million at a New York auction.
2001 - KTLA broadcasted the first coast to coast HDTV network telecast
Current Birthdays
Gabrielle Union turns 35 years old today.
71 Sonny Osborne
Bluegrass musician (The Osborne Brothers)
68 Connie Mack III
Former U.S. senator, R-Fla.
66 Lee Clayton
Country singer
64 Denny Laine
Rock musician (Wings, Moody Blues)
63 Melba Moore
Singer
62 Peter Green
Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)
61 Richard Dreyfuss
Actor
60 Kate Jackson
Actress ("Charlie's Angels")
57 Dirk Kempthorne
Secretary of the Interior
55 Denis Potvin
Hockey Hall of Famer
51 Dan Castellaneta
Actor ("The Simpsons")
51 Steve Kellough
Country musician (Wild Horses)
47 Randy Jackson
Singer (The Jackson Five)
43 Peter Timmins
Rock musician (Cowboy Junkies)
41 Joely Fisher
Actress
41 Paris
Rapper
41 Rufus Sewell
Actor
39 SA Martinez
Rock singer (311)
38 Toby Smith
Musician (Jamiroquai)
37 Winona Ryder
Actress
36 Tracee Ellis Ross
Actress
35 Trevor Lissauer
Actor ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")
32 Milena Govich
Actress
31 Brendan Fehr
Actor
28 Ben Foster
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Fanny Brice
10/29/1891 - 5/29/1951
American singing commedian
75 William Hayley
10/29/1745 - 11/12/1820
English poet, biographer, patron of the arts
88 Daniel Decatur Emmett
10/29/1815 - 6/28/1904
American minstrel entertainer
69 Thomas Francis Bayard
10/29/1828 - 9/28/1898
American statesman, diplomat and lawyer
89 Franz Von Papen
10/29/1879 - 5/2/1969
German chancellor (1932)
88 Fred Lazarus Jr.
10/29/1884 - 5/27/1973
American merchandiser
47 Joseph Goebbels
10/29/1897 - 5/1/1945
Minister of propaganda for Nazi Germany
jibbijib
2008-10-29, 14:45
Holy cow minidog.
Today I make history by being me.
Funkwerkz
2008-10-29, 19:23
1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk.
I'm very proud.
1735 - John Adams, the second President of the United States, was born in Braintree, MA. His son became the sixth President of the U.S.
1817 - The independent government of Venezuela was established by Simon Bolivar.
1831 - Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American history.
1875 - The constitution of Missouri was ratified by popular vote.
1893 - The U.S. Senate gave final approval to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890.
1894 - The time clock was patented by Daniel M. Cooper of Rochester, NY.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
1943 - In Moscow, a declaration was signed by the Governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and China called for an early establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security. The goal was supported on December 1, 1943, at a meeting in Teheran.
1944 - Martha Graham's ballet "Appalachian Spring" premiered at the Library of Congress.
1945 - The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing.
1953 - General George C. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force of approximately 58 megatons.
1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved an order to remove Joseph Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.
1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon approved legislation to increase Social Security spending by $5.3 billion.
1972 - In Illinois, 45 people were killed when two trains collided on Chicago's south side.
1975 - Prince Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain as dictator Francisco Franco was near death.
1975 - The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The headline came a day after U.S. President Gerald R. Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
1984 - In Poland, police found the body of kidnapped pro-Solidarity priest Father Jerry Popieluszko. His death was blamed on four security officers.
1989 - Mitsubishi Estate Company announced it would buy 51 percent of Rockefeller Group Inc. of New York.
1993 - Martin Fettman, America's first veterinarian in space, performed the world's first animal dissections in space, while aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
1993 - The United Nations deadline concerning ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide passed with country's military still in control.
1995 - Federalist prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a referendum concerning secession from the federation of Canada.
1997 - The play revival "The Cherry Orchard" opened.
1998 - The terrorist who hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane and the 39 people on board was killed when anti-terrorist squads raided the plane.
2001 - In New York City, U.S. President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
2001 - Michael Jordan returned to the NBA with the Washington Wizards after a 3 1/2 year retirement. The Wizards lost 93-91 to the New York Knicks.
Nastia Liukin turns 19 years old today.
72 Dick Vermeil
Football coach
71 Dick Gautier
Actor
71 Claude Lelouch
Movie director
69 Eddie Holland
Songwriter
69 Grace Slick
Rock singer (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)
68 Ed Lauter
Actor
67 Otis Williams
R&B singer (The Temptations)
63 Henry Winkler
Actor ("Happy Days")
62 Chris Slade
Rock musician (Asia)
61 Timothy B. Schmit
Rock musician (The Eagles)
59 Leon Rippy
Actor
57 Harry Hamlin
Actor ("L.A. Law")
55 Charles Martin Smith
Actor
54 T. Graham Brown
Country singer
51 Kevin Pollak
Actor
48 Diego Maradona
Soccer player
45 Michael Beach
Actor
41 Gavin Rossdale
Rock musician (Bush)
38 Ben Bailey
Comedian, TV host ("Cash Cab")
38 Nia Long
Actress
32 Kassidy Osborn
Country singer (SHeDAISY)
30 Gael Garcia Bernal
Actor ("The Motorcycle Diaries")
16 Tequan Richmond
Actor ("Everybody Hates Chris")
Historic Birthdays
Fred Friendly
10/30/1915 - 3/3/1998
American broadcast journalist
90 John Adams
10/30/1735 - 7/4/1826
Second president of the United States (1797-1801)
59 Alfred Sisley
10/30/1839 - 1/29/1899
French Impressionist painter
64 Louis Winslow Austin
10/30/1867 - 6/27/1932
American physicist
76 William F. Halsey Jr.
10/30/1882 - 8/16/1959
American naval commander; led World War II Pacific naval campaigns
87 Ezra Loomis Pound
10/30/1885 - 11/1/1972
American poet and literary critic
79 Charles Atlas
10/30/1892 - 12/24/1972
Italian-born American bodybuilder; co-created mail-order bodybuilding course
77 Dickinson Woodruff Richards
10/30/1895 - 2/23/1973
American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (1956)
88 Ruth Gordon
10/30/1896 - 8/28/1985
American actress
71 Daniel Nathans
10/30/1928 - 11/16/1999
American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist (1978)
63 Louis Malle
10/30/1932 - 11/23/1995
French film director
Eric Lindros
2008-10-30, 15:22
Wow, Henry Winkler reaches 63? If he looks that good as on Roald's avatar.....then, he still rocks!:banger:
1517 - Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace Church. The event marked the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
1860 - Juliette Low, the founder off the Girl Scouts, was born.
1864 - Nevada became the 36th state to join the U.S.
1868 - Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.
1887 - Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek was born. He was the first constitutional President of the Republic of China.
1914 - The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) joined the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria).
1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.
1926 - Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. His appendix had been damaged twelve days earlier when he had been punched in the stomach by a student unexpectedly. During a lecture Houdini had commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows.
1940 - The British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevented Germany from invading Britain.
1941 - Mount Rushmore was declared complete after 14 years of work. At the time the 60-foot busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were finished.
1941 - The U.S. Navy destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed by a German submarine near Iceland. The U.S. had not yet entered World War II. More than 100 men were killed.
1952 - The U.S. detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
1954 - The Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) began a revolt against French rule.
1955 - Britain's Princess Margaret announced she would not marry Royal Air Force Captain Peter Townsend.
1956 - Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek become the first person to land an airplane at the South Pole. Dufek also became the first person to set foot on the South Pole.
1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine from Fort Worth, TX, announced that he would never return to the U.S. At the time he was in Moscow, Russia.
1961 - In the Soviet Union, the body of Joseph Stalin was removed from Lenin's Tomb where it was on public display.
1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
1983 - The U.S. Defense Department acknowledged that during the U.S. led invasion of Grenada, that a U.S. Navy plane had mistakenly bombed a civilian hospital.
1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards. Her son, Rajiv, was sworn in as prime minister.
1992 - In Liberia, it was announced that five American nuns had been killed near Monrovia. Rebels loyal to Charles Taylor were blamed for the murders.
1993 - River Phoenix died at the age of 23 after collapsing outside The Viper Room in Hollywood.
1993 - The play "Wonderful Tennessee" closed after only 9 performances.
1994 - 68 people were killed when an American Eagle ATR-72, plunged into a northern Indiana farm.
1997 - Louise Woodward, British au pair, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. She was released after her sentence was reduced to manslaughter.
1998 - Iraq announced that it was halting all dealings with U.N. arms inspectors. The inspectors were investigating the country's weapons of mass destruction stemming from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed off the coast of Nantucket, MA, killing all 217 people aboard.
1999 - Leaders from the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church signed the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. The event ended a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
2001 - Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department reached a tentative agreement to settle the antitrust case againt the software company.
Current Birthdays
Dermot Mulroney turns 45 years old today.
88 Dick Francis
Author
78 Michael Collins
Astronaut
77 Dan Rather
Broadcast journalist
71 Tom Paxton
Folk singer
69 Ron Rifkin
Actor ("Alias")
66 David Ogden Stiers
Actor ("M.A.S.H.")
62 Stephen Rea
Actor
60 Deidre Hall
Actress
58 Jane Pauley
Broadcast journalist
50 Brian Stokes Mitchell
Actor
47 Peter Jackson
Director ("Lord of the Rings" movies)
47 Larry Mullen Jr.
Rock musician (U2)
45 Mikkey Dee
Rock musician (Motorhead)
45 Johnny Marr
Rock musician (The Smiths, Modest Mouse)
45 Fred McGriff
Baseball player
44 Rob Schneider
Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
44 Darryl Worley
Country singer
43 Mike O'Malley
Actor, comedian
42 Adam Horovitz (Adrock)
Musician (The Beastie Boys)
41 Adam Schlesinger
Rock musician (Fountains of Wayne)
40 Rob Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice)
Rapper
38 Linn Berggren
Rock singer (Ace of Base)
32 Piper Perabo
Actress
28 Eddie Kaye Thomas
Actor ("American Pie" movies)
27 Frank Iero
Rock musician (My Chemical Romance)
Chef Chi celebrates today :glugglug:
Historic Birthdays
Chiang Kai-shek
10/31/1887 - 4/5/1975
Chinese president of Nationalist government (1928-49) and leader of Taiwan (1949-75)
43 Jan Vermeer
10/31/1632 - 12/15/1675
Dutch painter
68 Clement XIV
10/31/1705 - 9/22/1774
Italian Roman Catholic pope (1769-74)
58 William Paca
10/31/1740 - 10/23/1799
American signer of the Declaration of Independence
25 John Keats
10/31/1795 - 2/23/1821
British poet
85 Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
10/31/1828 - 5/27/1914
English physicist and chemist
49 Galileo Ferraris
10/31/1847 - 2/7/1897
Italian physicist
66 Juliette Gordon Low
10/31/1860 - 1/18/1927
American founder of Girl Scouts of America
86 Andrew Volstead
10/31/1860 - 1/20/1947
American Congressman from Minnesota (1903-23); introduced National Prohibition Act
83 Eugene Meyer
10/31/1875 - 6/17/1959
American publisher of The Washington Post (1933-46)
70 Sir George Hubert Wilkins
10/31/1888 - 12/1/1958
Australian-born British explorer
80 Ethel Waters
10/31/1896 - 9/1/1977
American jazz and blues singer and film actress
51 Wilbur Shaw
10/31/1902 - 10/30/1954
American race-car driver
54 Michael Landon
10/31/1936 - 7/1/1991
American television actor
1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1604 - "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 - "The Tempest," Shakespeare's romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1755 - At least 60,000 people were killed in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami.
1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1800 - U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1848 - The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.
1856 - The first photography magazine, Daguerreian Journal, was published in New York City, NY.
1861 - Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies.
1864 - The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to payments by mail.
1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.
1879 - Thomas Edison executed his first patent application for a high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898).
1894 - "Billboard Advertising" was published for the first time. It later became known as "Billboard."
1894 - Russian Emperor Alexander III died.
1904 - The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class.
1911 - Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya. It was the first aerial bombing.
1936 - Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Berlin and Rome.
1937 - "Hilltop House" was aired for the first time on CBS Radio.
1937 - "Terry and the Pirates" debuted on NBC Radio.
1940 - "A Night in the Tropics" was released. It was the first movie for Abbott and Costello.
1944 - "Harvey," by Mary Chase, opened on Broadway.
1947 - The famous racehorse Man o' War died.
1949 - In Washington, 55 people were killed when a fighter plane hit an airliner.
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
1950 - Charles Cooper became the first black man to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1954 - Algeria began to rebel against French rule.
1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1962 - "The Lucy Show" premiered.
1963 - The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.
1968 - The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.
1973 - Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.
1985 - In the village of Ignacio Aldama, 22 members of a Mexican anti-narcotics squad were killed by alleged drug traffickers.
1987 - Deng Xiaoping retired from China's Communist Party's Central Committee.
1989 - Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.
