Wiki Your Birthday

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What you do is go to wiki and search your birthday (day/month) and post the results here. Edit out the parts that don't matter though, not everyone on the list is worth mention.

March 10.

* 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
* 1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first major film My Four Years in Germany.
* 1926 - The first Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced.
* 1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
* 1964 - The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company.
* 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.
* 1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
* 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

Births

* 1928 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
* 1940 - Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
* 1953 - Paul Haggis, Canadian film director
* 1957 - Shannon Tweed, Canadian actress and model
* 1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
* 1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress
* 1965 - Rod Woodson, American football player
* 1966 - Mike Timlin, American baseball player
* 1971 - Timbaland, American rapper
* 1972 - Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
* 1973 - Eva Herzigova, Czech model
* 1983 - Carrie Underwood, American singer

Deaths

* 1913 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
* 1988 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
* 1998 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
* 2007 - Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
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[GinoKing]

October 3rd

Events

* 2333 BC - Legendary establishment of the Kingdom of Korea (in the name of Joseon).
* 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
* 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
* 1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
* 1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor
* 1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
* 1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
* 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
* 1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
* 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
* 1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War
* 1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
* 1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne
* 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
* 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain.
* 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).
* 1942 - Spaceflight: First successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
* 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
* 1953 - Petrobras is founded by the Brazilian government.
* 1955 - Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS.
* 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
* 1962 - Project Mercury: Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

* 1981 - The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.
* 1981 - The Communist Party of Namibia is founded at a conference in Angola.
* 1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)
* 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
* 1991 - Hani Hanjour, presumed hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77, first enters United States.
* 1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
* 1995 - O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder.

Births

* 1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
* 1720 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
* 1790 - John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
* 1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
* 1802 - John Gorrie, American scientist (d. 1855)
* 1804 - Townsend Harris, 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
* 1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
* 1806 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
* 1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
* 1858 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
* 1862 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
* 1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
* 1869 - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
* 1880 - Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
* 1882 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
* 1885 - Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947)
* 1885 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
* 1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
* 1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
* 1894 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
* 1895 - Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
* 1896 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
* 1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
* 1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
* 1899 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
* 1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)
* 1901 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
* 1904 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
* 1911 - Michael Hordern, English actor (d. 1995)
* 1915 - Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004)
* 1916 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
* 1916 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
* 1919 - James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1922 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
* 1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
* 1924 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
* 1925 - Gore Vidal, American author
* 1928 - Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)
* 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist
* 1929 - Bert Stern, American photographer
* 1931 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
* 1933 - Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
* 1935 - Charles Duke, American astronaut
* 1936 - Steve Reich, American composer
* 1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer
* 1938 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
* 1940 - Alan O'Day, American singer and songwriter
* 1940 - Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1941 - Chubby Checker, American musician
* 1944 - Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
* 1945 - Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (d. 1988)
* 1946 - Biff Henderson, American television personality
* 1947 - John Perry Barlow, American musician
* 1948 - Michael Medved, American film critic
* 1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American musician
* 1949 - J. P. Dutta, Indian Bollywood fim director
* 1950 - Pamela Hensley, American actress
* 1951 - Bernard Cooper, American writer
* 1951 - Keb' Mo', American singer
* 1951 - Dave Winfield, American baseball player
* 1954 - Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player
* 1954 - Al Sharpton, American minister and activist
* 1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
* 1957 - Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ
* 1959 - Fred Couples, American golfer
* 1959 - Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
* 1959 - Jack Wagner, American actor
* 1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
* 1963 - Marion Peck, American artist and painter
* 1964 - Clive Owen, British actor
* 1965 - Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
* 1966 - Darrin Fletcher, Major League Baseball player
* 1967 - Rob Liefeld, American comic book writer and artist
* 1968 - Paul Crichton, English footballer
* 1968 - Greg Foster, American basketball player
* 1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)
* 1969 - Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel)
* 1971 - Wil Cordero, baseball player
* 1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
* 1972 - Garrett Dutton, American musician (G. Love and Special Sauce)
* 1972 - Black Thought, American rapper (The Roots)
* 1973 - Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress
* 1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
* 1973 - Lena Headey, British actress
* 1974 - Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
* 1975 - India.Arie, American singer
* 1975 - Talib Kweli, American rapper
* 1975 - Alanna Ubach,American actress
* 1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor
* 1977 - Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
* 1978 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
* 1978 - Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
* 1978 - Shannyn Sossamon, American actress
* 1979 - John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
* 1979 - Daniel Hollie, American professional wrestler
* 1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
* 1981 - Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
* 1981 - Matt Murton, American baseball player
* 1981 - Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
* 1982 - Erik von Detten, American actor
* 1983 - Fred, Brazilian footballer
* 1983 - Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
* 1984 - Yoon Eun Hye, South Korean actress
* 1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer
* 1984 - Sunitta pawar , Indian legend in santacruz
* 1987 - Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
* 1988 - Tadhg Kelly, American actor
* 1996 - Adair Tishler, American child actress
Deaths

