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March 28th
1994
The Italian election is won by the Freedom Alliance - a group headed by media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi who is named Prime Minister in April, 1994.
1981
Sue Brown (Oxford) first female cox in boat race
1979
A major radiation leak alert at Three Mile Island nuclear station near Harrisburg in Pennsylvania, USA when the atomic core begins to melt down.
1964
The pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, begins transmitting from a ship in the North Sea.
1957
Britain releases Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus who had been arrested for inciting tensions on the island between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
1939
End of Spanish civil war
1930
Constantinople, geographically the most western city of Turkey, changes its name to Istanbul.
1800
The Irish Parliament passes the Act of Union with England.
1968
Other than that, I was born!
1994
The Italian election is won by the Freedom Alliance - a group headed by media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi who is named Prime Minister in April, 1994.
1981
Sue Brown (Oxford) first female cox in boat race
1979
A major radiation leak alert at Three Mile Island nuclear station near Harrisburg in Pennsylvania, USA when the atomic core begins to melt down.
1964
The pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, begins transmitting from a ship in the North Sea.
1957
Britain releases Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus who had been arrested for inciting tensions on the island between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
1939
End of Spanish civil war
1930
Constantinople, geographically the most western city of Turkey, changes its name to Istanbul.
1800
The Irish Parliament passes the Act of Union with England.
1968
Other than that, I was born!
Son of a hillbilly
class 1 Gopher division
on a reply to the past thread I have perhaps got the best birthday a brightonian could get.
october 18th
2005
Palarse 0- Brighton 1 at selhurst park
and I thought the BBC being established was good enough.
october 18th
2005
Palarse 0- Brighton 1 at selhurst park
and I thought the BBC being established was good enough.
ATFC Seagull
Aberystwyth Town FC
Was being born at that exact moment!
Barrel of Fun
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1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitated one hundred floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decided to pardon them, seeing as how their intention was not to tear up the money.
1513 - Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs) - King Henry VIII of England defeats French Forces who were forced to retreat.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
1792 - Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
1819 - Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
1841 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1868 - Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami which followed a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.
1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1896 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1915 - World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern ⅔ of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
1920 - The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1940 - World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.
1941 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1942 - World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1945 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
1962 - Pete Best replaced by Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) as drummer for The Beatles.
1964 - Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
1966 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
1972 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon, in an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
1987 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes on take-off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan (Detroit), killing 155 passengers and crew. The sole survivor is four-year-old Cecelia Cichan.
1989 - A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
1992 - In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.
1993 - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
2008 - Brighton and Hove Albion dazzle the Withdean crowds with a swashbuckling 0-0 draw with the mighty Bristol Rovers.
2008 - Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 summer olympics.
1513 - Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs) - King Henry VIII of England defeats French Forces who were forced to retreat.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
1792 - Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
1819 - Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
1841 - U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1868 - Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami which followed a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.
1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1896 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1913 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1915 - World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern ⅔ of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar).
1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
1920 - The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1940 - World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.
1941 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1942 - World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1945 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.
1962 - Pete Best replaced by Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) as drummer for The Beatles.
1964 - Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
1966 - Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
1972 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon, in an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
1987 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes on take-off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan (Detroit), killing 155 passengers and crew. The sole survivor is four-year-old Cecelia Cichan.
1989 - A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
1992 - In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.
1993 - The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
2008 - Brighton and Hove Albion dazzle the Withdean crowds with a swashbuckling 0-0 draw with the mighty Bristol Rovers.
2008 - Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 summer olympics.
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Well-known member
11th April................Buchenwald liberated.
* 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
* 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
* 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.
* 1790 - The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
* 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
* 1820 - Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
* 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
* 1835 - In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson.
* 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
* 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
* 1858 - The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
* 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
* 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
* 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
* 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
* 1913 - The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
* 1925 - The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
* 1930 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
* 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
* 1943 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. TheUSS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
* 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: The Nazi Gestapo commences mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp are ordered to undress and are shot with a machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
* 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
* 1945 - The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
* 1945 - World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
* 1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler.)
* 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
* 1956 - American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
* 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
* 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
* 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
* 1972 - Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
* 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1976 - George H. W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA.
* 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
* 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
* 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
* 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
* 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
* 1996 - Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
* 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
* 2000 - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
* 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
[edit] Births
* 133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
* 1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
* 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
* 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
* 1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
* 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
* 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
* 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
* 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
* 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
* 1816 - Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
* 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
* 1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
* 1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
* 1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
* 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
* 1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
* 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
* 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
* 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
* 1894 - Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
* 1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
* 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
* 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
* 1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
* 1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
* 1912 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
* 1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
* 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
* 1913 - Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
* 1914 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
* 1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
* 1915 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
* 1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
* 1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist d. 2008)
* 1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
* 1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
* 1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
* 1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director
* 1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian
* 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
* 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
* 1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
* 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
* 1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
* 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
* 1930 - Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
* 1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
* 1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
* 1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
* 1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
* 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
* 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
* 1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
* 1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
* 1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
* 1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
* 1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
* 1936 - Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
* 1937 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
* 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
* 1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
* 1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
* 1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
* 1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
* 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
* 1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
* 1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
* 1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
* 1947 - Les Barker, English poet
* 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
* 1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
* 1948 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
* 1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
* 1950 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
* 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
* 1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
* 1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
* 1952 - Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
* 1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
* 1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
* 1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
* 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
* 1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
* 1958 - Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
* 1959 - Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
* 1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
* 1961 - Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
* 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
* 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
* 1965 - Julie McCullough, American model and actress
* 1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
* 1967 - Jay Gordon, American musician
* 1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
* 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
* 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
* 1971 - Darren Boyd, British actor
* 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
* 1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
* 1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
* 1974 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
* 1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
* 1974 - Jemima Khan, English socialite
* 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
* 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
* 1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
* 1977 - Deltha O'Neal, American football player
* 1978 - John Patterson, American baseball player
* 1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
* 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
* 1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
* 1980 - Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
* 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
* 1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
* 1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
* 1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
* 1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
* 1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
* 1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
* 1985 - Trae Williams, American football player
* 1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
* 1986 - Nick Evans, American baseball player
* 1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
* 1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
* 1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
* 1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
* 1990 - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
* 1991 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
* 2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan
[edit] Deaths
* 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
* 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
* 1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
* 1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
* 1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
* 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
* 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
* 1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
* 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
* 1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
* 1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
* 1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
* 1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
* 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
* 1929 - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
* 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
* 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
* 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
* 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
* 1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
* 1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
* 1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
* 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
* 1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
* 1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
* 1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
* 1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
* 1991 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
* 1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
* 1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
* 1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
* 1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
* 1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
* 1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
* 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
* 2001 - Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
* 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
* 2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
* 2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
* 2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
* 2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
* 2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
* 2008 - Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
* 2008 - Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
* 2008 - Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)
* 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
* 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.
* 1790 - The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
* 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
* 1820 - Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
* 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
* 1835 - In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson.
* 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
* 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
* 1858 - The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
* 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
* 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
* 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
* 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
* 1913 - The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
* 1925 - The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
* 1930 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
* 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
* 1943 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. TheUSS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
* 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: The Nazi Gestapo commences mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp are ordered to undress and are shot with a machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
* 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
* 1945 - The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
* 1945 - World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
* 1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler.)
* 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
* 1956 - American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
* 1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
* 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
* 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
* 1972 - Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
* 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1976 - George H. W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA.