1989 - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced the end of a cease-fire with the Contra rebels.
1993 - The European Community's treaty on European unity took effect.
1995 - In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
1998 - Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos announced that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were buried in a 32-square mile area below the slopes of the Casita volcano in northern Nicaragua by a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch.
1998 - Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system
Current Birthdays
Penn Badgley turns 22 years old today.
82 Betsy Palmer
Actress
73 Gary Player
Golfer
71 Bill Anderson
Country singer
69 Barbara Bosson
Actress ("Hill Street Blues")
67 Robert Foxworth
Actor
66 Larry Flynt
Magazine publisher
66 Marcia Wallace
Actress ("The Bob Newhart Show")
64 Kinky Friedman
County singer
59 Jeannie Berlin
Actress
58 Dan Peek
Singer, musician (America)
57 Ronald Khalis Bell
Saxophonist (Kool and the Gang)
54 Keith Stegall
Country singer
51 Lyle Lovett
Country musician
50 Rachel Ticotin
Actress
49 Eddie MacDonald
Rock musician (The Alarm)
46 Mags Furuholmen
Rock singer, musician (a-ha)
46 Anthony Kiedis
Rock singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
45 Rick Allen
Rock musician (Def Leppard)
45 Big Kenny
Country musician (Big and Rich)
42 Willie D
Rapper (Geto Boys)
41 Sophie B. Hawkins
Singer
39 Dale Wallace
Country musician (Emerson Drive)
36 Toni Collette
Actress
36 Andrew Gonzales
Rock musician
36 Jenny McCarthy
Actress
36 David Berman
Actor ("CSI")
35 Aishwarya Rai
Actress
33 Bo Bice
Rock singer ("American Idol")
Historic Birthdays
Stephen Crane
11/1/1871 - 6/5/1900
American novelist, poet and short story writer
67 Sir Matthew Hale
11/1/1609 - 12/25/1676
English legal scholar
69 Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness
11/1/1798 - 5/19/1868
Irish brewer
62 Crawford W. Long
11/1/1815 - 6/16/1878
American physician; pioneered use of anesthetics
66 William Merritt Chase
11/1/1849 - 10/25/1916
American painter
73 Grantland Rice
11/1/1880 - 7/13/1954
American columnist
76 Sholem Asch
11/1/1880 - 7/10/1957
Polish-born American novelist and playwright
? Alfred Wegener
11/1/1880 - 11//1930
German meteorologist and geophysicist
76 Anton Flettner
11/1/1885 - 12/29/1961
German inventor
55 Sakutaro Hagiwara
11/1/1886 - 5/11/1942
Japanese poet
92 Philip Noel-Baker
11/1/1889 - 10/8/1982
British statesman
72 Sir Gavin de Beer
11/1/1899 - 6/21/1972
British zoologist
41 Nordahl Brun Grieg
11/1/1902 - 12/2/1943
Norwegian lyric poet
1721 - Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor.
1776 - During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.
1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.
1867 - "Harpers Bazaar" magazine was founded.
1883 - Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (U.S. Pat. 307,031).
1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.
1895 - In Chicago, IL, the first gasoline powered contest took place in America.
1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine.
1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.
1921 - Margaret Sander's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.
1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1930 - The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene.
1937 - The play "I'd Rather be Right" opened in New York City.
1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.
1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers.
1959 - Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program "Twenty-One" admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1960 - In London, the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover," was found not guilty of obscenity.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.
1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the U.S.
1979 - Joanna Chesimard, a black militant escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she'd been serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper.
1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 - Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend.
1985 - The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists.
1986 - The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" was purchased for $30,800.
1986 - American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.
1989 - Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, NJ.
1992 - Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection.
1993 - The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.
1993 - Christie Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of New Jersey.
1995 - The play "Sacrilege" opened.
1995 - The U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton gave his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley."
2001 - The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.
2003 - In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church's first openly gay bishop.
1507 - Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa.
1631 - The Reverend John Eliot arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the first Protestant minister to dedicate himself to the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity.
1793 - Stephen F. Austin was born. He was the principle founder of Texas.
1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President.
1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain erupted.
1892 - The first automatic telephone went into service at LaPorte, IN. The device was invented by Almon Strowger.
1900 - The first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1903 - Panama proclaimed its independence from Columbia.
1934 - The first race track in California opened under a new pari-mutuel betting law.
1941 - Japanese Ambassador John Grew warned that the Japanese may be planning a sudden attack on the U.S.
1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time in a supermarket in Chester, NY.
1953 - The Rules Committee of organized baseball restored the sacrifice fly. The rule had not been used since 1939.
1957 - Sputnik II was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the second manmade satellite to be put into orbit and was the first to put an animal into space, a dog named Laika.
1973 - The U.S. launched the Mariner 10 spacecraft. On March 29, 1974 it became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury.
1975 - "Good Morning America" premiered on ABC-TV.
1979 - Five members of the Communist Workers' Party are shot to death in broad daylight at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, NC. Eight others were wounded.
1986 - The Ash-Shiraa, pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran to secure the release of seven American hostages. The story turned into the Iran-Contra affair.
1987 - China told the U.S. that it would halt the sale of arms to Iran.
1991 - Israeli and Palestinian representatives held their first-ever face-to-face talks in Madrid, Spain.
1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman U.S. senator.
1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, was arrested for drowning her two sons. Nine days earlier Smith had claimed that the children had been abducted by a black carjacker.
1995 - U.S. President Clinton dedicated a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
1998 - Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, died at the age of 83.
1998 - A state-run newspaper in Iraq urged the country to prepare for to battle "the U.S. monster."
1998 - Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro wrestler, as its governor.
2003 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, a post-Taliban draft constitution was unveiled.
2004 Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election.
2005 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, pleaded not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. (Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison; President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.)
2006 Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, who had pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, resigned from Congress.
2007 Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan.
Current Birthdays
Bob Feller turns 90 years old today.
78 Lois Smith
Actress
75 John Barry
Film composer
75 Ken Berry
Actor, dancer
75 Michael Dukakis
Former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate
72 Roy Emerson
Tennis Hall of Famer
62 Shadoe Stevens
Actor
60 Lulu
Singer, actress ("To Sir, With Love")
56 Roseanne Barr
Actress, comedian ("Roseanne")
55 Dennis Miller
Comedian
55 Kate Capshaw
Actress
55 Kathy Kinney
Actress ("The Drew Carey Show")
54 Adam Ant
Rock singer
51 Dolph Lundgren
Actor
36 C.J. Pierce
Rock musician (Drowning Pool)
26 Evgeni Plushenko
Figure skater
Historic Birthdays
Walker Evans
11/3/1903 - 4/10/1975
American photographer
48 Annibale Carracci
11/3/1560 - 7/15/1609
Italian artist
43 Stephen Austin
11/3/1793 - 12/27/1836
American founder of Republic of Texas
83 William Cullen Bryant
11/3/1794 - 6/12/1878
American poet
57 Karl Baedeker
11/3/1801 - 10/4/1859
German publisher
33 Vincenzo Bellini
11/3/1801 - 9/23/1835
Italian composer
75 Edward White
11/3/1845 - 5/19/1921
American jurist
55 Marcelino Menendez
11/3/1856 - 5/19/1912
Spanish historian
83 Joseph Martin
11/3/1884 - 3/6/1968
American politician
81 Leopold III
11/3/1901 - 9/25/1983
Belgian king (1934-51)
75 Andre Malraux
11/3/1901 - 11/23/1976
French novelist
86 James Reston
11/3/1909 - 12/6/1995
American columnist
BlueBalls
2008-11-04, 14:14
1842 - Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, IL.
1846 - The patent for the artificial leg is granted to Benjamin Palmer.
1880 - James and John Ritty patented the first cash register.
1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter discovered the entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected America's first woman governor so she could serve out the remaining term of her late husband, William B. Ross.
1939 - During World War II, the U.S. modified its neutrality stance with the Neutrality Act of 1939. The new policy allowed cash-and-carry purchases of arms by belligerents.
1939 - At the 40th National Automobile Show the first air-conditioned car was put on display.
1942 - During World War II, Axis forces retreated from El Alamein in North Africa. It was a major victory for the British.
1956 - Soviet forces enter Hungary in order to supress the uprising that had begun on October 23, 1956.
1965 - Lee Ann Roberts Breedlove became the first woman to exceed 300 mph when she went 308.5 mph.
1970 - Former King Peter II of Yugoslavia died in Denver, CO. He was the first European king or queen to die and to be buried in the U.S.
1979 - Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months.
1985 - Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko announced he was returning to the Soviet Union. He had charged that he had been kidnapped by the CIA.
1989 - About a million East Germans filled the streets of East Berlin in a pro-democracy rally.
1990 - Iraq issued a statement saying it was prepared to fight a "dangerous war" rather than give up Kuwait.
1991 - Ronald Reagan opened his presidential library in Simi Valley, CA. The dedication ceremony was attended by President Bush and former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon. It was the 1st gathering of 5 U.S. chief executives.
1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73 years old, was assassinated by right-wing Israeli Yigal Amir after attending a peace rally.
1999 - Cristina Saralegui received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - The United Nations imposed economic sanctions against the Taliban that controlled most of Afghanistan. The sanctions were imposed because the Taliban had refused to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2001 - Hurrican Michelle hit Cuba destroying crops and thousands of homes. The United States made the gesture of sending humanitarian aid. On December 16, 2001, Cuba received the first commercial food shipment from the U.S. in nearly 40 years.
Current Birthdays
Laura Bush
Walter Cronkite
Broadcast journalist
Doris Roberts
Actress ("Everybody Loves Raymond")
Loretta Swit
Actress ("M*A*S*H")
Harry Elston
R&B singer (Friends of Distinction)
Delbert McClinton
Blues singer
Markie Post
Actress ("Night Court")
Carlos Gutierrez
Secretary of commerce
Chris Difford
Rock singer, musician (Squeeze)
Steve Mariucci
Football coach
Kathy Griffin
Comedian ("My Life on the D List")
Kim Forester
Country singer (The Forester Sisters)
Ralph Macchio
Actor (The "Karate Kid" movies)
Jeff Probst
TV personality ("Survivor")
Diddy
Rapper, producer
Matthew McConaughey
Actor
Shawn Rivera
R&B singer (Az Yet)
Orlando Pace
Football player
Heather Tom
Actress ("The Bold and the Beautiful")
George Huff
R&B, gospel singer ("American Idol")
Historic Birthdays
Will Rogers
Guido Reni
11/4/1575 - 8/18/1642
Italian painter
Thomas Johnson
11/4/1732 - 10/26/1819
American Revolutionary War leader; governor of Maryland (1777-9); associate justice (1792-93) of U.S. Supreme Court
Gaspard Gourgaud
11/4/1783 - 7/25/1852
French historian
James Douglas
11/4/1837 - 6/25/1918
Canadian industrialist
George Edward Moore
11/4/1873 - 10/24/1958
British philosoher
Charles Despiau
11/4/1874 - 10/30/1946
French sculptor
Harry George Ferguson
11/4/1884 - 10/25/1960
British designer
Carlos Garcia
11/4/1896 - 6/14/1971
Philippine president (1957-61)
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BlueBalls
2008-11-05, 14:17
1605 - The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.
1844 - In California, a grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden.
1872 - In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.
1895 - George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.
1911 - Italy officially annexed Tripoli.
1935 - The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.
1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office.
1944 - Lord Moyne, a British official, was assassinated by the Zionist Stern gang in Cairo, Egypt.
1946 - John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives at the age of 29.
1955 - The Vienna State Opera House in Austria formally opened.
1956 - British and French forces began landing in Egypt during the Suez Canal Crisis. A cease-fire was declared 2 days later.
1959 - The American Football League was formed.
1963 - Archaeologists found the remains of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
1974 - Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut. She was the first woman in the U.S. to win a governorship without succeeding her husband.
1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the NFL had exceeded antitrust limits in attempting to stop the Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles.
1986 - The White House reaffirmed the U.S. ban on the sale of weapons to Iran.
1987 - In South Africa, Goban Mbeki was released after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority government of South Africa.
1998 - Scientists published a genetic study that showed strong evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child (Eston Hemings) of his slave, Sally Hemings. (for more information)
1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Kach movement, was shot to death after a speech at a New York Hotel. His assassin, Egyptian El Sayyid, was later convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.
1992 - Malice Green, a black motorist, was beaten to death in Detroit during a struggle with police. Two officers were later convicted in his death and sentenced to prison.
1994 - Former U.S. President Reagan announced that he had Alzheimer's disease.
1994 - George Foreman, 45, became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas, NV.
1998 - In the U.S., Chairman Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee asked President Clinton to answer 81 questions for the House impeachment inquiry.
1998 - The U.N. announced that the Taliban militia had killed up to 5,000 civilians in a takeover of an Afghani town.
1999 - A 12-day conference on global warming, attended by delegates from 170 nations, ended in Bonn, Germany.
