2nd may

 

 

 

1945 - World War II: Fall of Berlin ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building. German forces surrender in Italy. German forces surrender to the New Zealand Army in Trieste.

 

 

 

1997 - The Labour Party's Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ending 18 years of Conservative Party rule. At 44, he is the youngest prime minister in 185 years.

 

 

 

1972 - The Rock, American professional wrestler and actor born

 

 

 

1975 - David Beckham, English footballer born

Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigned and fled to Miami.

 

 

 

No. 1's in the music charts:

 

*UK - Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army

 

*US - Bad Girls by Donna Summer

 

*Aus - Pop Muzik by M

Oh man, how pathetic is that...

 

 

 

March 18th, 1985 - The Australian television series Neighbours airs its first episode.

 

 

 

Yeah, the only thing that happened that day according to Wiki. Heheh. Maybe that's why I'm doomed to having soap opera-like neighbours wherever I move.

On my birthday a boy got kidnapped called james and it was all over the news.

 

Now try nd work out wen my b day is \

a boy got kidnapped called james

 

 

 

Was that Jamie Bulger? If so, it was February 12, 1993. I hate thinking about what those boys did to him. :cry:

Wikipedia had nothing, but the history Channel wbesite did:

 

 

 

May 31st throughout history, I'm 1991, but nothing is listed:

 

 

 

1962: Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Nazi holocaust is executed in Israel.

 

1998: Geri Halliwell confirms she's leaving the successful British group The Spice Girls.

 

1961: South Africa becomes an independent republic outside the British Commonwealth.

 

1939: Denmark signs a non-aggression pact with Germany.

 

1859: Big Ben, in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London, first begins recording time.

 

 

 

*Edit*

 

 

 

May 31st, 1991: Minnie Munro (Australia), aged 102, married Dudley Reid, 83 - a man who as some have pointed out, is technically young enough to be her son - on 31st May 1991. The marriage took place at Point Clare, New South Wales, Australia.

May 1, the joys of May Day.

Not much important stuff happened on my birthday (maybe some stuff I didn't notice, but, meh).

 

 

 

November 14th - 1990 - After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.

 

 

 

Apparently, I share the same birthday as Lil Boosie, an American rapper... Hooray for me. -.-

Not in the same year but Oprah has the same birthday as I do, Jan. 29 :wall:

September 7th ..

 

 

 

According to Wikipedia:

 

 

 

1251 BC - A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.

 

70 - A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.

 

1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

 

1539 - Guru Angad Dev becomes the second Guru of the Sikh.

 

1776 - World's first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.

 

1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.

 

1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

 

1821 - The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) was established, with SimÃÆÃâÃâón BolÃÆÃâÃâívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

 

1822 - Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal over the shores of the Ipiranga in S̮̣̉̉o Paulo.

 

1860 - Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.

 

1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

 

1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.

 

1893 - The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.

 

1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

 

1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the 1st time successfully.

 

1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

 

1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.

 

1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

 

1915 - Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.

 

1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

 

1927 - The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAnt̮̫̉̉nio Carlos.

 

1927 - The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.

 

1929 - Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake NÃÆÃâÃâäsijÃÆÃâÃâärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives were lost.

 

1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

 

1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.

 

1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

 

1942 - Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.

 

1942 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

 

1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.

 

1950 - Coal mine collapses in New Cumnock, Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.

 

1950 - The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television.

 

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.

 

1963 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.

 

1965 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.

 

1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.

 

1966 - The final new episode of The [bleep] Van [bleep] Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).

 

1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus records first episode.

 

1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.

 

1970 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

 

1970 - Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).

 

1971 - The Beverly Hillbillies airs for the last time on CBS (the first episode debuted on September 26, 1962).

 

1977 - The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

 

1978 - While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.

 

1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.

 

1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

 

1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

 

1986 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.

 

1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.

 

1996 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and recording artist Tupac Shakur is shot several times after attending a boxing match, he would later die in the hospital due to his injuries from the shooting on September 13

 

1997 - The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.

 

1998 - Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University

 

1999 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500 and leaving 50,000 people homeless.[1]

 

2004 - The Serbian government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana ÃÆââ¬Å¾Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬â¢oliÃÆââ¬Å¾Ã¢ââ¬Ã¡ to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.

