http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_30

1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
1835 - A mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- the first assassination attempt against a President. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
^^ NOW THAT IS BADASS
1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany
1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1994 - Nirvana's final recording session takes place at Robert Lang Studios, with the song "You Know You're Right" being completed. It would become a #1 hit eight years later.
1996 - NBA superstar Magic Johnson plays the first game of his return to the Los Angeles Lakers. Magic retired in 1991 after contracting HIV.

Births
1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler (Only child of Pocahantas)
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd. President of the United States (d. 1945)
1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1951 - Phil Collins, English musician
1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, convicted statutory rapist
1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian

I guess they're using the word "comedian" pretty loosely.

Apparently, Cedric Benson on the Bears was born on the same day that I was. But, no notable deaths or events, I didn't care about other years.

Operation Desert Storm happened the night I was born.

shawn........ you were also born on January 30th?

WEIRD

Very....

I was 2 weeks early though, supposed to be a Valentines Day baby..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_19

1847 - The Donner Party is rescued. It is noted that some of the survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal.
1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.
1964 - Paul Simon writes "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, will catapult him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel. \m/
1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.
2006 - The Rolling Stones made the largest show open to the public of the world in Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1.3 million people went to the show.

April 3rd

events

1917 - Vladimir Lenin arrives at Finland Railway Station in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.
1942 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan falls on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
1946 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1996 - Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.

births

1904 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (d. 1999)
1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
1926- Gus Grissom, astronaut (d. 1967)
1958 - Alec Baldwin, American actor
1960 - Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician (Ayreon)
1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
1969 - Lance Storm, wrestler

deaths

33 - Motherfucking Jesus (Maybe? fux religun)
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899)
1998 - Rob Pilatus, American entertainer and criminal (Milli Vanili guy. "...and criminal." LOL)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30

wut

June 17th
Events:
1462 - Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in the Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia.

1994 - Following a televised low-speed highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Births:
1898 - M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)

Aside from me and Escher no one good was born on June 17th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23

1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -"give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
1806 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1839 - First recorded use of "OK" as an abbreviation for "oll korrect" in the Boston Morning Post.
1903 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes after much hard work.
1909 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa.
1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles.
2003 - In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
2005 - The United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
2006 - Sony announces the end of Original Playstation's 11 year running manufacturing.

Births
1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1905 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
1912 - Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
1953 - Chaka Khan, American singer

May 25

Events

1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1935 - Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last home run at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a baseball record that will stand for 39 years.
1938 - Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Alicante, 313 deaths.
1961 - Apollo program: U.S. president John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
1977 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opens in theaters and eventually becomes the highest grossing film of all time.


Births

1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher
1944 - Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
1963 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
1969 - Anne Heche, American actress
1978 - Brian Urlacher, American football player

lol they actually documented the exact date when Jesus died?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_16

Events
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.
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 - Eleven people die and 400 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 only player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
1928 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing 20 people.
1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
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.
1945 - An assassination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
1946 - The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, is established, and Ichirō Ishikawa is appointed its representative.
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.
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.
1969 - Police raid on Spahn Ranch; Charles Manson arrested.
1972 - The Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
1975 - Serial killer Ted Bundy originally arrested for suspicion of burglary, only to later escape twice.
1984 - Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
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.
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.

[edit] Births
1355 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
1378 - Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
1557 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602)
1596 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632)
1645 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
1682 - Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir-apparent to the French throne (d. 1712)
1832 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (d. 1920)
1842 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922)
1845 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1921)
1860 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (d. 1887)
1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, American coach (d. 1965)
1868 - Bernarr McFadden, American publisher (d. 1955)
1884 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (d. 1967)
1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
1888 - T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935)
1888 - Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943)
1892 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983)
1894 - George Meany, American labor union leader (d. 1980)
1895 - Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981)
1895 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1902 - Georgette Heyer, English novelist (d. 1974)
1904 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)
1908 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
1911 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (d. 1977)
1912 - Ted Drake English footballer (d. 1995)
1913 - Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1992)
1916 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
1920 - Charles Bukowski, American poet (d. 1994)
1923 - Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright
1924 - Fess Parker, American actor
1925 - Willie Jones, baseball player (d. 1983)
1928 - Ann Blyth, American actress
1929 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d. 1980)
1929 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 - Fritz Von Erich, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1930 - Robert Culp, American actor
1930 - Frank Gifford, American football player and announcer
1931 - Eydie Gorme, American singer
1933 - Julie Newmar, American actress
1934 - Diana Wynne Jones, British author
1934 - Ketty Lester, American singer
1937 - David Anderson (Canadian politician), Canadian politician
1939 - Trevor Mcdonald OBE, Television Newsreader
1940 - Bruce Beresford, Australian film director
1946 - Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician
1946 - Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
1946 - Dick Murdoch, wrestler (d. 1996)
1948 - Mike Jorgensen, baseball player
1950 - Hasely Crawford, Trinidad and Tobago athlete
1952 - Reginald VelJohnson, American actor
1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress
1954 - James Cameron, Canadian film director
1957 - Tim Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1958 - Angela Bassett, American actress
1958 - Madonna, American singer and actress
1960 - Timothy Hutton, American actor
1962 - Steve Carell, American actor and comedian
1964 - Jimmy Arias, American tennis player
1967 - Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish television personality
1967 - Pamela Smart, American convicted murderess
1968 - Mateja Svet, Slovenian alpine skier
1970 - Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster (ESPN)
1972 - Emily Erwin, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1972 - Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
1973 - Damian Jackson, baseball player
1974 - Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
1974 - Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer
1974 - Roger Cedeño, baseball player
1975 - Didier Agathe, French footballer
1975 - George Stults, American actor
1976 - Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer
1976 - Dave Ockun, concert producer
1978 - Eddie Gill, American basketball player
1979 - Michael Stahlman, American rower and coach
1980 - Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter
1980 - Robert Hardy, English bassist (Franz Ferdinand)
1980 - Vanessa Carlton, American singer
1981 - Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
1981 - Christopher Paolini, American author
1981 - Taylor Rain, American pornographic actress
1986 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
1987 - Kyal Marsh, Australian actor
1991 - Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
2006 - Princess Luisa of Savoy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_25