1999 - Dennis Rodman (NBA) and Carmen Electra were both arrested and charged with battery and domestic violence in a hotel in Miami Beach, FL.
1999 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft Corp. enjoyed "monopoly power".
2001 - It was announced that European aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Dubai-based Emirates airlines set up a joint venture specializing in airline services.
Current Birthdays
70 Chris Robinson
Actor
68 Elke Sommer
Actress
68 Ted Kulongoski
Governor of Oregon
67 Art Garfunkel
Singer
65 Sam Shepard
Actor, playwright
61 Peter Noone
Singer (Herman's Hermits)
56 Bill Walton
Basketball Hall of Famer
53 Nestor Serrano
Actor ("24")
51 Kellen Winslow
Football Hall of Famer
50 Mo Gaffney
Actress, comedian
50 Robert Patrick
Actor
49 Bryan Adams
Rock singer
45 Andrea McArdle
Actress
45 Tatum O'Neal
Actress
43 Angelo Moore
Rock singer (Fishbone)
41 Judy Reyes
Actress ("Scrubs")
40 Mark Hunter
Rock musician (James)
40 Sam Rockwell
Actor
38 Heather Kinley
Country singer (The Kinleys)
38 Jennifer Kinley
Country singer (The Kinleys)
37 Jonny Greenwood
Rock musician (Radiohead)
37 Corin Nemec
Actor
35 Johnny Damon
Baseball player
34 Ryan Adams
Country musician
32 Sam Page
Actor
26 Jeremy Lelliott
Actor
21 Kevin Jonas
Rock musician (The Jonas Brothers)
Historic Birthdays
Ida Tarbell
11/5/1857 - 1/6/1944
American journalist
(Go to obit.)
79 Anna Leonowens
11/5/1834 - 1/19/1914
English writer and governess to children of king Mongkut of Siam
86 Paul Sabatier
11/5/1854 - 8/14/1941
French chemist
70 Eugene V. Debs
11/5/1855 - 10/20/1926
American socialist labor leader
74 Will Hays
11/5/1879 - 3/7/1954
American politician and president of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (1922-45)
96 Will Durant
11/5/1885 - 11/7/1981
American writer
92 Raymond Loewy
11/5/1893 - 7/14/1986
French-born American industrial designer
71 Martin Dies
11/5/1901 - 11/14/1972
American politician; first chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities
53 Vivien Leigh
11/5/1913 - 7/8/1967
British film and stage actress
Im taking this over for a few days whilst MiniD is away :hatsoff:
BlueBalls
2008-11-06, 13:42
1789 - Father John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.
1832 - Joseph Smith, III, was born. He was the first president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was also the son of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.
1851 - Charles Henry Dow was born. He was the founder of Dow Jones & Company.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
1861 - The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.
1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.
1913 - Mohandas K. Gandhi was arrested as he led a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - During World War I, Candian forces take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres.
1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
1935 - Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.
1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution that condemned South Africa's racist apartheid policies. The resolution also called for all member states to terminate military and economic relations with South Africa.
1965 - The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.
1967 - Phil Donahue began a TV talk show in Dayton, OH. The show was on the air for 29 years.
1975 - King Hassan II of Morocco launches the Green March, a mass migration of 300,000 unarmed Moroccans, that march into the nation of Western Sahara.
1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
1983 - U.S. Army choppers dropped hundreds of leaflets over northern and central Grenada. The leaflets urged residents to cooperate in locating any Grenadian army or Cuban resisters to the U.S-led invasion.
1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.
1985 - Leftist guerrillas belonging to Columbia's April 19 Movement seized control of the Palace of Justice in Bogota.
1986 - Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a family spy ring.
1986 - U.S. intelligence sources confirmed a story run by the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa that reported the U.S. had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages.
1989 - In the hopes of freeing U.S. hostages held in Iran, the U.S. announced that it would unfreeze $567 million in Iranian assets that had been held since 1979.
1990 - About 20% of the Universal Studios backlot in southern California was destroyed in an arson fire.
1991 - Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.
1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore. (NFL)
1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.
1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career.
1998 - The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb killing the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.
1999 - Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state.
2001 - In London, the "Lest We Forget" exhibit opened at the National Memorial Arboretum. Fred Seiker was the creator of the 24 watercolors. Seiker was a prisoner of war that had been forced to build the Burma Railroad, the "railway of death," for the Japanese during World War II.
2001 - In Madrid, Spain, a car bomb injured about 60 people. The bomb was blamed on Basque separatists.
2001 - Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.
Current Birthdays
77 Mike Nichols
Director
76 Stonewall Jackson
Country singer
71 Eugene Pitt
Singer (The Jive Five)
70 P.J. Proby
Rock singer
67 Guy Clark
Country singer
62 Sally Field
Actress
59 Rory Block
Blues singer
59 Arturo Sandoval
Jazz trumpeter
53 Maria Shriver
First Lady of California
51 Lori Singer
Actress ("Fame")
48 Lance Kerwin
Actor
45 Paul Brindley
Rock musician (The Sundays)
44 Corey Glover
Rock singer (Living Colour)
42 Peter DeLuise
Actor
40 Kelly Rutherford
Actress ("Gossip Girl," "Melrose Place")
38 Ethan Hawke
Actor
36 Thandie Newton
Actress ("W")
36 Rebecca Romijn
Model, actress ("Ugly Betty")
34 Zoe McLellan
Actress ("Dirty Sexy Money")
30 Nicole Dubuc
Actress
21 Ana Ivanovic
Tennis player
19 Mercedes Kastner
Actress
Historic Birthdays
81 Hans Sachs
11/5/1494 - 1/19/1576
German meistersinger
68 Philips Koninck
11/5/1619 - 10/4/1688
Dutch painter
63 Washington Allston
11/5/1779 - 7/9/1843
American painter
79 Adolphe Sax
11/6/1814 - 2/7/1894
Belgian-born French maker of musical instruments; inventor of the saxophone
72 Charles Garnier
11/6/1825 - 8/3/1898
French architect
82 Joseph Smith III
11/6/1832 - 12/10/1914
American religious leader; president of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (1860-1914)
51 Charles Henry Dow
11/6/1851 - 12/4/1902
American journalist
78 James Naismith
11/6/1861 - 11/28/1939
Canadian-born American inventor of basketball
59 Walter Johnson
11/6/1887 - 12/10/1946
American professional baseball player
59 Harold Ross
11/6/1892 - 12/6/1951
American editor of The New Yorker (1925-51)
27 Sir John William Alcock
11/6/1892 - 12/18/1919
British aviator
55 James Jones
11/6/1921 - 5/9/1977
American novelist
BlueBalls
2008-11-07, 18:31
1637 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
1665 - "The London Gazette" was first published.
1811 - The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).
1837 - In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while trying to protect his printing shop from a third destruction.
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1876 - The cigarette manufacturing machine was patented by Albert H. Hook.
1877 - "The Sorcerer" was performed for the first time of 178 total performances.
1893 - The state of Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
1895 - The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.
1914 - The "New Republic" magazine was printed for the first time.
1916 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
1918 - During World War I, a false report through the United Press announced that an armistice had been signed.
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
1932 - "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was broadcast for the first on CBS Radio.
1933 - Voters in Pennsylvania eliminated sports from Pennsylvanian "Blue Laws."
1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.
1963 - The comedy "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" premiered in Hollywood.
1963 - Elston Howard, of the New York Yankees, became the first black player to be named the American League's Most Valuable Player.
1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuted in television commercials.
1967 - Carl Stokes was elected the first black mayor Cleveland, OH, becoming the first black mayor of a major city.
1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1967 - The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferments.
1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
1973 - The U.S. Congress over-rode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.
1983 - A bomb exploded in the U.S. Capitol. No one was injured.
1985 - The Colombian army stormed the country's Palace of Justice. The siege claimed the lives of 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices. The Palace had been seized by leftist guerrillas belonging to the April 19 Movement.
1987 - Tunisia's president Habib Bourguiba was overthrown. He had been president since the country's independence in 1956.
1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Donnie LaLonde.
1989 - L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American state governor in U.S. history.
1989 - David Dinkins was elected and become New York City's first African-American mayor.
1989 - Richard Ramirez, convicted of California's "Night Stalker" killings, was sentenced to death.
1991 - Magic Johnson (NBA) announced that he had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS, and that he was retiring from basketball.
1991 - Pro- and anti-Communists rallies took place in Moscow on the 74th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
1991 - Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theater.
1995 - In a Japanese courtroom, three U.S. military men admitted to the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl.
1999 - Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four straight tournaments.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.
2001 - The new .BIZ domain extension was officially launched.
2001 - After a 16-month stoppage the Concorde resumed flying commercially.
Current Birthdays
90 Billy Graham
Evangelist
82 Joan Sutherland
Opera singer
70 Barry Newman
Actor
66 Johnny Rivers
Rock singer
57 Nick Gilder
Singer
51 Christopher Knight
Actor ("The Brady Bunch")
41 Julie Pinson
Actress ("As the World Turns")
40 Greg Tribbett
Rock musician (Mudvayne)
36 Christoper Daniel Barnes
Actor
36 Jason London
Actor
36 Jeremy London
Actor ("7th Heaven")
35 Yunjin Kim
Actress ("Lost")
25 Zach Myers
Rock musician (Shinedown)
Historic Birthdays
85 Andrew White
11/7/1832 - 11/4/1918
American educator and diplomat; founder and first president of Cornell University
89 Lise Meitner
11/7/1878 - 10/27/1968
Austrian physicist
60 Leon Trotsky
11/7/1879 - 8/21/1940
Russian revolutionary
63 Eleanor Medill Patterson
11/7/1884 - 7/24/1948
American publisher
82 Sir Chandrasekhara Raman
11/7/1888 - 11/21/1970
Indian physicist
55 Herman Mankiewicz
11/7/1897 - 3/5/1953
American screenwriter
85 Konrad Lorenz
11/7/1903 - 2/27/1989
Austrian zoologist
46 Albert Camus
11/7/1913 - 1/4/1960
French novelist
gunslingingbird
2008-11-07, 18:59
Great job filling in for MiniD, BlueBalls! :hatsoff:
BlueBalls
2008-11-08, 15:40
Thank you
BlueBalls
2008-11-08, 15:45
1656 - Edmond Halley was born. Halley, an astronomer-mathmatician, was the first to calculate the orbit that was named after him. The comet makes an appearance every 76 years.
1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.
1805 - The "Corps of Discovery" reached the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was lead by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana Purchase territory.
1880 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her American stage debut in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" in New York City.
1887 - Doc Holliday died at the age of 35. The gun fighting dentist died from tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, CO.
1889 - Montana became the 41st U.S. state.
1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with electricity discovered the scientific principle involved and took the first X-ray pictures.
1910 - William H. Frost patented the insect exterminator.
1923 - Adolf Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch."
1933 - The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the U.S.
1939 - "Life With Father" premiered on Broadway in New York City.
1942 - The U.S. invaded Morocco and Algeria.
1942 - During World War II, Operation Torch began as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa.
1950 - During the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.
1954 - The American League approved the transfer of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team to Kansas City, MO.
1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only son.
1959 - The 'Big E', Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers, scored 64 points and set a National Basketball Association scoring record.
1965 - The soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted on NBC-TV.
1966 - Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1979 - The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into "Nightline" in March of 1980.
1979 - U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1980 - Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced that they had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn.
1985 - A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland to President Reagan to negotiate a release.
1986 - Vyacheslav M. Molotov died at age 96. During World War II, Molotov ordered the mass production of bottles filled with flammable liquid later called the "Molotov cocktail."
1987 - A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead. Eleven people were killed.
1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national force fighting against Iraq.
1991 - The European Community and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war.
1992 - About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist violence.
1993 - Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million.
1997 - Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
2000 - In Florida, a statewide recount began to decide the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
2000 - Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report that absolved the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 seige of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.
2001 - The "Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend" exhibit opened at the Appleton Museum of Art in Florida.
Current Birthdays
96 June Havoc
Actress
94 Norman Lloyd
Actor
81 Chris Connor
Jazz singer
81 Patti Page
Singer
64 Bonnie Bramlett
Rock singer, actress
59 Bonnie Raitt
Rock musician
58 Mary Hart
TV host ("Entertainment Tonight")
56 Christie Hefner
CEO of Playboy Enterprises
55 Alfre Woodard
Actress
54 Rickie Lee Jones
Singer, songwriter
51 Porl Thompson
Rock musician (The Cure)
47 Leif Garrett
Singer
41 Courtney Thorne-Smith
Actress ("According to Jim")
40 Parker Posey
Actress
39 Roxana Zal
Actress
38 Diana King
Singer
35 Gretchen Mol
Actress ("Life on Mars")
33 Tara Reid
Actress
31 Bucky Covington
Country singer ("American Idol")
29 Dania Ramirez
Actress ("Heroes")
27 Azura Skye
Actress
25 Chris Rankin
Actor ("Harry Potter" movies)
23 Jack Osbourne
TV personality ("The Osbournes")
Historic Birthdays
37 Gustav X Charles
11/8/1622 - 2/13/1660
Swedish king (1654-60)
85 Edmond Halley
11/8/1656 - 1/14/1742
English astronomer and mathematician
64 Bram Stoker
11/8/1847 - 4/20/1912
Irish author; wrote "Dracula"
76 Gottlob Frege
11/8/1848 - 7/26/1925
German mathematician and logician
74 Herbert Austin, Baron Austin
11/8/1866 - 5/23/1941
Enligh automotive engineer; founder and first chairman of Austin Motor Company
37 Hermann Rorschach
11/8/1884 - 4/2/1922
Swiss psychiatrist
78 Esther Rolle
11/8/1920 - 11/17/1998
American actress
BlueBalls
2008-11-09, 14:31
1857 - The "Atlantic Monthly" first appeared on newsstands and featured the first installment of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1872 - A fire destroyed about 800 buildings in Boston, MA.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president.