* 42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus
* 1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
* 1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed)
* 1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
* 1568 - Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
* 1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
* 1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
* 1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
* 1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
* 1653 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
* 1656 - Myles Standish, English-born soldier
* 1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
* 1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
* 1801 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
* 1833 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
* 1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
* 1873 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
* 1877 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
* 1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
* 1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
* 1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
* 1929 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1929)
* 1929 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
* 1931 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
* 1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
* 1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
* 1965 - Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
* 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
* 1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
* 1969 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
* 1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
* 1987 - Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
* 1987 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
* 1988 - Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
* 1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1991)
* 1993 - Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
* 1993 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
* 1994 - Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
* 1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
* 1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
* 2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
* 2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
* 2002 - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
* 2003 - Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
* 2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
* 2004 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
* 2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
* 2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
* 2006 - Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
* 2006 - John Crank, British mathematican (b. 1913)

Holidays

* Germany - Day of German Unity
* Leiden - Siege of Leiden
* South Korea - National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol 개천절)
* French Republican Calendar - Immortelle (Strawflower) Day, twelfth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

[Nirvana Fan]

May 25

Events:
1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
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.
1977 - George Lucas' film Star Wars, is released, and becomes an instant hit.
1986 - Hands Across America, a benefit event, takes place.

Birthday:
1878 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (d. 1949)
1939 - Ian McKellen, English actor
1963 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
1969 - Anne Heche, American actress
1970 - Jamie Kennedy, American actor
1978 - Brian Urlacher, American football player

Death:
1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (b. 1931)
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[Kane_Locke]

I share mine with AD's...

Osama bin Ladden and James Early Ray... Good thing Chuck Norris's birth outweighs them.

But The Big Cat died on my birthday last year.
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July 14th

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[gfw spacezilla]

prepare for a really long post
363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which will bring about his own death.
1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1496 - England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands.
1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1868 - Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1915 - World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1916 - Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca is founded.
1917 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
1924 - Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1936 - First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1945 - World War II: "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.
1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.
1958 - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
1964 - Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
1966 - A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1966 - In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
1966 - Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
1973 - Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1976 - British pound falls below $2 U.S. for the first time.
1978 - Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
1983 - Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2001 - In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2004 - The Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL set a record for most penalty minutes in one game with 419.
2005 - The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its 1st National Convention
2006 - Three 6 Mafia become the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony.

[edit] Births
1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
1703 (N.S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1748 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
1748 - William Shield, English musician (d. 1829)
1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805)
1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
1794 - Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1817 - Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1853 - Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)
1870 - Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
1879 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1883 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
1886 - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
1897 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1898 - Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)
1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1918 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1918 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1920 - José Aboulker, Algerian anti-Nazi resistance fighter
1920 - Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
1921 - Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - James Noble, American actor
1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)
1923 - Laurence Tisch, American investor
1927 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1931 - Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
1931 - Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn virtuoso
1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1936 - Dean Stockwell, American actor
1937 - Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria
1938 - Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player and actor
1939 - Samantha Eggar, English actress
1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1939 - Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
1940 - Malcolm Hebden, English actor
1942 - Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
1943 - Billy Backus, American boxer
1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1947 - Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer
1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
1947 - Kent Tekulve, American baseball player
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer
1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1949 - Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr
1952 - Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1954 - Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedienne
1955 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
1956 - Teena Marie, American singer
1957 - Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall)
1958 - Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
1959 - Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician (d. 1999)
1959 - David Fury, American television writer and producer
1962 - Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1966 - Michael Irvin, American football player
1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper
1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
1971 - Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1971 - Yuri Lowenthal, American actor/author
1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
1973 - Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
1974 - Kevin Connolly, American television actor and comedian
1974 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 - Matt Lucas, English comedian
1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress
1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress
1975 - Sasho Petrovski, Australian soccer player
1975 - Niki Taylor, American model
1975 - Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
1976 - Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1976 - Paul Konerko, American baseball player
1977 - Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player
1977 - Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1981 - Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1986 - Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1988 - Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1989 - Jake Lloyd, American actor

