Your birthday

[Doktor Kosmos]

Has anything interesting happened on your birthday?

I share my birthday (February 16) with such people as Sanna and Jenny Kallur, Swedish track and fielders (daughters of former Islander Anders Kallur), Ice T, Sonny Bono, LeVar Burton, John McEnroe, Lanny McDonald, Tuomo Ruutu and Kim Jong-Il (woot!). The only person who have died on my birthday and who's worth meantioning is Thelonious Monk.

On my birthday in 1959, Fidel Castro seized power on Cuba. In 1985 Hizbollah was founded. In 2005 the Kyoto Protocoll went into effect and in the same year the NHL made the final decission to cancel the 04/05 season. Yay.

What happened on your birthday?

[Psycing]

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 centre of the Universe.

1812 - Napoleon declares war to Russia

1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.

Births:

1757 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)

1939 - Don Matthews, American football coach in the CFL

1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress

1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer

1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies)

1973 - Carson Daly, American television personality :puke:

Deaths:

1994 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (b. 1903)

2006 - Moose (dog actor), dog actor popular for role on Frasier (b. 1990)

[les_glorieux]

January 24

Events:

41 - Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.

1848 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.

1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.

1952 - Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.

1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

Births:

76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)

1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)

1724 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)1949 - John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)

1974 - Ed Helms, American actor (Daily Show)

:hlogo: 1979 - Tom Kostopoulos, Canadian ice hockey player :hlogo:

Deaths:

41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)

1965 - Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)

1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)

2002 - Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)

Holidays and Observances:

Roman Empire - first day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra

Roman Catholic Church - Feasts of St. Francis de Sales and Our Lady of Peace

[Captain_Stealth]

Wow.

For my birthday is what I mean btw. lol

Edited April 1, 2008 by Captain_Stealth

[Pierre the Great]

would it shock you if famous politicians and important events on my birthday? lol

Events:

390 BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.

Never was a fan of Rome

64 - Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.

I have a fondness for classical music. haha

1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

"My struggle for being a loser waaah"

1969- Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick happens

Births

1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor - idiot caused the thirty's year war

1797 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher

1818 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister

1837 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary

1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1895 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster

1913 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian

1918 - Nelson Mandela

1921 - John Glenn

1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher

1929 - Dick Button, American figure skater

1937 - Hunter S. Thompson

1940 - Joe Torre

1947 - Steve Forbes

1950 - Sir Richard Branson

1950 - Jack Layton

1967 - Vin Diesel

1978 - Mélissa Theuriau, French newscaster

1980 - Kristen Bell

Deaths

1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander

1817 - Jane Austen

1954 - George Machine Gun Kelly

1988 - Nico, German-born model and singer

Edited April 1, 2008 by Pierre the Great

[Mils]

Count Basie (Big-band drummer) died on the day I was born.

My birthday seems to be associated with destruction.

1865: John Wilkes Booth got what he had coming. (He dead.)

1986: Chernobyl blew up.

1992: Rodney King riots. (Later immortalized in the song "April 26, 1992," by Sublime.)

1995: The Rockies play the inaugural game in Coors Field after the 1994 baseball players strike. Dante Bichette hits a walk-off home-run in the 14th inning.

Shakespeare was born (or baptized, depending on who you ask) 320 years to the day before I was born.

According to Wikipedia, April 26 was one of the two alleged days on which Muhammed (THE Muhammed) was born. (April 20 is the other... that's scary.)

Other births: (1933) Carol Burnett, (1963) Jet Li, (1965) Kevin James, and (1976) Vaclav Varada (That's right, THE Vaclav Varada. )

Edited April 2, 2008 by Mils

[Captain_Stealth]

I share a birthday with Tobias Enstrom and a porn star.

[Doktor Kosmos]

I share a birthday with Tobias Enstrom and a porn star.

Reasons to be proud, both of 'em.

[Captain_Stealth]

Reasons to be proud, both of 'em.

