What was happening the day YOU signed up to GTP?

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I just had a thought - what was happening in the world the day you registered here on GTPlanet?

Just type the day month and year into google, and away you go!

Things that happened on the day i registered (according to wiki):

  • Experts and officials from Interpol and 19 countries met Tuesday in Burkina Faso to elaborate a strategy to combat terrorism and crime in Africa. Countries participating included France, the United States, Britain, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Benin, Burundi, Togo and Mauritania. (Independent Online)
  • Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan announce in a joint statement that have agreed work together on a plan for reforming the United Nations, including securing a permanent seat or seats on the UN Security Council for at least one of the four nations. (ABC News)
  • The United States Senate, by a vote of 77–17, confirms the nomination of Porter Goss as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Some Democratic senators had charged that Goss is too partisan to deliver unbiased reports to the White House. (Reuters)
  • The Republic of Ireland's telecommunications regulator, ComReg, announces that, starting on October 4, it will suspend direct-dial telephone services to thirteen island nations and dependencies, in order to counter telephone dialer scams which have cost some customers thousands of euros. (Reuters)
  • The United States military drops espionage charges against Syrian-American airman Ahmad al Halabi after he pleads guilty to four lesser charges. The judge criticizes the prosecution for improperly handling key evidence and for failing to correct the mistranslation of a crucial document. (Reuters)
:D
 
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December 4th, 2001. = Not quite anicent history.
 
November 12 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
 
Events

* 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses
* 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir
* 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada
* 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession.
* 1746 - War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza
* 1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians
* 1774 - Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
* 1779 - Spain declares war on Britain and the siege of Gibraltar begins
* 1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo.
* 1836 - Formation of the London Working Men's Association begins the Chartist Movement
* 1846 - The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy.
* 1858 - Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois
* 1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny.
* 1871 - University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
* 1884 - The first roller coaster in the United States begins operation at Coney Island, New York
* 1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
* 1902 - Australia: Female British subjects (with the glaring exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) won the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
* 1903 - Ford Motor Company incorporates.
* 1903 - Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
* 1904 - Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
* 1904 - Leopold Bloom walks around Dublin. (see Ulysses) Known as Bloomsday.
* 1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
* 1915 - Foundation of the British Women's Institute
* 1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
* 1924 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded
* 1925 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek established.
* 1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France
* 1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania
* 1948 - The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by the Cathay Pacific airline, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane.
* 1955 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón
* 1956 - Ted Hughes marries Sylvia Plath
* 1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York
* 1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris
* 1962 - Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon,Vietnam.
* 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
* 1972 - Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building
* 1972 - Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
* 1972 - Opening of the New York Jazz Museum
* 1972 - Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland
* 1976 - Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
* 1977 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR
* 1981 - Ken Taylor honoured for helping six Americans escape from Iran during hostage crisis
* 1983 - Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR
* 1994 - A Chinese operated Northwest Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160
* 1995 - The Astronomy Picture of the Day was born
* 1996 - First round of voting in the Russian presidential election
* 1997 - Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
* 1999 - Thabo Mbeki elected President of South Africa.
* 2001 - George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin meet in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
* 2002 - Politically Incorrect is cancelled (from sponsors dropping the show) after host Bill Maher makes controversial comments on air regarding the integrity of President George W. Bush.
* 2003 - The Hatfields and McCoys sign a formal truce.

