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Anything interesting for you to note? October 24 seems to have a rather international character with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the founding of the United Nations (1945). Also seems to be a magnet for stock market crashes: Thursday 1929, Friday 2008, Saturday 20XX. Only interesting birth and death has to be Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632) and Tycho Brahe (1601), respectively.
 
Lisa Marie Presley was born.
Vince Lombardi resigned.
Nixon announced candidacy for Presidency.

Look at that last one. Less than 10 months before the election before he announced. Makes ya wanna sing the theme song to All In The Family, doesn't it?
 
Thomas Jefferwon is born
Constantinople falls to the fourth Crusades (curse those barbarian uncivilized UN cultured Western Latins for destroying and plundering the greatest city ever known to man that forever and ever obviously belongs to the Greeks and fake Romans)
Edict of Nantes issued in France
Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the masters tournament
Catherine de Medici is born (WTH)
Guy Fawkes is born (he's overrated)
Butch Cassidy is born
Al Green is born
Da Vinci is one day old


I find it amusing I shared y birthday with so many interesting folks.

And I think the fact that on my birthday Constantinople fell (before it really fell) is prophetic.
 
As a World War II geek, I've always been a little jealous of the older of my two brother and my sister, since they drew Guadalcanal (August 7) and Overlord (June 6).

For myself, though...

Well, technically, the US voted to declare independence. But everyone fixates on the day they agreed on the specific wording of the declaration instead :(.

There's the Amistad mutiny, I guess.

July 2's just that kind of boring day.
 
312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. :D
1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_27
 
Roman legions rebel against Galba and proclaim Vitellius emperor.
Portugal first explores the site of future Rio de Janeiro.
The first traveler's cheques go on sale in London.
"Amazing Grace" is used as a hymn for the first time as accompaniment to a sermon.
Norfolk, Virginia is burned by both the Continental Army and the Royal Navy during action.
The first edition of The Times is published in London.
The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
French rule in Haiti ends.
Slave importation is banned in the US.
The Greek Constitution of 1822 (first constitution of Modern Greece) is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
UK claims sovereignty over Falkland Islands.
First Polish stamps are issued.
Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in the Confederate States of America.
First adoption of standard time & time zones by 25 countries.
Ellis Island opens for immigration processing.
The City of Greater New York is created by New York, NY annexing surrounding boroughs.
Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
Commonwealth of Australia is federated.
Establishment of the Republic of China
Alcatraz becomes a federal US prison.
British Railways is formed through nationalization of the British railway network.
Sudan becomes independent from UK and Egypt.
European Economic Community is established.
Castro overthrows Batista.
US Navy SEALs is established.
Cigarette ads are banned on US television.
The PRC and US establish formal diplomatic relations.
The Russian Federation is officially formed.
Czechoslovakia is dissolved.
Introduction of the single market in the European Community.
NAFTA goes into effect.
European Central Bank is established.
Euro is introduced.

Born on same day as Pope Alexander VI, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross, Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Knox, Wilhelm Canaris, J. Edgar Hoover, Kim Philby, J.D. Salinger, Larry King,

Yeah, it's January 1st.
 
13th June is a good day for African-Americans:

Spoiler Events :
313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.

1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.

1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns

1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.

1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.

1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).

2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.


Spoiler Births :

1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian statesman, naturalist, professor and poet (d. 1838)

1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)

1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)

1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)

1884 – Anton Drexler, German politician and early mentor to a young artist and soldier named Adolf Hitler (d. 1942)

1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)

1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)

1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala and the leader of the first democratically elected Communist government in India. (d. 1998)

1910 – Mary Whitehouse, reactionary English activist, who founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)

1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)

1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate

1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)

1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

1953 – Tim Allen, American actor and producer (he's behind the voice of Buzz Lightyear)

1959 – Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria

1961 – Bob Crow, British trade unionist

1965 – Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca

1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician

1974 – Steve-O, American stuntman and actor

1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer-songwriter and dancer mother of John Connor, leader of the Resistance

1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer

1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress

1986 – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer

1986 – Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, American actresses, singers, producers, and fashion designers


Spoiler Deaths :

1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Egyptian caliph (b. 1005)

1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)

1784 – Henry Middleton, American politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)

1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)

1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)

1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)

1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)

1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)

1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)

2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)

2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)
 
August 13:

Events said:
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
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A good day for Witts and Wittes!

Deaths said:
1958 – Otto Witte, German acrobat (b. 1868)
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Oh.

At least Carl Gustav survived :dunno:
 
Wait, is this for the "day" you were born or the "date" you were born in ANY year? I just did the actual day of my birth.
 
bhsup said:
Wait, is this for the "day" you were born or the "date" you were born in ANY year?
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The latter. Thread would be way more limited just looking at the exact date. And the Thirty Years War didn't end in 1990. :p
 
Some guy just decided to change the price on some food stuff or something ? Bah ! It does not even really matters now :P . Nothing really happend that day I were born and that's about it xD - I'm just a common folk with no cool back-story there :P hehe :)
 
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