1911 - George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs.
1918 - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.
1923 - In Munich, the Beer Hall Putsch was crushed by German troops that were loyal to the democratic government. The event began the evening before when Adolf Hitler took control of a beer hall full of Bavarian government leaders at gunpoint.
1935 - United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass."
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1961 - Major Robert White flew an X-15 rocket plane at a world record speed of 4,093 mph.
1961 - The Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) eliminated is "caucasians only" rule.
1963 - In Japan, about 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion.
1963 - In Japan, 160 people died in a train crash.
1965 - The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
1967 - A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
1976 - The U.N. General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning the apartheid government in South Africa.
1979 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran to release all American hostages "without delay." Militants, mostly students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4.
1982 - Sugar Ray Leonard retired from boxing. In 1984 Leonard came out of retirement to fight one more time before becoming a boxing commentator for NBC.
1984 - A bronze statue titled "Three Servicemen," by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1989 - Communist East Germany opened its borders, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany.
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting London, appealed for assistance in rescheduling his country's debt, and asked British businesses to invest.
1997 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) became the first player in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in nine straight seasons. In the same game Sanders passed former Dallas Cowboy Tony Dorsett for third place on the all-time rushing list.
1998 - A federal judge in New York approved the richest antitrust settlement in U.S. history. A leading brokerage firm was ordered to pay $1.03 billion to investors who had sued over price-rigging of Nasdaq stocks.
1998 - PBS aired its documentary special "Chihuly Over Venice."
2004 - U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians.
Current Birthdays
79 Imre Kertesz
Nobel Prize-winning author
77 Whitey Herzog
Baseball manager
73 Bob Gibson
Baseball Hall of Famer
72 Bob Graham
Former U.S. senator, D-Fla.
72 Mary Travers
Folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
63 Charlie Robinson
Actor ("Night Court")
60 Bille August
Director
60 Robert David Hall
Actor ("CSI")
56 Lou Ferrigno
Actor ("The Incredible Hulk")
56 Sherrod Brown
U.S. senator, D-Ohio
49 Donnie McClurkin
Gospel singer
48 Dee Plakas
Rock musician (L7)
39 Pepa
Rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
39 Scarface
Rapper (Geto Boys)
38 Susan Tedeschi
Blues singer
36 Eric Dane
Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")
35 Nick Lachey
Singer (98 Degrees)
30 Sisqo
R&B singer (Dru Hill)
Historic Birthdays
74 Benjamin Banneker
11/9/1731 - 10/25/1806
American mathematician, astronomer, inventor and writer
72 Gail Borden
11/9/1801 - 1/11/1874
American businessman
34 Elijah Lovejoy
11/9/1802 - 11/7/1837
American abolitionist
52 Stanford White
11/9/1853 - 6/25/1906
American architect
64 Marie Dressler
11/9/1869 - 7/28/1934
Canadian-born American actress
81 Florence Sabin
11/9/1871 - 10/3/1953
American anatomist
79 Ed Wynn
11/9/1886 - 6/19/1966
American actor
37 Mabel Normand
11/9/1892 - 2/23/1930
American actress
77 Spiro Agnew
11/9/1918 - 9/17/1996
American politician; 39th vice president of the United States (1969-73)
67 James Schuyler
11/9/1923 - 4/12/1991
American poet, playwright and novelist
42 Dorothy Dandridge
11/9/1922 - 9/8/1965
American actress
45 Anne Sexton
11/9/1928 - 10/4/1974
American poet
Funkwerkz
2008-11-10, 11:32
November 10th, 1938. Great Kemal Ataturk passed away at the age of 57.
BlueBalls
2008-11-10, 15:24
1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
1801 - The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling.
1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1879 - Western Union and the National Bell Telephone Company reached a settlement over various telephone patents.
1917 - 41 suffragists were arrested in front of the White House.
1919 - The American Legion held its first national convention, in Minneapolis, MN.
1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
1951 - Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ, called his counterpart in Alameda, CA.
1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
1957 - 102,368 people attended the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams game. The crowd was the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history.
1969 - "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.
1970 - The Great Wall of China opened for tourism.
1975 - The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991.
1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
1976 - The Utah Supreme Court gave approval for Gary Gilmore to be executed, according to his wishes. The convicted murderer was put to death the following January.
1977 - The Major Indoor Soccer League was officially organized in New York City.
1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
1982 - Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died of a heart attack at age 75. He was suceeded by Yuri V. Andropov.
1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.
1984 - The U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1986 - Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari, two Frenchmen were released by the captors that held them in Lebanon.
1988 - The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Texas would be the home of the atom-smashing super-collider. The project was cancelled by a vote of the U.S. Congress in Oct. 1993.
1990 - Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as India's new prime minister.
1991 - Robert Maxwell was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the Canary Islands.
1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Brady Bill, which called for a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
1994 - U.S. officials that it planned to stop enforcing the arms embargo against the Bosnian government the following week. The U.N. Security Council was opposed to lifting the ban.
1994 - Iraq recognized Kuwait's borders in the hope that the action would end trade sanctions.
1995 - Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa along with several other anti-government activists.
1995 - In Katmandu, Nepal, searchers rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck the Himalayan foothills. The disaster left 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese dead.
1996 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) became the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 50,000 yards.
1997 - WorldCom Inc. acquired MCI Communication Corporation. It was the largest merger in U.S. history valued at $37 billion.
1997 - A jury in Virginia convicted Mir Aimal Kasi of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.
1997 - A judge in Cambridge, MA, reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to time served. She had served 279 days in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1998 - At the White House, U.S. Vice President Al Gore unveiled "The Virtual Wall" website (www.thevirtualwall.org) that enables visitors to experience The Wall through the Internet.
1999 - Ted Danson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2001 - The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.
2001 - The musical "Lady Diana - A Smile Charms the World" opened in Germany.
2004 - Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) was awarded the "Man for Peace" prize in Rome at the opening of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
Current Birthdays
84 Russell Johnson
Actor ("Gilligan's Island")
80 Ennio Morricone
Film composer
74 Bobby Rush
Blues singer
71 Albert Hall
Actor
67 Donna Fargo
Country singer
65 Saxby Chambliss
U.S. senator, R-Ga.
64 Tim Rice
Lyricist
62 Alaina Reed Hall
Actress
61 Greg Lake
Rock singer, musician (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
59 Ann Reinking
Actress, dancer
57 Jack Scalia
Actor
53 Roland Emmerich
Director
52 Matt Craven
Actor
52 Sinbad
Actor, comedian
49 Mackenzie Phillips
Actress ("One Day at a Time")
48 Neil Gaiman
Author
45 Tommy Davidson
Actor, comedian ("In Living Color")
45 Mike McCarthy
Football coach
44 Kenny Rogers
Baseball player
44 Michael Jai White
Actor
40 Chris Cagle
Country singer
40 Tracy Morgan
Actor ("30 Rock," "Saturday Night Live")
38 Warren G
Rapper, producer
36 Shawn Green
Baseball player
33 Jim Adkins
Rock singer, musician (Jimmy Eat World)
31 Brittany Murphy
Actress
30 Eve
Rapper, actress
29 Chris Joannou
Rock musician (Silverchair)
26 Heather Matarazzo
Actress
25 Miranda Lambert
Country singer
22 Josh Peck
Actor ("Drake and Josh")
Historic Birthdays
66 Henry Percy Northumberland
11/10/1341 - 2/20/1408
English statesman
62 Martin Luther
11/10/1483 - 2/18/1546
German religious leader and reformer
33 Robert Devereux Essex
11/10/1567 - 2/25/1601
English soldier
64 Francois Couperin
11/10/1668 - 9/12/1733
French composer
66 William Hogarth
11/10/1697 - 10/26/1764
English artist
43 Oliver Goldsmith
11/10/1730 - 4/4/1774
Irish-born English writer
74 Samuel Gridley Howe
11/10/1801 - 1/9/1876
American educator and social reformer
30 Francis Maitland Balfour
11/10/1851 - 7/19/1882
British zoologist and embryologist
52 Vachel Lindsay
11/10/1879 - 12/5/1931
American poet
51 El Lissitzky
11/10/1890 - 12/30/1941
American artist
66 John Phillips Marquand
11/10/1893 - 7/16/1960
American novelist
85 John Knudsen Northrop
11/10/1895 - 2/18/1981
American aircraft designer
BlueBalls
2008-11-11, 14:22
1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal laws.
1831 - Nat Turner, a slave and educated minister, was hanged in Jerusalem, VA, after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1851 - The telescope was patented by Alvan Clark.
1868 - The first indoor amateur track and field meet was held by the New York Athletic Club.
1880 - Australian outlaw and bank robber Ned Kelly was hanged at the Melbourne jail at age 25.
1887 - Labor Activists were hanged in Illinois after being convicted of being connected to a bombing that killed eight police officers.
1889 - Washington became the 42nd state of the United States.
1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.
1918 - Poland was reestablished shortly after the surrender of Germany.
1920 - The body of an unknown British soldier was buried in Westminster Abbey. The service was recorded with the first electronic recording process developed by Lionel Guest and H.O. Merriman.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia by U.S. President Harding.
1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1942 - During World War II, Germany completed its occupation of France.
1946 - The New York Knickerbockers (now the Knicks) played their first game at Madison Square Garden.
1952 - The first video recorder was demonstrated by John Mullin and Wayne Johnson in Beverly Hills, CA.
1965 - The government of Rhodesia declared its independence from Britain. The country later became known as Zimbabwe.
1965 - Walt Disney announced a project in Florida.
1966 - The U.S. launched Gemini 12 from Cape Kennedy, FL. The craft circled the Earth 59 times before returning.
1972 - The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army. The event symbolized the end of direct involvement in the Vietnam War by the U.S. military.
1975 - Civil war broke out when Angola gained independence from Portugal.
1981 - Stuntman Dan Goodwin scaled the outside of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago in about six hours.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan accepted the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a gift to the nation from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
1984 - Gary Coleman, at age 13, underwent his second kidney transplant in Los Angeles. He had his first transplant at age 5.
1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to form "Unisys," becoming the second largest computer company.
1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Irises" was sold for a then record 53.9 million dollars in New York.
1988 - Police in Sacramento, CA, found the first of seven bodies buried on the grounds of a boardinghouse. Dorothea Puente was later charged in the deaths of nine people, convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison.
1990 - Stormie Jones, the world's first heart-liver transplant recipient, died at a Pittsburgh hospital at age 13.
1991 - The U.S. stationed its first diplomat in Cambodia in 16 years to help the nation arrange democratic elections.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators in a letter that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II. Some were "summarily executed," but others were still living in his country voluntarily.
1992 - The Church of England voted to ordain women as priests.
1993 - Walt Disney Co. announced plans to build a U.S. history theme park in a Virginia suburb of Washington. The plan was halted later due to local opposition.
1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War.
1994 - In Gaza, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at an Israeli military checkpoint killing three soldiers.
1996 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund unveiled "The Wall That Heals." The work was a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that would tour communities throughout the United States.
1997 - The Eastman Kodak Company announced that they were laying off 10,000 employees.
1997 - Roger Clemens (Toronto Blue Jays) became the third major league player to win the Cy Young Award four times.
1998 - Jay Cochrane set a record for the longest blindfolded skywalk. He walked on a tightrope between the towers of the Flamingo Hilton in Las Vegas, NV. The towers are 600 feet apart.
1998 - Vincente Fernandez received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - Israel's Cabinet ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
2002 - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pledged $100 million to fight AIDS in India.
Current Birthdays
83 Jonathan Winters
Comedian
81 Mose Allison
Jazz singer, musician
70 Narvel Felts
Country singer
68 Barbara Boxer
U.S. senator, D-Calif.