* 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
* 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
* 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
* 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
* 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
* 1996 - Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
* 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
* 2000 - Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
* 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
[edit] Births
* 133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
* 1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
* 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
* 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
* 1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
* 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
* 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
* 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
* 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
* 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
* 1816 - Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
* 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
* 1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
* 1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
* 1859 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
* 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
* 1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
* 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
* 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
* 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
* 1894 - Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
* 1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
* 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
* 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
* 1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
* 1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
* 1912 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
* 1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
* 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
* 1913 - Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
* 1914 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
* 1914 - David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
* 1915 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
* 1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
* 1917 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist d. 2008)
* 1918 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
* 1919 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
* 1920 - Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
* 1920 - Delbert Mann, American film director
* 1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian
* 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
* 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
* 1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress
* 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
* 1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
* 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
* 1930 - Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
* 1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
* 1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor
* 1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician
* 1931 - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
* 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
* 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
* 1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
* 1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
* 1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
* 1936 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
* 1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
* 1936 - Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
* 1937 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
* 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
* 1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
* 1938 - Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
* 1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
* 1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
* 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
* 1942 - Marty Balin, American musician
* 1943 - Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
* 1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
* 1947 - Les Barker, English poet
* 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
* 1948 - Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
* 1948 - Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
* 1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
* 1950 - Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
* 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
* 1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor
* 1951 - Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
* 1952 - Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
* 1955 - Curtis Strange, American golfer
* 1955 - Judith Tarr, American author
* 1956 - Jeremy Gittins, English actor
* 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
* 1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
* 1958 - Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
* 1959 - Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
* 1959 - Jody Watley, American singer
* 1961 - Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
* 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
* 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
* 1965 - Julie McCullough, American model and actress
* 1966 - Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
* 1967 - Jay Gordon, American musician
* 1968 - Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
* 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain
* 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
* 1971 - Darren Boyd, British actor
* 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
* 1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
* 1972 - Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
* 1974 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
* 1974 - Olivia Colman, English actress
* 1974 - Jemima Khan, English socialite
* 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
* 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
* 1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian
* 1977 - Deltha O'Neal, American football player
* 1978 - John Patterson, American baseball player
* 1980 - Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
* 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
* 1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
* 1980 - Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
* 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
* 1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer
* 1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician
* 1981 - Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
* 1982 - Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
* 1984 - Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
* 1985 - Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
* 1985 - Trae Williams, American football player
* 1986 - Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
* 1986 - Nick Evans, American baseball player
* 1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
* 1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor
* 1989 - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
* 1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor
* 1990 - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
* 1991 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
* 2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan
[edit] Deaths
* 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
* 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
* 1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
* 1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
* 1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
* 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
* 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
* 1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
* 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
* 1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
* 1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
* 1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
* 1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
* 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
* 1929 - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
* 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
* 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
* 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
* 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
* 1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
* 1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
* 1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
* 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
* 1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
* 1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
* 1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
* 1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
* 1991 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
* 1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
* 1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
* 1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
* 1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
* 1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
* 1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
* 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
* 2001 - Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
* 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
* 2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
* 2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
* 2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
* 2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
* 2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
* 2008 - Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
* 2008 - Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
* 2008 - Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)
Waterhall Wizard
Only one PETER WARD
Events
* 1431 - The trial of Joan of Arc begins.
* 1804 - The first self-propelling steam engine or steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales, it was built by Richard Trevithick.
* 1842 - John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine.
* 1848 - Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto.
* 1874 - The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
* 1878 - First telephone book issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
* 1893 - Thomas Edison received two U.S. patents. The first was for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."
* 1916 - World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.
* 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
* 1947 - In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
* 1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
* 1953 - Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
* 1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.
* 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at his mosque in New York City by Black Muslims.
* 1972 - President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
* 1972 - The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
* 1973 - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
* 1975 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
* 1988 - On his own televangelism program being tapped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jimmy Swaggart confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be will be temporarily leaving the pulpit.
* 1995 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
* 2000 - David Letterman returns to The Late Show with David Letterman over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.
Births
* 1728 - Peter III, Tsar or Russia, husband of Catherine the Great († 1762)
* 1791 - John Mercer, chemist and industrialist († 1866)
* 1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer († 1937)
* 1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, millionaire and benefactor († 1934)
* 1880 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer († 1952)
* 1885 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist, writer, director, actor († 1957)
* 1893 - Andr? Segovia, musician († 1987)
* 1895 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine († 1976)
* 1903 - Ana? Nin, writer († 1977)
* 1907 - W. H. Auden, English poet († 1973)
* 1925 - Sam Peckinpah, director († 1984)
* 1924 - Robert Mugabe First Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
* 1927 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist († 1996)
* 1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
* 1933 - Nina Simone, singer
* 1936 - Barbara Jordan, American politician from Texas († 1996)
* 1937 - King Harald V of Norway
* 1942 - Margarethe von Trotta, actor, film director, writer
* 1943 - David Geffen, producer
* 1946 - Tyne Daly, actress
* 1946 - Alan Rickman, actor
* 1953 - William Petersen, actor
* 1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer
* 1961 - Davey Allison, automobile racer († 1993)
* 1961 - Chuck Palahniuk, writer
* 1962 - David Foster Wallace, American author
* 1963 - William Baldwin, actor
* 1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, singer
* 1986 - Charlotte Church, singer
Deaths
* 1513 - Pope Julius II
* 1824 - Eug?e de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine
* 1965 - Malcolm X, Black Muslim Movement activist
* 1967 - Charles Beaumont, writer
* 1991 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer
* 1995 - Calder Willingham, writer
* 2002 - John Thaw, actor
* 1431 - The trial of Joan of Arc begins.