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Births

* 1139 - Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
* 1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
* 1514 - John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
* 1583 - Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654)
* 1591 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
* 1606 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
* 1612 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
* 1613 - John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
* 1633 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
* 1644 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
* 1713 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hamphsire (d. 1786)
* 1738 - Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
* 1792 - John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
* 1792 - Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
* 1801 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
* 1806 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
* 1813 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
* 1820 - Athanase Coquerel, French protestant preacher (d. 1875)
* 1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
* 1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
* 1836 - Wesley Merritt, American soldier (d. 1910)
* 1837 - Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
* 1838 - Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
* 1840 - Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
* 1858 - King Gustav V of Sweden (d. 1950)
* 1874 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
* 1880 - Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
* 1888 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
* 1890 - Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965)
* 1896 - Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
* 1897 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
* 1902 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1992)
* 1902 - George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
* 1903 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
* 1907 - Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981)
* 1909 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
* 1910 - Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977)
* 1912 - Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
* 1914 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
* 1916 - Hank Luisetti, baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1917 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001)
* 1917 - Irving Penn, American photographer
* 1920 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
* 1920 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (d. 1980)
* 1927 - Tom Graveney, English cricketer
* 1927 - Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001)
* 1929 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
* 1930 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian cinematographer
* 1934 - Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
* 1934 - William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1935 - Jim Dine, American artist
* 1937 - Erich Segal, American author
* 1938 - James Bolam, English actor
* 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
* 1940 - Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
* 1941 - Lamont Dozier, American record company executive
* 1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist
* 1947 - -minu, Swiss columnist and writer
* 1949 - Paulo César Lima, Brazilian football player
* 1951 - Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
* 1952 - George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
* 1952 - Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter
* 1955 - Laurie Metcalf, American actress
* 1966 - Jan Zelezný, Czech athlete
* 1967 - John Franklin, American actor
* 1969 - Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
* 1970 - Phil Mickelson, American golfer
* 1970 - James Shaffer, American guitarist (KoЯn)
* 1971 - Derek R. Audette, Canadian artist and poet
* 1971 - Tupac Amaru Shakur, Born Lesan Parish Crooks (Mother changes name at early age), American West Coast Gangsta Rapper
* 1972 - Hank von Helvete, Norwegian musician
* 1977 - Kerry Wood, baseball player
* 1980 - Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
* 1980 - Nehir Erdoğan, Turkish actress
* 1988 - Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer

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Deaths

* 1216 - Pope Innocent III
* 1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
* 1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
* 1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
* 1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
* 1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German protestant military leader (b. 1599)
* 1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
* 1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
* 1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
* 1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
* 1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
* 1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
* 1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
* 1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
* 1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
* 1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
* 1804 - Johann Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
* 1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
* 1855 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
* 1858 - John Snow, English obstetrician (b. 1813)
* 1866 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
* 1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
* 1872 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
* 1878 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
* 1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
* 1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
* 1894 - William Calder Marshall, Scottish sculptor (b. 1813)
* 1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
* 1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
* 1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
* 1940 - DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
* 1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
* 1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
* 1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
* 1959 - George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
* 1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
* 1970 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
* 1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
* 1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
* 1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
* 1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
* 1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist (b. 1917)
* 1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
* 1988 - Kim Milford, American actor (b. 1951)
* 1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
* 1996 - Mel Allen, baseball announcer (b. 1913)
* 1996 - Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
* 2000 - Empress Nagako of Japan (b. 1903)
* 2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
* 2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
* 2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)

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Holidays and observances

* South Africa - Youth Day
* Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers
* Bloomsday, in honour of James Joyce's Ulysses

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See also

* 16 June Movement
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From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_16th
 
Looks like not much happened on November 14, 2004. Me joining GTP might've been the biggest news that day. :sly:
 
Events

* 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
* AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
* 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
* 1680 - Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
* 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
* 1809 - Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain.
* 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
* 1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist Joseph Smithson.
* 1856 - In Last Island, Louisiana, a hurricane kills about 400 people.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek - The war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
* 1893 - At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
* 1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
* 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
* 1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sevres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
* 1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
* 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
* 1948 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
* 1949 - US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the National Military Establishment with the United States Department of Defense.
* 1954 - At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
* 1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
* 1971 - Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
* 1977 - In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
* 1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.
* 1988 - Japanese American Internment: US President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were either interned or relocated by in the United States during World War II.
* 1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
* 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
* 2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent [1]. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
* 2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space when he marries Ekaterina Dmitriev, on the ground in Texas, while he orbits 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station.

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Births

* 1267 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
* 1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg (d. 1346)
* 1360 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
* 1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
* 1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
* 1520 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
* 1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
* 1645 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
* 1821 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
* 1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
* 1845 - Abai Kunanbaev, Kazak poet (d. 1904)
* 1869 - Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
* 1872 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
* 1874 - Herbert Hoover, President of the United States (d. 1964)
* 1877 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
* 1878 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
* 1880 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
* 1890 - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
* 1898 - Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
* 1900 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
* 1902 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
* 1902 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
* 1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
* 1905 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
* 1909 - Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991)
* 1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (d. 2001)
* 1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
* 1914 - Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1923 - Rhonda Fleming, American actress
* 1927 - Vernon Washington, American actors (d. 1988)
* 1928 - Jimmy Dean, American singer
* 1928 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
* 1928 - Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor
* 1933 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
* 1939 - Kate O'Mara, British actress
* 1940 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
* 1943 - Ronnie Spector, American singer (Ronettes)
* 1945 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
* 1947 - Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
* 1947 - Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
* 1948 - Martha Ohliger, American artist
* 1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
* 1959 - Rosanna Arquette, American model and actress
* 1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
* 1963 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
* 1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress
* 1965 - Mike Smith, American jockey
* 1965 - John Starks, American basketball player
* 1967 - Riddick Bowe, American boxer
* 1967 - Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
* 1971 - Roy Keane, Irish footballer
* 1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer
* 1971 - Justin Theroux, American actor
* 1972 - Angie Harmon, American model and actress
* 1974 - David Sommeil, French footballer
* 1980 - Kaysar Ridha, Reality TV Star
* 1982 - Devon Aoki, American model and actress

