Wikipedia on Your Birthday

[McClain]

June 22:

Events:

1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe. - BOO!

1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany. (How's that for a Maginot Line reference Schimid, you POS!)

1996 - The Quake computer game is released. - YAY!

Births:

1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934) - YAY!
1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent - YAY!
1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer - YAY!
1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer - YAY!
1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor - FUCKIN A YAY!
1971 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP - BLAH.
1973 - Carson Daly, talk show host, MTV VJ - BOO!

Deaths:

1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor - YAY!
1995 - Al Hansen, artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck - BOOH!
2002 - Ann Landers, columnist - YAY!

[Mad Melvin]

April 4th

Events:

1841 - President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and at one month, the elected president with the shortest term served.

1905 - In India, an earthquake near Kangra kills 370,000

1945 - World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf death camp in Germany

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.

1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.

1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift - A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans. 172 people are killed

1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.

1991 - Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.

1994 - Netscape Communications Corporation is founded (under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation") by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.


Births:

1895 - Shemp Howard, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges
1915 - Muddy Waters, blues musician
1932 - Anthony Perkins, actor
1944 - Craig T. Nelson, actor
1956 - David E. Kelley, writer, television producer
1960 - Hugo Weaving, actor
1965 - Robert Downey Jr., actor
1970 - Barry Pepper, actor
1973 - David Blaine, illusionist


Deaths:

1841 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States
1968 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist, minister
1983 - Gloria Swanson, actress (b. 1897)
1987 - C.L. Moore, science fiction writer
1994 - Kurt Cobain, Rock Star, lead singer of Nirvana

[Sergeant_Tibbs]

April 17th

Events

1861 - American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the Union.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina begins - Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.

1865 - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

1895 - The Treaty of Maguan (also as "Treaty of Shimonoseki") was signed between China and Japan.

1941 - World War II: Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.

1942 - POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.

1945 - In Strassfurt, Germany, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash seizes half a ton of uranium, in an attempt to foil Soviet Union plans to build an atomic bomb.

1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion begins: A group of CIA-financed and -trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

1964 - Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.

1969 - Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

1970 - Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.

1975 - Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.

1984 - WPC Yvonne Fletcher is killed by automatic gunfire fire from Libyan People's Bureau in central London. She had been policing a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten other people are wounded. The events lead to an 11 day siege of the building.

1991 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever (3,004.46).

2002 - Four Canadian infantrymen are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. F-16s.

Births
1598 - Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
1863 - Augustus Edward Hough Love, mathematician (d. 1940)
1882 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
1885 - Isak Dinesen, Danish author (d. 1962)
1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician and Premier 1958-1964 (d. 1971)
1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
1915 - Joe Foss, soldier, politician (d. 2003)
1917 - Bill Clements, governor of Texas
1918 - William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
1923 - Lindsay Anderson, director (d. 1994)
1923 - Harry Reasoner, journalist (d. 1991)
1948 - Jan Hammer, composer
1964 - Maynard James Keenan, Frontman of the band Tool

Deaths
487 - Proclus, Neoplatonic philosopher (b. 412)
1790 - Benjamin Franklin, politician, inventor, diplomat, printer (b. 1706)
1799 - Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728)
1843 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
1942 - Jean Perrin physicist (b. 1870)
1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher (b. 1888)
2003 - Dr. Robert Atkins, developed the Atkins Nutritional Approach

[ziggytrix]

Cool, I need to invite Norman Schwarzkopf, Ray Bradbury, and Tori Amos to my next birthday party. We can all go in on a splendid cake.

[sspadowsky]