63 Vince Martell
Rock musician (Vanilla Fudge)
57 Paul Cowsill
Pop singer, musician (The Cowsills)
57 Fuzzy Zoeller
Golfer
55 Marshall Crenshaw
Rock singer
55 Andy Partridge
Rock musician (XTC)
53 Dave Alvin
Rock singer (The Blasters)
52 Ian Craig Marsh
Rock musician (Human League)
48 Stanley Tucci
Actor
44 Calista Flockhart
Actress ("Ally McBeal")
44 Philip McKeon
Actor ("Alice")
44 Scott Mercado
Rock musician
39 Carson Kressley
TV personality ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy")
37 David DeLuise
Actor
36 Adam Beach
Actor
34 Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
28 Willie Parker
Football player
27 Jonathan Pretus
Rock musician (Cowboy Mouth)
Historic Birthdays
47 Paracelsus
11/11/1493 - 9/24/1541
German-Swiss physician
61 George Savile Halifax
11/11/1633 - 4/5/1695
British statesman
67 Johann Albert Fabricius
11/11/1668 - 4/30/1736
German bibliographer
71 Philip John Schuyler
11/11/1733 - 11/18/1804
American soldier and politician
71 Paul Signac
11/11/1863 - 8/15/1935
French painter
78 Victor Emmanuel III
11/11/1869 - 12/28/1947
Italian king (1900-47)
80 Maude Adams
11/11/1872 - 7/17/1953
American actress
62 Rabbit Maranville
11/11/1891 - 1/5/1954
American professional baseball player
65 Lucky Luciano
11/11/1896 - 1/26/1962
Italian-born American gangster
82 Rene Clair
11/11/1898 - 3/15/1981
French film director
84 Sam Spiegel
11/11/1901 - 12/31/1985
Austrian-born American film producer
92 Alger Hiss
11/11/1904 - 11/15/1996
American official accused of Communist affiliation (1948); convicted of perjury
BlueBalls
2008-11-12, 18:45
1799 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys.
1815 - American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, NY.
1840 - Sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. His most widely known works are "The Kiss" and "The Thinker."
1859 - The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.
1892 - William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first professional football player when he was paid a $500 bonus for helping the Allegheny Athletic Association beat the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1915 - Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard University, became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
1918 - Austria was declared an independent republic only one day after the end of World War I.
1920 - Judge Keneshaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of the American and National Leagues.
1921 - Representatives of nine nations gathered for the start of the Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments.
1927 - Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party leading to Stalin coming to power.
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was to be the new home of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL).
1933 - In Philadelphia, the first Sunday football game was played.
1940 - Walt Disney released "Fantasia."
1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.
1944 - During World War II, the German battleship "Tirpitz" was sunk off the coast of Norway.
1946 - The first drive-up banking facility opened at the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, IL.
1948 - The war crimes tribunal sentenced Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese leaders to death.
1953 - The National Football League (NFL) policy of blacking out home games was upheld by Judge Allan K. Grim of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
1954 - Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since 1892.
1964 - Paula Murphy set the female land speed record 226.37 MPH.
1972 - Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, became the first NFL head coach to win 100 regular season games in 10 seasons.
1975 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36½-year term.
1979 - U.S. President Carter ordered a halt to all oil imports from Iran in response to 63 Americans being taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4.
1980 - The U.S. space probe Voyager I came within 77,000 miles of Saturn while transmitting data back to Earth.
1982 - Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snared the Palapa B-2 satellite in history's first space salvage.
1985 - In Norfolk, VA, Arthur James Walker was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a spy ring run by his brother, John A. Walker Jr.
1987 - The American Medical Association issued a policy statement that said it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive.
1990 - Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum Throne.
1991 - In the U.S., Robert Gates was sworn in as CIA director.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1997 - Four Americans and their Pakistani driver were shot to death in Karachi, Pakistan. The Americans were oil company employees.
1997 - The UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iraq for constraints being placed on UN arms inspectors.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
1998 - Daimler-Benz completed a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler AG.
2001 - American Airlines flight 587 crashed just minutes after take off from Kennedy Airport in New York. The Airbus A300 crashed into the Rockaway Beach section of Queens. All 260 people aboard were killed.
2001 - It was reported that the Northern Alliance had taken the Kabul, Afghanistan, from the ruling Taliban. The Norther Alliance at this point was reported to have control over most of the northern areas of Afghanistan.
2002 - Stan Lee filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil.
Current Birthdays
77 Norman Y. Mineta
Former secretary of transportation
69 Ruby Nash Curtis
R&B singer
65 Jimmy Hayes
R&B singer (Persuasions)
65 Brian Hyland
Singer
65 Wallace Shawn
Actor, playwright
64 Booker T. Jones
Rock musician (Booker T. & the MGs)
63 Neil Young
Rock musician
61 Donald Roeser
Rock musician (Blue Oyster Cult)
59 Jack Reed
U.S. senator, D-R.I.
58 Barbara Fairchild
Country singer
50 Megan Mullally
Actress ("Will and Grace")
47 Nadia Comaneci
Olympic gold medal gymnast
44 David Ellefson
Rock musician (Megadeth)
41 Sam Lloyd
Actor ("Scrubs")
40 Sammy Sosa
Baseball player
35 Radha Mitchell
Actress
34 Lourdes Benedicto
Actress
34 Tamala Jones
Actress
34 Angela Watson
Actress
32 Tevin Campbell
R&B singer
30 Ashley Williams
Actress
28 Ryan Gosling
Actor
24 Omarion
Singer
16 Macey Cruthird
Actress ("Hope and Faith")
Historic Birthdays
66 Baccio Bandinelli
11/12/1493 - 2/7/1560
Italian sculptor
53 Aleksandr Borodin
11/12/1833 - 2/27/1887
Russian composer
77 Auguste Rodin
11/12/1840 - 11/17/1917
French sculptor
74 Jack Oakie
11/12/1903 - 1/23/1978
American actor
90 Harry Blackmun
11/12/1908 - 3/4/1999
American jurist; associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
80 Buck Clayton
11/12/1911 - 12/8/1991
American musician
64 Roland Barthes
11/12/1915 - 3/25/1980
French essayist
52 Grace Kelly
11/12/1929 - 9/14/1982
American actress
BlueBalls
2008-11-13, 17:08
1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.
1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter."
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1909 - 250 miners were killed in a fire and explosion at the St. Paul Mine at Cherry, IL.
1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to the public, providing access between New York City and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
1933 - In Austin, MN, the first sit-down labor strike in America took place.
1940 - The Walt Disney movie "Fantasia" had its world premiere at New York's Broadway Theater.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
1971 - The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars.
1977 - The comic strip "Li'l Abner" by Al Capp appeared in newspapers for the last time.
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1984 - A libel suit against Time, Inc. by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon went to trial in New York.
1985 - About 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a gigantic mudslide buried the city. The slide was triggered by a mild eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged that the U.S. had sent "defensive weapons and spare parts" to Iran. He denied that the shipments were sent to free hostages, but that they had been sent to improve relations.
1991 - Roger Clemens won his third Cy Young Award for the American League.
1994 - In San Francisco, CA, a heavily armed gunman traded fire with police, hitting two police officers, a paramedic and another person before being killed.
1994 - Sweden voted to join the European Union.
1995 - Greg Maddox (Atlanta Braves) became the first major league pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.
1995 - Seven people, including five Americans are killed in a car bomb attack at a U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
1997 - Iraq expelled six U.N. arms inspectors that were U.S. citizens.
1998 - "The Wizard of Oz" was released on the big screen by Warner Bros. 59 years after its original release.
1998 - Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, without an apology or admission of guilt, to throw out her sexual harassment lawsuit.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order that would allow for military tribunals to try any foreigners captured with connections to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. It was the first time since World War II that a president had taken such action.
Current Birthdays
86 Madeleine Sherwood
Actress
74 Peter Arnett
Journalist
74 Garry Marshall
Producer, director
62 Ray Wylie Hubbard
Country singer, songwriter
61 Joe Mantegna
Actor
60 Sheila Frazier
Actress
55 Frances Conroy
Actress ("Six Feet Under")
55 Andrew Ranken
Rock musician ("The Pogues")
55 Tracy Scoggins
Actress
54 Chris Noth
Actor ("Law and Order," "Sex and the City")
52 Rex Linn
Actor ("CSI: Miami")
49 Caroline Goodall
Actress
48 Neil Flynn
Actor ("Scrubs")
45 Vinny Testaverde
Football player
44 Walter Kibby
Rock musician (Fishbone)
41 Jimmy Kimmel
Comedian, talk show host ("Jimmy Kimmel Live")
41 Steve Zahn
Actor
30 Nikolai Fraiture
Rock musician (The Strokes)
28 Monique Coleman
Actress ("High School Musical")
Historic Birthdays
75 Saint Augustine
11/13/354 - 8/28/430
Roman bishop and theologian
64 Edward III
11/13/1312 - 6/21/1377
English king (1327-77)
56 Johann Eck
11/13/1486 - 2/10/1543
German theologian
88 Edward Trelawny
11/13/1792 - 8/13/1881
English author
59 Edwin Booth
11/13/1833 - 6/7/1893
American actor
84 Louis Brandeis
11/13/1856 - 10/5/1941
American jurist; associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916-39)
37 Mary Henrietta Kingsley
11/13/1862 - 6/3/1900
English traveler and writer
40 Jean Seberg
11/13/1938 - 9/8/1979
American actress
BlueBalls
2008-11-14, 16:01
1832 - The first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. The vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.
1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau's trial began for the assassination of U.S. President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly succeeded by finishing the journey the following January in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes.
1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began domestic radio service.
1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946.
1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.
1943 - Ernie Nevers of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first professional football player to score six touchdowns in a single game.
1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.
1968 - Yale University announced it was going co-educational.
1969 - Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon from Cape Kennedy, FL.
1969 - During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, commander of the Third Marine Division, became the first general to be killed in Vietnam by enemy fire.
1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.
1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.
1973 - Britain's Princess Anne married a commoner, Capt. Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1992, and Princess Anne re-married.
1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
1983 - The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.
1986 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a record $100 million penalty against Ivan F. Boesky for insider-trading and barred him from working again in the securities industry.
1987 - In the lobby of Beirut's American University Hospital a bomb hidden in a box of chocolates exploded. Seven people were killed including the woman carrying the box.
1988 - Israeli President Chaim Herzog formally asked Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to form a new government.
1989 - The U.S. Navy ordered an unprecedented 48-hour stand-down in the wake of a recent string of serious accidents.
1990 - Simon and Schuster announced it had dropped plans to publish Bret Easton Ellis novel "American Psycho."
1991 - U.S. and British authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
1991 - Thomas McIlvane fatally shot four workers at the Royal Oak, MI, Post Office before killing himself. He had been fired from the location.
1991 - After 13 years in exile Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returned to his homeland.
1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.
1995 - The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.
1998 - Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman were married in Las Vegas, NV. (why is this so significant? I have no idea but its on the site so here is goes)
Current Birthdays
60 Prince Charles
86 Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Former U.N. secretary-general
80 Kathleen Hughes
Actress
74 Ellis Marsalis
Jazz pianist
61 P.J. O'Rourke
Writer
61 Buckwheat Zydeco
Zydeco musician
60 Robert Ginty
Actor
59 James Young
Rock musician (Styx)
57 Stephen Bishop
Rock singer
54 Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of state
54 Anson Funderburgh
Blues musician
54 Yanni
Pianist
47 Laura San Giacomo
Actress ("Just Shoot Me")
47 D.B. Sweeney
Actor
44 Nic Dalton
Rock musician
44 Reverend Run
Rapper (Run-DMC)
44 Patrick Warburton
Actor
43 Jeanette Jurado
Singer
42 Curt Schilling
Baseball player
40 Brian Yale
Rock musician (Matchbox Twenty)
39 Butch Walker
Rock singer
36 Josh Duhamel
Actor
35 Lawyer Milloy
Football player
33 Travis Barker
Rock musician
31 Shyheim
Rapper
29 Tobin Esperance
Rock musician (Papa Roach)
29 Olga Kurylenko
Actress
Historic Birthdays
77 Johann von Hildebrandt
11/14/1668 - 11/16/1745
Austrian architect
49 Robert Fulton
11/14/1765 - 2/24/1815
American inventor
70 Henri Dutrochet
11/14/1776 - 2/4/1847
French physiologist
35 James McPherson
11/14/1828 - 7/22/1864
American general
86 Claude Monet
11/14/1840 - 12/5/1926
French painter
86 Yekaterina Geltzer
11/14/1876 - 12/12/1962
Russian ballerina
74 Jawaharlal Nehru
11/14/1889 - 5/27/1964
Indian independence leader and prime minister (1947-64)
82 Mamie Eisenhower
11/14/1896 - 11/1/1979
American first lady (1953-1961)
90 Aaron Copland
11/14/1900 - 12/2/1990
American composer
83 Michael Ramsey
11/14/1904 - 4/23/1988
English archbishop
48 Joseph R. McCarthy
11/14/1908 - 5/2/1957
American politician; investigated Communist influence in U.S. government
36 Edward White
11/14/1930 - 1/27/1967
American astronaut
1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.
Hush! :cussing:
BlueBalls
2008-11-15, 14:20
1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak.