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Deaths

* 612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
* AD 258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
* 1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
* 1633 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
* 1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
* 1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
* 1655 - Alonso de la Cueva, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
* 1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
* 1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
* 1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
* 1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
* 1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
* 1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
* 1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
* 1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
* 1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
* 1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
* 1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
* 1963 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
* 1976 - Bert Oldfield, Australian test cricketer (b. 1894)
* 1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
* 1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
* 1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
* 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
* 2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
* 2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
* 2003 - Carmita Jimenez, Puerto Rican singer

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Holidays and observances

* Roman festivals - Opalia, festival in honor of Ops
* Ancient Latvia - Labrenca Diena held

* Independence Day in Ecuador -- Movement began in Quito in 1809. Independence not achieved till May 1822.



Not much happened really.
 
* 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York.
* 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
* 1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
* 1660 - The Long Parliament disbands.
* 1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
* 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established.
* 1815 - Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
* 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter is first published.
* 1861 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
* 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
* 1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
* 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
* 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
* 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
* 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
* 1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
* 1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.
* 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.
* 1968 - Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops.
* 1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in Maracaibo, Venezuela killing 155
* 1972 - The first building of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.
* 1978 - Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and is later killed by his captors.
* 1983 - Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood.
* 1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
* 1985 - Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He would be released on December 4, 1991.
* 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
* 1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing thousands of people.
* 1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184 (see Great Blizzard of 1993).
* 1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.
* 1997 - Stuart Appleby wins the Honda Golf Classic.
* 2002 - Closing ceremonies of the Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
* 2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
* 2006 - Planned release date of the computer role-playing game Final Fantasy XII in Japan.
* 2880 - The predicted closest approach to Earth of near-Earth object (29075) 1950 DA which might impact Earth.

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Births

* 1445 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
* 1581 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
* 1585 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (d. 1618)
* 1631 - René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
* 1654 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
* 1750 - Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (d. 1848)
* 1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
* 1774 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (d. 1814)
* 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
* 1794 - Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
* 1800 - Emperor Ninko of Japan, (d. 1846)
* 1829 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
* 1834 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
* 1840 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
* 1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (d. 1946)
* 1878 - Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1941)
* 1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
* 1897 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
* 1901 - Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
* 1902 - Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
* 1903 - Mike Mansfield, American politician, and diplomat (d. 2001)
* 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
* 1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (d. 1986)
* 1906 - Henny Youngman, American comedian (d. 1998)
* 1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
* 1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
* 1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
* 1917 - Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (d. 1977)
* 1918 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
* 1920 - Leo McKern, British actor (d. 2002)
* 1926 - Charles Goodell, American politician, (d. 1987)
* 1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
* 1928 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
* 1927 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (d. 1967)
* 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 2003)
* 1927 - Olga San Juan, American comedienne
* 1932 - Don Blasingame, Major League Baseball and Japanese baseball manager (d. 2005)
* 1932 - Walter Cunningham, astronaut
* 1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
* 1939 - Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach and player
* 1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director
* 1940 - Chuck Woolery, American game show host
* 1941 - Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
* 1942 - James Soong, Taiwanese politician
* 1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker, American musician
* 1948 - Margaret Weis, American author
* 1949 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
* 1949 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
* 1950 - Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
* 1952 - Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur
* 1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
* 1953 - Richard Stallman, American free software activist
* 1954 - Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer
* 1954 - Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart)
* 1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
* 1959 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
* 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
* 1963 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
* 1964 - Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
* 1967 - Lauren Graham, American actress
* 1970 - Stephen Martin, Canadian livejournaler
* 1971 - Alan Tudyk, American actor
* 1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
* 1981 - Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer

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Deaths

* 37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar,Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
* 455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
* 1072 - Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
* 1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
* 1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
* 1559 - Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
* 1649 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
* 1679 - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
* 1721 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
* 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, (b. 1710)
* 1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
* 1738 - George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
* 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
* 1903 - Judge Roy Bean, American jurist and pioneer
* 1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
* 1930 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
* 1935 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
* 1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
* 1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
* 1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
* 1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
* 1970 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1946)
* 1971 - Thomas Dewey, American Presidential candidate (b. 1902)
* 1975 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
* 1977 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
* 1979 - Jean Monnet, French politician (b. 1888)
* 1983 - Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
* 1992 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
* 1996 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
* 1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
* 2001 - Norma MacMillan, American voice actress (b. 1921)
* 2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)

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Holidays and observances

* Latvia - The controversial Latvia Legions is celebrated in Latvia, where about 140,000 men joined the Waffen SS National Legions during World War II, trying to defend Latvia. Since February 23, 2000, this day is no longer an official celebration day.
* St. Urho's Day - the fictional patron saint of Finnish immigrants to the US, created by Richard Mattson in 1956
* The first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome

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According to Wiki... Nothing. Absolutely Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Null and Void... Which must mean that THE thing that happened that day was my signing up to GTP... I am THAT awesome !...

Only. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet :irked:
 
I noticed, even though it was before I joined.

I felt empowered on that day, and had the strength of ten armies.
 
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Monday April 28, 22:30, Falluja, 50km from Iraq, American soldiers opened fire against a group of unarmed protesters, as a result 15 teenagers died and others resulted injured. The facts occurred during a student demonstration asking the end of the occupation of a local school were American forces were camping; “they just wanted go back to school” said an Iraqi witness. The soldiers opened fire after a teenager threw his shoe hitting one of the school walls. The impunity of the act produced the anger of the local population and resulted in further civilian disturbs; 2 days later on April 30 2003, four American subcontractors were captured by an angry mob, killed and their bodies mutilated and set on fire. Their remains were dragged around the city with a 1000 persons crowd cheering behind and finally thrown from a bridge. After the incident Falluja passed from a pacific pro American city to the one of the most violent spots in the post-occupied Iraq.

The World Health Organization announces that SARS has peaked in all affected countries except the People's Republic of China. These countries include Canada, Singapore, and Vietnam, as well as Hong Kong. [1] [2]

SARS is made only the fourth disease, after plague, yellow fever, and cholera, that countries are required to report to the World Health Organization. [3]

Apple Computer revealed a new online music store, entitled the iTunes Music Store, for its iTunes and iPod products. Each song can be downloaded for 99 cents and there is no subscription fee.

A Mexicana de Aviacion jet is forced to land at San Francisco International Airport in California after the pilot accidentally sets off the anti-terror alarm.



SARS was big at the time, I was a viewer for along time before I registed but still SARS doesnt feel that long ago.
 
* 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
* 1508 - The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
* 1520 - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
* 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
* 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
* 1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William T. Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
* 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
* 1869 - Wyoming grants women the right to vote.
* 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
* 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
* 1904 - The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded in Charleston, South Carolina.
* 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind.
* 1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs his Instrument of Abdication.
* 1941 - World War II: Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse - The Royal Navy ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers.
* 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
* 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
* 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
* 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.
* 1963 - The United States Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara.
* 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
* 1970 - Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, "father of the Green Revolution", is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1975 - Activist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner.
* 1978 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
* 1983 - Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted by his wife, Danuta.
* 1984 - Apartheid: Cleric and activist Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1986 - The Holocaust: Elie Wiesel is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1996 - Rwandan Genocide: Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
* 2002 - The High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.
* 2004 - A tombstone commemorating the 35th anniversary of the death of Brazilian guerrilla Carlos Marighella is inaugurated in Salvador, Bahia.
* 2004 - Anil Kumble becomes India's highest wicket-taker, surpassing Kapil Dev's total of 435.
* 2005 - Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes in Nigeria.

