What happened the same day you were born!

[artik]

Find how by going to wikipedia, entering your birth month and day, and copy paste to this thread! Here's mine:

November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 59 days remaining until the end of the year.

* 1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed.
* 1570 – A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
* 1675 – A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
* 1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
* 1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
* 1795 – The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
* 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
* 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
* 1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
* 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
* 1899 – The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
* 1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
* 1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
* 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
* 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
* 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
* 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
* 1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
* 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
* 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
* 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
* 1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
* 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
* 1959 – Ice hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
* 1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
* 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
* 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
* 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
* 1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
* 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
* 1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India forms a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
* 1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
* 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
* 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
* 1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
* 1991 – Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 1995 – Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).

[edit] Births

* 1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
* 1475 – Princess Anne of York, Countess of Surrey (d. 1511)
* 1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
* 1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
* 1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
* 1696 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
* 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
* 1709 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
* 1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
* 1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
* 1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
* 1766 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
* 1777 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
* 1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
* 1795 – James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
* 1808 – Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
* 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
* 1821 – Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
* 1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
* 1837 – Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
* 1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
* 1855 – Henrik Schück, Swedish literary historian (d. 1947)
* 1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
* 1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
* 1877 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
* 1877 – Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
* 1883 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
* 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
* 1886 – Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
* 1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1964)
* 1892 – Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1939)
* 1893 – Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
* 1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
* 1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
* 1905 – James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
* 1906 – Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
* 1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
* 1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
* 1910 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
* 1911 – Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
* 1911 – Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
* 1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
* 1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
* 1915 – Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
* 1915 – Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
* 1920 – Ann Rutherford, American actress
* 1921 – Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
* 1921 – Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
* 1924 – (Father) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
* 1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
* 1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist
* 1928 – Paul Johnson, British historian
* 1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
* 1929 – Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1934 – Bill Gothard, American speaker
* 1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
* 1936 – Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
* 1936 – Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)
* 1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
* 1937 – Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs
* 1938 – Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
* 1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
* 1938 – Queen Sofia of Spain
* 1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
* 1940 – Jim Bakken, American football player
* 1941 – Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
* 1942 – Shere Hite, American author
* 1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
* 1944 – Patrice Chéreau, French director, actor and producer
* 1944 – Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
* 1946 – Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion
* 1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
* 1949 – Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
* 1951 – Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
* 1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
* 1952 – Maxine Nightingale, English singer
* 1954 – Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
* 1955 – Chris Burnett, American musician
* 1956 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
* 1957 – Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
* 1957 – Rita Crockett, American Olympic volleyball player
* 1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player
* 1960 – Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
* 1961 – K.D. Lang, Canadian musician
* 1961 – Jeff Tedford, head coach of the California Golden Bears
* 1962 – David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
* 1962 – Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
* 1962 – Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator
* 1963 – Bobby Dall, American Musician Poison (band)
* 1963 – Jonas Gardell, Swedish writer
* 1963 – Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
* 1964 – Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
* 1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
* 1965 – Samuel Le Bihan, French actor
* 1966 – Sean Kanan, American actor
* 1966 – Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
* 1966 – Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
* 1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
* 1966 – Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1967 – Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist
* 1967 – Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
* 1968 – Ultra Naté, American musician
* 1969 – Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
* 1970 – Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
* 1972 – Samantha Janus, British entertainer
* 1972 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
* 1972 – Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player
* 1973 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
* 1974 – Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
* 1974 – Nelly, American rapper
* 1974 – Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
* 1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
* 1975 – Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
* 1976 – Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
* 1977 – Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
* 1977 – Randy Harrison, American actor
* 1978 – Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
* 1979 – Julie Lund, Danish actress
* 1979 – Erika Flores, American actress
* 1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
* 1981 – Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
* 1981 – Roddy White, American football player
* 1981 – Avy Scott, American pornographic actress
* 1982 – Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
* 1982 – Yunel Escobar, Cuban baseball player
* 1982 – Charles Itandje, French footballer
* 1984 – Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
* 1984 – Julia Stegner, German supermodel
* 1986 – Erika Jo, American musician
* 1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
* 1987 – Danny Cipriani English rugby union player.
* 1988 – Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
* 1989 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer
* 1989 – Luke Schenn, Canadian hockey player