[edit] Deaths
1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
1778 - Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)
1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828
1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
1925 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)
1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
1945 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)
1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1955 - Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1974 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
1977 - Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver (b. 1949)
1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
1984 - William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
1990 - Gary Merrill, American film actor (b. 1915)
1993 - Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
1995 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
1995 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2006 - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
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[wataru]

Only thing in my whole long list

December 20th

Birth(s):
1946 - Dick Wolf, American television series creator

The guy who created Law & Order and all its spin-offs.
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Fear is the Mindkiller. -- Bene Gesserit saying.

[GWolf]

November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining.

Contents [hide]
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Religious feasts
5 External links



[edit] Events
399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1295 - Lancashire Day - On this day in 1295 the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison and return safely to the South.
1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1901 - U.S. Army War College is established.
1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1919 - Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1934 - Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1940 - In Romania, General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
1940 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean.
1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1960 - Gordie Howe was the first player to reach the NHL landmark of 1000 points.
1963 - The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
1971 - Mars 2 of the Soviet space program landed on Mars.
1973 - The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1978 - In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1983 - A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 183.
1985 - Steven Spielberg marries Amy Irving.
1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
1997 - Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2006 - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada

[edit] Births
1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651)
1630 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665)
1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744)
1710 - Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787)
1746 - Robert Livingston, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
1754 - Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865)
1804 - Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885)
1809 - Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893)
1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman (d. 1899)
1843 - Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950)
1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)
1874 - Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948)
1874 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
1894 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1897 - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
1898 - Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981)
1901 - Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1903 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
1909 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
1911 - David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000)
1916 - Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1920 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
1921 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (d. 1992)
1925 - John Maddox, British science writer and editor
1925 - Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992)
1925 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999)
1926 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
1927 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987)
1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005)
1928 - Ronald William "Josh" Kirby, British artist (d. 2001)
1932 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)
1933 - Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker
1934 - Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer
1935 - Al Jackson, American drummer, producer and songwriter (d. 1975)
1937 - Gail Sheehy, American writer
1939 - Dave Giusti, American baseball player
1940 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
1941 - Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 - Aimé Jacquet, French football manager
1942 - Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
1942 - Henry Carr, American athlete
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1943 - Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet
1945 - Alain de Cadenet, SPEED Channel personality
1948 - James L. Avery, Sr., American actor
1950 - Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
1951 - Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress
1952 - Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian politician
1952 - Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)
1952 - James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut
1953 - Curtis Armstrong, American actor
1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)
1954 - Patricia McPherson, American actress
1955 - Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
1955 - Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - William Fichtner, American actor
1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American journalist
1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
1959 - Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)
1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player
1960 - Kevin Henkes, American children's book writer/illustrator
1960 - Tim Pawlenty, American politician
1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
1961 - Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian
1962 - Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax)
1962 - Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)
1962 - Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor
1966 - Andy Merrill, American voice actor
1967 - Shane Embury, British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death, among others)
1967 - Robin Givens, American actress
1968 - Michael Vartan, French actor
1971 - Nick Van Exel, American basketball player
1973 - Samantha Harris, American model and host
1973 - Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler
1973 - Twista, American rapper
1975 - Martin Gramatica, Argentinian American football player
1976 - Jean Grae, South African-born rapper
1976 - Jaleel White, American actor
1978 - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
1978 - The Streets, English rapper
1978 - Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player
1978 - Shy Love, adult film actress
1978 - Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)
1979 - Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
1979 - Hilary Hahn, American violinist
1979 - Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 - Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
1980 - Jamie Willcox, guitarist of Pure Reason Revolution
1980 - Michael Yardy, English cricketer
1981 - Matthew Taylor, English footballer
1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress
1986 - Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
1992 - Tola Szlagowska and Alicja Boratyn, Polish singers
1996 - Alexandra Astin, American actress

[edit] Deaths
8 BC - Horace, Roman poet (b. 65 BC)
511 - Clovis I, King of the Franks
835 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (b. 811)
1198 - Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1154)
1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer
1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1592 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
1632 - John Eliot, English statesman (b. 1592)
1680 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (b. 1601)
1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
1811 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)
1901 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1831)
1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (b. 1827)
1931 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
1932 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (b. 1908)
1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer and politician (executed)
1944 - Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892)
1958 - Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892)
1973 - Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1887)
1975 - Ross McWhirter, British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
1978 - Harvey Milk, American politician (assassinated) (b. 1930)
1978 - George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (assassinated) (b. 1929)
1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
1988 - John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
1990 - David White, American actor (b. 1916)
1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
2000 - Len Shackleton, English former footballer (b. 1922)
2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
2005 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (b. 1926)
2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
2006 - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster
2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)

[Athean]

[DaikaijuSokogeki!]

