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September 27th
* 1540 - The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
* 1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
* 1787 - The United States Constitution is delivered to the states for ratification.
* 1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
* 1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
* 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" in Annalen der Physik. This paper revealed the relationship between energy and mass.
* 1928 - The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
* 1937 - Last Balinese Tiger killed
* 1949 - The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
* 1954 - The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
* 1964 - The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
* 1983 - Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
* 1995 - The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
* 1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
* 1997 - Communications are lost with the Mars Pathfinder for unknown reasons.
* 1998 - Google is first established
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november 2nd
some stuff i found interesting:
1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day, the only current national holiday honoring an individual American.
1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
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August 5th
# Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.
# 1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
# 1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
# 1388 - Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England.
# 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
# 1620 - The Mayflower departs Southampton, England.
# 1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
# 1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
# 1772 - First Partition of Poland begins.
# 1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
# 1858 - Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.
# 1860 - Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
# 1861 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
# 1861 - The United States Army abolished flogging.
# 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
# 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
# 1874 - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England.
# 1882 - Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
# 1882 - Martial law is enacted in Japan.
# 1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
# 1888 - Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.
# 1901 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
# 1912 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.
# 1914 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
# 1944 - World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia. Most are killed but many escape and later commit suicide. Five Australian guards also die.
# 1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
# 1949 - In Ecuador an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.
# 1957 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
# 1960 - Burkina Faso, then known as "Upper Volta", becomes independent from France.
# 1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
# 1963 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
# 1964 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
# 1969 - Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
# 1974 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
# 1981 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
# 1993 - Popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering is released. First trading card game to date.
# 1995 - The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory ("Homeland Thanksgiving Day") in Croatia.
# 1999 - Mark McGwire becomes the 16th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.
# 2001 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in a record-setting game known as the Impossible Return.
# 2003 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
+ a long list of famous people who were born or died that day (which I don't intend to post)
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April 17th:
1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts.
1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
1895 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
1924 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company
1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1975 - Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
Births:
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
1897 - Thornton Wilder, American dramatist (d. 1975)
1957 - Nick Hornby, English author
1959 - Sean Bean, English actor
1972 - Jennifer Garner, American actress
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Janet Jackson exposed her nipple. Feb 1st fucking sucks.
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* 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
* 1244 - Battle of La Forbie: Crusaders are defeated by Khwarezmians and Egyptians.
* 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
* 1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army lead by John Hunyadi fought an Ottoman army lead by Murad II.
* 1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
* 1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkerque to France for 40,000 pounds.
* 1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
* 1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionaries at Yorktown, Virginia.
* 1800 - England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
* 1806 - Former leader of the Great Slave Rebellion of 1791, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule.
* 1860 - First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open)
* 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
* 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
* 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I
* 1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
* 1933 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US.
* 1937 - Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck's three almost identical nephews, first appear in a newspaper comic strip.
* 1941 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
* 1945 - A massive number of people, headed for CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty) or San Perón (Saint Perón). It's considered the birthday of Peronism.
* 1961 - Approximately 200 Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police
* 1965 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
* 1966 - A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters.
* 1967 - The musical Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway.
* 1970 - Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
* 1973 - OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria
* 1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1979 - The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the United States Department of Education and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Both replace the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
* 1989 - Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area.
* 1992 - The United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992.
* 1994 - Draft peace treaty between Israel and Jordan
* 1994 - Peace treaty between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
* 2003 - Carlos Mesa becomes President of Bolivia.
* 2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 106-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
* 2003 - Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
* 2004 - Approximately 10,000 people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the Million Worker March, a pro-labor and anti-war demonstration.
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July 24th
* 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
* 1216 - Cencio Savelli is consecrated as Pope Honorius III.
* 1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil.
* 1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
* 1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King Francis I of France.
* 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son King James VI.
* 1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
* 1814 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
* 1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile
* 1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
* 1847 - After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown - Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.
* 1866 - Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
* 1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
* 1910 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
* 1911 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".
* 1915 - Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, Illinois, with the loss of 845 lives.
* 1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War.
* 1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
* 1929 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
* 1931 - A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
* 1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
* 1935 - The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
* 1937 - Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys."
* 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
* 1956 - At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946.
* 1956 - Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum.
* 1959 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate."
* 1964 - One criticality (nuclear) accident at Charlestown in Rhode Island (US), killing one. See List of civilian nuclear accidents.
* 1965 - Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
* 1966 - Michael Pelkey made the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping is now been banned from El Cap.
* 1967 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
* 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
* 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
* 1974 - After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored.
* 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th career home run off of Oakland A's Mike Morgan at Fenway Park.
* 1983 - George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
* 1990 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border.
* 1991 - Government of India announces the New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
* 1998 - Russel Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
* 2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
* 2001 - The Taiwan Solidarity Union is established.
* 2001 - Larry A. Silverstein signs a $3.2billion, 99 year lease on the entire WTC complex, 7 weeks before 9/11. In it is an insurance policy which specifically covers acts of terrorism.
* 2002 - James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
* 2002 - Alfred Moisiu becomes President of Albania.
* 2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
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I just found out Snoop Dogg and I share the same birthday.
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the first internet website opened on my birthday ^____________^
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December 11th
1984 - Testie is born dwarfing all other events on this day in history.
