Your birthday

[cav58d]

Anything interesting/important happen throughout the course of history on the date of your birth? (not necessarily year)

May 8th -  VE Day

[DiabloTX]

Not a whole lot.

January 21:

1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1276 - Innocent V becomes Pope.
1287 - The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1643 - Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
1720 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 - After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
1853 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
1887 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
1899 - Opel Motors opens for business.
1907 - The Kenora Thistles win the Stanley Cup, representing the smallest town (Kenora, Ontario) ever to win ice hockey's ultimate prize, or any major North American sports title.
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.
1911 - The first Monte Carlo Rally.
1915 - Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 - Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin, Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1921 - The Italian Communist Party is founded at Livorno.
1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
1925 - Albania declares itself a republic.
1927 - First live radio commentary of a football (soccer) match anywhere in the world- Arsenal vs. Sunderland at Highbury. The match ended in a 1-1 draw.
1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1950 - Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
1958 - The last Fokker C.X in military service, the FAF FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
1968 - Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1969 - An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
1972 - Tripura becomes a full- fledged state in India.
1976 - Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1985 - Because January 20 had fallen on a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's public inaugural ceremony (for his second term as President) was moved to Monday, January 21. Due to bad weather, the ceremony was held indoors in the United States Capital Rotunda.[1]
1986 - The day Jenna Caroline Knowles, of the Knowles-Verlander family of New Haven, Connecticut, was born at 6:28am
1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
2002 - Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 - Canada: The residence of reporter Juliet O'Neill is searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
2004 - NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6th.
2005 - In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

[WMLute]

Neat! I share a birthday with Ivan the Terrible!



0476 - Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of the western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaimed himself King of Italy.

1530 - Russian Czar Ivan "The Terrible" was born.

1609 - English navigator Henry Hudson began exploring the island of Manhattan.

1776 - Francois Rene Chateaubriand was born. He was a French poet, novelist, statesman, historian and explorer.

1781 - Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula," which translates as "The Town of the Queen of Angels."

1825 - New York Governor Clinton ceremoniously emptied a barrel of Lake Erie water in the Atlantic Ocean to consumate the "Marriage of the Waters" of the Great Lakes and the Atlantic.

1833 - Barney Flaherty answered an ad in "The New York Sun" and became the first newsboy/paperboy at the age of 10.

1882 - Thomas Edison's Pearl Street electric power station began operations in New York City. It was the first display of a practical electrical lighting system.

1885 - The Exchange Buffet opened in New York City. It was the first self-service cafeteria in the U.S.

1886 - Geronimo, and the Apache Indians he led, surrendered in Skeleton Canyon in Arizona to Gen. Nelson Miles.

1888 - George Eastman registered the name "Kodak" and patented his roll-film camera. The camera took 100 exposures per roll.

1894 - A strike in New York City by 12,000 tailors took place to protest sweatshops.

1899 - An 8.3 earthquake hit Yakutat Bar, AK.

1917 - Henry Ford II was born. He was the head of the Ford Motor Company for 40 years.

1917 - The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.

1921 - The first police broadcast was made by radio station WIL in St. Louis, MO.

1944 - During World War II, British troops entered the city of Antwerp, Belgium.

1948 - The Dutch Queen Wilhelmina left her throne for health reasons.

1949 - The longest pro tennis match in history was played when Pancho Gonzales and Ted Schroeder played 67 games in five sets.

1951 - The first live, coast-to-coast TV broadcast took place in the U.S. The event took place in San Francisco, CA from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. It was seen all the way to New York City, NY.

1953 - The New York Yankees became the first baseball team to win five consecutive American League championships.

1957 - The Arkansas National Guard was ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to keep nine black students from going into Little Rock's Central High School.

1957 - The Ford Motor Company began selling the Edsel. The car was so unpopular that it was taken off the market only two years.

1967 - "Gilligan's Island" aired for the last time on CBS-TV. It ran for 98 shows.

1967 - Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone "brainwashing" by U.S. officials while visiting Vietnam in 1965.

1971 - An Alaska Airlines jet crashed killing 111 people near Juneau.

1971 - "The Lawrence Welk Show" was seen for the last time on ABC-TV.

1972 - Swimmer Mark Spitz captured his seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay event at Munich, Germany. Spitz was the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.

1973 - John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy were indicted with two others in connection with the burglary of a psychiatrist's office two years earlier.

1982 - The Dorothy May Apartment-Hotel building in Los Angeles, CA was set on fire by an arsonist killing 25 people.

1983 - U.S. officials announced that there had been an American plane, used for reconnaissance, in the vicinity of the Korean Air Lines flight that was shot down.

1986 - South African security forces halted a mass funeral for the victims of the riot in Soweto.

1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust was convicted by a Soviet court and sentenced to four years in a labor camp. The charges were concerning his daring flight into Moscow's Red Square. He was released after one year.

1988 - Bangladesh officials reported that at least 882 people had been killed by floods that had inundated their nation.

1989 - A reconnaissance satellite was released by the Air Force's Titan Three rocket. The Titan Three set over 200 satellites into space between 1964 and 1989.

1993 - Pope John Paul II started his first visit to the former Soviet Union.

1993 - Jim Abbott, pitcher for the New York Yankees, pitched a no-hitter. Abbott had been born without a right hand.

1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women was opened in Beijing. There were over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.