March 27th

Events:

-1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
-1513 (not 1512 as often cited) - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
-1613 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
-1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
-1794 - The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
-1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
-1834 - Andrew Jackson is censured by the U.S. Senate for his actions regarding the U.S. National Bank.
-1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
-1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
-1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
-1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
-1871 - First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
-1941 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
-1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
-1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
-1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.
-1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight
-1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC Metro system is opened.
-1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
-1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

Births:

-972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
-1785 - King Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
-1813 - Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (d. 1888)
-1845 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
-1863 - Sir Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (d. 1933)
-1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
-1899 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
-1901 - Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
-1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
-1909 - Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)
-1912 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
-1914 - Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
-1914 - Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist
-1915 - Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)
-1917 - Cyrus Vance, American politician (d. 2002)
-1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
-1924 - Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
-1931 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
-1939 - Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
-1942 - Michael York, English actor
-1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
-1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
-1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
-1963 - Randall Cunningham American football player
-1963 - Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer
-1964 - Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
-1966 - Paula Trickey, American actress
-1967 - Paul Adams, American celebrity
-1967 - Talisa Soto, American actress
-1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
-1970 - Mariah Carey, American singer
-1972 - Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
-1974 - Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
-1975 - Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)
-1976 - Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
-1977 - Violet Blue, American porn star

No one interesting except for Yuri Gagarin died on my birthday.

[Halien]

February 2

Events
672 - Death of Saint Chad, whose feast day this is.
962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
1119 - Callixtus II becomes Pope.
1509 - Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
1536 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1542 - Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time after an unsuccessful attempt on February 1.
1812 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, along the California coast.
1848 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the war.
1848 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.
1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey.
1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
1882 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.
1920 - Tartu Peace Treaty signed between Estonia and Russia.
1920 - France occupies Memel.
1925 - Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.
1935 - The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducts the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.
1940 - Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.
1943 - World War II: The last German forces surrender to the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad.
1945 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
1952 - A tropical storm forms north of Cuba and moves northeast making landfall in Florida. It is the earliest reported formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.
1957 - President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across river Indus near Sukkur.
1966 - Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war.
1967 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
1971 - After a coup in Uganda, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.
1972 - The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday.
1976 - Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1980 - Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel were targeting members of the U.S. Congress in a sting operation.
1980 - Founding congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey.
1982 - Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama and kills thousands of people.
1989 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation.
1989 - Satellite television service Sky Television plc launched in the Europe.
1990 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
1998 - A Cebu Pacific Air DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, killing 104.
1998 - Republic Act 8474 was released by the Supreme Court of the Philippines that convert the Municipality of Ilagan to be known as the City of Ilagan.
2002 - Wedding of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands to the Argentinean born Máxima Zorreguieta in Amsterdam.
2002 - Foundation of Eurodoc, the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers, in Girona (Spain).
2006 - An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.