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Births

* 1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
* 1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
* 1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
* 1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
* 1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
* 1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
* 1815 - Ada Lovelace, British computer programmer (d. 1852)
* 1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
* 1824 - George MacDonald, British writer and preacher (d. 1905)
* 1830 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
* 1851 - Melvil Dewey, American librarian (d. 1931)
* 1870 - Pierre Louÿs, French author
* 1870 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
* 1872 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
* 1882 - Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
* 1884 - Zinaida Serebryakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
* 1886 - Marco Minghetti, Italian statesman (b. 1813)
* 1891 - Nelly Sachs, German-born writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
* 1903 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
* 1907 - Rumer Godden (Margaret Rumer Godden), British writer (d. 1998)
* 1907 - Lucien Laurent, French international footballer (d. 2005)
* 1908 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
* 1909 - Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
* 1911 - Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
* 1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
* 1913 - Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
* 1914 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
* 1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
* 1920 - Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
* 1928 - Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
* 1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
* 1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
* 1947 - Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani politician and chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party.
* 1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
* 1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
* 1952 - Clive Anderson, British television host
* 1952 - Susan Dey, American actress
* 1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
* 1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
* 1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
* 1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
* 1980 - Alexa Rae, American actress
* 1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
* 1980 - Ledley King, English international footballer
* 1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
* 1985 - Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer

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Deaths

* 1041 - Michael IV, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
* 1198 - Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
* 1508 - René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
* 1603 - William Gilbert, English scientist (plague) (b. 1544)
* 1618 - Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
* 1626 - Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
* 1665 - Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
* 1736 - António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
* 1831 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
* 1850 - François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
* 1865 - King Léopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
* 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
* 1911 - Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (b. 1817)
* 1917 - Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
* 1928 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, British architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
* 1936 - Bobby Abel, English test cricketer (b. 1857)
* 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
* 1941 - Colin Kelly, American pilot
* 1946 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
* 1946 - Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
* 1951 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (b. 1869)
* 1953 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
* 1967 - Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
* 1968 - Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
* 1968 - Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
* 1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician
* 1978 - Ed Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
* 1979 - Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
* 1982 - Freeman F. Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
* 1987 - Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist (b. 1901)
* 1990 - Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
* 1991 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
* 1996 - Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
* 1999 - Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
* 1999 - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
* 2000 - Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
* 2001 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
* 2005 - Eugene J. McCarthy, United States Senator (b. 1916)
* 2005 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940
 
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Birthdays

    1961 The Edge [Dave Evans], rock guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist (U2)
    1959 Rikki Rocket, rock musician (Poison - Every Rose Has a Thorn)
    1958 Harry Crosby, Los Angeles, actor (Friday the 13th)
    1954 Nigel Mansell, formula-1 racer
    1953 Donny Most, actor (Happy Days - Ralph Malph)
    1949 Keith Carradine, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby)
    1949 Larry Wilcox, actor (Last Ride of the Dalton Gang)
    1948 Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
    1938 Connie Stevens, Bkln., singer, actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach)
    1937 Bill Gadsby, NHL HOF member (Black Hawks, Rangers, Red Wings)
    1937 Dustin Hoffman, LA, actor (The Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs. Kramer)
    1937 Georg Thoma, German nordic skier (Olympic gold 1960)
    1936 Keith Barron, Mexborough, England, actor
    1936 Frank Howard, baseball player, manager (NL rookie of the year 1960)
    1932 Mel Tillis, country singer
    1930 Joan Mondale, wife of VP Walter F. Mondale
    1929 Josef Suk, Praha (Prague), Czechoslovakia, violinist
    1927 Jim Weaver, US congressman (D-Oregon)
    1926 Richard Anderson, Long Branch, NJ, actor (Along Came a Spider)
    1926 Webb Pierce, C & W musician (I Ain't Never)
    1925 Brian W. Aldiss, Norfolk, England, sci-fi writer (Helliconia Spring)
    1923 Esther Williams, Inglewood, CA, actress, swimmer (Dangerous When Wet)
    1922 Rory Calhoun, actor (Capitol)
    1922 Rudi Gernreich, designer of 1st women's topless swimsuit, miniskirt
    1920 Karel Shook, Renton, Wash., ballet master, dancer, author
    1919 Dino De Laurentis, Bay of Naples, Italy, producer (King Kong)
    1913 Robert Stafford, US senator (R-Vermont)
    1910 Sylvia Sidney, NYC, actress (Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon)
    1908 Arthur Goldberg, Ill., UN ambassador, Supreme Court justice (1962-65)
    1908 Helen Hull Jacobs, Berkeley, Calif., tennis player (Wimbledon 1936)
    1907 Benny Carter, NYC, musician, composer (Easy Money, King Carter)
    1905 Andr‚ Jolivet, Paris, composer
    1903 Nita Talbot, NYC, actress (Chained Heat, Frightmare, Island Claws)
    1902 Paul A.M. Dirac, Bristol, England, theoretical physicist (Nobel 1933)
    1901 Ernest O. Lawrence, Canton, SC, cyclotron inventor (Nobel 1939)
    1900 Victor Young, Chicago, composer
    1900 Big Jim Pierce, actor (Tarzan & the Golden Lion)
    1896 Marjorie Kinan Rawlings, Washington, DC, novelist (The Yearling)
    1884 Sara Teasdale, US poet (1st Pulitzer Prize - 1918 - "Love Songs")
    1879 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
    1866 Matthew Henson, black member of Peary's polar expedition
    1857 Henry Fairfield Osborn, US paleontologist, author
    1763 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect
    1602 Gilles Personne de Roberval, French geometrician, inventor
    1075 Abu al-Qasim az-Samakhshari, Persian theologian, philologist