[BTH]

I'll just post the things that interest me from the list:

May 21

Events:

1904 - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded in Paris.

1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

1945 - United States screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.

2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.

Births:

1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)

1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997)

1977 - Ricky Williams, American football player

1978 - Jamaal Magloire, Canadian professional basketballer

(Roman Turek too but he isn't on this list, and I heard Plato too, though who really kept track back then)

Deaths:

987 - King Louis V of France

[Fanpuck33]

January 24

Haha, same as me. Add to the list Scott Kazmir, born on the same day as me and a member of my fantasy baseball team the last two seasons.

Also, I've read articles stating that our birthday is statistically the most depressing day of the year. A month removed from Christmas, snow, cold, etc. I guess.

[JoeLassister]

April 30

events :

313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.

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 to become the first elected President of the United States.

1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to appear on television during the World Fair's opening ceremonies broadcast.

1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat – The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the red flag over the Reichstag building.

1991 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 138,000 people.

1993 - The World Wide Web was born at CERN.

Births

1916 - Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician

1959 - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada :puke:

1961 - Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

1973 - Akon, American R&B Singer

1982 - Lloyd Banks, American rapper

1982 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress

Deaths

1792 - John Montagu, supposed inventor of the sandwich

1883 - Édouard Manet, French painter

1945 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (suicide)

1945 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany (suicide)

1989 - Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker

2007 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)

2007 - Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)

2007 - Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)

2007 - Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)

2007 - Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938) 30/04/2007 seems to be a sad day...

Just learned i share my birthday with Harper lol

[MAK]

TOE Blake died on my birthday

notable birthdays:

Tony Parker

Enya

Bob Saget

ville-marie( aka Montreal) was formed on my birthdaY in 1642

[Doktor Kosmos]

May 21

Events:

2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.

Well worth remembering.

[MAK]

Well worth remembering.

you'll be forgiven because of all your beautiful women !!

[les_glorieux]

Haha, same as me. Add to the list Scott Kazmir, born on the same day as me and a member of my fantasy baseball team the last two seasons.

Also, I've read articles stating that our birthday is statistically the most depressing day of the year. A month removed from Christmas, snow, cold, etc. I guess.

Yeah I've read that too! Oh well.

[rafikz]

August 15

Events

778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed.

927 - The Saracens are conquered and destroyed Taranto.

1040 - King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.

1057 - King Mac Bethad is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

1185 - The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

1248 - The foundation stone of the Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, was laid. Construction eventually completed in 1880.

1261 - Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

1309 - The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island, and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.

1461 - The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.

1517 - Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

1519 - Panama City, Panama, is founded.

1534 - Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates took initial vows that would lead to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September of 1540.

1537 - Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.

1540 - Arequipa, Peru, is founded.

1549 - Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).

1599 - Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass - Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, were sent to relieve Collooney Castle.

1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz - Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.

1824 - Freed American slaves form Liberia.

1843 - The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.

1843 - Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1863 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).

1869 - Meiji government establishes six ministries below Pardication (ja:民部省) in the bottom of Cabinet, officer-of-Shinto-Worship, and jurisdiction of Cabinet.

1889 - Oldest Club of Asia Mohun Bagan AC Established in Kolkata, India.

1914 - A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright set fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the ground. It is unknown if the servant was arrested or not.

1914 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.

1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw - Poles defeat the Red Army.

1935 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.

1939 - 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.

1942 - World War II: Operation Pedestal - The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island defenses.

1944 - World War II: Operation Dragoon - Allied forces land in southern France.

1945 - World War II: Victory over Japan Day - Japan surrenders.

1945 - World War II: Korean Liberation Day.

1947 - India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth , Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the nation with the Indian Declaration of Independence and takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.

1947 - Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.

1948 - The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.

1950 - Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.

1952 - Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.

1960 - Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France.

1961 - Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.

1961 - Keiyo Road is specified to be the first driveway in Japan.

1962 - James Joseph Dresnok defected to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.