 

2004 - Hurricane Ivan, a force 4 storm hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

 

2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.

nov 2, 1993= i believe clinton was elected

 

nope, that was on my birthday (nov 3 1992)

August 19

 

 

 

-Same Birthday as Ogden Nash and Orville Wright

 

-The day Hitler rose to power in Germany :shock:

 

 

 

And that's all I can remember, I didn't look at Wiki so...

Do you mean what happend? i believe I stayed at the hospital and then went home =D

Googled it.

 

 

 

June 22, 1994 in History

 

Event:

 

Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253

 

 

 

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# 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. Both the German Democratic Republic, and West Germany ceased to exist, and East German citizens become part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.

September 7th..

 

 

 

Same birthday as my brother. Weird.

September 7th..

 

 

 

Same birthday as my brother. Weird.

 

 

 

Mine was 1990. What year was his?

[edit] Events

 

219 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

 

1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

 

1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.

 

1790 - The first US Census is conducted.

 

1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in an English victory

 

1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (ShinÃÆââ¬Â¦ÃâÃ

January 14th...

 

 

 

1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Knights Templar at the Council of Troyes.

 

1301 - Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary.

 

1501 - Martin Luther, 17, enters the University of Erfurt.

 

1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.

 

1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.

 

1639 - The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, was adopted in Connecticut.

 

1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.

 

1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.

 

1761 - The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changed the course of Indian History.

 

1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.

 

1805 - Path unseen written by American novelist Markwell Scott first began publishing.

 

1814 - Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.

 

1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.

 

1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome.

 

1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.

 

1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.

 

1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.

 

1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).

 

1950 - The first prototype of the MiG-17 takes off for the first time.

 

1951 - The National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los Angeles, California).

 

1952 - The Today Show premieres on NBC.

 

1953 - President Josip Broz Tito is elected president of Yugoslavia.

 

1954 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.

 

1954 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio.

 

1963 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama.

 

1967 - Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 to 30,000 people attend.

 

1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.

 

1970 - Sato Eisaku is elected to his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.

 

1972 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.

 

1972 - The TV comedy Sanford & Son (an American import of the British comedy Steptoe and Son) premieres on NBC.

 

1973 - Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.

 

1975 - Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".

 

1978 - Johnny Rotten quits the Sex Pistols after the final show of their American tour, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

 

1984 - Ray Mancini defeats Bobby Chacon by a knockout in three to retain his WBA boxing world Lightweight title in Reno.

 

1993 - David Letterman announces he is moving his television talk show from NBC to CBS.

 

1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords.

 

1996 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal.

 

1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis).

 

1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people.

 

2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.

 

2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a record high of 11,722.98.

 

2004 - Goatse.cx is suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration following a massive grassroots movement to close the site forever.

 

2004 - The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", was restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.

 

2004 - US President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration.

 

2005 - Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.

 

 

 

My birthdate is bolded, so great to be born on the day SNL was moved, LMAO.

December 22, 1990:

 

 

 

1990 - Lech WaÃÆââ¬Â¦Ã¢ââ¬Ã¡ÃÆââ¬Å¾Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢sa is sworn in as President of Poland.

 

1990 - Paul Coffey of the Pittsburgh Penguins becomes the National Hockey League's first defenseman to score 1,000 points. He would finish his career with 1,531 points.

 

and LOL:

 

1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge--German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium; prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "NUTS!"

 

 

 

 

 

NUTS!

April 4th History

 

1541: Ignatius of Loyola becomes first superior-general of the Jesuits

 

1581: Frances Drake completres circumnavigation of the world, proving the earth is not flat

 

1818: Congress decided US flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars

 

1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 'NATO', formed in Washington USA

 

1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

 

 

April 4th Birthdays

 

1896: Tristan Tzara, French poet

 

1899: Duke Ellington, American band leader

 

1914: Marguerite Duras, French writer

 

1915: Muddy Waters, Chicago blues singer

 

1928: Maya Angelou, American poet

 

1932: Anthony Perkins, American actor

 

1992: Me!!

Why wouldn't that info be correct?

 

 

 

1.Why would someone make that up

 

2.Why do you think that changing an article is as easy as breathing?

 

 

 

God, I hate people who are so ignorant that they think wiki is all fake

2004 - U.S. presidential election, 2004: George W. Bush defeats John Kerry for the US presidency.

happy tenth birthday me! #-o :wall: :evil:

well, unfortunatly , on my b-day this year (feb 8th 2007) anna nicole smith passed away

From wikipedia-

 

 

 

1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding. :shock: