I already posted about how Carl Sagan died a year exactly after my birth, but something also I suppose historical in farming circles in Ireland was the death of my great grandfather in 1988 on the date of my birth. He is remembered due to his winning of several all-Ireland tournaments in ploughing(yes we have tournaments in farming). Although I am not a farmer nor did I grow up on a farm I am proud of my great grandfathers historical achievement by having more all Ireland titles than any other ploughman in the history of Ireland
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
1986 – Urho Kekkonen died (the 8th president of finland and possibly the most known one too)
12 – Caligula, Roman emperor had the same birthday
161 – Commodus, Roman emperor had the same birthday
1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
Chernobyl nuclear incident.
'35 First flight of the Hawker Hurricane (Pre-WW2 fighter, served throughout)
'43 Retaking of Kiev by USSR
'44 "Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan."
'65 Start of Cuban Airlift
2010 - The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
[quote]1946 – Alan Rickman, English actor
1987 – Ellen Page, Canadian actress
1987 – Ashley Greene, American model and actress
1937 – Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
1958 – The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
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Alan
Fucking
Rickman
and flying cars
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Coincidence?
1429 – Hundred Years' War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
Shit
July 9th
*1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York for the first time.
*1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law
*1918 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
*2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
Births:
1945 – Dean Koontz
1947 – O. J. Simpson
1956 – Tom Hanks
Also July 9th, 1999 was the date when Stephen King was considered stable enough for release from hospital care after he got hit by that van.
On the day of my birth Winsdor Palace caught fire. Maybe I was born to be an anarchist or to remove the monarchy of my homeland or something.
March 7th.
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
September 14
Amy Winehouse was born exactly 10 years before me.
The death of Abraham Lincoln, the Titanic sinking and insulin becoming available for people with diabetes.
1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
Neil Armstrong was born.
Born:
1980 – Kim Kardashian, American socialite, model and reality television star
NOOOOO-
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century.
Well that's pretty cool. About the only interesting thing that actually occurred on my birthday.
1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
And that's the only thing on that day I care about.
1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1975 – The State of Emergency is declared in India.
1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
2012 – The final steel beam of 4 World Trade Center is lifted into place in a ceremony.
Eh.
1903 – George Orwell, English author (d. 1950)
1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Eh?
2012 – Shigemitsu Dandō, Japanese jurist (b. 1913)
2012 – George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1927)
2012 – John Koko, American musician (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (b. 1961)
2012 – Vyacheslav Ionov, Russian sprinter (b. 1940)
2012 – Doris Schade, German actress (b. 1924)
5 deaths on my last birthday, wonderful.
March 14, Einstein's Birthday and Pi Day.
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44 BC – Casca, Cicero and Cassius decided, in the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 – The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 – The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás, 248 killed and 93 wounded.
1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
1945 – World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1972 – Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashed near Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. All 112 passengers and crew were killed.
1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 – In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
2012 – The International Criminal Court in The Hague issues its first verdict in the case of Prosecutor vs. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. At issue was the military use of children. Unanimously, the Trial Chamber, led by Sir Adrian Fulford, found Lubanga guilty of the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them in his rebel army The Union of Congolese Patriots.
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1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
Fuck you I'm not gonna name everything so here's the link.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_04[/url]
1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 – The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 – The Atlantic founded in Boston.
1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1883 – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Forces was founded. Known then as the "90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles".
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 – SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1947 – India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
1953 – Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1965 – Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
1993 – Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 – A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause. Lots of explosions and deaths eh?
1941 – World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
1944 – 200 Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens as reprisals for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi
1945 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag was raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1945 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths.
1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers,in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
2001 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
2004 – Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 – The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 – Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks is killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2 in Pakistan.
I was born.
1147 – First historical record of Moscow.
1287 – King Wareru founds Kingdom of Ramannadesa, and proclaims independence from Pagan Empire
1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1660 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
1721 – Sir Robert Walpole takes office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
1812 – U.S. President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
1818 – The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
1841 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
1850 – The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
1850 – Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
1859 – Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Kiev.
1873 – The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
1887 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1905 – In India, the an earthquake hits the Kangra valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
1913 – The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
1930 – The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
1933 – U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
1944 – World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
1945 – World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
1945 – World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
1949 – Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1958 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
1965 – The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968 – AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
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
1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans – 172 die.
1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
1979 – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1979 – The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
1984 – President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1988 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
2002 – In what are known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
2007 – 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians.He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1169 - A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of victims, especially in Catania.