[edit] Deaths

* 943 – Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
* 1083 – Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
* 1285 – King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
* 1327 – King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
* 1483 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
* 1610 – Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
* 1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
* 1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
* 1807 – Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
* 1846 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop (b. 1782)
* 1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
* 1863 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
* 1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
* 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
* 1898 – George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
* 1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
* 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
* 1944 – Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
* 1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
* 1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
* 1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
* 1959 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
* 1960 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
* 1961 – James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
* 1963 – Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
* 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
* 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
* 1970 – Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (b. 1895)
* 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
* 1979 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
* 1982 – Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher (b. 1914)
* 1984 – Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932)
* 1986 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
* 1991 – Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916)
* 1992 – Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
* 1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
* 1998 – Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
* 2002 – Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
* 2002 – Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
* 2003 – Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
* 2004 – Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
* 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
* 2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
* 2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach (b. 1919)
* 2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
* 2007 – Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
* 2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
* 2007 – Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
* 2007 – Henry Cele, South African Actor (b. 1949)

[edit] Holidays and observances

* Mauritius – Indian Arrival Day
* Catholicism and Anglicanism – All Souls Day
* Ancient Latvia – Dveselu Diena held
* Mexico and Ecuador – Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Dia de los Muertos), a celebration of dead ancestors.
* United States – admission day (1889) of North Dakota and South Dakota as 39th and 40th states.
* Rastafari movement – The coronation of Haile Selassie (1930) celebrated
* Brazil and Portugal – Dia de Finados (or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos), a celebration of dead ancestors in the All Souls Day.

[ShiningSilver]

Okay: Let me post my whole thing
(Can't we just post the link... lol)

If anyone wants a clearer view:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_30



August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year.


Events

1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 – Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 – HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 – Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1896 – Eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – Battle of Tannenberg.
1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1956 – Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 – Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1974 – A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 – Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.


Births

1334 – Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 – Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1768 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1813 – Princess Mathilde of Bavaria d. 1862
1818 – Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist and revolutionary (d. 1896)
1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
1856 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, British fighter ace (d. 1918)
1893 – Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (d. 1981)
1901 – John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1912 – Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 – Richard Stone, British economist Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1917 – Denis Healey, British politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer
1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1922 – Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
1923 – Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1923 – Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
1923 – Vic Seixas, American tennis player
1924 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1928 – Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1930 – Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1981)
1931 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
1933 – Don Getty, Canadian politician
1934 – Baloo Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1935 – John Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1939 – John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1941 – Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1942 – Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
1943 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1944 – Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1946 – Peggy Lipton, American actress
1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian
1948 – Fred Hampton, Black Panther leader, murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid
1948 – Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1949 – Peter Maffay, German musician
1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
1949 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951 – Dana, Irish singer and politician
1953 – Robin Harris, American comedian (d. 1990)
1953 – Horace Panter, British musician (The Specials and General Public)
1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
1953 – Ron George, American politician
1954 – David Paymer, American actor
1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1958 – Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1959 – Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 – Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
1960 – Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960 – Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1962 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer (d. 2006)
1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor
1963 – Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1964 – Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1966 – Michael Michele, American actress
1967 – Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
1968 – Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1969 – Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1970 – Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972 – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 – Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 – Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1975 – Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 – Lillo Brancato Jr., American actor
1976 – Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player
1977 – Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 – Elden Henson, American actor
1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
1978 – Swizz Beatz, American record producer and rapper
1978 – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1979 – Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 – Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 – Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
1979 – Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1981 – Germán Legarreta, American Actor
1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1982 – Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1983 – Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative
1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 – Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 – Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1985 – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1986 – Ryan Ross, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1988 – Michael Cavanaugh, Professional Gamer
1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1988 – Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer
1991 – Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer (Hull City)


Deaths

526 – Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
1158 – King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1428 – Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
1483 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1723 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 – Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1938 – Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 – Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
1946 – Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
1963 – Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1968 – William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)
1970 – Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
1971 – Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor, (b. 1938)
1994 – Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
1995 – Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2000 – David Haskell, American Actor (b. 1948)
2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 – Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 – Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2007 – Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)


Holidays and observances

Peru – Saint Rose of Lima's Day.
Turkey – Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922).
International Day of the Disappeared
Feast day of Felix and Adauctus

[artik]

"International Day of the Disappeared"

LOL!!