1965 - The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the birth of stadium rock.

1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.

1971 - President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

1971 - Bahrain Independence Day.

1973 - Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.

1974 - Seoul Subway Line 1 opened, between Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station

1974 - Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.

1974 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus continues, and the 37% of the island is now under Turkish control.

1975 - Military coup in Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman killed along with all family members, except Haseena Wajid.

1975 - Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.

1977 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project.

1984 - PKK, Kurdish people in Turkey gain arms and start a Guerrilla warfare campaign against the Turkish military

1993 - Junko Asari wins the women's marathon in the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Japan's first major women's athletics victory.

1995 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week.

1998 - Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles

1999 - Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

2007 - An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.

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Births

1171 - King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)

1195 - Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)

1432 - Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (d. 1484)

1575 - Bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)

1613 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)

1717 - Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810)

1740 - Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)

1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821)

1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)

1785 - Thomas De Quincey, English author (d. 1859)

1813 - Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891)

1844 - Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1908)

1856 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (d. 1916)

1857 - Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)

1858 - E. Nesbit, English author (d. 1924)

1859 - Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931)

1860 - Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941)

1860 - Florence Harding, American First Lady (d. 1924)

1863 - Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)

1865 - Usui Mikao, founder of Reiki (d. 1926)

1872 - Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher (d. 1950)

1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912)

1878 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928)

1879 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)

1881 - Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)

1883 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)

1885 - Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968)

1890 - Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (d. 2006)

1890 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962)

1892 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)

1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)

1896 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957)

1896 - Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985)

1896 - Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)

1896 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)

1898 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)

1901 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)

1909 - Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (d. 1973)

1910 - Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (d. 2002)

1912 - Julia Child, American cook (d. 2004)

1912 - Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)

1914 - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996)

1916 - Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer

1917 - Jack Lynch, fourth Taoiseach (d. 1999)

1917 - Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman catholic priest (d. 1980)

1919 - Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999)

1919 - Benedict Kiely, Irish author

1922 - Lukas Foss, German-born composer

1923 - Rose Marie, American actress

1924 - Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995)

1925 - Mike Connors, American actor

1925 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007)

1925 - Bill Pinkney, baritone singer (d. 2007)

1926 - Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician

1928 - Nicolas Roeg, English film director

1930 - Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter

1933 - Bobby Helms, American pop singer (d. 1997)

1933 - Jim Lange, American game show host

1934 - Bobby Byrd, American soul/funk singer (d. 2007)

1934 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998)

1935 - Jim Dale, English actor

1935 - Vernon Jordan Jr., American presidential advisor

1935 - Lionel Taylor, American football player

1938 - Maxine Waters, American politician

1938 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer

1940 - Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist

1940 - Rita Shane, American soprano

1942 - Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007)

1943 - María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician

1944 - Linda Ellerbee, American journalist

1944 - Tom Murphy, American politician

1944 - Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician

1944 - Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer

1945 - Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Indian guru

1945 - Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician

1945 - Gene Upshaw, American NFL executive

1946 - Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter

1946 - Jimmy Webb, American musician and composer

1947 - Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress

1947 - Jenny Hanley, British TV presenter

1948 - Uschi Digard, American pornographic actress and model

1948 - Patsy Gallant, Canadian pop singer

1948 - George Ryton, British engineer

1949 - Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor

1950 - Tommy Aldridge, American musician

1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom

1950 - Tom Kelly, American baseball manager

1951 - Daba Diawara, Malian politician

1951 - Bobby Caldwell, American singer and musician

1954 - Mary Jo Salter, American poet

1956 - Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer

1957 - Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor

1958 - Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist

1958 - Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player/coach

1958 - Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian

1962 - Tom Colicchio, American chef

1963 - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director

1964 - Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates

1964 - Debi Mazar, American actress

1965 - Rob Thomas, American writer

1966 - Scott Brosius, American baseball player

1966 - Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer

1967 - Peter Hermann American actor

1968 - Debra Messing, American actress

1969 - Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer

1970 - Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor

1970 - Maddie Corman, American actress

1970 - Ben Silverman, American TV executive

1972 - Ben Affleck, American actor

1972 - Chris Morrissey, American film director/actor

1974 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress

1975 - Kara Wolters, American basketball player

1975 - Bertrand Berry, American football player

1976 - Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player

1977 - Nicole Paggi, American actress

1977 - Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast

1977 - Martin Biron, professional ice hockey goaltender

1978 - Tim Foreman, American bassist (Switchfoot)