1889 - Brazil's monarchy was overthrown.
1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid.
1902 - Anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium.
1920 - The League of Nations met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a four-hour "spectacular."
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
1940 - The first 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under peacetime conscription.
1965 - The Soviet probe, Venera 3, was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On March 1, 1966, it became the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet when it crashed on Venus.
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1969 - In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War.
1985 - Britain and Ireland signed an accord giving Dublin an official consultative role in governing Northern Ireland.
1986 - A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was pardoned a month later.
1986 - Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. It was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC.
1988 - The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers.
1992 - Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career.
1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo.
1995 - Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit.
1999 - Representatives from China and the United States signed a major trade agreement that involved China's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2000 - Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the first major case against the anti-gang unit.
2005 - In Amiens, France, Isabelle Dinoire became the first person to undergo a partial face transplant. She had been attacked by a dog earlier in the year.
2006 - Andy Warhol's painting of Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong sold for $17.4 million. At the same auction "Orange Marilyn" sold for $16.2 million and "Sixteen Jackies" sold for $15.6 million.
Current Birthdays
89 Joseph Wapner
TV personality ("The People's Court")
83 Howard Baker
Former U.S. senator, R-Tenn.
79 Ed Asner
Actor ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant")
76 Petula Clark
Singer
75 Jack Burns
Comedian
74 Joanna Barnes
Actress
63 Frida Lyngstad
Pop singer (ABBA)
63 Bob Gunton
Actor
61 Bill Richardson
Governor of New Mexico
57 Beverly D'Angelo
Actress
55 James Widdoes
Director
54 Mitch Easter
Rock producer
51 Kevin Eubanks
Bandleader ("The Tonight Show With Jay Leno")
46 Judy Gold
Comedian
41 E-40
Rapper
39 Rachel True
Actress
36 Jonny Lee Miller
Actor
35 Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Actress
34 Chad Kroeger
Rock musician (Nickelback)
34 Jesse Sandoval
Rock musician (The Shins)
32 Virginie Ledoyen
Actress
Historic Birthdays
69 William Pitt the elder
11/15/1708 - 5/11/1778
English statesman
83 William Herschel
11/15/1738 - 8/25/1822
German-born English astronomer
75 Jerome Bonaparte
11/15/1784 - 6/24/1860
French King of Westphalia and marshal of France
70 James O'Neill
11/15/1849 - 8/10/1920
Irish-born American actor
78 Franklin Pierce Adams
11/15/1881 - 3/23/1960
American newspaper columnist, radio commentator and poet
82 Felix Frankfurter
11/15/1882 - 2/22/1965
American legal scholar and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1939-62)
84 Marianne Moore
11/15/1887 - 2/5/1972
American poet
94 Averell Harriman
11/15/1891 - 7/26/1986
American statesman
52 Erwin Rommel
11/15/1891 - 10/14/1944
German field marshal
83 Curtis LeMay
11/15/1906 - 10/1/1990
American airforce officer
BlueBalls
2008-11-16, 09:00
November 16
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.
1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War.
1885 - Canadian rebel Louis Riel was executed for high treason.
1907 - Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.
1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time.
1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.
1957 - Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns) set an NFL season rushing record of 1163 yards after only eight games.
1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
1969 - The U.S. Army announced that several had been charged with massacre and the subsequent cover-up in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968.
1973 - Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on an 84-day mission.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.
1982 - An agreement was announced on the 57th day of a strike by National Football League (NFL) players.
1988 - Estonia's parliament declared that the Baltic republic "sovereign," but stopped short of complete independence.
1994 - Major League Soccer announced that it would start its inaugural season in 1996.
1997 - China released Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident from jail for medical reasons. He had been incarcerated for almost 18 years.
1998 - In Burlington, Wisconsin, five high school students, aged 15 to 16, were arrested in an alleged plot to kill a carefully selected group of teachers and students.
1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court said that union members could file discrimination lawsuits against employers even when labor contracts require arbitration.
1999 - Johnny Depp received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - Chrica Adams, the pregnant girlfriend of Rae Carruth, was shot four times in her car. She died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived. Carruth was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the murder.
2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam.
2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.
Current Birthdays
89 Joseph Wapner
TV personality ("The People's Court")
83 Howard Baker
Former U.S. senator, R-Tenn.
79 Ed Asner
Actor ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Lou Grant")
76 Petula Clark
Singer
75 Jack Burns
Comedian
74 Joanna Barnes
Actress
63 Frida Lyngstad
Pop singer (ABBA)
63 Bob Gunton
Actor
61 Bill Richardson
Governor of New Mexico
57 Beverly D'Angelo
Actress
55 James Widdoes
Director
54 Mitch Easter
Rock producer
51 Kevin Eubanks
Bandleader ("The Tonight Show With Jay Leno")
46 Judy Gold
Comedian
41 E-40
Rapper
39 Rachel True
Actress
36 Jonny Lee Miller
Actor
35 Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Actress
34 Chad Kroeger
Rock musician (Nickelback)
34 Jesse Sandoval
Rock musician (The Shins)
32 Virginie Ledoyen
Actress
Historic Birthdays
69 William Pitt the elder
11/15/1708 - 5/11/1778
English statesman
83 William Herschel
11/15/1738 - 8/25/1822
German-born English astronomer
75 Jerome Bonaparte
11/15/1784 - 6/24/1860
French King of Westphalia and marshal of France
70 James O'Neill
11/15/1849 - 8/10/1920
Irish-born American actor
78 Franklin Pierce Adams
11/15/1881 - 3/23/1960
American newspaper columnist, radio commentator and poet
82 Felix Frankfurter
11/15/1882 - 2/22/1965
American legal scholar and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1939-62)
84 Marianne Moore
11/15/1887 - 2/5/1972
American poet
94 Averell Harriman
11/15/1891 - 7/26/1986
American statesman
52 Erwin Rommel
11/15/1891 - 10/14/1944
German field marshal
83 Curtis LeMay
11/15/1906 - 10/1/1990
American airforce officer
BlueBalls
2008-11-17, 13:05
November 17
1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary Tudor.
1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason.
1796 - Catherine the Great of Russia died at the age of 67.
1798 - Irish nationalist leader Wolfe Tone committed suicide while in jail awaiting execution.
1800 - The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, DC, in the partially completed Capitol building.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
1880 - The first three British female graduates received their Bachelor of Arts degrees from London University.
1903 - Russia's Social Democrats officially split into two groups - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
1904 - The first underwater submarine journey was taken, from Southampton, England, to the Isle of Wight.
1913 - The steamship Louise became the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal.
1913 - In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm banned the armed forces from dancing the tango.
1922 - Siberia voted for union with the U.S.S.R.
1962 - Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by U.S. President Kennedy.
1968 - NBC cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. The Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets 43-32.
1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1. The vehicle was released by Luna 17.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman leader of an Islamic country. She was elected in the first democratic elections in Pakistan in 11 years.
1990 - A mass grave was discovered by the bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand. The bodies were believed to be those of World War II prisoners of war.
1990 - The Soviet government agreed to change the country's constitution.
1997 - 62 people were killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt. The attackers were killed by police.
1997 - Mario Lemieux was voted into the NHL Hall of Fame.
2001 - "Toys "R" Us Times Square - The Center of the Toy Universe" opened in New York City.
2006 - Sony's PlayStation 3 went on sale in the United States.
Current Birthdays
74 James Inhofe
U.S. senator, R-Okla.
70 Gordon Lightfoot
Singer
66 Martin Scorsese
Director
65 Lauren Hutton
Actress
64 Jim Boeheim
College basketball coach
64 Danny DeVito
Actor
64 Tom Seaver
Baseball Hall of Famer
63 Elvin Hayes
Basketball Hall of Famer
63 Roland Joffe
Director
60 Howard Dean
Democratic Party chairman
57 Stephen Root
Actor
51 Jim Babjak
Rock musician (The Smithereens)
50 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Actress
49 William Moses
Actor
48 RuPaul
Entertainer
45 Dylan Walsh
Actor
42 Daisy Fuentes
Actress, model
42 Sophie Marceau
Actress
41 Ronnie DeVoe
R&B singer (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe)
41 Ben Wilson
Rock musician (Blues Traveler)
35 Leslie Bib
Actress
32 Brandon Call
Actor
31 Aaron Lines
Country singer
30 Rachel McAdams
Actress ("The Notebook," "Mean Girls")
30 Reggie Wayne
Football player
28 Isaac Hanson
Rock musician (Hanson)
25 Ryan Braun
Baseball player
20 Justin Cooper
Actor
Historic Birthdays
69 Angelo Bronzino
11/17/1503 - 11/23/1572
Italian painter
91 Joost van den Vondel
11/17/1587 - 2/5/1679
Dutch poet
64 Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye
11/17/1685 - 12/5/1749
French-Canadian soldier, fur trader and explorer
68 Louis XVIII
11/17/1755 - 9/16/1824
French king (1814-24)
71 Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes
11/17/1895 - 12/10/1966
Mexican novelist
84 Isamu Noguchi
11/17/1904 - 12/30/1988
American sculptor
61 Mischa Auer
11/17/1905 - 3/5/1967
American actor
59 Rock Hudson
11/17/1925 - 10/2/1985
American actor
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1477 - William Caxton produced "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres," which was the first book to be printed in England.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first American to sight the continent of Antarctica.
1865 - Samuel L. Clemens published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" under the pen name "Mark Twain" in the New York "Saturday Press."
1883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1903 - The U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that granted the U.S. rights to build the Panama Canal.
1928 - The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon premiered in New York. It was Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse.
1916 - Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I, calls off the Battle of the Somme in France. The offensive began on July 1, 1916.
1936 - Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco.
1942 - "The Skin of Our Teeth," by Thornton Wilder opened on Broadway.
1951 - Chuck Connors (Los Angeles Angels) became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became the star of the television show "The Rifleman."
1959 - William Wyler's "Ben-Hur" premiered at Loew's Theater in New York City's Times Square.
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1976 - The parliament of Spain approved a bill that established a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1978 - In Jonestown, Guyana, Reverend Jim Jones persuaded his followers to commit suicide by drinking a death potion. Some people were shot to death. 914 cult members were left dead including over 200 children.
1985 - Joe Theismann (Washington Redskins) broke his leg after being hit by Lawrence Taylor (New York Giants). The injury ended Theismann's 12 year National Football League (NFL) career.
1987 - The U.S. Congress issued the Iran-Contra Affair report. The report said that President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides.
1987 - 31 people died in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station.
1987 - CBS Inc. announced it had agreed to sell its record division to Sony Corp. for about $2 billion.
1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed major legislation provided the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
1991 - Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon freed Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate in approving legislation aimed at protecting abortion facilities, staff and patients.
1993 - American Airlines flight attendants went on strike. They ended their strike only 4 days later.
1993 - Representatives from 21 South African political parties approved a new constitution.
1994 - Outside a mosque in the Gaza Strip, 15 people were killed and more than 150 wounded when Palestinian police opened fire on rioting worshipers.
1997 - The FBI officially pulled out of the probe into the TWA Flight 800 disaster. They said the explosion that destroyed the Boeing 747 was not caused by a criminal act. 230 people were killed.
1997 - First Union Corp. announced its purchase of CoreStates Financial Corp. for $16.1 billion. To date it was the largest banking deal in U.S. history.
1999 - 12 people were killed and 28 injured when a huge bonfire under construction collapsed at Texas A&M in College Station, TX.
1999 - In Jasper, TX, Shawn Allen Berry was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the racial murder of James Byrd Jr. John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer both received the death penalty earlier in the year for their roles in the crime.
2001 - Nintendo released the GameCube home video game console in the United States.
2002 U.N. arms inspectors returned to Iraq after a four-year hiatus, calling on Saddam Hussein's government to cooperate with their search for weapons of mass destruction.
2003 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.
2004 Bill Clinton's presidential library opened in Little Rock, Ark.
2004 Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales.
2006 Actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes were married in Italy.
Current Birthdays
David Ortiz turns 33 years old today.