[Qwerty]

We have lots of problems with nonja fighters on that day.

[Mohamad Abd Al Raman]

Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash

[Mohamad Abd Al Raman]

1998 Indianapolis 500 race
1997 STS-84 (Atlantis 19), lands
1997 Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful
1996 "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released
1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement
1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey
1992 Al Unser, Jr. wins Indy 500
1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1992 Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1992 Despite trailing 7-1, New York Yankees tie Milwaukee Brewers and then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game
1990 Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game
1990 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1989 "Indiana Jones and Last Crusade" premieres
1989 A. C. Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona
1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 NHL's New York Rangers fire General Manager and coach Phil Esposito
1989 Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
1989 New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season
1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
1988 Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe
1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
1987 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes
1987 Al Unser, Sr., 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy
1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel
1986 Reginald Huffstetler trode water for 985 hours
1986 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1
1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US
1984 "Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 13 performances
1984 Detroit Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
1983 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria
1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students
1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
1981 Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1980 "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56
1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages
1980 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 2
1979 Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1977 U.S.S.R. President Podgorny resigns
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington D.C.)
1976 Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
1974 Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1972 Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona
1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
1970 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
1969 Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
1968 Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse
1967 AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals
1966 "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 1508 performances
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1964 18th Tony Awards: Luther and Hello Dolly win
1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
1964 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational
1964 Longest HR (471') in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
1962 M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit
1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania
1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
1958 "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 432 performances
1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
1958 UP and International News Service merge into United Press International
1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1954 Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
1954 German airline Lufthansa forms
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1953 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
1951 Racial segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants ruled illegal
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1951 Willie Mays begins playing for New York Giants
1948 Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge
1946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
1940 1st night game at New York's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
1940 1st night game at St. Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
1940 Dutch army demobilizes
1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France
1940 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
1940 New York Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds
1936 Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yankees beat A's 25-2
1935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
1935 Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX)
1934 Colombia and Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
1933 Dmitri Shostakovich's Preludes, premieres in Moscow
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1930 Bradman scores 252* Australia vs. Surrey, 290 minutes, 29 fours
1930 Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
1928 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7
1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4)
1922 Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6 degrees C)
1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 British Legion forms
1918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
1916 Conscription begins in Britain
1916 French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1916 U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1908 Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1908 John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London
1905 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08
1902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
1902 Cleveland's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918
1900 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21
1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State
1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1895 Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
1890 Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany
1890 Geo Train and Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1890 Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
1887 Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors
1884 Anti-Monopoly party and Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and Governor Cleveland
1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die
1879 7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40
1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
1877 5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45
1873 Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris
1870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
1866 Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1861 Alexandria, Virginia occupied by Federal troops
1861 Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1856 Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston
1854 Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in U.S. forms by Prebyts
1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War
1844 Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg)
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is written
1830 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
1824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
1822 Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secures independence of Quito from Spain
1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
1815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
1738 Methodist Church forms
1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1697 English king Willem III travels through northern Europe
1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
1667 French troops attack into Southern Netherlands
1660 English king Charles II visits Netherlands
1658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
1653 German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria
1626 Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
1487 Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
1370 Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV
1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
1153 Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
1086 Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III

[TBP]

I put bold on some of my fave ones. xD Also...look at the 2 that have large fonts

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

* 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
* 710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
* 939 – Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
* 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
* 1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
* 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
* 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
* 1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
* 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
* 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin.
* 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
* 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
* 1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
* 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
* 1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
* 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
* 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
* 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
* 1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
* 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
* 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
* 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
* 1961 – NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
* 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
* 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
* 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
* 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
* 1973 – The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
* 1981 – The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
* 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as Big Bang.
* 1990 – Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
* 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
* 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
* 1994 – The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
* 1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
* 1995 – Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
* 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activates its "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
* 1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
* 2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

