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 Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:55 pm
So my birthday is tomorrow and I was curious about the famous events that happened on my birthday so I looked it up. I found shocking and some disturbing information. I was wondering what happened on other people's birthdays? I know this doesn't seem like horror or sci-fi, but believe me, there are a couple of things that happened on my birthday that might spark your interests.
My famous events/deaths/births:
Deaths:
1900 - Casey Jones (See events if you don't know who this is.)
1945 -Adolph Hitler eek (Commits suicide.)
1945 - Eva Braun (Hitler's woman. Kills herself, too. wink )
1968 - Frankie Lymon (Heroine overdose...Why Do Fools Fall in Love?)
Births:
1662 - Queen Mary II of England
1926 - Cloris Leachman (WooHoo, Young Frankenstein!)
1933 - Willie Nelson (Sweet.)
1965 - Adrian Pasdar (Heroes.)
1976 - Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls)
1982 - Kirsten Dunst (You should know this one.)
Events:
33 - One of the debated dates of the Crucifixion of Jesus. eek crying
1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503.
1492 - Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1492 - Spain announces it will expel all Jews
1563 - Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1671 - Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1789 - George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1798 - Dept of Navy forms
1803 - US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1859 - Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary periodical All the Year Round, continues in weekly installments until Nov 26
1871 - Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die
1871 - The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1888 - Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
1900 - Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1945 - Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed
1945 - Red Army occupies Demmin
1945 - Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1945 - Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp
1952 - Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1955 - Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
2008 - Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
And the real reason I'm posting this in a Horror guild is because of an event that happened on my birthday. I feel that my username and this event represent a perfect form of irony. Enjoy.
1966 - Anton Szandor LaVey establishes the Church of Satan.
All in all, it seems that a lot more bad things happened on my birthday then good. One more strange bit of info for everyone. Every year, on my birthday, it storms. I was born during a tornado warning. Last year it was a snowstorm. This year we are currently having thunderstorms that are supposed to last until late tomorrow night. Is this some kind of sign?
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:37 pm
Going to move this to the newly created chatterbox forum but Im going to leave it till tomorrow so that way you and others will know where it went
My interesting things
1753
In America, George Washington, a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry.
1914
The First World War: Britain declares war on Germany for violating the Treaty of London. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaims America to be neutral.
1944: Anne Frank captured
1964
The Vietnam War:
2000
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, celebrates her hundredth birthday.
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:18 am
Birthdays:
1913 Rosa Lee Parks civil rights activist
1940 George A Romero actor/director (Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes)
1969 Chastity Bono LA Calif, daughter of Sonny & Cher/actress
Deaths Which Occured February 4:
1503 Queen Elizabeth consort of Henry VII of England, dies
1957 Joseph Hardaway creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
Highlights in History Which Occur February 4:
1789 1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as Pres & VP
1794 French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
1846 Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
1854 Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery
1864 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
1865 Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
1899 Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1936 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
1938 Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
1985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture- my actual birthday :O
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:21 pm
Quote: September 20 Events * 451 - Atilla, king of the Huns, invades Gaul, but is defeated by Aetius with the help of Roman Foederati in the Battle of Chalons * 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world. * 1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico. * 1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Newbury - Parliamentarian Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex defeats a Royalist army commanded by Charles I of England at Newbury. * 1644 - Shunzhi Emperor of China moved the capital city from Shenyang to Beijing. * 1565 - Spaniards capture French Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida * 1792 - Battle of Valmy - France defeats Prussia * 1797 - The USS Constitution is launched in Boston, Massachusetts * 1850 - Slave trading is abolished in the District of Columbia * 1854 - Battle of Alma - British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea * 1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States * 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga ends * 1870 - Bersaglieri corps enters Rome at Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy * 1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States. * 1946 - First Cannes Film Festival * 1954 - First FORTRAN program runs * 1962 - James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi * 1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match * 1979 - Lee Iacocca elected president of the Chrysler Corporation * 1979 - Coup in Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I * 1984 - Suicide bomber in a car attacks the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people * 2000 - After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr takes a day off. * 2003 - Referendum in Latvia over the joining of the European Union Births * 356 BC - Alexander the Great († 323 BC) * 1842 - Sir James Dewar, chemist * 1853 - Chulalongkorn (Rama V), king of Thailand * 1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress * 1873 - Sidney Olcott, pioneer film director * 1878 - Upton Sinclair, writer, politician * 1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, composer * 1899 - Elliott Nugent, actor, director * 1917 - Red Auerbach, National Basketball Association coach * 1918 - Peg Phillips, actress * 1922 - William Kapell, pianist * 1924 - Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown), singer * 1925 - James Galanos, fashion designer * 1927 - Johnny Dankworth, musician, composer * 1927 - Rachel Roberts, actress * 1928 - Doctor Joyce Brothers, psychologist, advice columnist * 1928 - Donald A. Hall, author * 1929 - Anne Meara, comedienne, actress * 1931 - Peter Palmer, actor * 1934 - Sophia Loren, actress * 1938 - Pia Lindstrom, journalist * 1948 - George R. R. Martin, science fiction writer * 1951 - Guy Lafleur, National Hockey League star * 1956 - Gary Cole, actor * 1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya, Formula 1 racer * 1975 - Asia Argento, actress Deaths * 1460 - Gilles Binchois, composer * 1863 - Jacob Grimm, folklorist * 1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist * 1947 - Fiorello LaGuardia, former mayor of New York City * 1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer * 1957 - Jean Sibelius, composer * 1973 - Jim Croce, singer-songwriter * 1996 - Paul Erd?, mathematician * 1999 - Raisa Gorbachev, First Lady of the Soviet Union * 2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut * 2003 - Simon Muzenda, vice president of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe Holidays * In ancient Greece, the seventh day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion began. From: http://www.maniacworld.com/birthday.htm
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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 5:41 pm
* 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
* 1663 - The British Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
* 1689 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends
* 1694 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
* 1778 - American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant - British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
* 1789 - The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
* 1794 - French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution."
* 1865 - Welsh settlers arrive in Argentina at Chubut Valley.
* 1866 - The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
* 1921 - Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
* 1940 - Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.
* 1943 - World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.
* 1953 - Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea sign an armistice agreement.
* 1955 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945).
* 1964 - Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
* 1968 - Pink Floyd releases the album A Saucerful of Secrets in the USA.
* 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.
* 1995 - In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
* 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, killing one and injuring 111.
* 2002 - Air show disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
Births
* 1824 - Alexandre Dumas fils, author (+ 1895)
* 1833 - Thomas George Bonney, geologist (+ 1923)
* 1857 - Augusta Stowe-Gullen, first woman to take a medical degree in Canada, feminist
* 1886 - Ernst May, architect (+ 1970)
* 1901 - Rudy Vallee, singer (+ 1986)
* 1903 - Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (+ 1966)
* 1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 (+ 1991)
* 1905 - Leo Durocher, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (+ 1991)
* 1912 - Hilde Domin, writer
* 1915 - Mario Del Monaco, tenor (+ 1982)
* 1916 - Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist
* 1916 - Keenan Wynn, actor (+ 1986)
* 1917 - Bourvil (Andr?Raimbourg), actor (+ 1970)
* 1922 - Norman Lear, television producer
* 1940 - Pina Bausch, dancer
* 1948 - Peggy Fleming, Olympic gold medalist in figure skating
* 1967 - Juliana Hatfield, musician
* 1977 - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, actor
Deaths
* 1276 - James I of Aragon
* 1841 - Mikhail Lermontov, author
* 1844 - John Dalton, English chemist
* 1863 - William Lowndes Yancey, Southern secession leader
* 1917 - Emil Theodor Kocher, surgeon and biologist
* 1924 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
* 1958 - Claire Chennault, World War II aviator
* 1980 - Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
* 1981 - Ryann Lea Forester, president of UAH PRCA
* 1981 - William Wyler, film director
* 1984 - James Mason, actor
* 2001 - Leon Wilkeson, bass (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
* 2003 - Bob Hope, entertainer
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:43 am
May 28
Events
* 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurred, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
* 1503 - Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed.