# 1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.

Born

1979 - Brooke Haven, American porn star

Events

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

I win.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22

217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom
168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
1593 - Battle of Sisak: Slovene - Croat troops defeat the Turks
1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1783 - Poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1812 - Napoleonic Wars- Napoleon invades Russia.
1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1844 - Influential North American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
1848 - Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1866 - Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
1918 - Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
1937 - Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France
1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany.
1940 - The Nagpur conference of the All India Forward Bloc concludes, declared the Bloc as a socialist party.
1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.

Births:
Charles Lindbergh Jr.
Meryl Streep
Howard Kaylan (lol Meryl)
Kurt Warner
UWE BOLL


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_22_June_song
The 22 June song was a Soviet folk song during World War II based on the melody of the pre-war song The Blue Kerchief ("Синий платочек") composed by Jerzy Petersburski.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_22
Way too many to bother listing or read through.

I obviously win in this topic as my birthday is September 11th.

As you all know this is what has happened on that date in history:

Events -

1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English.
1792 - Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men broke into the house used to store the jewels.
1918 - Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox win last World Series until 2004, starting the "Curse of the Bambino."
1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund. - WWF YA DIG!
1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. - That has OBVIOUSLY worked out well.
1981 - The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on HBO. - Hell yea kids
2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and the western wall of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2,973 people are killed.

Births -

It has been suggested by Ernest L. Martin that Jesus of Nazareth was born on September 11 in 3 BC when the moon moved in a rare pattern with Venus generating the Star of Bethlehem. On the Julian calendar September 11, 3 BC is also the second day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician, lead singer of Styx - ROBOTO WHA?
1962 - Elizabeth Daily, American actress - IM HOT TONIGHT
1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
1982 - Dante was born, American Legend

Deaths -

1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
2001 - 2,973 Americans were killed.
2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)


Wut, I win!

Beats me, I'm just going off of what the page said.

March 11th


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

1509 - Henry VIII ascends the throne of England after the death of his father.
1864 - The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 - The National League of Baseball plays its first game, establishing the template for the modern game.
1945 - World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
1954 - Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin.
1964 - The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
1970 - First Earth Day celebrated.
2000 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.

Births
1610 - Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1950 - Peter Frampton, British musician
1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
1959 - Ryan Stiles, Canadian-born actor

Deaths
296 - Pope Caius
455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor
536 - Pope Agapetus I
1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
1994 - Richard Nixon, President of the United States (b. 1913)
1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (b. 1927)

Can we make it like the 5 most interesting facts or something? Cause there's no way I'm reading through all that shit.
For me (December 8th):
John Lennon = killed, Jim Morrison = born, the Soviet Union = dissolved, and Buddha = enlightened (or rather this might be the holiday that celebrates his enlightenment? or both maybe, i dunno).

Not too bad altogether.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_7

July 7 is a busy date. I'll just post a few highlights.

EVENTS
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. Thanks guys!
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
1947 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident. (OH SNAP)
1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government. Meh.
1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
2005 - A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers. Ah, hell.

BIRTHS
1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1981 - Synyster Gates, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)

Plus Lindsay Lohan. I swear.

DEATHS
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)

For those of you who don't know, Ruffian is considered to be the best female racehorse of all time. Yeah, I wiki'd it. Also, check this out: "Ruffian is buried near the finish line in the infield at Belmont Park, her nose pointed towards the finish pole." That's kind of...morbid.

2006 - Syd Barrett, British musician, former member of Pink Floyd. (b. 1946)

Fuck


EDIT: How did they miss all this?


1969: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones died by drowning after too much alcohol and many pills.

And it turns out that California, Alaska, and Hawaii were all annexed on my birthday. Weird, no?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_20

Highlights:

- 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred. Afterwards the Donatist controversy over readmitting lapsed Christians disaffects many in North Africa.
- 1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
- 1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- 1892 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.
- 1920 - American Civil Liberties Union founded.
- 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4.
- 1942 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
- 1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
- 1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- 1996 - Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian Authority.

It's a good day. I like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_26

+

I was born

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Jane was born.

July 20, 1964 - Chris Cornell is born

July 20, 1984 - The only event that could trump that HAPPENS - Peter Coffin is born.