* 1804 - The first self-propelling steam engine or steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales, it was built by Richard Trevithick.
* 1842 - John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine.
* 1848 - Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto.
* 1874 - The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
* 1878 - First telephone book issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
* 1893 - Thomas Edison received two U.S. patents. The first was for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."
* 1916 - World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.
* 1925 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
* 1947 - In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
* 1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
* 1953 - Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
* 1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.
* 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at his mosque in New York City by Black Muslims.
* 1972 - President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
* 1972 - The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
* 1973 - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
* 1975 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
* 1988 - On his own televangelism program being tapped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jimmy Swaggart confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be will be temporarily leaving the pulpit.
* 1995 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
* 2000 - David Letterman returns to The Late Show with David Letterman over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.
Births
* 1728 - Peter III, Tsar or Russia, husband of Catherine the Great († 1762)
* 1791 - John Mercer, chemist and industrialist († 1866)
* 1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer († 1937)
* 1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, millionaire and benefactor († 1934)
* 1880 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer († 1952)
* 1885 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist, writer, director, actor († 1957)
* 1893 - Andr? Segovia, musician († 1987)
* 1895 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine († 1976)
* 1903 - Ana? Nin, writer († 1977)
* 1907 - W. H. Auden, English poet († 1973)
* 1925 - Sam Peckinpah, director († 1984)
* 1924 - Robert Mugabe First Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
* 1927 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist († 1996)
* 1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
* 1933 - Nina Simone, singer
* 1936 - Barbara Jordan, American politician from Texas († 1996)
* 1937 - King Harald V of Norway
* 1942 - Margarethe von Trotta, actor, film director, writer
* 1943 - David Geffen, producer
* 1946 - Tyne Daly, actress
* 1946 - Alan Rickman, actor
* 1953 - William Petersen, actor
* 1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer
* 1961 - Davey Allison, automobile racer († 1993)
* 1961 - Chuck Palahniuk, writer
* 1962 - David Foster Wallace, American author
* 1963 - William Baldwin, actor
* 1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, singer
* 1986 - Charlotte Church, singer
Deaths
* 1513 - Pope Julius II
* 1824 - Eug?e de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine
* 1965 - Malcolm X, Black Muslim Movement activist
* 1967 - Charles Beaumont, writer
* 1991 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer
* 1995 - Calder Willingham, writer
* 2002 - John Thaw, actor
The Clown of Pevensey Bay
Well-known member
Presumably they just filled it up with stories about immigrants from East Pakistan sending average house prices ROCKETING above the £3,000 mark?
Anyway -- my birthday involved George VI dying, and the Munich air disaster.
franks brother
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218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
1620 - The Mayflower lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts delivering 102 Pilgrims.
1642 - Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
1777 - The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, celebrating the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October
1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Lexington, General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union force under Colonel Robert Ingersoll.
1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by Georgia, fulfilling the two-thirds requirement for ratification, and abolishing Slavery in the United States.
1878 - John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1888 - Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1898 - Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the new land speed record going 39.245 mph, in a Jeantaud electric car. This is the first recognized land speed record.
1900 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1912 -The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
1915 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
1916 - World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn suffers 337,000 casualties by the French.
1932 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards long.
1935 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1941 - Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
1944 - World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
1961 - Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1969 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years, is carried by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
1972 - Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1973 - Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1987 - Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
1989 - The European Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2002 - 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
18 december
1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China.