1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1820 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1899 – The Philippine-American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
1999 – The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
2000 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2002 – Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
March 19th
1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
2003 – United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.
Also March 19th is Minna Canth's birthday, which also happens to be a flag day in Finland.
480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
World Food Day (International)
2 august
216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1986 - Worst nuclear accident in history, Chernobyl, happens.
660 BC - Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu
55 - Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
385 - Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
824 - St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1531 - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
1543 - Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army
1543 - Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1575 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1638 - Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode
1659 - The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm)
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened
1766 - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1768 - Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1790 - Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1793 - Prussian troops occupy Venlo Neth
1794 - 1st session of US Senate open to the public
1808 - Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
1809 - Robert Fulton patents steamboat
Commercial Steamboat Inventor Robert FultonCommercial Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton 1810 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
1811 - Pres Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1812 - Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander"
1812 - Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
1814 - Norway's independence proclaimed
1826 - London University founded
1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
1843 - Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
1851 - 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania v Vic, Launceston
1852 - 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1854 - Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1855 - Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam.
1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France
1861 - President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield IL to Wash DC
1861 - US House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state
1873 - Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
1878 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1878 - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK
1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1895 - -17°F (-27.2°C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)
1895 - Georgetown became part of Wash DC
Writer/Poet Oscar WildeWriter/Poet Oscar Wilde 1896 - Oscar Wildes "Salome," premieres in Paris
1897 - White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1898 - Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1899 - -15°F (-26°C), Washington, DC (district record)
1899 - -61°F, Montana (record low temperature)
1902 - Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels
1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna
1905 - James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands
1905 - Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos
1907 - De Master's Dutch government resigns
1907 - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England
1908 - Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
1916 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
1921 - Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St NYC
1922 - "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1
1922 - US intervention army leaves Honduras
1926 - Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ
1927 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran
1927 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
1929 - Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in NYC
1929 - Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
1932 - 73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
1935 - -11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
1935 - 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY
1936 - Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay
1937 - 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends
1938 - Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1941 - 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)
1941 - Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli
1941 - Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
1942 - "Archie" comic book debuts
1943 - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe
1943 - Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy
1944 - U-424 sunk off Ireland
1945 - 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
1945 - Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
1948 - Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng v WI, out for 140
1948 - John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
1948 - Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, v England Port-of-Spain
1949 - Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title
1950 - "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1
1951 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
1953 - "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 190 performances
1953 - J Styne/B Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in NYC
1953 - Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple
1953 - Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1954 - 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden wins
1957 - KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - NHL Players Association forms (NYC), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
1958 - 1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY
1958 - Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs
1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st Afr-American woman hired as flight attendant
1958 - WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)
1960 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show
1961 - Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1962 - Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
1963 - Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!)
1963 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres.
1964 - Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
1964 - Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
1964 - Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
Beatles Drummer Ringo StarrBeatles Drummer Ringo Starr 1965 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
1965 - Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
1966 - SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
1968 - Israeli-Jordan border fight
1968 - Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY
1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens (NYC)
1969 - Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1969 - Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ
1970 - 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit
1970 - John Lennon pays £1,344 fines for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland
1971 - Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
1973 - 1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ
1973 - 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic
1973 - Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
1974 - Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
1974 - Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
1974 - 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
British Prime Minister Margaret ThatcherBritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 1975 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1976 - Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
1977 - 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
1978 - 16 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1978 - 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
1978 - China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
1978 - EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus
1979 - "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial NYC for 1082 perfs
1979 - 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1979 - Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1979 - Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in NYC
1981 - Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981 - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski
1982 - Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through
1983 - "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP
1983 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
1984 - 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1984 - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
1985 - Jordan king Hussein & PLO leader Arafat sign accord
1985 - Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1985 - Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins
1986 - Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
1986 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1986 - Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
1987 - British Airways begins trading stocks
1987 - England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Anthony M Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
1989 - Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1990 - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to win heavyweight boxing crown
1990 - Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
1990 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1991 - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth
1992 - F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Neth (No deaths)
1992 - Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec)
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI)
1993 - Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
1993 - Janet Reno selected by Clinton as US Attorney General
1994 - Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA
1994 - Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1995 - Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46)
1995 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec)
1995 - Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
Anti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson MandelaAnti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson Mandela 1995 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1995 - West Indies score 5-660 against NZ
1996 - 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio
1997 - Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets
1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches
1998 - KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1998 - Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500
2007 - In Portugal, a national referendum legalizes non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
2008 - In East Timor, assassination attempts were made on Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos-Horta. Both failed.
2011 - Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2012 - Israel Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip
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