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    Default Did anything historically significant happen on your birthday?

    Following on with "Do you share your birthday with an ace?", I thought it might be fun to see how many people know of events that happened on their birthdays, especially something related to aviation.

    I was born on the anniversary of the Battle of Midway.

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    From the events below, can you determine my Birth Date?

    Aviation Specific:

    • The Wright brothers make the 1st of nearly 1,000 glides on their modified No. 3 glider in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. It is this glider, made of spruce wood and cloth, which incorporates for the 1st time the flight controls of the modern airplane. (OTM) (1902)
    • Wilbur Wright on the Flyer III in Huffman Prairie, Ohio makes the 1st circular flight. (OTM) (1904)
    • A British Gloster Meteor F.1 makes the 1st flight of an aircraft powered completely by turboprop engines. A turboprop or propjet is an aircraft with a propeller that is driven by a gas turbine engine. (OTM) (1945)
    • Wilbur Wright in the airplane Flyer II makes the 1st complete circle in a powered aircraft. (AYY) (1904)


    Other Significant events throughout history, which occurred on the same Day of the Month of my birth:


    2004 Tropical Storm Jeanne kills more than 550 during flooding in Haiti
    2000 Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
    1997 Yankees clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive
    1995 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
    1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
    1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
    1992 Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
    1992 Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993
    1992 Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
    1992 Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
    1991 Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension
    1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
    1990 Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message
    1990 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
    1989 FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa
    1989 Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
    1989 U.S. Air overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, 2 people die
    1988 Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run
    1988 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
    1988 Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
    1987 "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1005 performances
    1987 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins
    1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
    1987 Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
    1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
    1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
    1986 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
    1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
    1985 Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest
    1984 "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV
    1984 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
    1984 Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
    1983 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play New York Mets at Shea Stadium
    1983 Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented
    1982 Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan vs. Australia
    1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
    1981 24th Ryder Cup: U.S., 18 -9 at Walton Heath GC, England
    1981 Belize declares independence
    1981 Joe Danelo kicks then New York Giant record 55 yard field goal
    1981 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
    1980 Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
    1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
    1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
    1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
    1979 Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I
    1979 Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
    1979 NASA launches HEAO
    1978 "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 439 performances
    1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
    1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
    1977 "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 7 performances
    1977 Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in U.N.
    1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
    1976 Metroliner official opens in Brussels
    1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
    1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
    1975 21st Ryder Cup: U.S., 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club Pennsylvania
    1975 David Bowie's 'Fame' single goes #1 for 2 weeks
    1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28" draw
    1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
    1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
    1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm
    1970 Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
    1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
    1969 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England
    1969 Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1
    1969 Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0
    1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
    1967 Benin separates from Nigeria
    1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland
    1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
    1967 WCAE TV channel 50 in St. John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
    1967 WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting
    1966 U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
    1965 WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
    1964 Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin
    1964 Paramount Theater (New York City) presented the Beatles with Steve and Eydie
    1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
    1962 Governor R. Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Universe (James Meredith)
    1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
    1961 James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
    1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
    1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yankees clinch pennant #26
    1960 U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)
    1960 WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
    1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
    1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0
    1958 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
    1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
    1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH
    1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 home runs in a season
    1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
    1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
    1954 KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
    1954 Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles
    1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
    1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league home run
    1952 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
    1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
    1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
    1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
    1949 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
    1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
    1948 "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 48 performances
    1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
    1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"
    1945 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.
    1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen, Netherlands
    1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-338
    1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
    1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat
    1939 Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
    1938 Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres
    1938 Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London
    1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
    1932 Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
    1932 Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer
    1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
    1931 Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
    1927 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run of season off Tom Zachry
    1924 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
    1924 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats New York Giants to win 300th game
    1922 Goodman and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City
    1922 Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
    1919 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY
    1919 Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 home runs
    1919 Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in New York City
    1918 Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague
    1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France
    1913 19th U.S. Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA
    1911 Yankees set team record 12 errors in a double header
    1908 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0
    1905 Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning
    1904 George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in New York City
    1904 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II
    1902 Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
    1896 John Mcdermott wins 1st U.S. marathon (New York City)
    1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
    1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President
    1881 Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president
    1879 U.S. Grants come to San Francisco for elaborate extended visit
    1877 Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
    1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
    1873 Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
    1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French
    1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing New York treasury
    1870 Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel
    1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends
    1861 Battle of Lexington, Missouri-captured by Union
    1860 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
    1859 George Simpson patents electric range
    1854 Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died
    1854 British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
    1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
    1839 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
    1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
    1828 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
    1797 U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
    1793 British troops under major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
    1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
    1787 Prince Willem V returns to Hague
    1777 Paoli massacre
    1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
    1697 Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)
    1688 French troops occupies Palts
    1674 2nd West Indie Company forms
    1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men
    1643 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies
    1620 Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland
    1604 Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende
    1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French
    1530 Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
    1519 Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world
    1378 Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII
    1258 Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated
    622 Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
    451 General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
    368 Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen
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    Brian,
    You have too much time on your hands.
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    Quote Originally Posted by trumpetman52 View Post
    Brian,
    You have too much time on your hands.
    trumpetman52
    The hard earned privilege of a Military retirement. Thanks to a grateful country, after a mere 21 years of active service, I was able to step aside and have the extra time to enjoy such past times as gaming and posting on gaming forums.