* 1503 - James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull
* 1588 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel (it will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port)
* 1754 - French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeats a French reconnaissance party in southwestern Pennsylvania
* 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The first Continental Congress convenes
* 1863 - American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts to fight for the Union.
* 1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
* 1934 - Near Callender, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
o - The Glyndebourne festival is inaugurated.
* 1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publishing.
* 1937 - In Washington, DC President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge.
* 1940 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany
* 1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people
* 1961 - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International
* 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed
* 1972 - Watergate Scandal: White House operatives break into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC
* 1975 - 15 West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
* 1977 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside.
* 1987 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defense and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will later be released on August 3, 1988.
* 1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
* 1995 - Neftegorsk, Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killing at least 2000 people (2/3rd of the town's population).
* 1998 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, promting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
* 1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
* 2002 - Washington DC's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy's death was the result of homicide.
Births
* 1371 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (+ 1419)
* 1588 - Pierre Seguier, chancellor of France (+ 1672)
* 1660 - King George I of Great Britain (+ 1727)
* 1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain (+ 1806)
* 1779 - Thomas Moore, poet (+ 1852)
* 1807 - Louis Agassiz, zoologist and geologist (+ 1873)
* 1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, chemist (+ 191 cool
* 1853 - Carl Larsson, painter (+ 1919)
* 1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg, inventor
* 1884 - Edvard Benes, politician (+ 194 cool
* 1888 - Jim Thorpe, sportsman (+ 1953)
* 1892 - Sepp Dietrich, SS officer, bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (+ 1966)
* 1908 - Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books (+ 1964)
* 1910 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (+ 1975)
* 1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson, actress (+ 2003)
* 1911 - Fritz Hochw?der, author (+ 1986)
* 1912 - Patrick White, author (+ 1990)
* 1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (+ 1996)
* 1915 - Joseph H. Greenberg, linguist (+ 2001)
* 1916 - Walker Percy, author (+ 1990)
* 1917 - Papa John Creach, musician (+ 1994)
* 1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik, author (+ 1999)
* 1922 - Lou Duva, boxing trainer
* 1923 - Gy?gy Ligeti, composer
* 1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, actor, director, producer (+ 199 cool
* 1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
* 1925 - B?ent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey
* 1931 - Carroll Baker, actress
* 1934 - The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets
* 1936 - Betty Shabazz, civil rights leader and wife of Malcolm X
* 1938 - Osvaldo Romberg, painter, architect
* 1938 - Jerry West, basketball star
* 1944 - Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City
* 1944 - Gladys Knight, singer
* 1945 - John Fogerty, musician ("Creedence Clearwater Revival")
* 1946 - K. Satchidanandan, poet
* 1947 - Sondra Locke, actress
* 1949 - Wendy O. Williams, musician ("The Plasmatics") (+ 199 cool
* 1962 - Roland Gift, musician ("Fine Young Cannibals")
* 1964 - Jeff Fenech, boxer
* 1965 - Chris Ballew, musician
* 1968 - Kylie Minogue, actress and singer
* 2003 - Prometea, first cloned horse
Deaths
* 1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal
* 1805 - Luigi Boccherini, musician
* 1811 - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister
* 1849 - 1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen
* 1948 - Unity Mitford, fascist sympthizer
* 1971 - Audie Murphy, actor, war hero
* 1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
* 1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, mathematician
* 1993 - Billy Conn, boxer, actor
* 1994 - Julius Boros, golfer
* 1998 - Phil Hartman, actor, comedian
* 2001 - Francisco Varela, biologist and philosopher
* 2003 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977
* 2003 - Alexander Heimann, author
* 2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut
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