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Old Mar 1st, 2005, 09:49 PM       
Events
752 - Stephen II becomes Pope.
1568 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de Medici and Charles IX of France make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.
1708 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech - "give me liberty or give me death" in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
1806 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1839 - First recorded use of "OK" as an abbreviation for "oll korrect" in the Boston Morning Post.
1857 - Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway, New York City.
1868 - The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1889 - Land run: President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22.
1889 - Free Woolwich Ferry officially opened in east London.
1903 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of the first successful airplane after much hard work.
1909 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1931 - The Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt embrace gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1935 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
1940 - The famous Pakistan Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 - World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Anadaman Islands.
1956 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.
1963 - In London, United Kingdom, Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann win the eighth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Dansevise" (Dancing tune).
1965 - NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1983 - Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1989 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles.
1994 - At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto MartĂ*nez.
1996 - The Republic of China on Taiwan holds its first direct elections for president
1999 - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis Maria Argana.
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
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Births
1699 - John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)
1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1754 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (d. 1802)
1769 - William Smith, geologist/cartographer (d. 1839)
1823 - Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1834 - Julius Reubke, composer (d. 1858)
1878 - Franz Schreker, composer (d. 1934)
1882 - Emmy Noether, mathematician (d. 1935)
1887 - Juan Gris, painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
1887 - Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
1889 - Yukichi Chuganji, oldest man alive on (d. 2003)
1900 - Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst (d. 1980)
1904 - Joan Crawford, actress (d. 1977)
1905 - Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1907 - Daniel Bovet, scientist, 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, film director (d. 1998)
1912 - Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
1915 - Vasily Zaitsev, World War II hero (d. 1991)
1929 - Sir Roger Bannister, athlete, first "Miracle Mile"
1937 - Craig Breedlove, former land speed record holder
1942 - Walter Rodney, historian and political figure (d. 1980)
1949 - Ric Ocasek, musician ("The Cars")
1951 - Corinne Clery, French actress
1952 - Kim Stanley Robinson, science fiction author
1953 - Chaka Khan, singer
1956 - José Manuel Durão Barroso, Portuguese politician, elected president of the European Commission
1968 - Damon Albarn, musician ("Blur")
1971 - Gail Porter, British television presenter
1972 - Judith Godrèche, actress/author
1973 - Jason Kidd, basketball player
1976 - Keri Russell, actress
1978 - Nicholle Tom, actress
1979 - Chad Dittman, President and CEO of the Intense Football League
1979 - Misty Hyman, US swimmer
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Deaths
1548 - Itagaki Nobukata, a retainer of Takeda Shingen
1555 - Pope Julius III, (b. 1487)
1801 - Tsar Paul of Russia, (b. 1754)
1842 - Stendhal, writer, (b. 1783)
1931 - Bhagat Singh Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1907)
1931 - Batukeshwar Dutt Indian Freedom Fighter.
1960 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (b. 1881)
1964 - Peter Lorre, actor, (b. 1904)
1970 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director, (b. 1894)
1979 - Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the United States, (b. 1932)
1983 - Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient
1993 - Hans Werner Richter, author (b. 1908)
2003 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist, (b. 1926)
2004 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
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Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - The fifth and final day of Quinquatria, held in honor of Minerva.
Roman Empire - Tubilustrium was held in honor of Mars
Ancient Latvia - Lieldienas held in honor of Mara and other goddesses
Pakistan - National Day (Republic Day)
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Old Mar 2nd, 2005, 11:30 AM       
December 16th

Events
1689 - The English Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.
1773 - The Boston Tea Party
1960 - A United Airlines DC-8 and a TWA Super-Constellation collide over New York City killing 134
1973 - O.J. Simpson becomes the first player in NFL history to rush for 2000 yards in one season. - wooooo! go bills 32 years ago!
1985 - In New York City, mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead when exiting from Sparks Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family.


Births
1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (d. 1536)
1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (d. 1827)
1775 - Jane Austen, writer (d. 1817)
1790 - King Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)
1917 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer - 1
1927 - Randall Garrett, science fiction writer - 2
1928 - Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer (d. 1982) - 3
1934 - Elgin Baylor, basketball great
1946 - Benny Andersson, Swedish singer, songwriter, ABBA member
1946 - Trevor Pinnock, English conductor, harpsichordist
1961 - Bill Hicks, comedian (d. 1994)

Deaths
714 - Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia (b. 635 or 640)
999 - Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese naval general (at sea) (b. 1453)
1783 - Johann A. Hasse, composer
1783 - William James (naval commander) (b. c. 1720)
1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, folklorist (b. 1786)
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
1921 - Camille Saint-Saëns, composer (b. 1835)
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, first President of Poland (b. 1865)
1928 - Elinor Wylie, writer
1942 - Heinrich Himmler orders that the Roma (gypsy) candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
1945 - Fumimaro Konoye, prince and prime minister of Japan (b. 1891)
1949 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer motion picture director (b. 1873)
1956 - Nina Hamnett, artist (b. 1890)
1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, writer (b. 1874)
1977 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (b. 1934)
1980 - Colonel Harland Sanders, fast food entrepreneur (Kentucky Fried Chicken) (b. 1890)
1980 - Hellmuth Walter, engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
1982 - Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
1985 - Paul Castellano, mafia boss (b. 1915)
1989 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (b. 1925)
1993 - Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (b. 1918)
1996 - Quentin Bell, biographer, author
2003 - Robert Stanfield, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
2003 - Gary Stewart, Country music singer (suicide)
2004 - Ted Abernathy, Major League Baseball player (b. 1933)
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Old Mar 2nd, 2005, 06:01 PM       
September 30th