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    First day, Battle of Stones River, Tennessee, 1862, American Civil War.

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    1918. First day of the second battle of the Somme.
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    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Same birthday as Albert Crews.

    Almost counts as aviation, right?:
    1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives

    Definitely aviation:
    1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent

    1922 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

    1965 Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young)

    2001 Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry

    Military History:
    1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa

    1957 U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons

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    As I mentioned in the birthday thread,
    Richthoffen claims his first kill in 1916

    and also according to wiki in 1787 the US constitution was signed

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    Here is some things that happened on my B-day.

    1945 U.S. 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
    1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
    1944 British 12th airborne batallion/13th and 18th Hussars conquer
    1944 British 12th battalion conquers Breville
    1944 Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully
    1944 U.S. troop march into Carentan/Caumont, Normandy
    1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
    1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam
    1942 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
    1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
    1939 43rd U.S. Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Philadelphia CC in Philadelphia
    1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York
    1937 41st U.S. Golf Open: Ralph Guldahl shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
    1937 U.S.S.R. executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
    1936 1st 50 KW U.S. radio station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay
    1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)
    1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines
    1933 Financial and Economy World conference opens, 66 countries
    1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury
    1930 34th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minnesota
    1930 Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in New York City
    1930 Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
    1928 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 2 triples and 2 home runs to be White Sox 15-7
    1926 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2
    1926 Brazil leaves League of Nations
    1925 William DeHart Hubbard of U.S., sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
    1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
    1922 German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
    1922 St. Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times
    1922 St. Louis gets record 10 hits in a row and beats Phillies 14-8
    1920 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2
    1920 Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago
    1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
    1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
    1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
    1916 30th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Louise Raymond (60 61)
    1916 Tennis legend Bill Tilden's 1st appearance at U.S. tennis championship
    1915 29th U.S. Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Hazel Wightman (46 62 60)
    1913 "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
    1910 PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
    1909 "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
    1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City
    1907 Yankees commit 11 errors and lose 14-6 to Tigers
    1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
    1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
    1898 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to U.S. control
    1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)
    1892 Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms
    1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146, New Richmond, Wisconsin
    1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
    1880 1st baseball perfect game, John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleveland
    1880 John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0
    1875 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42
    1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
    1864 Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
    1864 Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle
    1861 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state
    1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
    1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Kentucky
    1845 George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
    1840 Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
    1839 1st baseball game played in America
    1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts
    1838 Iowa Territory forms
    1819 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
    1817 Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
    1812 Napoleon invades Russia
    1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
    1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
    1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
    1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br)
    1714 Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty
    1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover

    Didn't want to be out done.
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    WOW! If this is what retirement is like, I need to take some lessons.
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    My birthday is 16 July 1967 - the first successful detonation of a nuclear device 22 years occurred before I was born.

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    I was born on November 13....a Friday nonetheless.