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september 28th
# 1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.
# 1820 - The tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts.
# 1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
# 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1987 - Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode of TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation airs.
Births:
551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
# 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
# 1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
1968 - Naomi Watts, English-born actress
1979 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder
# 1987 - Hilary Duff, American actress
Deaths:
48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
# 1891 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
# 1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
1964 - Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
quite a few notable historical people born on my birtday.
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September 10th
1988 - At his residence in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden launches al Qaeda
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October 28th
1981 - The heavy metal band Metallica is founded in San Francisco.
Damn right bitches !
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August 27, 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended.
Damned right!
What was that Mardonius? You were saying that Xerxes would overrun the Greeks, because they fought in the most absurd manner - selecting a level, open plain, and clashing, so that the winner sustains heavy casualties, and the loser is totally destroyed?
Armies drawn from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, all under one banner, invade Greece, and are annihilated.
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On September 08 2006 22:15 IntoTheWow wrote:October 25 1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis. 2001 - Windows XP is offically released. T_T 2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8th. 
wow thats alot of fucked up things that happened on your bday. which is worse, hitler or windows XP?
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August 28th
* 475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place.
* 489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
* 1521 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
* 1542 - Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
* 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
* 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
* 1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1830 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
* 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
* 1849 - After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
* 1850 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany.
* 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
* 1867 - The United States occupies Midway Island.
* 1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
* 1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made.
* 1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
* 1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
* 1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
* 1914 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
* 1916 - Germany declares war on Romania.
* 1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
* 1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
* 1918 - PFC Spartak Varna founded.
* 1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
* 1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
* 1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
* 1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
* 1955 - Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
* 1961 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
* 1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
* 1964 - The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time.
* 1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
* 1965 - Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in New York for playing an electric guitar.
* 1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
* 1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
* 1972 - During the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
* 1975 - Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
* 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
* 1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
* 1986 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
* 1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
* 1988 - Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 69 are killed.
* 1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
* 1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
* 1991 - A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
* 1993 - A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
* 1993 - 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
* 1994 - First Japanese gay pride march.
* 1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
* 1996 - Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
* 1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
* 2005 - A mandatory evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moves nearer to Louisiana.
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On September 08 2006 22:05 PuertoRican wrote:
Example: August 23
1305 - William Wallace is executed.
1839 - The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong.
1889 - First wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
1989 - All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 - West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
to Everybody:
follow the fucking example. dont copy paste the entire fucking day. if i wanted to see everything that happened on any given day of the year, i'd fucking do it myself. i want to see the highlights.
you dont see him posting the entire page.
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November 10th
* 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
* 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
* 1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
* 1766 - The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
* 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.
* 1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.
* 1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
* 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
* 1919 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
* 1926 - In San Francisco, California, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, Mrs. William Edmonds.
* 1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan
* 1938 - Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.
* 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".
* 1942 - World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
* 1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
* 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
* 1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
* 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
* 1970 - Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
* 1971 - In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
* 1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
* 1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
* 1975 - United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991).
* 1989 - After ruling for 33 years , Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by foreign minister Petar Mladenov, who in 1990 changes the party's name to Bulgarian Socialist Party.
* 1995 - In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
* 1997 - WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
* 1997 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.
* 1997 - The conviction of 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward reduced from second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter and her sentence reduced from life in prison to time served. She had been found guilty less than two weeks earlier in a baby-shaking death.
* 2001 - The National Alliance holds a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D. C. concerning the attacks of September 11, 2001.
* 2002 - A tornado outbreak hits the Upper Ohio Valley leading to several deaths.
* 2004 - Mozilla Firefox is released.
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On September 09 2006 16:16 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
November 10th
* 1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
* 1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.
* 1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
* 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
* 1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood "subversives".
* 1997 - The conviction of 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward reduced from second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter and her sentence reduced from life in prison to time served. She had been found guilty less than two weeks earlier in a baby-shaking death.
* 2004 - Mozilla Firefox is released.
fixedish
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October 1st:
331 BC - Greek Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
965 - John XIII becomes Pope.
1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Vietnam.
1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 - Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1843 - News of the World began publication in London.
1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards.
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.
1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
1885 - United States begins special-delivery mail service.
1886 - The U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada, closes.
1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
1890 - The Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1894 - First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 - František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 - Ford introduces the Model T car.
1910 - A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1931 - The original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1961 - Baseball: Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season with 61, surpassing Babe Ruth's previous mark of 60.
1962 - Johnny Carson begins a 30-year run as the host of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson at NBC.
1963 - California State Board of Education created.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 - Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 - Apostasia, a political move in Greece designed by the former King of Greece Constantine II and executed by a group of politicians (led by the later PM of Greece Constantine Mitsotakis) who have betrayed and overthrown the Prime Minister George Papandreou in Greece in favour of the formerly King of Greece.
1965 - General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 - Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1975 - The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu. Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires.
1978 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 - The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1979 - Activision founded
1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 - EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
1983 - Horizons opens at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.
1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet.
1992 - Cartoon Network debuts.
1993 - Polly Klaas is kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis during a slumber party at her Petaluma, California, home; Davis will be sentenced to death for her murdering Klaas.
2001 - Victoria Beckham's debut solo album is released.
2004 - Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2005 - Almost exactly three years after a similar event, a bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
What bizarre things i picked to bold out lol.
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