Events

* 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
* 1452 - First printed book, the Johann Gutenberg Bible.
* 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
* 1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" airs on NBC.
* 1962 - César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
* 1965 - Civil unrest followed a failed c'oup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
* 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago, Illinois area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
* 1982 - The popular TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
* 1997 - Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, the first true massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
* 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo, Japan. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.



Births

* 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Sufi mystic and poet (d. 1273)
* 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
* 1924 - Truman Capote, author (d. 1984)
* 1935 - Johnny Mathis, singer
* 1942 - Frankie Lymon, singer (d.1962)
* 1947 - Marc Bolan, musician (d. 1977)
* 1954 - Barry Williams, actor, The Brady Bunch
* 1982 - Lacey Chabert, actress





Deaths

* 420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
* 1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
* 1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
* 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor
* 1955 - James Dean, American actor
* 1998 - Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (b. 1953)
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Old Mar 12th, 2005, 12:35 PM       
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Events

* 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc relieves Orléans from English siege.
* 1661 - China's Ming Dynasty occupies Taiwan.
* 1672 - Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
* 1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
* 1854 - The Ashmun Institute is officially chartered, becoming the first college for African American students.
* 1861 - American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union
* 1862 - American Civil War: New Orleans falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
* 1903 - A 30,000,000-cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
* 1916 - Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
* 1932 - The radio program One Man's Family debuts.
* 1944 - Dancing Romeo, the last Our Gang film, premiers.
* 1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
* 1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and he designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.
* 1945 - Holocaust: The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
* 1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes.
* 1960 - Payola Scandal: Radio disk jockey Dick Clark denies involvement in the scandal in front of a United States House of Representatives subcommittee.
* 1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
* 1969 - Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
* 1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
* 1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
* 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind - The last American citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end.
* 1988 - Glasnost: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev promises increased religious freedoms.
* 1991 - Richard Cheney gives a speech at the Washington Institute's Soref Symposium explaining why he believed it would have been "a mistake" to invade Iraq.
* 1992 - 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 54 people will be killed and hundreds of buildings will be destroyed.
* 1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
* 2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
* 2004 - Richard Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.



Births

* 1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist (d. 1735)
* 1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (d. 1844)
* 1863 - William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)
* 1879 - Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
* 1885 - Egon Erwin Kisch, journalist and author (d. 1948)
* 1893 - Harold Urey, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (d. 1981)
* 1894 - Paul Hörbiger (d. 1981)
* 1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (d. 1967)
* 1899 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist, bandleader (d. 1974)
* 1901 - Hirohito, Japanese emperor (d. 1989)
* 1907 - Fred Zinnemann, film director (d. 1997)
* 1909 - Tom Ewell, actor (d. 1994)
* 1918 - George Allen, American football coach, Pro Football Hall of Famer (d. 1990)
* 1919 - Celeste Holm, actress
* 1920 - Harold Shapero, composer
* 1929 - Walter Kempowski, author
* 1929 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer
* 1930 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
* 1931 - Frank Auerbach, painter
* 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, musician (d. 2002)
* 1933 - Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister
* 1933 - Rod McKuen, poet, composer
* 1934 - Otis Rush, blues musician
* 1936 - Zubin Mehta, musician
* 1937 - Jill Paton Walsh, writer
* 1942 - Klaus Voormann, illustrator
* 1946 - John Waters, director, writer
* 1947 - Olavo de Carvalho, philosopher
* 1947 - Tommy James, musician
* 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, NASCAR racer (d. 2001)
* 1952 - David Icke, controversial conspiracy writer
* 1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
* 1955 - Kate Mulgrew, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
* 1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
* 1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
* 1958 - Eve Plumb, actress (The Brady Bunch)
* 1960 - Robert J. Sawyer, science fiction writer
* 1964 - Federico Castelluccio, actor
* 1966 - Phil Tufnell, cricketer
* 1967 - Curtis Joseph, NHL goalie
* 1968 - Carnie Wilson, singer
* 1969 - Master P, rap musician, composer, actor, athlete, sports agent
* 1970 - Andre Agassi, tennis player
* 1970 - Uma Thurman, actress



Deaths

* 1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
* 1937 - William Gillette, actor (b. 1853)
* 1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
* 1957 - Belle Baker, American 1920s torch singer, film & tv actress, (b. 1893)
* 1966 - William Eccles, physicist, radio pioneer
* 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director (b. 1899)
* 1997 - Mike Royko, columnist (b. 1932)
* 2003 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

* Catholicism - Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena
* Japan - Greenery Day (public holiday, traditionally the start of the Golden Week holiday period)
* Roman Empire - second day of the Floralia in honor of Flora
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