1620 - The Mayflower lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts delivering 102 Pilgrims.
1642 - Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
1777 - The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, celebrating the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October
1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Lexington, General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union force under Colonel Robert Ingersoll.
1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by Georgia, fulfilling the two-thirds requirement for ratification, and abolishing Slavery in the United States.
1878 - John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1888 - Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1898 - Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the new land speed record going 39.245 mph, in a Jeantaud electric car. This is the first recognized land speed record.
1900 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1912 -The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
1915 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.
1916 - World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn suffers 337,000 casualties by the French.
1932 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards long.
1935 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1941 - Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
1944 - World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
1961 - Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea.
1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1969 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years, is carried by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
1972 - Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1973 - Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1987 - Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
1989 - The European Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
1996 - The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 - NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2002 - 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
18 december
Manthorpee
I'm Not Jake
that's right down your street eh
On the grounds that I don't live in Belgium, I can't say it bothers me one way or t'other.
northstandnorth
THE GOLDSTONE
f***ing lots but the old julian to grogorian thing confuses it a bit
January 16
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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
[edit] Events
27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
550 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
1120 - The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
1412 - The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
1492 - The first grammar of a modern language, in the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella.
1547 - Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1581 - The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
1707 - The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1761 - The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York.
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1864 - Second Schleswig War: King Christian IX of Denmark declares war on the German Confederation in order to occupy Schleswig.
1878 - Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
1896 - Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 - Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1920 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. is founded on the campus of Howard University.
1938 - The famous jazz concert by the Benny Goodman Orchestra and special guests takes place at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the first jazz performance in that venue.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
1968 - The Youth International Party is founded.
1969 - Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
1986 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
1991 - The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
[edit] Births
1245 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
1409 - René I of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1501 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
1616 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
1626 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
1634 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
1728 - Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
1807 - Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d 1877)
1815 - Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
1821 - John C. Breckinridge, U.S. Vice-President and Confederate general (d. 1875)
1834 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
1836 - King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
1844 - Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
1853 - Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
1853 - Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
1853 - Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
1872 - Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer (d. 1966)
1872 - Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
1874 - Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
1875 - Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
1878 - Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
1885 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
1886 - John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
1888 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1893 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
1894 - Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
1895 - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
1898 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
1898 - Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)
1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
1901 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
1903 - William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945, by execution)
1905 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
1906 - Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)
1907 - Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
1907 - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
1908 - Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1908 - Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
1910 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1911 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d.1982)
1914 - Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
1916 - Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)
1917 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
1918 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
1918 - Clem Jones, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia (d. 2007)
1918 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)
1920 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991)
1921 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1923 - Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer
1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
1924 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1928 - Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
1928 - William Kennedy, American author
1930 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
1930 - Norman Podhoretz, US writer, foreign policy adviser
1931 - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
1933 - Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1934 - Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
1935 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
1937 - Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
1937 - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
1938 - Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
1942 - René Angélil, Canadian music executive
1942 - Barbara Lynn, American singer
1943 - Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist
1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
1944 - Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
1946 - Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
1947 - Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
1947 - Harvey Proctor, British politician
1947 - Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
1948 - John Carpenter, American film director
1948 - Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
1948 - Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor
1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
1949 - Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales
1950 - Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
1950 - Brian Castro, Australian author
1950 - Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
1951 - Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host
1952 - King Fuad II of Egypt
1953 - Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
1956 - Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
1956 - Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
1956 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
1958 - Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish politician
1959 - Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1961 - Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)
1961 - Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
1962 - Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian Labor Party politician
1962 - Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1963 - James May, English television presenter