Births
1208 - James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
1455 - King John of Denmark (d. 1513)
1494 - Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
1502 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
1506 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
1522 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
1600 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
1613 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1621 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
1649 - Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
1650 - Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (d. 1687)
1669 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732)
1695 - William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
1695 - François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
1700 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (d. 1766)
1711 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
1714 - Gottfried August Homilius, German composer (d. 1785)
1717 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
1786 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
1802 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887)
1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862)
1829 - Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
1841 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)
1842 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
1851 - José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican artist (d. 1913)
1861 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1949)
1875 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962)
1878 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955)
1881 - Orval Overall, major league baseball pitcher (d. 1947)
1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
1887 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
1888 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
1889 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (d. 1952)
1890 - Charles Correll, American actor (d. 1972)
1893 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
1893 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970)
1895 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and league founder (d. 1983)
1897 - Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972)
1900 - Willie Kamm, MLB third baseman (d. 1988)
1901 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987)
1905 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher (d. 1982)
1908 - Wes Ferrell, All-Star MLB pitcher (d. 1976)
1909 - Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964)
1912 - Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (d. 1997)
1913 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1914 - Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004)
1915 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002)
1915 - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005)
1916 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985)
1918 - Hella S. Haasse, Dutch writer
1923 - James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
1923 - Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988)
1923 - Red Schoendienst, baseball player and manager, and eventually Hall of Famer
1923 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
1924 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American producer and musician
1925 - Elaine Stritch, American actress
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
1927 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
1928 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., civil rights activist and author (d. 1998)
1931 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
1931 - Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
1931 - Judith Viorst, American author
1932 - Robert Mandan, American actor
1933 - Than Shwe, ruler of Myanmar
1933 - Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006)
1937 - Tom Smothers, American musician and comedian
1937 - Don Buford, All-Star MLB outfielder
1939 - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran (d. 2000)
1940 - David Jason, English actor
1942 - Graham Nash, American (British-born) rock musician
1944 - Karen Foss, American broadcaster
1944 - Geoffrey Hughes, British actor
1945 - David Friedman, American economist
1946 - Alpha Oumar Konaré, ex-president of Mali
1947 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress
1948 - Al McKay, American guitarist and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1949 - Brent Spiner, American actor
1949 - Ross Valory, American musician (Journey)
1949 - Francisco Maturana, Colombian football manager
1952 - Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler
1954 - Christie Brinkley, American model
1954 - John Tudor, MLB pitcher
1958 - Michel Marc Bouchard, Quebec playwright
1960 - Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist
1961 - Lauren Lane, American actress
1961 - Steve Penney, National Hockey League goaltender
1962 - Andy Fordham, English darts player
1962 - Paul Kilgus, baseball player
1963 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996)
1965 - Carl Airey, English footballer
1965 - Naoki Sano, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 - Andrei Chesnokov, Russian former tennis player
1966 - Robert DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1967 - Arturs Irbe, Latvian hockey player
1968 - Scott Erickson, MLB pitcher
1969 - Valeri Karpin, Russian footballer
1970 - Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek footballer
1970 - C. Ernst Harth, Canadian actor
1970 - Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress
1970 - Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
1972 - Dana International, Israeli singer
1972 - Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player
1973 - Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
1975 - Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
1975 - Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer
1975 - Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player
1975 - Niclas Wallin, Swedish hockey player
1976 - James Hickman, British swimmer
1976 - Lori Beth Denberg, American actress
1977 - Shakira, Colombian singer
1977 - Libor Sionko, Czech football player
1977 - Heather Martin, American gospel singer
1978 - Barry Ferguson, Scotish football player
1978 - Eden Espinosa, American singer and stage actress
1979 - Fani Halkia, Greek hurdler
1979 - Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
1980 - Teddy Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 - Oleguer Presas, Spanish football player
1981 - Jason Kapono, American basketball player
1982 - Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress
1982 - Sergio Castaño, Spanish footballer
1982 - Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
1983 - Jordin Tootoo, Canadian hockey player
1983 - Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
1987 - Martin Spanjers, American actor
1987 - Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player
1992 - Danielle White, American singer

Deaths
1124 - Bořivoj II of Bohemia
1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
1250 - Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
1648 - George Abbot, English writer
1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)
1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643)
1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
1769 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
1904 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
1918 - John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1858)
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872)
1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1932 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
1945 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (b. 1884)
1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
1948 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
1956 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
1970 - Bertrand Russell, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)
1973 - Hendrik Elias, Belgain politician (b. 1902)
1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)
1980 - William Howard Stein, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
1982 - Paul Desruisseaux, Quebec lawyer, businessman and politician (b 1905)
1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
1988 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French film actor (b. 1929)
1990 - Joe Erskine, British boxer (b. 1934)
1992 - Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914)
1995 - Fred Perry, British former tennis player (b. 1909)
1995 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)
1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
2002 - Paul Baloff, American vocalist (b. 1960)
2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer with The Spinners (b. 1939)
2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia - Veja Diena observed.
Czech Republic - Hromnice.
France - Crêpe Day.
Paganism - Imbolc (in northern hemisphere), Lughnasadh (in southern hemisphere).
Scotland - A quarter day in the Christian calendar (due to Candlemas).
United States and Canada - Groundhog Day.
University of King's College - George III Day
Yemanja Celebration of Yemanja, the sea goddess.

Liturgical feasts
Roman Catholicism - Candlemas, The Presentation of the Lord, The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, World Day for Consecrated Life (also February 3 in the United States).
St. Adelbald
St. Cornelius
Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Encounter of our Lord with Simeon - Major Feast Day
February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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