April 30th

* 1492 - Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
* 1789 - On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office becoming the first elected President of the United States.
* 1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation overnight.
* 1812 - The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Jenkin's Ferry - Retreating Union troops led by General Frederick Steele repel Confederate forces under General Edmund Kirby Smith.
* 1900 - Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
* 1900 - Casey Jones dies attempting to save the runaway train Cannonball Express.
* 1904 - Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in Saint Louis, Missouri.
* 1904 - The ice cream cone makes its debut.
* 1927 - The Federal Industrial Institute for Women, opens in Alderson, West Virginia as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
* 1938 - The cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt, debuts in movie theaters, introducing Bugs Bunny.
* 1939 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to appear on television.
* 1939 - The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
* 1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.
* 1945 - The morning radio program Arthur Godfrey Time starring Arthur Godfrey debuts. (He helped Lenny Bruce get his start)
* 1948 - The Land Rover is unveiled at the Amsterdam Auto Show, thus providing self-important pricks in Hollywood with something to drive.
* 1966 - Anton LaVey founds the Church of Satan. \m/ \m/
* 1973 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
* 1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops occupy Saigon, ending the war.
* 1983 - Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" hits number 1 on the Billboard music charts.
* 1988 - In Dublin, Ireland, Céline Dion wins the thirty-third Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland singing "Ne partez pas sans moi" (Don't leave without me).
* 1991 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 125,000 people.
* 1992 - The last episode of the Cosby Show airs.
* 1993 - CERN announces that the World Wide Web will be free to everyone.
* 1993 - During a changeover at a tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany, Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by a deranged fan of rival Steffi Graf. Seles would not play competitively for more than two years after the incident.
* 1999 - NATO membership expands by approving the admission of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (the nations will be formally admitted following NATO's 50th anniversary summit next April). NATO aircraft destroy the Belgrade-Azala Tower.
* 1999 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
* 1999 - Neo-nazi bomber David Copeland detonates his third bomb in front of the Admiral Duncan pub and is arrested the night after.
* 2001 - Dennis Tito, the first space tourist in space lifts off in a Russian rocket heading for the International Space Station.
* 2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years.
* 2004 - The last edition of NPR's Morning Edition with Bob Edwards as host airs.

Births

* 1602 - William Lilly, astrologer (d. 1681)
* 1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
* 1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist (d. 1855)
* 1867 - Burton Mossman, Arizona Ranger (d. 1956)
* 1870 - Franz Lehár, composer (d. 1948)
* 1877 - Alice B. Toklas, muse (d. 1967)
* 1883 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
* 1889 - Ellis Wilson, artist
* 1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
* 1898 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., reporter, columnist, author, lecturer
* 1908 - Eve Arden, actress, also listed as 1912 (d. 1990)
* 1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
* 1910 - Al Lewis, actor (The Munsters)
* 1911 - Luise Rinser, narrator (d. 2002)
* 1916 - Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory (d. 2001)
* 1916 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)
* 1926 - Cloris Leachman, actress (Oscar winner, 1971) also listed as 1930
* 1929 - Klausjürgen Wussow, actor
* 1933 - Willie Nelson, country musician, composer, actor
* 1938 - Gary Collins, actor
* 1938 - Larry Niven, science fiction author
* 1940 - Burt Young, actor
* 1941 - Johnny Farina, guitarist (Santo and Johnny)
* 1943 - Bobby Vee, singer
* 1944 - Jill Clayburgh, actress
* 1944 - Richard Schoff, singer (The Sandpipers)
* 1945 - Annie Dillard, poet, essayist, novelist
* 1946 - King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden
* 1946 - Don Schollander, Olympic gold medalist in swimming
* 1946 - Ulla Hahn, lyricist
* 1948 - Perry King, actor (Riptide, bitches)
* 1949 - Rand Noël, astrologer, philosopher
* 1953 - Marie Osmond, singer (The Osmonds)
* 1955 - Nicolas Hulot, journalist, author
* 1961 - Isiah Thomas, basketball player, coach, owner
* 1964 - Barrington Levy, reggae and dancehall musician
* 1967 - Turbo B, rapper (Snap)
* 1969 - Clark Vogeler, rock guitarist (The Toadies)
* 1972 - J.R. Richards, singer (Dishwalla)
* 1973 - Jeff Timmons, R&B singer (98 Degrees)
* 1975 - Elliott Sadler, NASCAR driver
* 1978 - Tom Fulp, computer artist, creator and owner of Newgrounds
* 1982 - Kirsten Dunst, actress

Deaths

* 65 - Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
* 1341 - John III of Dreux, Duke of Brittany
* 1847 - Archduke Charles, Austrian general
* 1865 - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)
* 1875 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer and cartographer (b. 1766)
* 1883 - Édouard Manet, impressionist painter (b. 1832)
* 1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, poet (b. 1859)
* 1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
* 1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (suicide)
* 1956 - Alben W. Barkley, former Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)
* 1970 - Inger Stevens, actress (b. 1934)
* 1974 - Agnes Moorehead, actress (b. 1900)
* 1981 - Peter Huchel, German poet
* 1982 - Lester Bangs, music journalist, author, musician (b. 1949)
* 1983 - George Balanchine, dancer, choreographer (b. 1904)
* 1983 - Muddy Waters, blues musician (b. 1915)
* 1989 - Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)
* 2003 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, 3-time Asia-Pacific Rally champion
* 2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist

[Rongi]

March 28

Events
845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1776 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1834 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States.
1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declare war on Russia.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1920 - Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pickford marry.
1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid, ending the war.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - In the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers.
1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1947 - The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio.
1964 - The first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, is established.
1978 - US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
1990 - President George H. W. Bush presents Jesse Owens with the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg resulting in eighteen deaths.
2002 - The exhibit "The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art" opens at the National Gallery of Australia.
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Births
1569 - Ranuccio Farnese I, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1760 - Thomas Clarkson, anti-slavery campaigner
1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (d. 1891)
1862 - Aristide Briand, politician, winner of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (d. 1932)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, author (d. 1936)
1878 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
1890 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
1895 - Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)
1897 - Sepp Herberger, football coach (d. 1977)
1899 - Harold B. Lee, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
1902 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
1904 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (d. 1985)
1905 - Marlin Perkins, naturalist, television host (d. 1986)
1914 - Edmund Muskie, United States politician (d. 1996)
1921 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (d. 1999)
1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (d. 1992)
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor
1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, author and politician
1941 - Jim Turner, American football player
1942 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman
1944 - Rick Barry, basketball player
1948 - Dianne Weist, actress
1955 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian alpine skier
1968 - Iris Chang, author (d. 2004)
1970 - Vince Vaughn, actor
1974 - Mark King, English snooker player
1977 - Devon, pornographic film actress( I saw a porno with her in it once )
1981 - Julia Stiles, actress

Deaths
193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassination) (b. 126)
1285 - Pope Martin IV (b. c. 1210)
1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (b. 1743)
1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1837)
1941 - Virginia Woolf, writer (b. 1882)
1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist (b. 1873)
1953 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (b. 1887)
1958 - W.C. Handy - Blues composer (b. 1873)
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. General of the Army, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
1979 - Emmett Kelly, clown (b. 1898)
1987 - Maria von Trapp, singer
1994 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (b. 1912)
2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)

[Sam]

Events
1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
1837 - First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

Births
1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter
1901 - Zeppo Marx, actor (d. 1979)
1917 - Anthony Burgess, author (d. 1993)
1935 - Sally Jessy Raphael, talk show host
1943 - George Harrison, musician (d. 2001)
1971 - Sean Astin, actor

Deaths
1983 - Tennessee Williams, playwright (b. 1911)

[Anonymous]

look, you fags, you're supposed to just take out the bits that anyone could possibly care about, not just dump the data. no-one but you and arrowx is gonna read that shit.

so the only thing i learned is that i share a birthday with the lead singer of rammstein ;<

[Zbu Manowar]

Events

* 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mocked them.
* 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
* 1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.
* 1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America killed a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* 1709 - Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
* 1758 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
* 1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of the Ristigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
* 1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
* 1859 - King Charles XV / Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway
* 1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
* 1889 - During the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds.
* 1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech, Chicago.
* 1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
* 1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
* 1997 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
* 1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
* 1999 - Allen Lee Davis executed by electrocution by the state of Florida. Last use of the Electric Chair for capital punishment in Florida.
* 2003 - Wikipedia introduces its Hebrew (http://he.wikipedia.org/) and Hungarian (http://hu.wikipedia.org/) versions

[edit]

Births

* 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, painter (d. 1651)
* 1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, fablist
* 1760 - Christian Kramp, mathematician.
* 1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, naval officer and explorer
* 1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
* 1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor of rigid dirigibles (d. 1917)
* 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, capitalist, founder of Standard Oil (d. 1937)
* 1851 - Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
* 1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, painter and graphic artist (d. 1945)
* 1882 - Percy Grainger, composer (d. 1961)
* 1885 - Ernst Bloch, philosopher (d. 1977)
* 1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
* 1908 - Louis Jordan, singer, saxophonist (d. 1975)
* 1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, United States vice president during Gerald Ford's presidency (d. 1979)
* 1918 - Craig Stevens, actor (d. 2000)
* 1919 - Walter Scheel, politician
* 1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
* 1932 - Barbara Loden, actress
* 1933 - Marty Feldman, comedian, actor
* 1935 - Steve Lawrence, entertainer, singer
* 1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
* 1941 - Dario Gradi, football manager
* 1942 - Phil Gramm, politician
* 1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, member of the Swiss Federal Council
* 1951 - Anjelica Huston, actress
* 1958 - Kevin Bacon, actor
* 1961 - Andy Fletcher, musician (Depeche Mode)
* 1961 - Toby Keith, country music singer
* 1968 - Billy Crudup, actor
* 1970 - Beck, rock and roll singer
* 1972 - Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricket player
* 1975 - Kathleen Robertson, actress
* 1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
* 1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish international footballer
* 1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player