    I did a quick search and found that the HMS Ark Royal took a torpedo hit and sunk the next day.

    A more positive story was that a U.S. Navy OS2U Kingfisher floatplane rescues U.S. World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker and two other survivors of a ditched B-17D Flying Fortress from a life raft. They had been adrift in the Pacific for 22 days.
    The pilot of the plane that rescued the survivors, Lieutenant William F. Eadie, USN, was awarded the Navy's Air Medal for his actions during the rescue.

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    I was born 10 years after the Bismark sank the Hood on 24 May 1941.

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    Not quite aviation, but:

    1791 – The launching of the U.S.S. Constitution - happens to be my favorite age-of-sail ship
    1805 – The Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Lord Nelson - I am a growing fan of Napoleonic-era British naval history
    1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff - a possible correspondence to a particular surgery I had to reduce the chances of procreation
    1892 – Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago - the city in which I was born and raised and hope to retire

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    23rd October:

    Events

    4004 BC – Young Earth creationism claims the Universe was created, according to the Ussher chronology.
    42 BC – Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
    425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor at the age of 6.
    502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
    1086 – At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
    1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
    1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
    1641 – Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
    1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
    1694 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
    1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
    1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
    1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
    1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
    1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
    1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Westport – Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
    1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
    1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
    1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
    1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
    1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
    1915 – Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
    1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
    1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
    1929 – The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
    1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
    1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
    1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
    1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
    1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
    1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
    1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
    1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
    1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
    1958 – The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
    1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute ŕ six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
    1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
    1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
    1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
    1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
    1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
    1983 – Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
    1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
    1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. Ulster loyalists retaliate a week later with the Greysteel massacre.
    1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
    2001 – Apple announces the iPod.
    2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
    2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
    2007 – A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta Jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
    2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
    2011 – The Libiyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan civil war over.
    2012 – After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.