1965 - Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
1968 - David Chokachi, American actor
1969 - Dead, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991)
1969 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
1970 - Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
1970 - Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies)
1970 - Ron Villone, American baseball player
1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
1972 - Ruben Bagger, Danish soccer player
1972 - Ang Christou, Australian soccer player
1972 - Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor
1972 - Yuri Drozdov, Russian soccer player
1972 - Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian soccer player
1972 - Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
1972 - Joe Horn, American football player
1972 - Richard T. Jones, American actor
1972 - Greg Page, Australian musician and actor
1972 - Alen Peternac, Croatian soccer player
1973 - Josie Davis, American actress
1974 - Marlon Anderson, American baseball player
1974 - Kate Moss, English model
1975 - Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
1975 - Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
1976 - Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
1976 - Martina Moravcová, Slovak female swimmer
1977 - Jeff Foster, American basketball player
1978 - Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
1979 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
1979 - Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
1980 - Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist (In The Heights)
1980 - Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player
1980 - Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
1981 - Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
1981 - Bobby Zamora, English footballer
1982 - Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)
1982 - Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
1983 - Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
1984 - Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician
1985 - Jonathan Richter, Danish professional football midfielder
1987 - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
[edit] Deaths
960 - Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352)
1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
1864 - Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (b. 1795)
1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1879 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
1891 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
1901 - Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator, first African-American to serve in the United States Congress (b. 1822)
1901 - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
1901 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
1906 - Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (b. 1834)
1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
1920 - Reginald De Koven, American music critic and composer of operettas (b. 1859)
1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859)
1935 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
1942 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada (b. 1850)
1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
1957 - 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, Governor-General of South Africa and Canada (b. 1874)
1962 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
1962 - Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
1963 - Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
1969 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
1969 - Jan Palach, Czech protester against the Soviet led invasion.(b. 1948)
1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
1972 - Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American actor and creator of The Chipmunks (b. 1919)
1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
1985 - Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (b. 1910)
1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
1987 - Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
1988 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
1993 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
1996 - Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
1998 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
1999 - Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor, politician, Minister, Royal Commissioner, judge (b. 1915)
2000 - Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
2000 - John Morris Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)
2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
2001 - Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
2002 - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
2006 - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
2007 - Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
[edit] Holidays and observances
Teacher's Day in Thailand
Thai Pongal in Tamil nadu, India
National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786
Berard of Carbio
Saint Fursey
Honoratus of Arles
January 16 (Eastern Orthodox litu
January 16
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January 16 in recent years
2008 (Wednesday)
2007 (Tuesday)
2006 (Monday)
2005 (Sunday)
2004 (Friday)
2003 (Thursday)
2002 (Wednesday)
2001 (Tuesday)
2000 (Sunday)
January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of the year (350 in leap years).
Contents [hide]
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
[edit] Events
27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
550 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
1120 - The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
1412 - The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
1492 - The first grammar of a modern language, in the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella.
1547 - Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1581 - The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
1707 - The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1761 - The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York.
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1864 - Second Schleswig War: King Christian IX of Denmark declares war on the German Confederation in order to occupy Schleswig.
1878 - Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
1896 - Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 - Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1920 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. is founded on the campus of Howard University.
1938 - The famous jazz concert by the Benny Goodman Orchestra and special guests takes place at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the first jazz performance in that venue.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
1968 - The Youth International Party is founded.
1969 - Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
1986 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
1991 - The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
[edit] Births
1245 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
1409 - René I of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1501 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
1616 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
1626 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
1634 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
1728 - Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
1807 - Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d 1877)
1815 - Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)
1821 - John C. Breckinridge, U.S. Vice-President and Confederate general (d. 1875)
1834 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)
1836 - King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
1844 - Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
1853 - Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
1853 - Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
1853 - Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)
1872 - Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer (d. 1966)
1872 - Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
1874 - Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
1875 - Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
1878 - Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
1885 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)
1886 - John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
1888 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1893 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
1894 - Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)
1895 - Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)
1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
1898 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
1898 - Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)
1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
1901 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
1903 - William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945, by execution)
1905 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
1906 - Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)
1907 - Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)
1907 - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
1908 - Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1908 - Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)
1910 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1911 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d.1982)