[edit]

Deaths

* 975 - King Edgar of England
* 1153 - Pope Eugene III
* 1623 - Pope Gregory XV
* 1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
* 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (b. 1792)
* 1826 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, only a few days after both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. (The two died on July 4, 1826.)
* 1850 - Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge
* 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden-Norway
* 1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer during the Civil War. (b. 1934)
* 1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter
* 1933 - Anthony Hope, author ("The Prisoner of Zenda")
* 1939 - Havelock Ellis, physician, psychologist (b. 1859)
* 1943 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II
* 1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist
* 1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (1923-1929), wife to Calvin Coolidge.
* 1959 - Major Dale R. Buis, US Army, first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam.
* 1986 - Skeeter Webb, Professional baseball Player (b. 1909)
* 1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete
* 1990 - Howard Duff, actor
* 1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader
* 2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand Director (b. 1920)
* 2002 - Ward Kimball, Disney animator
* 2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian twins died after an unsuccessful separation operation
* 2004 - Paula Danziger, author

Make of it what you will. And what the fuck is the Feast Day of St. Grimbald?

[Rongi]

not howard duff!

that is to say...who the fuck is howard duff?

[McClain]

Originally Posted by ssfagowsky

* 1978 - Tom Fulp, computer artist, creator and owner of Newgrounds

Damn. Someone should let that dude know he's now a significant part of American History. Rog, aren't you and Fulp tight like braids? Holla' at ya' boy.

[executioneer]

1865 - Rudyard Kipling, writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1907 (d. 1936)
1920 - Jack Lord, actor (d. 1998)
1942 - Michael Nesmith, singer, musician (The Monkees)
1945 - Davy Jones, singer (The Monkees)
1959 - Tracey Ullman, actress, singer
1975 - Tiger Woods, golfer

[rockets redglare]

Sept. 25

Births
1897 - William Faulkner, novelist (d. 1962)
1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author (d. 1999)
1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster
1951 - Mark Hamill, actor
1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor (d. 2004)
1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model
1965 - Scottie Pippen, basketball star
1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper

And the coup de grace...
1944 - Michael Douglas, actor, producer and
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress

[Jeanette X]

April 25:

1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published.
1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1846 - Mexican-American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries.
1859 - Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.
1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mark's Mills - Confederate forces seize a Union wagon supply train on its way to Camden, Arkansas forcing Union General Frederick Steele to withdraw his troops to Little Rock, Arkansas.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21.
1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland (lasts until April 29 - the end of the rebellion).
1945 - World War II: United States and Russian troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two.
1945 - The United Nations is organized in San Francisco, California, by 50 nations.
1959 - The first person now known to have AIDS enters a hospital.
1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1974 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.
1975 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1980 - A commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops were killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1990 - Space Shuttle program: STS-31 - Astronauts aboard the Discovery deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
1993 - 300,000 homosexuals march on Washington, DC demanding freedom from discrimination.

Births
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, statesman (d. 1658) :/
1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (d. 1893)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 (d. 1937)
1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1945 (d. 1958)
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (d. 1996)
1940 - Al Pacino, actor
1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer, songwriter, ABBA member
1964 - Hank Azaria, actor, voice actor
1969 - Renée Zellweger, actress

Deaths
1995 - Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer (b. 1911)
2002 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, singer (b. 1971)

[DeadKennedys]

April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar

Events

753 BC - Romulus founds Rome (traditional).
1918 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron," is shot down and killed by Allied fire over Vaux sur Somme in France.
1944 - Women in France receive the right to vote
1953 - Roy Cohn and G. David Schine, two of Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief aides, recommend the removal of 30,000 books from the libraries of the United States Information Service posts in Europe, including works by Dashiell Hammett, W. E. B. Du Bois, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck and Henry David Thoreau, calling them "pro-Communist".
1989 - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the late Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1994 - The first discovery of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.

