2012 - United States Edvard Munch's "The Scream" Sells for $120 Million
[B]
2011 - Pakistan Osama Bin Laden Killed by US Forces [/B]
1946 - U.S.A. Alcatraz
[quote]Alcatraz convicts fought a raging gun battle with guards at the rock for their freedom after they seized the guns from the armory and passed them out to fellow prisoners, one guard has been killed and 3 injured . The Guards still do not have control of the Island fully and the fighting continues.[/quote]
[B]1945 - Germany Fall Of Berlin[/B]
1519 – Panama City, Panama, is founded.
1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.
1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal – The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.
[B]1945 – World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.[/B]
1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
[B]1969 – Woodstock opens.[/B]
1973 – Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
[editline]11th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=TMBGFan;37635664]18??- the guy who made Lamborghini born
1948- Benito Mussolini dies
19??- Jay Leno born
19??- Saddam Hussein born
that's off the top of my head so I don't remember the exact year for the birthdays[/QUOTE]
I thought Mussolini died in 1945.
July 12, 1914 - Babe Ruth makes his MLB debut, pitches for Red Sox.
July 12, 1921 - Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs.
1966 - Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million.
2012 - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh.
2012 - 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okagbe, Rivers State, Nigeria.
1756 - [B]Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[/B]
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
1964 – The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1978 – Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon almost 7 hours later. (US Time)
1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
I am the human movement, and space.
920 – Louis IV of France is born.
1949 – Bill O'Reilly is born.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
July 30
762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1863 – Henry Ford, American businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947)
1962 – Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer
That's all I really find interesting.
Alton Brown just happens to be one of the people I enjoy watching cook random shit on TV when I've nothing better to do.
You guys get all the cool shit...
...I get fucking Teddy Roosevelt dying.
*sigh*
1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
The Charles Mason murders happened on my birthday.
As did the bombing of Nagasaki.
Three Roman emperors, a Pope died as well.
Richard Nixon resigned after the Watergate Scandal, Singapore was created, and the Sistine Chapel opened.
Oh, and Solomon's Temple was destroyed, apparently. Lots of Jew stuff apparently.
Historical Events:
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1973 – The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
Birthdays:
1897 – Dina Manfredini, Italian-American supercentenarian, 2nd oldest living person in the world
1965 – Robert Downey, Jr., American actor
1973 – David Blaine, American illusionist
1974 – Dave Mirra, American BMX athlete
1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
Deaths:
896 – Pope Formosus (b. 816)
1292 – Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
2002 - Second Battle of Yeonpyeong - The Second Battle of Yeonpyeong was a confrontation at sea between North Korean and South Korean patrol boats along a disputed maritime boundary near Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea in 2002. This followed a similar confrontation in 1999. Two North Korean patrol boats crossed the contested border and engaged two South Korean patrol boats. The North Koreans withdrew before South Korean reinforcements arrived.
2007 – Apple Inc. releases their first mobile phone, the iPhone.
1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1950 – The United States defeats England during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
1279 BC – Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
1930 – Clint Eastwood was born.
All I know is that I share a birthday with Charles Dickens. :s
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
art, art, boobs, science, etc
Deaths:
277 - St. Valentin
1400 - Richard III
1779 - James Cook
1891 - William T. Sherman
Births:
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa
1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman
1944 - Ronnie Peterson
1967 - Mark Rutte
Events:
1349 - Serval hundered Jews are burned alive at Strasbourg by an angry mob.
1900 - Second Boer War - British army invades Oranje Vrij Staat, with a force of 20000.
1919 - Polish-Soviet War kicks off.
1929 - St. Valentines Day Massacre - 6 gangsters from a gang that rivals Al Capone are shot dead and a mechanic at the wrong place at wrong time.
1944 - Anti-Japan Revolt on Java.
1981 - Stardust Disaster - Dublin, 48 deaths.
1990 - Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes on a golf course in Bangalore, 92 deaths.
1998 - The looting of a crashed oil train in Yaounde, Cameroon, turns into a total disaster as one thrown sigarette of one of the looters ignite the lot, causing 120 deaths.
2004 - Transvaal Waterpark Moscow Disaster - Building collapse causes 28 deaths.
2011- Bahrani Uprising kicks off, inspired by all the other events in the Arabian Uprising.
Well, loads of shit has happened on my birthday.
1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
Births
1952 – Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, lyricist and author (Rush)
1957 – Hans Zimmer, German composer
1967 – Jason Statham, English actor
Deaths
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_air_disaster]2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)[/url]
April 26, 1564- Shakespeare was baptized.
That's it.
Oh, it's also Kimber James, the wonderful transvestite pornstar's birthday!
Oh, just found this. Neat.
1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
November 26
43 BC – The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1922 – Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).
1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1977 – 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 pm.
1983 – Brink's-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2004 – Male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2008 – 2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba
2011 – 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
1954 – The most boring day since 1900 according to the True Knowledge Answer Engine
1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1989 – Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1993 – 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.
2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez resignation on national TV.
2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2007 – 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
2011 – 2011 Minsk Metro bombing
2012 – A magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. After that there are still more continuation earthquake. Tsunami had hit the island of Nias at Indonesia.
June 6
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.
1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
1971 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1981 – Bihar train disaster A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1982 – 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee", eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
2002 – Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
2008 – The Comcast Center officially opens, making it the tallest building in Philadelphia.
2012 – The Al-Qubeir massacre occurred in a village near Hama, Syria, killing 78 people.
George Washington died on my birthday :C
Oh and it was the day that George W. Bush dodged those shoes at the conference in Baghdad, so there's that
October 19th
1735 - John Adams is born
April 29th 1945 - The death of Adolf Hitler
20th June
*Battle of Chalons - 451
*Queen Victoria coronated - 1837
*Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service -1877
*Red Telephone established between USA and USSR -1963
*Last Argentine soldiers surrender to Royal Marine commandos (Falklands war) - 1982
neeeeat
March 21st; beginning of Spring for all the years.
It marks the beginning of "Operation Michael" in WWI, 1918.
1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
1945 - Hitler kills himself
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