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What Events Happened on Your Birthday?

Hotplay007
in The Lounge

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Type in your date of birth (i.e. December 5) to find out what events happened on that day! :dance:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

AND LIST THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS. Not the ones you have no clue about. :P

 

It can be anything from

 

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays

etc. etc. etc.

 

 

These are the ones I know that was born on my birthday:

 

Events:

1831 - Former President John Quincy Adams took his seat as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

1901 - Movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago

 

 

Births:

1969 - Morgan J. Freeman, American film direct

1985 - Frankie Muniz, Actor ("Malcolm in the Middle")

1782 - Martin Van Buren, Eighth President of the United States (1837-41)

1932 - Little Richard, Rock singer, musician

 

Deaths:

1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)

1973 - Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, inventor of radar (b. 1892)

1977 - Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet military commander (b. 1895)

1991 - Richard Speck, American mass murderer (b. 1941)

1998 - Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)

I was born :dozey:

 

Ehem.

 

WHAT HAPPENED ON MY BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 29!:

 

 

 

 

Events

 

* 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

* 1189 - Ban Kulin wrote The Charter of Kulin, which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.

* 1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.

* 1475 - The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England.

* 1498 - Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.

* 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.

* 1526 - Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

* 1533 - Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadores.

* 1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.

* 1655 - Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.

* 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.

* 1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.

* 1825 - Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.

* 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.

* 1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.

* 1842 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

* 1861 - American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

* 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run

* 1869 - The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

* 1871 - Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).

* 1882 - Is the date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of The Ashes. This is the date according to the mock obituary in The Sporting Times.

* 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.

* 1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.

* 1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded.

* 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.

* 1910 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.

* 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

* 1915 - US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.

* 1918 - Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive

* 1922 - Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna, in Asia Minor.

* 1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

* 1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy;Germany dissolves Danish government.

* 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

* 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

* 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

* 1966 - The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

* 1970 - Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.

* 1982 - The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

* 1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

* 1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

* 1996 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

* 1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

* 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.

* 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.

* 2007 - A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.

 

[edit] Births

 

* 1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)

* 1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)

* 1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)

* 1694 - Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)

* 1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)

* 1728 - Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)

* 1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)

* 1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)

* 1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)

* 1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)

* 1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)

* 1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician (d. 1894)

* 1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)

* 1811 - Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888)

* 1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)

* 1844 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)

* 1862 - Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)

* 1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel laureate (d. 1949)

* 1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)

* 1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)

* 1876 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)

* 1898 - Preston Sturges, American filmmaker (d. 1959)

* 1901 - Aurel Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)

* 1905 - Werner Forssmann, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)

* 1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)

* 1912 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer

* 1912 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)

* 1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)

* 1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)

* 1916 - Luther Davis, American playwright

* 1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)

* 1920 - Charlie Parker, American musician (d. 1955)

* 1923 - Richard Attenborough, English film director

* 1923 - Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)

* 1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)

* 1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)

* 1926 - María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer

* 1928 - Charles Gray, English actor (d. 2000)

* 1929 - Thom Gunn, British poet (d. 2004)

* 1930 - Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (d. 2006)

* 1931 - Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)

* 1931 - Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist

* 1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor

* 1935 - William Friedkin, American film director

* 1936 - John McCain, American politician

* 1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey

* 1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor

* 1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director

* 1940 - Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)

* 1941 - Robin Leach, English television host

* 1942 - James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)

* 1942 - John Heuser, Electron Microscopist, Washington University in Saint Louis

* 1945 - Wyomia Tyus, American athlete

* 1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper

* 1947 - James Hunt, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1993)

* 1950 - Doug DeCinces, American baseball player

* 1950 - Dave Reichert, American politician and former sheriff

* 1952 - Karen Hesse, American children's writer

* 1952 - Dave Malone, American rock guitarist

* 1953 - James Quesada, Nicaraguan-American anthropologist

* 1954 - Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American science fiction novelist

* 1955 - Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist

* 1956 - GG Allin, American rock singer

* 1957 - Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey

* 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer, dancer and composer

* 1958 - Lenny Henry, British comic

* 1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer

* 1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor

* 1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, Member of the Kennedy Family