Deaths

    1976 John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, is found murdered
    1553 Girolamo Fracastoro, physician, poet, scientist, dies at about 75



Holidays

    7Rush-Bearing Day (Grasmere, England)



Events

    1990 Iraq annexes Kuwait
    1990 African National Congress suspends its armed struggle
    1989 Columbia shuttle lifts off on secret all-military mission
    1989 Ed Meese crony E.R. Wallach convicted of racketeering (Wedtech)
    1989 RI rules that witches' covens are tax-exempt religious organizations
    1988 Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light years) announced
    1988 Russian troops begin to pull out of Afgh nist n after 9-year war
    1988 NYC temperature hits high of 88ø F on 8/8/88
    1981 US National Aquarium opens, Baltimore
    1981 Largest kite ever flown (for 37 min) - 1,814 mý, 230 kg - Netherlands
    1978 Pioneer Venus 2 with 5 atmospheric probes launched toward Venus
    1973 VP Spiro T. Agnew brands as "damned lies" reports he took kickbacks
    1973Cfrom gov't contracts in Maryland - he vows not to resign (right!)
    1972 World's oldest known footprints (355 million y) found, Gippsland, Vic.
    1969 USSR launches Zond 7 for lunar fly-by (1,996 km) & recovery
    1963 Greatest train robbery - œ2.6 million ($7.3 million) - in England
    1963 Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie" - radio stations label it obscene
    1962 Robert Redford's 1st movie, "War Hunt," opens
    1961 Record 46-kg (!) trout caught, Lake Athabasca, Sask.
    1961 Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL) beat Buffalo Bills (AFL) 38-21, Hamilton
    1960 "The Twist" by Chubby Checker enters the charts
    1950 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st US woman to swim the English Channel
    1949 Bhut n, Land of the Dragon, becomes independent of Britain
    1945 Pres. Harry S. Truman signs ratification of UN Charter
    1945 USSR declares war against Japan in WW II, invades Manchuria
    1945 Russian troops arrive in northern Korea
    1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed, Washington, DC
    1937 Bonneville dam on the Columbia River begins producing power
    1928 1st nonstop flight across Australia
    1923 14-year-old Benny Goodman's 1st professional gig, Chicago
    1920 38ø C (100ø F), "SS Titan," Red Sea (world ocean record)
    1920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
    1911 Membership in US House fixed at 435, a member for each 211,877 people
    1900 1st Davis Cup lawn tennis matches - US beats England
    1878 Petach Tikvah, the "mother of settlements," is founded in Palestine
    1877 Chief Joseph defeats Gen. Gibbon at battle of the Big Horn, Mont.
    1876 Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph
    1876 Dan O'Leacy completes 500-mile walk in 139 h 32 m
    1870 "Magic" (US) defeats "Cambria" (England) for 2nd America's Cup
    1844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head after Joseph Smith's death
    1815 Napol‚on Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St. Helena
    1709 1st known ascent in a hot-air balloon, by Father Bartolomeu de Gusmao
    1709Cof Portugal (indoors!)
    1609 Venetian Senate examines Galileo's telescope
    1579 Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory
    1567 Duke of Alva arrives in the Netherlands with 10,000 Spanish troops

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My Tech Ed Teacher Wrote This.
 