    Births

    64 BC – Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general and statesman (d. 12 BC)
    1516 – Charlotte of Valois (d. 1524)
    1634 – Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1715)
    1654 – Johann Bernhard Staudt, Austrian composer (d. 1712)
    1698 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect, designed the École Militaire (d. 1782)
    1705 – Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (d. 1757)
    1713 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
    1715 – Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
    1762 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (d. 1843)
    1766 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (d. 1847)
    1771 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
    1790 – Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman (d. 1860)
    1796 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss politician (d. 1857)
    1801 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
    1805 – John Russell Bartlett, American historian and linguist (d. 1886)
    1813 – Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
    1815 – Joăo Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe, Brazilian politician (d. 1889)
    1817 – Pierre Athanase Larousse, French lexicographer (d. 1875)
    1835 – Adlai Stevenson I, American politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1914)
    1844 – Robert Bridges, English poet (d. 1930)
    1857 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (d. 1899)
    1865 – Neltje Blanchan, American historian and author (d. 1918)
    1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach (d. 1936)
    1870 – Francis Kelley, Canadian-American bishop (d. 1948)
    1873 – William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (d. 1975)
    1875 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
    1876 – Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
    1880 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (d. 1959)
    1885 – Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (d. 1970)
    1888 – Onésime Gagnon, Canadian politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1961)
    1893 – Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
    1894 – Rube Bressler, American baseball player (d. 1966)
    1896 – André Lévęque, French engineer (d. 1930)
    1897 – Marjorie Flack, American author (d. 1958)
    1900 – Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (d. 1958)
    1904 – Harvey Penick, American golfer (d. 1995)
    1905 – Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
    1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003)
    1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
    1909 – Zellig Harris, American linguist (d. 1992)
    1910 – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
    1910 – Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)
    1918 – James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
    1918 – Peggy Moran, American actress (d. 2002)
    1918 – Paul Rudolph, American architect, designed the Lippo Centre (d. 1997)
    1919 – Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and academic (d. 1992)
    1920 – Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
    1920 – Bob Montana, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
    1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist
    1922 – Coleen Gray, American actress
    1923 – Aslam Farrukhi, Pakistani scholar, author, and poet
    1923 – Ned Rorem, American composer
    1923 – Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
    1923 – Harold P. Warren, American director (d. 1985)
    1925 – Johnny Carson, American television host (d. 2005)
    1925 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (d. 1994)
    1925 – Fred Shero, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1990)
    1927 – Sonny Criss, American saxophonist (d. 1977)
    1927 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
    1928 – Bella Darvi, Polish-French actress (d. 1971)
    1929 – Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (d. 2006)
    1931 – Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician
    1931 – William P. Clark, Jr., American politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor
    1931 – Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984)
    1932 – Vasily Belov, Russian poet (d. 2012)
    1935 – Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez, Puerto Rican golfer
    1936 – Philip Kaufman, American director
    1937 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian guerrilla leader (d. 1971)
    1939 – Stanley Anderson, American actor
    1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer
    1940 – Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Raindrops) (d. 2009)
    1940 – Jane Holzer, American model, actress, producer, and art collector
    1941 – Mel Winkler, American actor
    1941 – Igor Smirnov, Moldovan politician, President of Transnistria
    1942 – Michael Crichton, American author, screenwriter, director, and producer (d. 2008)
    1942 – Bernd Erdmann, German footballer and manager
    1942 – Anita Rod****, English businesswoman and activist, founder of The Body Shop (d. 2007)
    1943 – Alida Chelli, Italian actress and singer (d. 2012)
    1944 – Mike Harding, English singer-songwriter and comedian
    1945 – Maggi Hambling, English sculptor and painter
    1945 – Kim Larsen, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gasolin')
    1946 – Mel Martinez, American politician
    1948 – Hermann Hauser, Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory
    1948 – Brian Ross, American journalist
    1949 – Würzel, English singer and guitarist (Motörhead) (d. 2011)
    1949 – Nick Tosches, American journalist, author, and poet
    1950 – Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman (d. 2012)
    1951 – Charly García, Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Sui Generis, Serú Girán, and La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros)
    1951 – Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovan politician, 2nd President of Kosovo
    1952 – Pierre Moerlen, French drummer (Gong) (d. 2005)
    1953 – Taner Akçam, Turkish historian and sociologist
    1954 – Ang Lee, Taiwanese-American director
    1956 – Dianne Reeves, American singer
    1956 – Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
    1957 – Paul Kagame, Rwandan politician, 6th President of Rwanda
    1957 – Martin Luther King III, American activist
    1958 – Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, academic, and author
    1958 – Rose Nabinger, German singer
    1959 – Nancy Grace, American journalist and television host
    1959 – Sam Raimi, American director
    1959 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer-songwriter, comedian, and actor
    1960 – Randy Pausch, American academic and author (d. 2008)
    1960 – Wayne Rainey, American motorcycle racer
    1961 – Laurie Halse Anderson, American author
    1961 – Andoni Zubizarreta, Spanish footballer
    1962 – Doug Flutie, American football player
    1963 – Gordon Korman, Canadian-American author
    1964 – Robert Trujillo, American bass player and songwriter (Metallica, Black Label Society, Suicidal Tendencies, and Infectious Grooves)
    1965 – Augusten Burroughs, American author and screenwriter
    1965 – Al Leiter, American baseball player
    1966 - David Manley, British wargamer and naval architect
    1966 – Alex Flinn, American author
    1966 – Alex Zanardi, Italian race car driver
    1967 – Dale Crover, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Melvins, The Men of Porn, and Altamont)
    1969 – Trudi Canavan, Australian author
    1969 – Brooke Theiss, American actress
    1970 – Grant Imahara, American engineer
    1970 – Steve Wilder, American actor
    1970 – Zoe Wiseman, American model and photographer
    1971 – Carlo Forlivesi, Italian composer
    1971 – Christopher Horner, American cyclist
    1972 – Bryan Pratt, American politician
    1972 – Jasmin St. Claire, Virgin Islander porn actress
    1972 – Jimmy Wayne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    1973 – Christian Dailly, Scottish footballer
    1974 – DJ Spinbad, American DJ, record producer and remixer
    1974 – Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer
    1975 – Jessicka, American singer-songwriter (Jack Off Jill and Scarling.)
    1975 – Michelle Beadle, American sportscaster
    1975 – Odalys García, Cuban actress
    1975 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer
    1975 – Keith Van Horn, American basketball player
    1976 – Cat Deeley, English model, actress, and television host
    1976 – Jon Huertas, American actor
    1976 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
    1977 – Brad Haddin, Australian cricketer
    1978 – Jimmy Bullard, English footballer
    1978 – Steve Harmison, English cricketer
    1978 – Wang Nan, Chinese table tennis player
    1978 – Archie Thompson, Australian footballer
    1979 – Ramón Castro, Venezuelan baseball player
    1979 – Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
    1979 – Jorge Solís, Mexican boxer
    1980 – Mate Bilić, Croatian footballer
    1980 – Pedro Liriano, Dominican baseball player
    1981 – Jeroen Bleekemolen, Dutch race car driver
    1981 – Ben Francisco, American baseball player
    1982 – Valentin Badea, Romanian footballer
    1982 – Aleksandar Luković, Serbian footballer
    1983 – Filippos Darlas, Greek footballer
    1983 – Josh Strickland, American singer and actor
    1984 – Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
    1984 – Simone Masini, Italian footballer
    1984 – Meghan McCain, American columnist and author
    1985 – Mohammed Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
    1985 – Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress and poet
    1985 – Chris Neal, English footballer
    1985 – Luca Spinetti, Italian footballer
    1986 – Briana Evigan, American actress
    1986 – Jake Robinson, English footballer
    1986 – Jessica Stroup, American actress
    1987 – Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer-songwriter (Play)
    1990 – Stevie Brock, American singer
    1990 – Axel Ehnström, Finnish singer-songwriter
    1990 – Stan Walker, Australian singer and actor
    1991 – Princess Mako of Akishino
    1992 – Álvaro Morata, Spanish footballer
    1993 – Taylor Spreitler, American actress
    1997 – Daphne Blunt, American actress and singer
    1998 – Amandla Stenberg, American actress