* 1959 - Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut

* 1959 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress

* 1960 - Tony MacAlpine, American shred guitarist

* 1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player

* 1962 - Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer

* 1962 - Carl Banks, American Football Player

* 1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer

* 1965 - Dina Spybey, American actress

* 1967 - Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)

* 1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer

* 1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player

* 1971 - Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player

* 1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress

* 1972 - Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor

* 1973 - Adam Sessler, American TV show host

* 1973 - Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist

* 1974 - Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer

* 1975 - Dante Basco, Filipino-American actor

* 1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer

* 1976 - Kevin Kaesviharn, National Football League player

* 1976 - Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player

* 1976 - Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer

* 1977 - John Patrick O'Brien, American soccer player

* 1977 - Aaron Rowand, American baseball player

* 1977 - Devean George, American basketball player

* 1977 - Roy Oswalt, American baseball player

* 1977 - Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian

* 1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer

* 1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist

* 1979 - Ryan Shealy, American baseball player

* 1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician(Simple Plan)

* 1980 - Chris Simms, American football player

* 1980 - David West, American basketball player

* 1980 - Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor

* 1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian adult actress

* 1981 - Geneviève Jeanson, Quebec bicycle racer

* 1981 - Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor

* 1982 - A+, American rapper

* 1982 - Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player

* 1985 - Pouyan Afkary, Iranian-American musician (Scary Kids Scaring Kids)

* 1985 - Jeffrey Licon, American actor

* 1986 - Lauren Collins, Canadian actress

* 1987 - Tony Kane, Irish footballer

* 1990 - Sam Stern, English Chef / Author

* 1992 - Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter

 

[edit] Deaths

 

* 886 - Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)

* 1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)

* 1123 - King Eystein I of Norway (b. ca. 1088)

* 1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)

* 1442 - John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)

* 1526 - King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)

* 1542 - Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (born c. 1516)

* 1657 - John Lilburne, English dissenter

* 1712 - Gregory King, English statistician (b. 1648)

* 1769 - Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher (b. 1672)

* 1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)

* 1799 - Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)

* 1844 - Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)

* 1856 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)

* 1877 - Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler (b. 1801)

* 1889 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)

* 1891 - Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)

* 1904 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1840)

* 1930 - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)

* 1931 - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder

* 1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)

* 1966 - Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)

* 1968 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)

* 1972 - Lale Andersen, German singer (b. 1905)

* 1975 - Eamon de Valera, first Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (b. 1882)

* 1976 - Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)

* 1976 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)

* 1977 - Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)

* 1981 - Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (b. 1892)

* 1982 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)

* 1984 - Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)

* 1987 - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)

* 1987 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)

* 1989 - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)

* 1992 - Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)

* 1995 - Frank Perry, American film director (b. 1930)

* 2000 - Willie Maddren, English former footballer (b. 1951)

* 2001 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)

* 2002 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)

* 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b.1939)

* 2003 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)

* 2003 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)

* 2004 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)

* 2007 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)

* 2007 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)

* 2007 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)

* 2007 - James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)

 

[edit] Holidays and observances

 

* Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholic Church commemorate the beheading of John the Baptist with a feast day.

* Slovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day (1944, against the Nazis).

* The first day of Thoth - which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.

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lmao, do you really have to post EVERYTHING!? :laugh3:

 

 

HO SNAP, john mccain was born on that day!! lol

Yes, I REALLY, REALLY had to post EVERYTHING!

 

I also share my birthday with Micheal Jackson.

April 14th (1993, just to boast about how young I am compared to some of you old people :P)

 

1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.

1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

1912 - The British passenger liner Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives.

1915 - The Turks invade Armenia.

2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.

 

Mostly bad things. :dozey:

December 17th...

 

EVENTS:

1718 - Great Britain declares war on Spain.

1819 - Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).

1973 - Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport.

1989 - The longest-running American sitcom The Simpsons had its debut. :P

 

BIRTHS:

1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer

1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist

1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer

1927 - Richard Long, American actor

1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor

1949 - Paul Rodgers, English singer

1958 - Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M.)

1961 - Sara Dallin, English singer (Bananarama)

1964 - Ginger, English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)

1967 - Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and musician woot :lol:

1968 - Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver

1992 - Thomas Law, British Actor

2007 - James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

 

DEATHS:

1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations

1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist

 

Holidays and observances:

* International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

* Roman festivals – Saturnalia, in honor of Saturn, began

* USA – Wright Brothers Day (by Presidential Proclamation)

 

 

bah :dozey: my b-day's boring

1987 - Nicklas Backstrom, Swedish ice hockey player

 

23rd november

 

my exact date of birth

 

 

nice

 

:dozey:

  • 1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.

 

and a lot of other random events

Events

[edit] Births

 

 

 

[edit] Deaths

 

[edit] Holidays and observances

 

Events

[edit] Births

 

 

 

[edit] Deaths

 

[edit] Holidays and observances

 

same as alfredo :P

This year must be lucky for me coz my birthday date in this year is 08-08-2008

well and 8 is a lucky number as some people say though i don't believe it :)

 

Nothing Special 8th august

 

1863 - American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).

1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

1918 - World War I: Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines.

1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

HITLER COMMITTED SUICIDE.

 

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It snowed the day I was born.. now normally that would not be so strange. But considering I was born in the UK on June the 1st its a bit bizzare... I dont know what I am here for...

same as alfredo :P

First post was for Lore and the second one was for me:P

^^Bart, that's so cool!:cool: That's gotta be really, really rare! Here, we did have snow once in June, and once in July even.. but those are very rare as well!! So, you're special because the Weather Gods recognized you as important!:smug:

I was born on election day here in the US.

 

Events:

1932 - German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

1933 - Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).

1941 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.

 

Births:

1975 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player

1992 - HotPlay007

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First post was for Lore and the second one was for me:P

 

but.....

 

 

does the DOES THE ENTIRE PAGE LITERALLY have to be copy and pasted?? take the important thing (the people who you've heard of) and put them in.;)

Events

September 9

 

1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.

1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.

1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.

1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.

1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.

1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.

1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.

1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.

1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.

1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.

1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).

1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.

1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.

1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.

1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.

1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.

1965 - Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.

1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana.

1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

1971 - The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.

1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.

2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.

2004 - 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

 

Births

214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)

384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)

1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)

1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)

1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)

1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)

1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)

1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)

1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)

1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)

1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)

1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)

1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)

1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)

1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)

1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)

1853 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)

1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)

1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)

1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)

1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)

1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)

1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)

1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)

1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)

1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)

1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)

1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)

1898 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)

1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)

1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)

1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)

1899 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensics League (d. 1979)

1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer

1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)

1905 - Hussain Sha - Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram

1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)

1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)

1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)

1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)

1919 - Gottfried Dienst, German football referee

1920 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher

1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)

1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)

1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer

1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)

1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)

1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)

1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor

1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric

1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)

1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)

1930 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord

1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress

1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor

1935 - Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author

1939 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor

1939 - Ron McDole, American football player

1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer

1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)

1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist

1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer

1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor

1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer

1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)

1946 - Doug Ingle, Vocalist

1947 - David Rosenboom, American composer

1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician

1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player

1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator

1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician

1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer

1952 - Angela Cartwright, actress

1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)

1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)

1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor

1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator

1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist

1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer

1959 - Eric Serra, French composer

1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor

1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur

1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach

1963 - Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager

1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player

1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger

1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian

1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor

1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)

1967 - B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player

1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer

1968 - Francois Botha, South African boxer

1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter

1968 - Julia Sawalha, English actress

1968 - Clive Mendonca, English Footballer

1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress

1969 - Constance Marie, American actress

1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress

1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician

1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist

1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player

1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader

1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player

1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor

1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player

1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer

1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)

1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army

1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician

1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor

1976 - Emma de Caunes, French film actress

1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer

1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)

1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor

1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer

1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer

1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)

1977 - Kyle Snyder, Major League Baseball pitcher

1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, Major League Baseball pitcher

1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player

1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player

1979 - Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer

1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player

1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress

1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress

1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter

1983 - Kyle Davies, American baseball player

1983 - Edwin Jackson, Major League Baseball pitcher

1983 - Sam Hollenbach, National Football League quarterback

1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer

1984 - James Hildreth, English Cricketer

1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player

1985 - Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer

1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer

1986 - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player

1986 - Michael Bowden, American baseball player

1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer

1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress

2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

but.....

 

 

does the DOES THE ENTIRE PAGE LITERALLY have to be copy and pasted?? take the important thing (the people who you've heard of) and put them in.;)

 

 

Well,it was not supose to be like that,but when I press submit I did not realize that.And in my defense let me tell you that is not the entire page:P

Just a few highlights...

 

March 24

 

Events

1923 -- Greece becomes a republic

1958 -- Elvis Presley officially inducted into the US Army

1989 (my actual date of birth) -- Exxon Valdez oil spill; the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels of petroleum after running aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound

2008 -- Bhutan becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election

 

Births

1874 -- Harry Houdini (Hungarian-born magician)

1893 -- George Sisler (American baseball player)

1902 -- Thomas E. Dewey (American politician)

1911 -- Joseph Barbera (American cartoonist)

1924 -- Norman Fell (American actor)

1930 -- Steve McQueen (American actor)

1951 -- Tommy Hilfiger (American fashion designer)

1954 -- Donna Pescow (American actress)

1960 -- Nena (German pop singer)

1962 -- Star Jones Reynolds (American TV personality)

1970 -- Lara Flynn Boyle (American actress), Mike Vanderjagt (Canadian [NFL] football player)

1974 -- Alyson Hannigan (American actress)

1976 -- Peyton Manning (American [NFL] football player)

1979 -- Graeme Swann (English cricketer; I felt bad for only mentioning Americans :))

1982 -- Corey Hart (American baseball player)

1983 -- T.J. Ford (American basketball player)

1984 -- Chris Bosh (American basketball player)

1990 -- Keisha Castle-Hughes (Australian-born New Zealand actress)

 

Deaths

1455 -- Pope Nicholas V

1603 -- Queen Elizabeth I of England

1882 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American author)

1905 -- Jules Verne (French author)

 

Holidays/Observances

Labour Day (Melbourne, Australia)

World Tuberculosis Day (oh, fantasic :shocked2:)

 

Also, March 24 used to be the 365th day of the year in "many European implementations of the Julian calendar". Neat-o! :D

The greatest possible event:

 

 

I WAS BORN!

 

 

 

 

 

;)

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Well,it was not supose to be like that,but when I press submit I did not realize that.And in my defense let me tell you that is not the entire page:P

 

Hahahahaha, well i was exaggerating. lol, it's ok, it's just making the pages look.... a bit junkie. :confused:

1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.

1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly, and some tens of thousands died in subsequent years due to burns and radiation poisoning.

1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.

1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.

1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.

2001 - White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks.

 

1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)

1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)

1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born American film director

1972 - Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)

1976 - Soleil Moon Frye, American actress

1982 - Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality

1983 - Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer

1990 - Jon Benet Ramsey, Murdered child model (d. 1996)

 

And Robin Cook died, too.

My birthday is on January 1st, No i'm not a new years baby i was born 5:10 am.

 

prepare..many things have happened on the first.

 

Events

 

* 153 BC - Roman consuls begin their year in office.

* 45 BC - The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.

* 404 - The last known gladiatorial competition in Rome takes place.

* 630 - The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly.

* 1001 - Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Silvester II.

* 1259 - Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.

* 1438 - Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.

* 1515 - King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.

* 1527 - Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.

* 1600 - Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.

* 1651 - Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.

* 1673 - Regular mail service begins between New York and Boston.

* 1700 - Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.

* 1707 - John V is crowned King of Portugal.

* 1739 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.

* 1772 - The first traveler's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London.

* 1781 - 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781.

* 1788 - First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.

* 1797 - Albany replaces Kingston as the capital of New York State.

* 1800 - The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.

* 1801 - The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

* 1801 - The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.

* 1803 - Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.

* 1804 - French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and first independent country in the West Indies.

* 1806 - The French Republican Calendar is abolished.

* 1808 - The importation of slaves into the United States is banned.

* 1833 - The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.

* 1845 - The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.

* 1861 - Porfirio Díaz conquers Mexico City.

* 1863 - American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.

* 1863 - The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.

* 1876 - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.