1914 - Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)
1916 - Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)
1917 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
1918 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
1918 - Clem Jones, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia (d. 2007)
1918 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)
1920 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991)
1921 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1923 - Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer
1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
1924 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1928 - Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
1928 - William Kennedy, American author
1930 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
1930 - Norman Podhoretz, US writer, foreign policy adviser
1931 - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
1933 - Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1934 - Marilyn Horne, American opera singer
1935 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
1937 - Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
1937 - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
1938 - Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
1942 - René Angélil, Canadian music executive
1942 - Barbara Lynn, American singer
1943 - Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist
1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
1944 - Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
1946 - Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter
1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
1947 - Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
1947 - Harvey Proctor, British politician
1947 - Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
1948 - John Carpenter, American film director
1948 - Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
1948 - Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor
1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
1949 - Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales
1950 - Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
1950 - Brian Castro, Australian author
1950 - Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
1951 - Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host
1952 - King Fuad II of Egypt
1953 - Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
1956 - Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress
1956 - Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
1956 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)
1958 - Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish politician
1959 - Juanita Bynum, American televangelist
1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1961 - Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)
1961 - Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
1962 - Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian Labor Party politician
1962 - Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1963 - James May, English television presenter
1965 - Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
1968 - David Chokachi, American actor
1969 - Dead, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991)
1969 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
1970 - Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
1970 - Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies)
1970 - Ron Villone, American baseball player
1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
1972 - Ruben Bagger, Danish soccer player
1972 - Ang Christou, Australian soccer player
1972 - Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor
1972 - Yuri Drozdov, Russian soccer player
1972 - Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian soccer player
1972 - Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
1972 - Joe Horn, American football player
1972 - Richard T. Jones, American actor
1972 - Greg Page, Australian musician and actor
1972 - Alen Peternac, Croatian soccer player
1973 - Josie Davis, American actress
1974 - Marlon Anderson, American baseball player
1974 - Kate Moss, English model
1975 - Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
1975 - Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
1976 - Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
1976 - Martina Moravcová, Slovak female swimmer
1977 - Jeff Foster, American basketball player
1978 - Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
1979 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
1979 - Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
1980 - Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist (In The Heights)
1980 - Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player
1980 - Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
1981 - Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
1981 - Bobby Zamora, English footballer
1982 - Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)
1982 - Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
1983 - Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
1984 - Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician
1985 - Jonathan Richter, Danish professional football midfielder
1987 - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
[edit] Deaths
960 - Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352)
1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
1864 - Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (b. 1795)
1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1879 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
1891 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
1901 - Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator, first African-American to serve in the United States Congress (b. 1822)
1901 - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
1901 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
1906 - Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (b. 1834)
1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
1920 - Reginald De Koven, American music critic and composer of operettas (b. 1859)
1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859)
1935 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
1942 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada (b. 1850)
1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
1957 - 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, Governor-General of South Africa and Canada (b. 1874)
1962 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
1962 - Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
1963 - Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
1969 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
1969 - Jan Palach, Czech protester against the Soviet led invasion.(b. 1948)
1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
1972 - Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American actor and creator of The Chipmunks (b. 1919)
1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
1985 - Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (b. 1910)
1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
1987 - Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
1988 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
1993 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
1996 - Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
1998 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
1999 - Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor, politician, Minister, Royal Commissioner, judge (b. 1915)
2000 - Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
2000 - John Morris Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)
2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
2001 - Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
2002 - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
2006 - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
2007 - Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
[edit] Holidays and observances
Teacher's Day in Thailand
Thai Pongal in Tamil nadu, India
National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786
Berard of Carbio
Saint Fursey
Honoratus of Arles
January 16 (Eastern Orthodox litu
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Nicola
Nothing of note though Marc bolan died on my third birthday.
Norman Potting
Well-known member
LOL (Ps not the bit about George VI which probably made people quite sad, particularly if they knew him personally or were related. Anti monarchists might have had a mild chortle I suppose).PPS And not the Munich Air Disaster which was also very sad, even if you don't like Manchester United (Unless you are of course one of those hardcore City fans who allegedly hold commemorative parties each year which is a bit sick I feel).
Cian
Well-known member
Picking a few off the Wikipedia list:
Sky Analogue launched (1989)
British Embassy in Dublin fire bombed (1972)
Shakira born (1977)
James Joyce born (1882)
Sid Vicious died (1979)
Also one I remember for no important reason is that Irish Rail, the train company, was formed on my actual birthday in 1987.
Sky Analogue launched (1989)
British Embassy in Dublin fire bombed (1972)
Shakira born (1977)
James Joyce born (1882)
Sid Vicious died (1979)
Also one I remember for no important reason is that Irish Rail, the train company, was formed on my actual birthday in 1987.
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Maggie became prime minister in 1979 on my birthday
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
I was Born September 11th....................