85 Ted Stevens
U.S. senator, R-Alaska
77 Brad Sulllivan
Actor
69 Brenda Vaccaro
Actress
66 Linda Evans
Actress ("Dynasty")
62 Jacky Ward
Country singer
61 Jameson Parker
Actor
60 Andrea Marcovicci
Actress, singer
59 Herman Rarebell
Rock musician (The Scorpions)
58 Graham Parker
Singer
56 Delroy Lindo
Actor
55 Kevin Nealon
Actor, comedian ("Weeds," "Saturday Night Live")
52 Warren Moon
Football Hall of Famer
50 Oscar Nunez
Actor ("The Office")
48 Elizabeth Perkins
Actress ("Weeds")
48 Kim Wilde
Rock singer
46 Kirk Hammett
Rock musician (Metallica)
43 Tim DeLaughter
Rock singer
40 Gary Sheffield
Baseball player
40 Owen Wilson
Actor
39 Duncan Sheik
Rock singer
38 Peta Wilson
Actress
34 Chloe Sevigny
Actress
33 Jason Williams
Basketball player
32 Jessi Alexander
Country singer
32 Steven Pasquale
Actor
29 Fabolous
Rapper
29 Nate Parker
Actor
28 Mike Jones
Rapper
Historic Birthdays
Alan B. Shepard
11/18/1923 - 7/21/1998
American astronaut
39 Carl Maria von Weber
11/18/1786 - 6/5/1826
German composer
63 Louis-Jacques Daguerre
11/18/1787 - 7/10/1851
French inventor of the daguerreotype
74 Sir William Gilbert
11/18/1836 - 5/29/1911
English lyricist for comic operas; collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan
80 Ignacy Paderewski
11/18/1860 - 6/29/1941
Polish pianist and composer
61 Clarence Day
11/18/1874 - 12/28/1935
American writer
90 Jacques Maritain
11/18/1882 - 4/28/1973
French philosopher
87 Gio Ponti
11/18/1891 - 9/15/1979
Italian architect
76 Patrick Blackett
11/18/1897 - 7/13/1974
English physicist
85 Eugene Ormandy
11/18/1899 - 3/12/1985
Hungarian-born American conductor
82 George Gallup
11/18/1901 - 7/26/1984
American statistician and pioneering opinion researcher
90 George Wald
11/18/1906 - 4/13/1997
American chemist
66 Johnny Mercer
11/18/1909 - 6/25/1976
American composer
BlueBalls
2008-11-18, 12:30
Welcome back :bowdown:
1794 - The U.S. and Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
1850 - The first life insurance policy for a woman was issued. Carolyn Ingraham, 36 years old, bought the policy in Madison, NJ.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
1893 - The first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday New York World.
1895 - The "paper pencil" was patented by Frederick E. Blaisdell.
1919 - The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles with a vote of 55 in favor to 39 against. A two-thirds majority was needed for ratification.
1928 - "Time" magazine presented its cover portrait for the first time. Japanese Emperor Hirohito was the magazine's first cover subject.
1942 - During World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.
1954 - Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.
1966 - Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers) announced his retirement from major league baseball.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1970 - Hafiz al-Assad seized power in Syria.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit.
1979 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) signed a four-year contract for $4.5 million. At the time, Ryan was the highest paid player in major league baseball.
1984 - Almost 500 people died in a firestorm after a series of explosions at a Mexico City petroleum storage plant.
1984 - Dwight Gooden, 20-year-old, of the New York Mets, became the youngest major-league pitcher to be named Rookie of the Year in the National League. (MLB)
1985 - U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of nonaggression.
1993 - The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping $22.3 billion anti-crime measure.
1994 - The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.
1997 - In Carlisle, IA, septuplets were born to Bobbi McCaughey. It was only the second known case where all seven were born alive.
1998 - The impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Clinton began.
1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sold at auction for more than $71 million.
1998 - Michelle Lee received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Istanbul, Turkey, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concluded a two-day summit after adopting a new arms accord. During the conference, Russia was criticized for its military campaign against Chechnya's separatist movement.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.
2002 - The oil tanker Prestige broke into two pieces and sank off northwest Spain. The tanker lost about 2 million gallons of fuel oil when it ruptured November 13th and was towed about 150 miles out to sea.
2002 - The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.
2003 - Eight competing designs for a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center were unveiled. One design would be built at the site of the World Trade Center.
2004 Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers charged into the stands and fought with fans during an NBA game in Detroit. (Artest was suspended for the rest of the season and Jackson for 30 games. A fan was sentenced to 30 days in jail for assaulting Artest.)
2006 British authorities said they were investigating the apparent poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who had been critical of the Russian government. (Litvinenko died in London four days later of polonium poisoning.)
Current Birthdays
Ryan Howard turns 29 years old today.
89 Alan Young
Actor ("Mister Ed")
75 Larry King
Talk show host
72 Dick Cavett
Talk show host
70 Ted Turner
Broadcasting and sports mogul
69 Tom Harkin
U.S. senator, D-Iowa
69 Pete Moore
R&B singer (The Miracles)
69 Garrick Utley
Broadcast journalist
67 Dan Haggerty
Actor
67 Tommy Thompson
Former cabinet member, Wisconsin governor
66 Calvin Klein
Fashion designer
59 Ahmad Rashad
Sportscaster
55 Robert Beltran
Actor
54 Kathleen Quinlan
Actress
53 Glynnis O'Connor
Actress
52 Ann Curry
Broadcast journalist ("Today")
48 Allison Janney
Actress ("The West Wing")
48 Matt Sorum
Rock musician
47 Meg Ryan
Actress
46 Jodie Foster
Actress
45 Terry Farrell
Actress
42 Jason Scott Lee
Actor
39 Travis McNabb
Rock musician (Better Than Ezra)
37 Tony Rich
R&B singer
35 Jason Albert
Country singer (Heartland)
35 Billy Currington
Country singer
35 Savion Glover
Dancer, choreographer
33 Chad Jeffers
Country musician
33 Tamika Scott
R&B singer (Xscape)
31 Lil' Mo
R&B singer
29 Larry Johnson
Football player
25 DeAngelo Hall
Football player
Historic Birthdays
Indira Gandhi
11/19/1917 - 10/31/1984
Indian prime minister (1966-77; 1980-4)
48 Charles I
11/19/1600 - 1/30/1649
English king (1625-49)
53 Mikhail Lomonosov
11/19/1711 - 4/15/1765
Russian scientist and poet
89 Ferdinand Lesseps
11/19/1805 - 12/7/1894
French diplomat
49 James Garfield
11/19/1831 - 9/19/1881
20th president of the United States (1881)
52 Richard Avenarius
11/19/1843 - 11/18/1896
German philosopher
72 Billy Sunday
11/19/1862 - 11/6/1935
American evangelist
79 Allen Tate
11/19/1899 - 2/9/1979
American poet and literary critic
66 Nathan Leopold
11/19/1904 - 8/29/1971
American murderer
51 Tommy Dorsey
11/19/1905 - 11/26/1956
American band leader
71 Roy Campanella
11/19/1921 - 6/26/1993
American baseball player
1620 - Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay. White was the first child to be born of English parents in present-day New England.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.
1889 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born. Hubble discovered and developed the concept of an expanding universe. In 1924 he proved the existence of galaxies other than our own.
1901 - The second Hay-Pauncefoot Treaty provided for construction of the Panama Canal by the U.S.
1910 - Francisco I. Madero led a revolution that broke out in Mexico.
1925 - Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Brookline, MA.
1929 - The radio program "The Rise of the Goldbergs," later known as "The Goldbergs," made its debut on the NBC Blue Network.
1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.
1959 - Britain, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden met to create the European Free Trade Association.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.
1962 - Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time.
1967 - The Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, went past 200 million.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase out of the substance.
1970 - The majority in U.N. General Assembly voted to give China a seat, but two-thirds majority required for admission was not met.
1975 - After nearly 40 years of absolute rule Spain's General Francisco Franco died.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1983 - An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie "The Day After." The movie depicted the outbreak of nuclear war.
1986 - Dr. Halfdan Maher, the director of the World Health Organization, announced the first coordinated global effort to fight the disease AIDS.
1987 - Police investigating the fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station, said that arson was unlikely to be the cause of the event that took 31 lives.
1988 - Egypt and China announced that they would recognize the Palestinian state proclaimed by the Palestine National Council.
1989 - Over 200,000 people rallied peacefully in Prague, Czechoslovakia, demanding democratic reforms.
1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.
1990 - The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, FL, after completing a secret military mission.
1992 - A fire seriously damaged the northwest side of Windsor Castle in England.
1993 - The U.S. Senate passed the Brady Bill and legislation implementing NAFTA.
1994 - The Angolan government and rebels signed a treaty in Zambia to end 19 years of war.
1995 - Princess Diana admitted being unfaithful to Prince Charles in an interview that was broadcast on BBC Television.
1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and later terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.
1998 - Forty-six states agreed to a $206 billion settlement of health claims against the tobacco industry. The industry also agreed to give up billboard advertising of cigarettes.
2001 - The U.S. Justice Department headquarters building was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy building by President George W. Bush. The event was held on what would have been Kennedy's 76th birthday.
2003 Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquited.)
Current Birthdays
Joe Biden turns 66 years old today.
91 Robert Byrd
U.S. senator, D-W.Va.
85 Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize-winning author
83 Kaye Ballard
Actress
81 Estelle Parsons
Actress
76 Richard Dawson
Actor, game show host ("Hogan's Heroes," "Family Feud")
70 Dick Smothers
Comedian (The Smothers Brothers)
66 Norman Greenbaum
Singer
65 Veronica Hamel
Actress ("Hill Street Blues")
62 Judy Woodruff
Broadcast journalist (PBS, CNN)
62 Samuel E. Wright
Actor
61 Joe Walsh
Rock singer (The Eagles)
60 Richard Masur
Actor ("One Day at a Time")
52 Bo Derek
Actress ("10")
51 Jim Brown
Reggae musician (UB40)
49 Sean Young
Actress
47 Jim Brickman
Pianist
46 Todd Nance
Rock musician (Widespread Panic)
45 Ming-Na
Actress
43 Mike D
Rapper (The Beastie Boys)
43 Sen Dog
Rapper (Cypress Hill)
38 Matt Blunt
Governor of Missouri
39 Callie Thorne
Actress
38 Sabrina Lloyd
Actress ("Sports Night")
34 Marisa Ryan
Actress
33 Joshua Gomez
Actor ("Chuck")
33 Dierks Bentley
Country singer
32 Laura Harris
Actress
31 Josh Turner
Country singer
30 Nadine Velazquez
Actress ("My Name is Earl")
19 Cody Linley
Actor ("Hannah Montana'' ''Dancing with the Stars")
Historic Birthdays
Robert F. Kennedy
11/20/1925 - 6/6/1968
American politician; U.S. attorney general (1961-4), U.S. senator from New York (1964-8 ), presidential candidate (1968)
64 St.Edmund of Abington
11/20/1175 - 11/16/1240
English archbishop
83 Otto von Guericke
11/20/1602 - 5/11/1686
German physicist
71 Oliver Wolcott
11/20/1726 - 12/1/1797
American public official
81 Selma Lagerlof
11/20/1858 - 3/16/1940
Swedish writer
78 Kenesaw Mountain Landis
11/20/1866 - 11/25/1944
American federal judge and baseball commissioner (1920-44)
70 Patrick Hayes
11/20/1867 - 9/4/1938
American archbishop of New York (1919-39)
83 James M. Curley
11/20/1874 - 11/12/1958
American politician; mayor of Boston (1914-8, 1922-6, 1930-4, 1947-50) and governor of Massachusetts (1935-7)
84 Norman Thomas
11/20/1884 - 12/19/1968
American social reformer; frequent Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president
74 Albert Kesselring
11/20/1885 - 7/16/1960
German field marshal during World War II
63 Edwin Powell Hubble
11/20/1889 - 9/28/1953
American astronomer
84 Chester Gould
11/20/1900 - 5/11/1985
Americn cartoonist
93 Alexandra Danilova
11/20/1903 - 7/13/1997
Russian ballerina
68 Emilio Pucci
11/20/1914 - 11/29/1982
Italian fashion designer
1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.
1694 - French author and philosopher Jean Francois Voltaire was born. At age 65 he spent only three days writing "Candide."
1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1871 - M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter.
1877 - Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. Senate.
1929 - Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first art exhibit.
1934 - The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League.
1942 - The Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened.
1953 - British Natural History Museum authorities announced that "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy terminated the quaratine measures against Cuba.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case.
1979 - The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was attacked by a mob that set the building afire and killed two Americans.
1980 - An estimated 83 million viewers tuned in to find out "who shot J.R." on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas. Kristin was the character that fired the gun.
1980 - 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, NV.
1982 - The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day player's strike.
1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested after being accused of spying for Israel. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
1987 - An eight-day siege began at a detention center in Oakdale, LA, as Cuban detainees seized the facility and took hostages.
1989 - The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1992 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in past years.
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state.
1994 - NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian "safe area" of Bihac.
1995 - France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific.
1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 5,000-mark (5,023.55) for the first time.
1999 - China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight.
2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going.
2001 - Microsoft Corp. proposed giving $1 billion in computers, software, training and cash to more than 12,500 of the poorest schools in the U.S. The offer was intended as part of a deal to settle most of the company's private antitrust lawsuits.
2002 - NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
Current Birthdays
Dr. John turns 68 years old today.
88 Stan Musial
Baseball Hall of Famer
81 Joseph Campanella
Actor
75 Jean Shepard
Country singer
74 Laurence Luckinbill
Actor
71 Marlo Thomas
Actress ("That Girl")
69 Rick Lenz
Actor
68 Natalia Makarova
Ballet dancer
67 Juliet Mills
Actress
65 Phil Bredesen
Governor of Tennessee
64 Marcy Carsey
TV producer
64 Richard Durbin
U.S. senator, D-Ill.
