On your birthday Options

[hotdog]

What has happened on the day of your birth throughout the history?

On the 22nd of july, when i am born theese things happened:

1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk - King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeats William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.

1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.

1944 - The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland

1999 - The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft.

2003 - Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.


...and famous people born on the 22:nd of July are:

1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer

1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer

1984 - Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress

2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark

[Jimboob]

On mine, Mickey Mouse was born, and there was a mass suicide. Haha

18th November

1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the second appearances of cartoon stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

1978 - Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.

[Blackscorpion]

11th November

Here's a few...

Persons born: Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal, anyone?), Demi Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kalle Päätalo (a very famous Finnish writer)

Deaths: Yasser Arafat, A.I.Virtanen (the first, and other of two total, Finnish nobelist), George Lawrence Price (Canadian soldier; last person to be killed in WWI)

Events: WWI ends, Germany conquers France in WWII, the Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding, death death death...

[Elliot Carver]

1999
Prominent solicitor Rosemary Nelson is killed by a car bomb at Lurgan, Co Armagh in Northern Ireland.

1990
Iraq executes London based newspaper journalist Farzad Bazoft after a closed-trial conviction for spying.

1989
Soviet Union's President Mikhail Gorbachev calls for rapid measures to ease chronic Soviet food shortages.

1988
Israeli authorities impose a travel ban on Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

1973
US and Soviet envoys begin fourth round of the arms limitation SALT talks in Vienna, Austria.

1956
Musical 'My Fair Lady' opens on Broadway starring Jullie Andrews and Rex Harrison. The title is adapted from the cockney pronunciation of Mayfair.

1933
German leader Adolf Hitler proclaims the beginning of the Third Reich – claiming it will endure for a thousand years.

1917
Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

1916
US force of 12,000 soldiers under General Pershing is ordered to Mexico to capture revolutionary leader Pancho Villa.

1909
American Gordon Selfridge opens 'the world's most beautiful store' in London's Oxford Street.

1876
The first cricket test in Australia is played against England in Sydney. It ends with a 45 run win for Australia.

1824
Building work starts on the London Bridge designed by John Rennie.

1776
U.S Congress resolves that the authority of the British Crown should be suppressed.

44BC
Roman dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated. haha get lower than this

[JdB]

January 20th:

# 1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
# 1841 - Hong Kong Island occupied by the British Empire.
# 1929 - In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking film filmed outdoors, is released.
# 1942 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
# 1981 - Iran releases 52 American hostages twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as U.S. President.
# 1986 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.

And of course as of 1937, all US presidents are inaugurated on January 20th.

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Basically my birthday is 90% related to dictators, mass-murderers, oppresion, racism and war, which is rather ironic

[Deadeye]

6th of August :

Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.

1861 - British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.

1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after Britain declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

1915 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

1917 - World War I: The Battle of MÄÆ’rÄÆ’ÅŸeÅŸti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devestated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 90,000 people were killed instantly.

1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

1997 - Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

1966 - Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, NE killing all 42 on board.

1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.

1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

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Just to sum up some sad facts Hiroshima Bomb (more than 90k death in one day), several airplanes crashed, war, annexiations, Prince released a new record ....

But hey, it's Jamaika's independece day , yay

[Red Square Monkey]

Events on the 27th of October:

* 625 - Honorius I becomes Pope.
* 939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
* 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
* 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
* 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
* 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
* 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
* 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
* 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state.
* 1870 - Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
* 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of the biggest in world.
* 1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
* 1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
* 1936 - Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
* 1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
* 1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
* 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
* 1952 - Birth of Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni
* 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
* 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
* 1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
* 1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
* 1962 - Major Rudolph Anderson of the US Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba
* 1971 - Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
* 1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
* 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
* 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
* 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
* 1992 - US Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay
* 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
* 1997 - Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown.
* 1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
* 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
* 2002 - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but London Weekend Television (LWT) lost its identity completely.
* 2004 - Curse of the Bambino: The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 4 of the World Series, winning their first championship since 1918.
* 2005 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers
* 2006 - Amtrak Metroliner is discontinued.

[Blackbuck]

August 23rd

*2006 - Large thunderstorm <10M Visibility

(CBA to wiki some)

[Linker Split]

4 of August:

70 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.

1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - The army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes considered the end of the age of chivalry in England.)

1578 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.

1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.

1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

1735 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.

1753 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the fraternity of Freemasonry.

1782 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is married to Constanze Weber.

1789 - In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

1790 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

1821 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1824 - Battle of Kos fought between Turks and Greeks.

1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).

1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.

1906 - Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.

1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality.

1936 - Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator.

1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family. Her diary was scattered all over the floor and eventually published by her father Otto Frank to become her well- known diary.

1947 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.

1954 - Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.

1964 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

1964 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga drives off four North Vietnamese gunboats. Years later, the NVA attack was revealed to be exaggerated in the fog of war.

1969 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.

1971 - The US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft

1975 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.

1977 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

1983 - Thomas Sankara becomes president of Upper Volta.

1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally kills a gull during warmups in the outfield prior to a baseball game in Toronto at Exhibition Stadium and is charged by local police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."

1984 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

1985 - In a day of milestones, Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 17th pitcher to win 300th career games and Rod Carew of the California Angels becomes the 16th player ever to collect 3000 career hits. Seaver pitches the White Sox to a 4–1 six-hit victory on Phil Rizzuto Day at Yankee Stadium as 54,032 New Yorkers cheer him on, while Carew bloops a single to left off Frank Viola in the 3rd inning of the Angels 6–5 win over the Twins. It marks the only day in which two men reach these two milestones on the same day. Phil Rizzuto was knocked down by 'Huckleberry' the "Holy Cow" during the pregame salute.

1987 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.

1991 - The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.

1993 - A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

1995 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.

1997 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.

2002 - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.

2005 - Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General.

2006 - Dame Silvia Cartwright will step down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and will be replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who will be sworn in on 23 August.

[DaRat]

9th August

48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

1048 - Pope Damasus II dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days.

1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.

1930 - Betty Boop premiered in her first cartoon, Dizzy Dishes.

1942 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Savo Island - Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

1944 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

1945 - World War II: Nagasaki is devestated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly.

1965 - Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.

1969 - Popular attraction The Haunted Mansion opens in Disneyland.

1974 - As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

1987 - 9 people are shot dead and 17 more injured as 19-year old Julian Knight opens fire at random in the Hoddle Street Massacre in Clifton Hill

1993 - The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

1995 - Netscape launches IPO.

1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

2000 - A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11

2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.

2001 - In Jerusalem, 15 people die and 130 are wounded in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing.

2005 - A chemical plant explosion happened at the EQ Recovery Plant in Romulus, Michigan, forcing residence within 1 to 1â…“ mile radius from the plant to evacuate.

2006 - Mexican fishermen get rescued near the Marshall Islands after being lost at sea for nine months.