* 1877 - Queen Victoria of Britain is proclaimed Empress of India.

* 1880 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.

* 1890 - Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.

* 1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.

* 1893 - Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.

* 1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.

* 1898 - New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.

* 1899 - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.

* 1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.

* 1901 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.

* 1902 - The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.

* 1906 - British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time.

* 1908 - For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.

* 1909 - Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.

* 1910 - Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear Admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson.

* 1911 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.

* 1912 - The Republic of China is established.

* 1916 - German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.

* 1919 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company.

* 1920 - The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.

* 1922 - The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus.

* 1923 - Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR.

* 1925 - The American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way.

* 1927 - Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).

* 1929 - The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.

* 1934 - Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.

* 1934 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".

* 1937 - Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain.

* 1937 - Public Order Act is passed in Great Britain

* 1939 - William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard.

* 1939 - Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.

* 1942 - The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.

* 1942 - World War II: The U.S. Office of Production Management prohibits sales of new cars and trucks to civilians.

* 1945 - World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.

* 1945 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Unternehmen Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.

* 1946 - The first civil flight from Heathrow Airport occurs.

* 1947 - The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany.

* 1948 - British railways are nationalised to form British Rail.

* 1948 - After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan.

* 1948 - The Constitution of Italy comes into force.

* 1949 - United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.

* 1950 - The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India.

* 1956 - The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

* 1956 - A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.

* 1957 - George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

* 1957 - An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.

* 1958 - The European Community is established.

* 1959 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.[citation needed]

* 1959 - Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.

* 1960 - The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

* 1962 - Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.

* 1962 - United States Navy SEALs established.

* 1962 - The Beatles unsuccessfully auditions for Decca Records.

* 1964 - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.

* 1965 - The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.

* 1966 - A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins.

* 1966 - After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.

* 1971 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.

* 1972 - Austrian diplomat Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary General of the United Nations.

* 1973 - Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community.

* 1978 - Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.

* 1978 - The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective.

* 1979 - Formal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America.

* 1980 - Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.

* 1981 - The Republic of Greece is admitted into the European Community.

* 1981 - The Republic of Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States.

* 1982 - Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary General of the United Nations.

* 1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.

* 1984 - The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is broken up into twenty-two independent units as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T .

* 1984 - The Sultanate of Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

* 1985 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created.

* 1985 - The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.

* 1986 - Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

* 1986 - The Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are admitted into the European Community.

* 1988 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.

* 1989 - The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force.

* 1990 - David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.

* 1993 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.

* 1993 - A single market within the European Community is introduced.

* 1994 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.

* 1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.

* 1994 - The European Economic Area comes into effect.

* 1994 - The International Tropical Timber Agreement comes into effect.

* 1995 - The World Trade Organization comes into effect.

* 1995 - The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union.

* 1995 - The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

* 1995 - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.

* 1995 - Firecrackers are banned in Vietnam on Tết for safety reasons.

* 1996 - Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

* 1997 - The Republic of Zaïre officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaïre.

* 1997 - Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary General of the United Nations.

* 1998 - Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.

* 1998 - The European Central Bank is established.

* 1999 - The Euro currency is introduced.

* 1999 - new administrative division of Poland - the country is divided in 16 voivodeships (regions) instead of previous 49.

* 2000 - As the world celebrates, no major crisis arises from the dreaded Y2K computer "millennium bug".

* 2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.

* 2002 - Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.

* 2002 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.

* 2002 - Pluto is officially declared not a planet.

* 2004 - In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.

* 2007 - Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.

* 2007 - Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.

* 2008 - A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect.

* 2008 - Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency.

 

BIRTHS

 

Too many people were born on the first..so i'll put recognized names on here:

# 1735 - Paul Revere, American patriot

1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer

1879 - William Fox, Hungarian-born American film producer

1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist

# 1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor

 

DEATHS:

I dont like death so i won't even look for it. :)

 

 

EVENTS

# New Year's Day for many countries around the world using the Gregorian calendar; often celebrated at midnight with fireworks.

# Last day of Kwanzaa.

# January 1st is also the given birthday of all race horses.

 

 

that's all..i guess..

oh yeah i was born on that day..it will be pretty special in a couple of years when i make a difference!?

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