64 Earl Monroe
Basketball Hall of Famer
64 Harold Ramis
Writer, actor
63 Goldie Hawn
Actress
62 Andrew Davis
Director
60 Lonnie Jordan
Rock musician (War)
58 Livingston Taylor
Singer
56 Lorna Luft
Actress
52 Cherry Jones
Actress
48 Brian Ritchie
Rock musician (Violent Femmes)
46 Steven Curtis Chapman
Gospel singer
45 Nicollette Sheridan
Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
43 Bjork
Rock singer, actress
42 Troy Aikman
Football Hall of Famer, sportscaster
40 Chauncey Hannibal
R&B singer (BLACKstreet)
40 Alex James
Rock musician (Blur)
39 Ken Griffey Jr.
Baseball player
37 Pretty Lou
Rapper (Lost Boyz)
37 Michael Strahan
Football player, sportscaster
34 Kelsi Osborn
Country singer (SHeDAISY)
24 Jena Malone
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Coleman Hawkins
11/21/1904 - 5/19/1969
American jazz musician
83 Francois Voltaire
11/21/1694 - 5/30/1778
French writer
67 William Beaumont
11/21/1785 - 4/25/1853
American army surgeon
77 Sir Samuel Cunard
11/21/1787 - 4/28/1865
British shipbuilder
80 Hetty Green
11/21/1834 - 7/3/1916
American financier
81 Sir Harold Nicolson
11/21/1886 - 5/1/1968
English author and diplomat
68 Rene Magritte
11/21/1898 - 8/15/1967
Belgian painter
69 Eleanor Powell
11/21/1912 - 2/11/1982
American dancer
81 Sid Luckman
11/21/1916 - 7/5/1998
American football coach
1980 - An estimated 83 million viewers tuned in to find out "who shot J.R." on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas. Kristin was the character that fired the gun.
I remember that :1orglaugh
My mother was one of the 83 million viewers!
pastyphil
2008-11-21, 16:47
Thank you BlueBalls & minidog for the time and effort spent on this thread. I enjoy reading it and boring my workmates with some of the info.
1699 - A treaty was signed by Denmark, Russia, Saxony and Poland for the partitioning of the Swedish Empire.
1718 - English pirate Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard") was killed during a battle off the coast of North Carolina. British soldiers cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times.
1880 - Lillian Russell made her vaudeville debut in New York City.
1899 - The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated in New Jersey.
1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal.
1909 - Helen Hayes appeared on stage for the first time. She was a member of the cast of "In Old Dutch."
1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
1917 - The National Hockey League (NHL) was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.
1928 - In Paris, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel was first performed publicly.
1935 - The first trans-Pacific airmail flight began in Alameda, CA, when the flying boat known as the China Clipper left for Manila. The craft was carrying over 110,000 pieces of mail.
1942 - During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad began.
1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the measures for defeating Japan.
1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18.
1961 - The film, "A Man for All Seasons", opened in New York City.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also seriously wounded. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th U.S. President.
1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved resolution 242. The resolution called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured in 1967 and called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon lifted a ban on American travel to Cuba. The ban had been put in place on February 8, 1963.
1974 - The U.N. General Assembly gave the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 - Juan Carlos I was proclaimed King of Spain upon the death of Gen. Francisco Franco.
1975 - "Dr. Zhivago" appeared on TV for the first time. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.
1977 - Regular passenger service on the Concorde began between New York and Europe.
1983 - The Bundestag approved NATO's plan to deploy new U.S. nuclear missiles in West Germany.
1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" presented a sweater to the Smithsonian Institution.
1985 - Anne Henderson-Pollard was taken into custody a day after her husband Jonathon Jay Pollard was arrested for spying for Israel.
1985 - 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States. It was the largest swearing-in ceremony.
1986 - An Iranian surface-to-surface missile hit a residential area in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, wounding 20 civilians.
1986 - Mike Tyson became the youngest to wear the world heavyweight-boxing crown. He was only 20 years and 4 months old.
1988 - The South African government announced it had joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.
1989 - Rene Moawad, the president of Lebanon, was assassinated less than three weeks after taking office by a bomb that exploded next to his motorcade in West Beirut.
1990 - U.S. President Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign.
1993 - Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1993 - American Airlines flight attendants ended their strike that only lasted four days.
1994 - Inside the District of Columbia's police headquarters a gunman opened fire. Two FBI agents, a city detective and the gunman were killed in the gun battle.
1994 - In northwest Bosnia, Serb fighters set villages on fire in response to a retaliatory air strikes by NATO.
1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.
2005 - Angela Merkel was elected as Germany's first female chancellor.
2005 - Microsoft's XBOX 360 went on sale.
Current Birthdays
Scarlett Johansson turns 24 years old today
90 Claiborne Pell
Former U.S. senator, D-R.I.
85 Arthur Hiller
Director
76 Robert Vaughn
Actor
73 Michael Callan
Actor
69 Allen Garfield
Actor
68 Terry Gilliam
Director, animator (Monty Python)
67 Tom Conti
Actor
67 Jesse Colin Young
Rock singer
66 Guion S. Bluford
Astronaut
65 Billie Jean King
Tennis Hall of Famer
58 Steve Van Zandt
Rock musician, actor (E Street Band, "The Sopranos")
58 Tina Weymouth
Rock musician (Talking Heads)
52 Richard Kind
Actor ("Spin City," "Mad About You")
50 Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress
50 Jason Ringenberg
Rock singer (Jason & the Scorchers)
47 Mariel Hemingway
Actress
44 Stephen Geoffreys
Actor
42 Charlie Colin
Rock musician
42 Nicholas Rowe
Actor
41 Boris Becker
Tennis Hall of Famer
41 Mark Ruffalo
Actor
34 Joe Nathan
Baseball player
25 Tyler Hilton
Actor, singer
Historic Birthdays
Charles de Gaulle
11/22/1890 - 11/9/1970
French World War II resistance leader and president (1958-69)
42 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
11/22/1428 - 4/14/1471
English nobleman; powerful during Wars of the Roses
43 Rene-Robert La Salle
11/22/1643 - 3/19/1687
French explorer of North America
73 Abigail Adams
11/22/1744 - 10/28/1818
American first lady (1797-1801)
61 George Eliot
11/22/1819 - 12/22/1880
British novelist
81 Justin M'Carthy
11/22/1830 - 4/24/1912
Irish politician and historian
98 John Nance Garner
11/22/1868 - 11/7/1967
American politician; U.S. vice president (1933-41)
81 Andre Gide
11/22/1869 - 2/19/1951
French writer
35 Wiley Post
11/22/1898 - 8/15/1935
American aviator; made first solo flight around the world
82 Hoagy Carmichael
11/22/1899 - 12/27/1981
American composer
69 Joe Adonis
11/22/1902 - 11/26/1971
American crime boss
63 Benjamin Britten
11/22/1913 - 12/4/1976
British composer
62 Geraldine Page
11/22/1924 - 6/13/1987
American actress
Thank ever so much for your hard work on this thread minidog!
1765 - Frederick County, MD, repudiated the British Stamp Act.
1835 - Henry Burden patented the horseshoe manufacturing machine.
1889 - The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Palais Royale Saloon.
1890 - Princess Wilhelmina became Queen of the Netherlands at the age of 10 when her father William III died.
1936 - The first edition of "Life" was published.
1943 - During World War II, U.S. forces seized control of Tarawa and Makin from the Japanese during the Central Pacific offensive in the Gilbert Islands.
1945 - The U.S. wartime rationing of most foods ended.
1948 - Dr. Frank G. Back patented the "Zoomar" lens.
1961 - The Dominican Republic changed the name of its capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Domingo.
1971 - The People's Republic of China was seated in the United Nations Security Council.
1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Earl Mountbatten.
1980 - In southern Italy, approximately 4,800 people were killed in a series of earthquakes.
1985 - Larry Wu-tai Chin, a retired CIA analyst, was arrested and accused of spying for China. He committed suicide a year after his conviction.
1985 - Gunmen hijacked an Egyptian jetliner en route from Athens to Cairo. The plane was forced to land in Malta.
1986 - In Manila, President Aquino dismissed Defense Minister Enrile.
1988 - Wayne Gretzky scored his 600th National Hockey League (NHL) goal.
1989 - Lucia Barrera de Cerna, a housekeeper who claimed she had witnessed the slaying of six Jesuit priests and two other people at the Jose Simeon Canas University in El Salvador, was flown to the U.S.
1991 - Yugoslavia's rival leaders agreed to a new cease-fire, the 14th of the Balkan civil war.
1991 - The Sacramento Kings ended the NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games.
1992 - The play "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opened.
1994 - About 111 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a stampede after Indian police baton-charged tribal protesters in the western city of Nagpur.
1995 - Charles Rathbun, free-lance photographer, was booked in Hermosa Beach, CA, for investigation of murder in the disappearance of model Linda Sobek. He was later convicted.
1998 - Dennis Rodman filed for an annulment from Carmen Electra. The two had been married on November 14, 1998.
1998 - The tobacco industry signed the biggest U.S. civil settlement. It was a $206-billion deal to resolve remaining state claims for treating sick smokers.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge rejected a Virginia county's effort to block pornography on library computer calling the attempt unconstitutional.
2001 - A crowd of 87,555 people watched the Texas Longhorns beat the Texas A&M Aggies 21-7. The crowd was the largest to see a football game in Texas.
Skyraider22
2008-11-23, 19:20
Hey that is great to know I'm intrested in history:glugglug::thumbsup:
1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old.
1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.
1863 - During the Civil War, the battle for Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee.
1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated in the U.S.
1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.
1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.
1944 - During World War II, the first raid against the Japanese capital of Tokyo was made by land-based U.S. bombers.
1947 - The "Hollywood 10," were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in their industry.
1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was published for the first time.
1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
1969 - Apollo 12 landed safely in the Pacific Ocean bringing an end to the second manned mission to the moon.
1971 - Hijacker Dan Cooper, known as D.B. Cooper, parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom.
1983 - The Palestine Liberation Organization released six Israeli prisoners in exchange for the release of 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese held by the Israelis.
1985 - In Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed an Egyptian jetliner. 60 people died in the raid.
1987 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap short- and medium-range missiles. It was the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.
1989 - Czechoslovakia's hard-line party leadership resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies.
1992 - In China, a domestic jetliner crashed, killing 141 people.
1993 - The U.S. Congress gave its final approval to the Brady handgun control bill.
1993 - Robert Thompson and Jon Venables (both 11 years old) were convicted of murdering 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool, England. They were both sentenced to "indefinite detention."
1995 - In Ireland, the voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing divorce.
1996 - Rusty Wallace won the first NASCAR event to be held in Japan.
1996 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) set an NFL record when he recorded his eighth straight 1,000-yard season.
1998 - AOL (America Online) announced a deal for their purchase of Netscape for $4.21 billion
Current Birthdays
Katherine Heigl turns 30 years old today.
73 Ron Dellums
Former U.S. Rep., D-Calif.
70 Oscar Robertson
Bsaketball Hall of Famer
68 Johnny Carver
Country singer
67 Pete Best
Rock musician
67 Donald "Duck" Dunn
Rock musician (Booker T. and the MG's)
66 Billy Connolly
Actor, comedian
66 Marlin Fitzwater
Former White House press secretary
64 Dan Glickman
President of the Motion Picture Association of America
63 Lee Michaels
Rock singer
61 Dwight Schultz
Actor
58 Stanley Livingston
Actor ("My Three Sons")
53 Clem Burke
Rock musician (Blondie)
52 Terry Lewis
Record producer
52 Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Actor
51 Denise Crosby
Actress
46 Shae D'Lyn
Actress
46 John Squire
Rock musician (The Stone Roses)
46 Gary Stonadge
Rock musician (Big Audio)
44 Garret Dillahunt
Actor
38 Chad Taylor
Rock musician (Live)
37 Lola Glaudini
Actress
31 Colin Hanks
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Dale Carnegie
11/24/1888 - 11/1/1955
American author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People
44 Benedict Spinoza
11/24/1632 - 2/21/1677
Dutch philosopher
54 Laurence Sterne
11/24/1713 - 3/18/1768
Irish-born English novelist
70 Junipero Serra
11/24/1713 - 8/28/1784
Spanish missionary
65 Zachary Taylor
11/24/1784 - 7/9/1850
12th president of the United States (1849-50)
74 Cass Gilbert
11/24/1859 - 5/17/1934
American architect; designed the U.S. Supreme Court Building
36 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
11/24/1864 - 9/9/1901
French artist
48 Scott Joplin
11/24/1868 - 4/1/1917
American ragtime composer
78 Alben Barkley
11/24/1877 - 4/30/1956
American vice president under President Harry S. Truman
78 Itzhak Ben-Zvi
11/24/1884 - 4/23/1963
Second president of Israel (1952-63)
86 Margaret Anderson
11/24/1886 - 10/18/1973
American founder and editor of The Little Review magazine