January 14, 2005

* Saudi Arabia's supreme judicial council announced that the ritual of the day of Arafat would take place Wednesday rather than Thursday as expected. This means that Eid ul-Adha will begin a day earlier than thought. (The Guardian), (Arabicnews.com)
* Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Gaza Strip has been completely sealed off by Israel, following yesterday's events which saw the first major attacks by Palestinians on Israeli civilians since Mahmoud Abbas was elected, and followed several Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
* Embattled Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Judy Sgro resigns in order to clear her name. She is replaced by Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Joe Volpe who in turn is replaced in that ministry by Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Lucienne Robillard. [1]
* In what is expected to be one of the major scientific events of this decade, the Huygens probe successfully lands on Saturn's largest moon Titan. Data sent back from the probe via the Cassini orbiter is now being analysed. Three low-resolution pictures have been released, including one from an altitude of 16 km that appears to show channels cut by liquid, and another from the surface of Titan showing rocks or ice. (New Scientist) (Reuters) (Wired) (BBC) (ABC News) (ESA)
* The World Health Organization reports that worldwide polio cases rose by more than one-third in 2004, from 784 in 2003 to 1,185 last year. The increase is attributed to a boycott on vaccines in Kano, Nigeria led by a group of hard-line Islamic clerics who claim that vaccines are part of an American conspiracy. (CNN)
* An Argentinean ex-naval officer Adolfo Scilingo goes to trial in Spain accused of killing political prisoners during Argentina's "Dirty War". He was declared fit for trial despite a hunger strike. (Reuters Alertnet) (BBC)
* Somalian transitional parliament in Kenya has approved the second suggested cabinet of prime minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi. They rejected his earlier suggested cabinet four weeks ago (AllAfrica) (Reuters Alertnet) (BBC)
* Venezuela recalls its ambassador to Colombia because of the disagreement over capture of FARC member Rodrigo Granda (BBC)
* Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to a truce on the disagreement over land reclamation project in Johor Straits (Malaysian Star) (CNA) (Reuters)

And it was my Brothers birthday:D
 
I registered,

A recent report by a group of scientists accused the Bush administration of "the manipulation, suppression and misrepresentation of science" for political gain. The White House hit back with a point by point rebuttal. Is America being blinded with science? - (Monday, April 12, 2004),

The situation in Iraq is grim and no one is watching more closely than the families of those fighting on the frontlines. Hear from some of the families on how they are coping with the anxiety. - (Monday, April 12, 2004),

and that's about it.

Oh, and some guy got beaten in Go by his sister, as posted on his blog.
 
Events

* 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
* 1568 - Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
* 1619 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason.
* 1779 - War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Inn District).
* 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia.
* 1830 - Ecuador gains its independence.
* 1846 - Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
* 1848 - First performance of Finland's national anthem.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
* 1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
* 1880 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
* 1888 - With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
* 1909 - The first Giro d'Italia took place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the winner.
* 1912 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.
* 1913 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
* 1917 - Three peasant children claim to see the Blessed Virgin Mary above a holmoak tree in Cova da Iria near Fatima, Portugal.
* 1940 - World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
* 1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
* 1943 - World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
* 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
* 1950 - First All-time Formula One Grand Prix. It is held at Silverstone Circuit, England
* 1958 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
* 1958 - Pierre Pflimlin becomes Prime Minister of France
* 1958 - Velcro's trade mark is registered.
* 1960 - First ascent of Dhaulagiri, world's seventh-highest mountain.
* 1969 - Race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later known as the 13 May Incident.
* 1976 - The New York Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets and win the American Basketball Association championship, 112-106, in the final ABA game ever played.
* 1981 - Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome.
* 1985 - The mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, orders police to storm the radical group's MOVE headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
* 1995 - In Dublin, Ireland, Secret Garden win the fortieth Eurovision Song Contest for Norway performing "Nocturne".
* 1996 - Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
* 1998 - Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions.
* 2000 - In Stockholm, Sweden, the Olsen Brothers win the forty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Fly On The Wings of Love".
* 2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
* 2005 - The final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise airs in the United States, bringing to a close an 18-year uninterrupted television franchise, Enterprise being one of two series created by Gene Roddenberry ending on the same day.
* 2005 - The final episode of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda airs in the United States, Andromeda being one of two series created by Gene Roddenberry ending on the same day.
* 2005 - The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).

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Births

* 1588 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
* 1638 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
* 1655 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
* 1699 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
* 1712 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
* 1717 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780)
* 1753 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
* 1792 - Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
* 1795 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
* 1830 - Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
* 1840 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
* 1842 - Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
* 1857 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1932)
* 1882 - Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
* 1894 - Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
* 1907 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
* 1913 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
* 1913 - William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president (d. 1980)
* 1914 - Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
* 1923 - Beatrice Arthur, American actress
* 1926 - Wallace Breem, British author
* 1927 - Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
* 1931 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (d. 1978)
* 1934 - Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1937 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
* 1937 - Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995)
* 1939 - Harvey Keitel, American actor
* 1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
* 1941 - Senta Berger, Austrian actress
* 1941 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)
* 1944 - Armistead Maupin, American author
* 1947 - Stephen R. Donaldson, American author
* 1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
* 1951 - Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
* 1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
* 1956 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
* 1961 - Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
* 1962 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
* 1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & The Blowfish)
* 1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American singer (Death) (d. 2001)
* 1976 - Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
* 1977 - Samantha Morton, English actress
* 1978 - Mike Bibby, American basketball player
* 1978 - Barry Zito, baseball player
* 1979 - Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
* 1981 - Sunny Leone, Canadian model
* 1981 - Jimmy Yang, American professional wrestler