1978 - Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast

1978 - Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer

1979 - Carl Edwards, American NASCAR driver

1980 - Nathalie Press, English actress

1981 - Brendan Hansen, American swimmer

1981 - Oliver Perez, American baseball player

1981 - Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress

1982 - Casey Burgener, American weightlifter

1989 - Belinda, Mexican singer

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Deaths

423 - Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (b. 384)

778 - Roland, Frankish commander

1038 - King Stephen I of Hungary

1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland

1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland

1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)

1196 - Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)

1274 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201)

1369 - Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England

1528 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)

1552 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)

1621 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)

1666 - Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)

1714 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)

1728 - Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656)

1758 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)

1799 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)

1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)

1880 - Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (b. 1848)

1907 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)

1909 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)

1917 - Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831)

1925 - Konrad Mägi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)

1935 - Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (b. 1898)

1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879)

1936 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1871)

1945 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)

1951 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)

1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)

1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)

1962 - Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)

1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)

1971 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)

1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)

1975 - Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (b. 1913)

1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)

1990 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)

1995 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)

1999 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)

2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)

2003 - Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)

2004 - Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)

2004 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)

2004 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)

2006 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)

2007 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)

2007 - Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)

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Holidays and observances

VJ Day / VP Day

India – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1947).

Egypt – Flooding of the Nile Day.

Italy, Ferragosto, remembrance of an ancient Roman holiday in honor of Augustus (Feriae Augusti).

Korea – Gwangbokjeol (Liberation Day).

Tuva – Naadym.

Costa Rica– Mother's Day.

Eastern Orthodoxy – Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the commemoration of the death of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, Holy Day of Obligation. Public Holiday in: Austria, Belgium, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, East Timor, France, Greece, Guatemala, India, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Poland, Portugal, Seychelles, Slovenia and Spain.

RC Saints

Saint Arnulph, bishop of Soissons

St. Arnoul

Saint Tarcisius

Stanislaus Kostka

[jetsniper]

March 18th

Events:

1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.

1893 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

1937 - The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.

1990 - In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

2003 - The Iraq War begins.

2005 - Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband.

Births:

1926 - Peter Graves

1950 - Brad Dourif

1960 - Guy Carbonneau

1963 - Vanessa L. Williams

1970 - Queen Latifah

1972 - Dane Cook

1976 - Scott Podsednik

1977 - Zdeno Chára

1978 - Jan Bulis

1979 - Adam Levine

Deaths:

I didn't look carefully but I didn't see anyone worth mentioning. Bolded everything hockey related and I also just found out that the Stanley Cup first started on my birthday. I'm not really phrasing that right but don't know how else to put it. Thats pretty freakin sweet.

[Captain_Stealth]

Jan Bulis!!!!!

[jetsniper]

Jan Bulis!!!!!

I laughed at that too, haha. Didn't know I had Chara's birthday either, thats pretty cool. One of my favourite NHL players.

[Captain_Stealth]

I laughed at that too, haha. Didn't know I had Chara's birthday either, thats pretty cool. One of my favourite NHL players.

Unfortunately for me I share one with Alexei Yashin..... Sergei Berezin....... and others...bah :puke:

The only one worth mentioning is Enstrom. Some decent stuff happened on November 5th but it's not very exciting by any means.

[jetsniper]

omfg, your birthday is November 5th? Thats so badass.

Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

[Captain_Stealth]

omfg, your birthday is November 5th? Thats so badass.

That's awesome. I feel so much happier now.

Then I think of stupid Gonzalez....