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    In the Pacific, 1945, Last & largest B-29 raid on The Empire as Japan agreed to surrender while the bombers are on their return trip. Official Surrender September 2, 1945.

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    Today's: Famous Birthdays - Music history


    1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.

    1572 - The Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for complicity in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He was executed on June 2.

    1759 - The British Museum opened.

    1809 - The British defeated the French at the Battle of Corunna, in the Peninsular War.

    1866 - Mr. Everett Barney patented the metal screw, clamp skate.

    1883 - The United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect.

    1896 - The first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, IA.

    1900 - The U.S. Senate consented to the Anglo-German treaty of 1899, by which the U.K. renounced rights to the Samoan islands.

    1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.

    1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.

    1920 - The motion picture "The Kid" opened.

    1925 - Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the USSR.

    1939 - The "I Love a Mystery" debuted on NBC’s West-Coast outlets.

    1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.

    1961 - Mickey Mantle signed a contract that made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League at $75,000 for the 1961 season.

    1964 - "Hello Dolly!" opened at the St. James Theatre in New York City.

    1970 - Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi became virtual president of Libya.

    1970 - Buckminster Fuller, the designer of the geodesic dome, was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.

    1979 - The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.

    1982 - Britain and the Vatican resumed full diplomatic relations after a break of over 400 years.

    1985 - "Playboy" magazine announced its 30-year tradition of stapling centerfold models in the bellybutton and elsewhere would come to an immediate end.

    1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.

    1998 - Researchers announce that an altered gene helped to defend against HIV.

    1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

    1992 - Officials of the government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war. At least 75,000 people were killed during the fighting.

    1998 - The first woman to enroll at Virginia Military Institute withdrew from the school.

    1998 - NASA officially announced that John Glenn would fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October.

    1998 - It was announced that Texas would receive $15.3 billion in a tobacco industry settlement. The payouts were planned to take place over 25 years.

    1998 - Three federal judges secretly granted Kenneth Starr authority to probe whether U.S. President Clinton or Vernon Jordan urged Monica Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with Clinton.

    2000 - Ricardo Lagos was elected Chile's first socialist president since Salvador Allende.