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Deaths

* 1176 - Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
* 1312 - Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
* 1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
* 1619 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman (b. 1547)
* 1704 - Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
* 1742 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
* 1807 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
* 1832 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
* 1835 - John Nash, English architect (b. 1752)
* 1871 - Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
* 1884 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
* 1885 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German phsyician (b. 1809)
* 1916 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
* 1926 - Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
* 1930 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861)
* 1938 - Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
* 1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
* 1961 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901)
* 1972 - Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
* 1974 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer, politician, and diplomat (b. 1902)
* 1975 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
* 1985 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
* 1988 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
* 1999 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
* 2000 - Paul Bartel, American actor,writer and director (b. 1938)
* 2001 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
* 2001 - Jason Miller, American actor (b. 1939)
* 2005 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)

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Holidays and observances

* Commemoration of Julian of Norwich (Anglican)
* Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
o Servatus
o Robert Bellarmine
o Gerald of Villamagna
o Rolanda
o John the Silent
* Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures (See Larvae)
* Mother's Day (certain countries) - 2001, 2007, 2012
* Abbotsbury Garland Day, Dorset, England
* World Fair Trade Day (2006)


Also:

My birthday is the same birthday as Michael Myers :scared:
 
What I do remember when I joined that long ago was my Mum was staying with my Nan because she was very ill. :( Other than that it had just been the new year really.
 
OK, what actually happened on the day I registered:

April 12, 2004
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Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez states that the mission of the U.S. forces is to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr.

Argentine president Néstor Kirchner spends his fourth day in hospital for a bleeding peptic ulcer. (Ewwww.....)

Pakistani opposition leader Javed Hashmi, president of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy is sentenced to 23 years in prison for inciting mutiny and sedition in the armed forces. He distributed a letter critical of Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.

Canada starts its largest seal hunt in 50 years. 👎

West Indies captain Brian Lara sets the highest score in Test cricket - 400 not out on the third day of the fourth Test against England in Antigua. He makes his 400 in 773 minutes off 582 balls, hitting 43 fours and four sixes. (:scared: )
 
wiki:
# 2004 - End of the Curse of the Bambino: Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox won Game 4 of the World Series 3-0, sweeping the series in 4 games over the St. Louis Cardinals on a night featuring a full lunar eclipse, becoming champions for the first time since 1918.
# 2004 - Matti Nykänen, once a very successful Finnish ski-jumper, is found guilty of attempt of manslaughter and sentenced to a two year and two month jail term for stabbing a family friend.

google:
-There was a lunar eclipse
-Somebody posted some pretty pictures in their blog.
-Many, many webcomics were posted. Some of them were funny. Most were not.
-Someone bought a car. Today, I laugh at them.
-Bush flipped somebody off. Awesome.
-I don't know, it's just funny.
 
Why me...

June 26, 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
 
Solid Lifters
Why me...

June 26, 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
Click to expand...

"Put it in 'er butt!"
 
August 8, 2004

* U.S. intelligence officials and non-government experts conclude that diplomatic efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to Iran and North Korea have failed to slow their weapons development programs.
* Sudan seeks support from states attending the Arab League summit in Cairo, Egypt to forstall possible United Nations sanctions against their country regarding its support for the Arab Janjaweed accused of ethnic cleansing in Darfur. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa states that the Arab League states are inclined to help Sudan avoid sanctions. (Reuters)
* Militants in Iraq kidnap the Iranian Consul assigned to Karbala, stating that the consul has been acting in ways incompatible with his diplomatic status. (Reuters)
* Palestinian Authority Justice Nahed Arreyes resigns, stating that he has been stripped of much of his authority over the legal system. (AP)
* An Iraqi judge issues an arrest warrant for Ahmed Chalabi on the charge of counterfeiting. Chalabi denies the charge. (Voice of America)


Nothing that intresting really
 

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