Births

1864 - Max Weber, economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
1926 - Queen Elizabeth II
1947 - Iggy Pop, musician

Deaths

1910 - Mark Twain, author, humorist (b. 1835)
1977 - Gummo Marx, actor, comedian, Marx Brothers (b. 1892)



Damn, my birthday kicks ass!

[Ninjavenom]

Barry White was born on my birthday, and John Ritter and Johnny Cash died on it.

[Supafly345]

1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I with Germany.
1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 - Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.

Births
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter (d. 1640) Were you all like "OMG its Peewee" too?
1926 - Mel Brooks, filmmaker
1932 - Pat Morita, actor (I totally win)
1948 - Kathy Bates, actress
1966 - John Cusack, actor

Deaths
1836 - James Madison, president of the US (b. 1751)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassination)

Holidays and observances
The only date with only perfect numbers (6 and 28). You will never know the honor.

[McClain]

Yo... Janette X, I'll trade you a Cindy Lauper birth and a Fred Astaire death for your Al Pacino birth? Hell, I'll throw in a Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Republic AND the largest recorded hailstone to fall from a thunderstorm EVER!

[fungusamongus]

February 17

Events

* 1974 - Robert Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
* 1992 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
* 1995 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
* 1996 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.


Births

* 1934 - Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson), Australian actor, comedian
* 1942 - Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party
* 1954 - Rene Russo, American actress
* 1963 - Michael Jordan, basketball star
* 1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong, musician (Green Day)
* 1972 - Denise Richards, actress
* 1974 - Jerry O'Connell, actor
* 1978 - Jacob Wetterling, kidnapping victim (missing since 1989)
* 1980 - Jason Ritter, American actor
* 1981 - Paris Hilton, actress and heiress to the Hilton Hotel chain


Deaths

* 1982 - Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist (b. 1917)

[Rongi]

wow, billy joe is way too old to be a punk now

[Anonymous]

that can't be right, he's only a few years older than me ;<

[Rongi]

the acceptable age for being a punk is 18-30. After that it's like "quit complaining grandpa jeez "

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by McClain

Yo... Janette X, I'll trade you a Cindy Lauper birth and a Fred Astaire death for your Al Pacino birth? Hell, I'll throw in a Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Republic AND the largest recorded hailstone to fall from a thunderstorm EVER!

Done! Fred Astaire will match up perfectly with my Ginger Rodgers!

[McClain]

Excellent! Now that I've acquired Pacino, my gang is assembled! Next stop: WORLD DOMINATION!

John Dillinger, Al Pacino, Bruce Campbell, Ed Bradley (he's the unassuming member, but the one most likely to snap!) and of course, Yours Truly. No one will see us coming!

We'll call our gang the June 22nd Posse and we'll hang out in a barber shop!

[timrpgland]

March 8th

Events
1782 - Gnadenhutten massacre: Pennsylvania militiamen kill 93 Native Americans in Ohio.
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway
1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1906 - Moro Crater Massacre: US troops occupying the Philippines massacre about 600 men, women and children taking refuge in a crater.
1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1936 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1942 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma.
1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that will last five days.
1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
1950 - The Soviet Union claims to have an atomic bomb.
1959 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery
1961 - Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes setting a new world record.
1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in the first of three epic bouts. Frazier defends the world Heavyweight title in a star-studded Madison Square Garden.
1972 - The Goodyear blimp flies for the first time.
1983 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an evil empire.
1988 - Two United States Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky killing 17 servicemen.
1999 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh.
2004 - A new, democratically-founded constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.

Births
1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, composer, not to be confused with his father Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1788)
1783 - Hannah Van Buren, would-be First Lady of the United States (d. 1819)
1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, actress and martial artist
1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor
1961 - Camryn Manheim, actress (The Practice)
1970 - Jason Elam, American football player
1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., actor
1977 - James Van Der Beek, actor
1982 - Timothy Wilson, gamer

Deaths
1144 - Pope Celestine II
1702 - King William III of England, (b. 1650)
1841 - King Charles XIV / Carl III of Sweden-Norway, (b. 1763)
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, (b. 1800)
1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, (b. 1857)
1973 - Ron Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful Dead, (b. 1945)
1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz musician, (b. 1914)
1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football star
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Hall of Famer, (b. 1914)