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heath ledger was born, isoroku yamamoto was born

Took the most interesting/important.

Events wrote:

1883 - First run of the Orient Express.
1918 - An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.
1940 - Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
1943 - World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
1957 - Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. By being the first private craft to fly into space.

Births wrote:

1941 - Anne Rice, American writer
1948 - Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
1989 - Lil Mama, American rapper

Events (many more)
1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board
1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies; a lengthy power struggle emerges between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin begins, culminating to the latter's consolidation of power c. 1928.
1908 - New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor
1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.

Births (also many more):
1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1942 - Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1974 - Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian

Holidays (more too):
Flag Day - Quebec
Wellington Anniversary - New Zealand

Apparently the first taxi's were in london

fun fact, thanks Wikipedia o/\o

* 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
    * 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
    * 1061 - Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II
    * 1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
    * 1531 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
    * 1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
    * 1628 - The Siege of La Rochelle, which had been lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
    * 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
    * 1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
    * 1775 - American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
    * 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
    * 1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
    * 1848 - The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened.
    * 1864 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
    * 1886 - In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
    * 1891 - The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
    * 1893 - Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its premiere performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
    * 1918 - World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
    * 1918 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) is established.
    * 1919 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
    * 1922 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
    * 1929 - Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
    * 1936 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
    * 1940 - World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II. It is celebrated in Greece as Okhi Day (Όχι=No) Day.
    * 1942 - The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
    * 1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
    * 1954 - The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy.
    * 1959 - The Buffalo Bills oficially enter the American Football League. They would later become a present day National Football League team as part of the AFL-NFL Merger.
    * 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
    * 1964 - Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
    * 1965 - Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.
    * 1970 - Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
    * 1971 - Britain launches its first (and as of 2007, only) satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
    * 1982 - Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
    * 1985 - Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and makes peace overtures to the United States; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
    * 1986 - The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York Harbor.
    * 1998 - An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
    * 2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
    * 2006 - Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.

Julius Ceaser was killed on my day

November 7 1989


**Melbourne cup day

1991 - Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.


tbh

Tl;dr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_7

The sky darkened, milk curdled, birds and insects fell dead from the sky.
Thats about it I think.

July 13th

Harrison Ford was born

The Simpsons first aired on my first birthday (17/12/89)

Civil Rights Act of 1968.. pretty cool

March 17th
St. Patricks Day FTW!!!
180 - Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor of the Roman Empire
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1864) (I hate this racist bastard, he is one of the reasons for the civil war)
1845 - The rubber band is patented (lol)
1861 - The Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946) is proclaimed. (ironic considering I'm 1/4 italian)
1939 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out.
1941 - In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1966 - Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. ("found it")
2008 - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.

Last edited by Narupug (2009-01-17 21:55:43)

* 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
    * 1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
    * 1500 - Treaty of Granada - Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
    * 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
    * 1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
    * 1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
    * 1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
    * 1750 - The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
    * 1778 - Cherry Valley Massacre: an attack by Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces on a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
    * 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
    * 1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
    * 1839 - The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
    * 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
    * 1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
    * 1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
    * 1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
    * 1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
    * 1889 - Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
    * 1911 - Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
    * 1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) this is annually honoured with two-minutes of silence.
    * 1918 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence, celebrated each year on this day.
    * 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
    * 1919 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
    * 1919 - Lāčuplēšu day - Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
    * 1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
    * 1924 - Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first Greek Republic.
    * 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established.
    * 1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
    * 1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
    * 1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
    * 1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.
    * 1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.
    * 1960 - A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was crushed.
    * 1962 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
    * 1965 - In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
    * 1966 - NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
    * 1967 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
    * 1968 - Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal was to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
    * 1968 - A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
    * 1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
    * 1975 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
    * 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
    * 2000 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
    * 2001 - Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top of.
    * 2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
    * 2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
    * 2006 - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
    * 2008 - Egyptian archeologists discover the 4,300-year-old pyramid belonging to Queen Sesheshet, mother of King Teti
    * 2008 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.



    * Angola - Independence Day (1975)
    * Maldives - Republic Day (1968)

Several nations celebrate, in some way, the end of World War I, the ceasefire of which went into effect at 11:00am CET on this day in 1918.

    * Armistice Day in New Zealand, France and Belgium
    * Independence Day in Poland
    * Lāčplēsis Day (1919) in Latvia: the official date for commemoration of Latvian soldiers, who had died for the country's freedom.
    * Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada.
    * Veterans Day in the United States (called Armistice Day until 1954, when the name was changed, and the holiday was re-geared toward all military veterans)

Feast day of:

    * Bartholomew of Grottaferrata in the Roman Catholic Church
    * Martinmas in English-speaking countries, Feast of St. Martin of Tours
    * Martin of Tours in the Roman Catholic Church
    * St. Martin's Day in Croatia, the Netherlands, Germany, Flanders, Austria, Slovenia, Portugal and Malta
    * Saint Menas in the Roman Catholic Church
    * Soren Kierkegaard in the Lutheran Church

Popular culture:

    * Opening of carnival season in Germany ("Karneval"/"Fasching" on 11-11, at 11:11), the Netherlands, and other countries
    * Pepero Day in South Korea
    * Singles Day in China
    * Women's Day (1972) in Belgium