    2002 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that John Walker Lindh would be brought to the United States to face trial. He was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorist organizations, and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban of Afghanistan.

    2002 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted sanctions against Osama bin Laden, his terror network and the remnants of the Taliban. The sanctions required that all nations impose arms embargoes and freeze their finances.

    2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 500 million applications downloaded.

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    In addition to my first post, on 21st March in 1413 Henry V became King of England. In 1790 Thomas Jefferson became Secretary of State to George Washington, and in 1943, an assassination attempt on Hitler failed.
    Rob.

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    Today ! Yeah, it's my birthday ! Here are some highlights:

    881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Holy Roman Emperor
    1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
    1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
    1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
    1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
    1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
    1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
    1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
    1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
    1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
    1817 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
    1818 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
    1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
    1832 – Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
    1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
    1855 – Michigan State University is established.
    1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris, France's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
    1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
    1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
    1912 – Last Emperor of China: Hsian-T'ung, the last emperor of China, is forced to abdicate following Sun Yat-sen's republican revolution, ending 267 years of Manchu rule in China and 2,000 years of imperial rule.
    1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
    1921 - South Africa gains Independence: Following general elections in South Africa General Smuts party won.
    1924 - U.S.A: First Presidential Radio Address: Calvin Coolidge became the first U.S. president to deliver an address by radio.
    1926 - U.S.A. Chase National Bank 1: One of the largest bank mergers of to this date in history has taken place. The bank merge includes Chase National, Metal National, and Mechanics Merger. This new bank would bear the name Chase National Bank, and was second only to National City Bank as the largest institution in the United States.
    1932 U.S.A. Malcolm Campbell: A new record was set by racer Captain Malcolm Campbell. He had set a record speed of 245.733 miles per hour as he sped across Daytona’s 12-mile strip.
    1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
    1934 – In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espańola.
    1935 – 785-foot USS Macon Rigid Frame Airship: The 785-foot USS Macon a rigid frame airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting was the last US Navy dirigible (ZRS-5) built, it crashed off the coast of California, killing two people.
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    1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
    1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
    1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
    1954 - Great Britain: Atomic Energy Authority: The Atomic Energy Authority has been created to control the production and development of atomic energy in the UK.
    1958 - Great Britain: Transatlantic Jet Service: The first Trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service begins by BOAC with flights between London and New York on the new Comet Jet Airliner.
    1961 – Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
    1963 – Constrcution begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
    1968 – Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
    1973 - Vietnam: First U.S. Prisoners Released: As part of the Vietnam cease-fire agreement, the first U.S. prisoners of war were released by North Vietnam.
    1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
    1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
    1992 – The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
    1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
    1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
    2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
    2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
    2002 – An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
    2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
    2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
    2011 - USA: United States Ship Found Near Hawaii: Archaeologists have found the ship that belonged to Captain George Pollard who inspired Herman Melville’s novel ‘Moby ****.’ The Two Brothers whaling ship’s remains were found off the coast of Hawaii. The ship sank in 1823 when it hit a coral reef.
    2012 – A primary election is held in Venezuela to choose the contendent against incumbent President Hugo Chávez

    And I share my birthday with Abe Lincoln apparently

    And the book about the great white whale is of course Moby Richard !!
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    Jan 11th tons of things happened too many to list including the first shipment of rhubarb to America and milk being delivered in glass bottles (calm down dont get to excited) aviation wise not much other than Amelia Earharts solo flight from Hawaii to California. The greatest thing that happened was in 1961 a wonderful baby boy was born in Chesterfield to Mr & Mrs Holden ,they names him Richard and he grew up to save the world

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    May 1st---a bunch of Soviet parades happened. (Not sure if the Russians continued the tradition.)



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    My BD was a tragic day and the one day I remember. I know there are others but this one I will never forget. 9-11

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    13 Stuka dived into the ground during an aerial practice at Neuhammer. No survivors. 1939
    1957 - USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
    And most importantly, Woodstock started on my birthday.

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    The Battle of Memphis 1862
    Battle of Belleau Wood 1918
    Battle of Midway 1942
    Battle of Normandy, D-Day 1944
    Robert F. Kennedy died 1968
    Tetris released 1984

    Mines prolly easy to guess...

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    Keeping it to Aviation or War events the following happend on my Birthday 24th July.

    1897 Amelia Earhart born

    1927 Menin Gate War Memorial unveilled at Ypres

    1943 Operation Gommorrah begins : Bombing of Hamburg both Night & Day

    1950 Cape Canaveral Air Force Base begins operations with launch of a Bumper Rocket

    1969 Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean

    2013 More Shapeways WoW Aircraft ordered to celebrate 24th July!

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    April 28th, 1940: British and French forces that were landed on the coast of Norway are evacuated by the Royal Navy.

    April 28th, 1945: The Canadian First Army (Crerar) captures Emden and Wilhelmshaven, while the US Seventh Army (Patch) occupies Augsburg, Regensburg and Ingolstadt. In the battle of Berlin, the Red Army reaches the Anhalt Station and is within half a mile of the Führerbunker. Hitler marries his mistress, Eva Braun, and dictates his political testament in which he justifies the political and military actions of his 12-year-rule, blaming the war on international Jewry and exhorting the German people even after defeat to adhere to the principles of National Socialism, especially its racial laws; he appoints Grossadmiral Dönitz as his successor. In the English Channel, German U-boats have sunk 8 Allied ships, 3 destroyers and 2 corvettes.


    357 Constantius II visits Rome for the first time.
    1282 Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily.
    1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office.
    1760 French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham.
    1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution.
    1789 The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh.
    1818 President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
    1856 Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California.
    1902 Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic.
    1910 The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.
    1916 British declare martial law throughout Ireland.
    1919 Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute.
    1920 Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union.
    1930 The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas.
    1932 A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced.
    1945 Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
    1946 The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes
    1947 Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia.
    1953 French troops evacuate northern Laos.
    1965 The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
    1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of boxing title.
    1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.
    Born on April 28

    1442 Edward IV, king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), first king of the House of York.
    1758 James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (1817-1825).
    1878 Lionel Barrymore, American stage, screen and radio actor.
    1892 John Jacob Niles, American folk singer and folklorist.
    1898 William Soutar, Scottish poet.
    1902 Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist.
    1912 Odette Hallowes, British secret agent.
    1926 Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird).
    1930 James Baker III, Cabinet secretary for Presidents Reagan and Bush.
    1936 Kenneth White, poet and essayist.
    1937 Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq.
    1937 Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsmith13 View Post
    Following on with "Do you share your birthday with an ace?", I thought it might be fun to see how many people know of events that happened on their birthdays, especially something related to aviation.

    I was born on the anniversary of the Battle of Midway.
    While not aviation specific, August 21, 1918 the Second Battle of the Somme.

    August 21, 1863 Lawrence Kansas raid by Confederate Guerilla Willuam Clark Quantrill.

    August 21, 1944 - Canadian and Polish forces capture Falaise.

    August 21, 1808 - battle of Vimerio. First Anglo-Portuguese victory in the Peninsula War.

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    One worthy of note:

    Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enters Luxembourg on outbreak of WWI


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    The Battle of Minden.

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    455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
    1010 – The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Cordoba.
    1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
    1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
    1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
    1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
    1866 – Fenian raids: the Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.

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    On my actual birthday this happened.

    Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
    - Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
    and the most important of all. - Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch.
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    1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
    1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard/ Battle at North Foreland, English fleet beats the Dutch
    1665 - New Amsterdam renamed New York by English after Dutch pull out
    1944 - 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
    1944 - British 12th airborne batallion and the 13th & 18th Hussars attack and capture Bréville. ( 13/18 Royal Hussars used to recruit in my hometown and the Regimental museum is in Cawthorne near Barnsley)

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    What may be of common interest only
    Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, 6th May, 1937.
    P-47 Thunderbolt maiden flight, 6th May 1941.
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    I share my birthday with Ceasar Chaze of farm worker fame. Mar. 31.

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    The end of the Great Patriotic War



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