11-04-2010, 04:47 PM
So it turns out a lot of stuff happened on my birthday...
1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1509 – The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon
1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1794 – Joseph Whidbey and George Vancouver lead an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1839 – Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church).
1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1870 – The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1910 – The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
1911 – The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.
1911 – Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913.
1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1931 – Workers go on strike at the Hoover dam.
1938 – The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
1940 – The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1942 – World War II: in Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs (Operation Pastorius) are executed.
1942 – The Quit India resolution is passed by the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee in Bombay, and Mahatma Gandhi gave the "Quit India speech" at Gowalia Tank, leading to the start of a civil disobedience movement across British India.
1945 – World War II: the Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join.
1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36.
1949 – Bhutan becomes independent.
1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1968 – Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant.
1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew appears on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland.
1973 – Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
1976 – As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
1980 – The Central Hotel Fire, Bundoran occurs in Ireland.
1988 – The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
1988 – The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games. (The game, against the Philadelphia Phillies, is rained out after three-and-a-half innings.)
1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.
2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2008 – opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
2009 – Typhoon Morakot makes landfall in Taiwan, and almost the entire southern region of Taiwan is flooded by record-breaking rainfall.
1079 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1518 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
1605 – Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
1646 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
1814 – Esther Morris, American jurist (d. 1902)
1824 – Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
1839 – Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925)
1857 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)
1875 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
1879 – Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1880 – Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961)
1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1882 – Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
1884 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer (d. 1977)
1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
1898 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
1901 – Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1904 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
1905 – André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
1907 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
1908 – Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1990)
1909 – Bill Voce, England cricketer (d. 1984)
1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
1911 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
1915 – Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
1920 – Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
1920 – Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006)
1920 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
1921 – William Asher, American film producer
1921 – John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
1921 – Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
1921 – Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
1922 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak politician (d. 2003)
1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor
1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
1928 – Don Burrows, Australian musician
1929 – Ronald Biggs, British criminal
1929 – Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1931 – Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
1932 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
1932 – Mel Tillis, American singer
1933 – Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
1933 – Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (d. 2007)
1935 – Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
1935 – John Laws, Australia radio personality
1936 – Keith Barron, English actor
1936 – Frank Howard, American baseball player
1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1938 – Jacques Hétu, French Canadian composer
1938 – Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
1939 – Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
1940 – Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist
1940 – Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (d. 2007)
1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress
1944 – John Holmes, American pornographic actor (d. 1988)
1944 – John Renbourn, English musician
1946 – James W. Lewis, American convicted extortionist
1947 – José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player
1947 – Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
1947 – Larry Wilcox, American actor
1947 – Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician
1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor
1949 – Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
1950 – Ken Kutaragi, Founder of PlayStation
1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer
1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
1951 – Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer
1952 – Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
1952 – Robin Quivers, American radio personality
1952 – Sudhakar Rao, Indian cricketer
1952 – Anton Fig, South African Drummer (David Letterman Band, ex-Frehley's Comet)
1953 – Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
1953 – Don Most, American actor
1953 – Mark Lazarowicz, British Politician
1955 – Diddú, Icelandic soprano and songwriter
1955 – Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
1956 – David Grant, English singer and vocal coach
1956 – Branscombe Richmond, American actor
1956 – Chris Foreman, English guitarist (Madness)
1956 – Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
1958 – Deborah Norville, American television host
1960 – Ulrich Maly, German politician
1961 – The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
1961 – Daniel House, American music executive
1961 – Bruce Matthews, American football player
1961 – Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
1962 – Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Kool Moe Dee, American rapper
1963 – Jon Turteltaub, American director
1963 – Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
1964 – Anastasia Ashman, American writer
1964 – Paul Taylor, England cricketer
1965 – Kate Langbroek, Australian media personality
1965 – Aaron Abeyta, American musician
1965 – Angus Fraser, England cricketer
1966 – Chris Eubank, English boxer
1966 – John Hudek, American baseball player
1967 – Eric Angle, American wrestler
1967 – Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
1967 – Rena Mero, American wrestler
1967 – Jessica Moore, Italian actress
1967 – Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
1968 – Abey Kuruvilla, Indian cricketer
1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer / guitarist (Fun Lovin' Criminals)
1969 – Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
1969 – **** Togo, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 – Yvie Burnett, British television vocal coach
1970 – Trev Alberts, American football player
1970 – Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
1972 – Joely Collins, Canadian actress
1972 – Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach
1972 – Axel Merckx, Belgian bicycle racer
1972 – Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1973 – Toby Allen, Australian singer (Human Nature)
1973 – Shane Lee, Australian cricketer
1973 – Senta Moses, American actress
1973 – Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
1974 – Scott D'Amore, Canadian professional wrestler and manager
1974 – Brian Harvey, English singer
1974 – Andy Priaulx, British racing driver
1976 – JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
1976 – Tawny Cypress, American actress
1976 – Drew Lachey, American singer
1976 – Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player
1976 – Jeff Simmons, American race car driver
1977 – Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
1977 – Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer
1977 – Lindsay Sloane, American actress
1977 – Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
1977 – Nicolas Vogondy, French cyclist
1978 – Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer
1978 – Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer
1978 – Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer
1979 – Richard Harwood, British cellist
1979 – Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Icelandic handball player
1979 – Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
1979 – Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
1979 – Sam Totman, English musician (Dragonforce)
1979 – Dan Smith, English musician (Noisettes)
1980 – Mike Hindert, American musician
1980 – Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
1980 – Pat Noonan, American footballer
1980 – Michael Urie, American actor and director
1980 – Denisse Guerrero, Mexican Singer (Belanova)
1981 – Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
1981 – Meagan Good, American actress
1981 – Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
1981 – Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
1981 – Harel Skaat, Israeli singer
1983 – Guy Burnet, British actor
1984 – Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
1984 – Martrez Milner, American football player
1984 – Devon McTavish, American footballer
1985 – Brett Ratliff, American football player
1985 – Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican football player
1986 – Pierre Garçon, American football player
1986 – Peyton List, American actress
1986 – Chris Pressley, American football player
1987 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress
1987 – Pierre Boulanger, French actor
1988 – Princess Beatrice of York , Princess of York and British princess
1988 – Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
1989 – Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
1989 – Hannah Miley, British swimmer
1995 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
869 – Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
1445 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1553 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
1555 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
1588 – Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
1604 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1631 – Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
1684 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
1747 – Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)
1759 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
1827 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1828 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1863 – Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b. 1825)
1879 – Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1887 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1897 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
1902 – James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
1909 – Mary MacKillop, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
1911 – William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1928 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
1933 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)
1934 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (b. 1863)
1940 – Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
1944 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
1944 – Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1944 – Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder, killed in action, Normandy. (b. 1914)
1947 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
1950 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (b. 1879)
1961 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)
1965 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
1969 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (b. 1896)
1971 – Freddie Spencer Chapman, British army officer (b. 1907)
1972 – Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
1973 – Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)
1973 – Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
1973 – Nikos Zachariadis, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1903)
1974 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (b. 1907)
1975 – Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1977 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
1979 – Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (b. 1910)
1980 – Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)
1982 – Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
1984 – Ellen Raskin, American author(b. 1928)
1985 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
1988 – Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
1988 – Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
1988 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
1991 – Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
1991 – James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
1992 – Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death (b. 1899)
1992 – John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
1995 – John Adams, American football player (b. 1937)
1996 – Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)
1998 – Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist
2004 – Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2005 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
2005 – Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
2005 – John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
2005 – Gene Mauch, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 – Dean Rockwell, World War II hero at D-Day and Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling coach
2005 – Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
2005 – Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
2007 – Joybubbles, A notable phone phreak. (b. 1949)
2007 – Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
2007 – Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 – Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish football player (b. 1983)
2010 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Dominic de Guzman, founder of the Dominican Order.
Smaragdus (and companions)
August 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Melon Day can fall, while August 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday in August. (Turkmenistan)
Farmer’s Day or Nane Nane, Swahili for "8-8". (Tanzania)
Father's Day or Bā bā Day (爸爸節), Bā Bā is Mandarin for "father" and "8-8", or August 8. (Taiwan)
Flag Day, namesday of Queen Silvia. (Sweden)
And I haven't even read a single word of all that. :)
11-05-2010, 08:29 PM
Here ya go, all the things that happened on my birthday!
0284 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
0473 The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
1183 Battle of Mizushima.
1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1292 (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1511 Spain and England ally against France.
1558 Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1659 Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1745 Prince Charles Edward Stewart, accompanied by pipers, entered Carlysle following the surrender of the city to the Jacobite Army.
1796 Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1800 Congress held first session in Washington DC
1800 The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
1820 Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
1827 The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
1831 Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
1839 Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1856 American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1858 Modified Julian Day zero.
1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
1869 Suez Canal opens (Egypt)
1871 The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
1878 First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and San Francisco
1903 Dahomey (current Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
1903 The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1905 The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
1911 The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
1922 Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
1933 United States recognizes Soviet Union.
1934 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
1937 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1938 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
1939 Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps.
1939 The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
1953 The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
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1954 Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt.
1964 Helicopters of HMM-162 from Princeton, began delivery of 1,300 tons of food and clothing to people in the inland areas of South Vietnam flooded by heavy rains following a typhoon.
1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
1967 Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names
1967 Surveyor 6 becomes first man-made object to lift off the Moon
1967 Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1969 Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1970 Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
1970 Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love
1973 President Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
1973 The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
1973 Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
1974 Aliana Operrio-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
1988 Benzir Bhutto wins election in Pakistan
1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1990 Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
1993 US Congress votes for NAFTA
1996 Visitor posting - Victor Gutsu's Birthday! o_0 - USA
1997 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
2000 A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2000 Visitor posting - cameron jones was born november 17,2000 - USA
2004 Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2005 Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
2006 Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
2007 Visitor posting - Anea-Bari Donald and Eno-Obong got married in Port Harcourt - Nigeria
2009 A Russian icebreaker with 100 tourists on board is stranded in ice in the Antarctic.
2009 A chemical tanker, the Singapore-operated MV Theresa VIII with 28 North Koreans on board, is seized by Somali pirates northwest of the Seychelles.
2009 A prominent human rights campaigner for the Western Sahara region, Aminatou Haidar, who is on hunger strike at an airport in the Canary Islands, is to appear in a Spanish court on charges of public disorder. (Reuters) (AFP)
2009 An inquiry into a scandal known as "Indonesia's Watergate" says a police case against two anti-corruption officials should be dropped.
2009 Israel approves a further 900 settler homes in a settlement in East Jerusalem.
2009 Slovakia and the Czech Republic mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution which overthrew the communist government of Czechoslovakia.
2009 South African human rights activist Kumi Naidoo becomes the executive director of Greenpeace, the first African to head the organisation.
2009 The Original of Laura, an incomplete novel by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, is published 32 years after his death despite his wish that its manuscript be burned.
2009 The Spanish ship Alakrana and its crew of 36 are released after a US$3.5 million ransom is paid.
2009 The death toll after a ferry collided with a oil barge in the Irrawaddy Delta, off the coast of Burma, rises to 50. (
2009 The head of the opposition in Comoros is arrested after openly criticising President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi.
2009 U.S. President Barack Obama continues his first trip to China and meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
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