Births

* 1156 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
* 1401 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
* 1466 – Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
* 1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
* 1744 – Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
* 1760 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
* 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
* 1811 – Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
* 1811 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
* 1814 – Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
* 1838 – John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
* 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
* 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
* 1854 – Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
* 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
* 1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
* 1873 – Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
* 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
* 1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
* 1894 – Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
* 1896 – Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
* 1904 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
* 1906 – Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
* 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
* 1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
* 1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
* 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
* 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
* 1915 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
* 1917 – Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
* 1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
* 1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress
* 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
* 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
* 1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
* 1922 – Michel Galabru, French actor
* 1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
* 1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
* 1924 – Ruby Dee, American actress
* 1925 – Albert Medwin, American inventor
* 1925 – Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State (1993–1997)
* 1926 – H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
* 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
* 1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
* 1931 – Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
* 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
* 1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
* 1933 – Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
* 1934 – Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
* 1937 – Lara Parker, American actress
* 1939 – John Cleese, British actor and writer
* 1940 – John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
* 1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
* 1941 – Dick Trickle, American auto racer
* 1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer
* 1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor
* 1945 – Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
* 1945 – John Kane, actor/writer
* 1946 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
* 1946 – Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
* 1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
* 1949 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
* 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American writer
* 1951 – K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
* 1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
* 1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
* 1951 – Éric Morena, French singer
* 1952 – Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
* 1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
* 1953 – Peter Firth, British actor
* 1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor
* 1954 – Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
* 1955 – Debra Bowen, American politician
* 1956 – Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
* 1956 – Veronica Hart, American porn actress
* 1957 – Jeff East, American actor
* 1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
* 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
* 1958 – Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
* 1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player
* 1963 – Marla Maples, American actress and model
* 1963 – Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarrist (Die Ärzte)
* 1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
* 1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger
* 1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
* 1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
* 1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer
* 1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
* 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
* 1970 – Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby union player
* 1971 – Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
* 1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
* 1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
* 1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer
* 1972 – Elissa (singer), Lebanese singer
* 1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
* 1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
* 1972 – Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
* 1972 – Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
* 1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
* 1975 – Zadie Smith, British novelist
* 1977 – Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
* 1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
* 1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
* 1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
* 1980 – Cassia Riley, American model
* 1981 – Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
* 1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
* 1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor
* 1982 – Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
* 1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
* 1982 – Keri Hilson, American singer
* 1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
* 1983 – Martin Prado, Major League baseball player (Atlanta Braves)
* 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
* 1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
* 1984 – Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
* 1984 – Bam Doyne, American Basketball player
* 1986 – Matty Pattison, English footballer
* 1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
* 1987 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (Disputed)
* 1987 – Victor Genev, Bulgarian Football Player
* 1989 – Erik Kloeker, American juggler.

Deaths

* 939 – King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
* 1271 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
* 1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
* 1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
* 1331 – Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
* 1430 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
* 1439 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
* 1449 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
* 1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
* 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
* 1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
* 1573 – Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
* 1605 – Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
* 1617 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
* 1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
* 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
* 1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
* 1789 – John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
* 1917 – Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
* 1935 – E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
* 1942 – Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
* 1949 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
* 1949 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
* 1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
* 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
* 1962 – Rudolf Anderson, United States Air Force pilot and officer (b. 1927)
* 1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
* 1975 – Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
* 1977 – James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
* 1980 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
* 1980 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
* 1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
* 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
* 1990 – Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
* 1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
* 1990 – Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
* 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
* 1991 – George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
* 1992 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
* 1996 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
* 1996 – Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
* 1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
* 1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
* 2000 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
* 2002 – Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
* 2003 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
* 2004 – Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
* 2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
* 2006 – Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)

[Qwerty]

* 1364 – Battle of Cascina
* 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
* 1609 – Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English ship Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
* 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
* 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte.
* 1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
* 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
* 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
* 1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
* 1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
* 1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
* 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so were to be immediately executed.
* 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
* 1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
* 1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
* 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
* 1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
* 1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
* 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
* 1996 – Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
* 1997 – Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
* 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
* 2005 – A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
* 2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.

I was born the day WWI started. My mom was born pearl harbor. See what I'm getting at here?

[artik]

Wow. Awesome qwerty.

And TBP R U A MORMON

[-M4-]

Dec 1, 94

Only thing that caught my interest: AIDS officially recognized as a virus.

December first is AIDS day.

[artik]

omfg awesome

[-M4-]

Yeah, it's awesome having your birthday on the same day as one of the worst STD's was discovered.

Why not?

[Qwerty]

Not discovered, exactly. Just officially recognized.