1997 - A triple suicide bombing in the heart of Jerusalem killed seven people, including the three assailants.

1997 - Three Buddhist nuns acknowledged in testimony to the U.S. Senate that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later destroyed or altered records.

1998 - In Mexico, bankers stopped approving personal loans and mortgages.

1998 - The International Monetary Fund approved a $257 million loan for the Ukraine.

1998 - While in Ireland, U.S. President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and described his behavior as indefensible.

1999 - The United Nations announced that the residents of East Timor had overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum held on August 30. In Dili, pro-Indonesian militias attacked independence supporters, burned buildings, blew up bridges and destroyed telecommunication facilities.

2002 - The Oakland Athletics won their AL-record 20th straight game. The A's gave up an 11-run lead during the game and then won the game a Scott Hatteberg home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.

2003 - Keegan Reilly, 22, became the first parapalegic climber to reach the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji.    


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[DiabloTX]

January 21 births:

1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1721 - James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1804 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1815 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate Army general (d. 1863)
1825 - Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1860 - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1867 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1867 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
1882 - Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1884 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1887 - Georges Vezina, Canadian hockey player (d. 1926)
1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1897 - René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
1901 - Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1905 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1912 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1918 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1921 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer
1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1922 - Paul Scofield, English actor
1923 - Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)
1924 - Benny Hill, British actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
1926 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1927 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby player (d. 1985)
1932 - John Chaney, American basketball coach
1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 - Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer
1938 - John Savident, British actor
1938 - Wolfman Jack, disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
1941 - Richie Havens, American musician
1941 - Ivan Putski, Polish professional wrestler
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1942 - Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1946 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1947 - Jill Eikenberry, American actress
1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1952 - Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1952 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur
1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 - Robby Benson, American actor
1956 - Geena Davis, American actress
1958 - Michael Wincott, Canadian actor
1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist
1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born basketball player
1963 - Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 - Robert Del Naja, English musician
1967 - DiabloTX, a AHII BBS senior member
1968 - Charlotte Ross, American actress
1968 - Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1970 - Ken Leung, American actor
1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 - Doug Weight, American hockey player
1971 - Brian Giles, baseball player
1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1972 - Alan Benes, baseball player
1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 - Antonio Álvarez "Ito", Spanish footballer
1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby player
1977 - Philip Neville, English footballer
1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian hockey player
1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player
1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1980 - Dave Kitson, English footballer
1981 - Andy Lee, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
1981 - Ivan Ergic, Serbian footballer
1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian hockey player
1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model
1983 - Moritz Volz, German footballer
1985 - Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 - Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
1991 - Nick Terzic, Famous Drummer
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

[nirvana]

I only know that I share the same birthday with with Stevie Ray Vaughn, October 3rd.

[Hornet33]

January 24th

41 - Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.
1438 - The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
1742 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1776 - Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
1826 - Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi.
1848 - California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
1857 - The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1859 - Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
1878 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
1907 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1918 - A decree of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1, issued.
1924 - Petrograd, formerly St. Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1935 - The first cans of beer are sold in the US (Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale).
1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
1952 - Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117.
1972 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been in hiding since 1944, when U.S. forces liberated the island during World War II.
1977 - Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.
1986 - Wapping dispute. Newspaper workers in London launch ultimately unsuccessful strike against Rupert Murdoch's News International.
1993 - Turkish journalist and writer Uður Mumcu assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara
1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges he spied for Moscow.
2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2005 - Officially named "Jim Ross Day" in Oklahoma by Governor Brad Henry.
2006 - Disney agrees to purchase Pixar in an all-stock deal, making Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney.
2007 - A prehistoric shark was seen and recorded off the coast of Japan for the first time ever.

[DiabloTX]

Originally posted by nirvana
I only know that I share the same birthday with with Stevie Ray Vaughn, October 3rd.

Vaughan.  October 3, 1954.  Same year the Stratocaster was introduced.  Coincidence?  I think not.

Wish I could trade with ya.

[nirvana]

Not really a fan of SRV myself but it is what it is.

[ROC]

Highlights in History Which Occur February 9:
1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1574 Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht
1621 Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
1674 English reconquer NY from Netherlands
1744 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
1801 France & Austrian sign Peace of Lun‚ville
1822 American Indian Society organizes
1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1849 Roman Republic declared
1861 Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
 and Tennessee votes against secession
1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state
1870 Grant signs bill forming Federal Meteorological Service
1871 Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
1877 US weather service forms
1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #222 Lucia
1885 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1886 Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of
     anti-Chinese violence
1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
1893 Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
1895 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
 and Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1904 Japan declares war on Russia
1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #558 Carmen
1909 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1912 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #729 Watsonia
 and S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #849 Ara
 and US Tennis Assn amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
1913 -18) 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1917 M Wolf discovers asteroid #863 Benkoela
1918 Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va
1920 International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
1922 Italian govt of Bonomi forms
 and Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms
1924 Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
1925 German Minister Stresemann signs security treaty with France
 and Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1929 USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
1932 US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
1933 -63øF (-53øC), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
1934 -14.3øF (-25.8øC), coldest day in New York City
 and -51øF (-46øC), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
 and Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
1939 Belgian Spaak govt falls
1940 Joe Louis defends heavyweight boxing title beating Arturo Godov
1941 British troops conquer El Agheila
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
 and Japanese troop land near Makassar, South-Celebes
 and Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
1943 FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
 and German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp
 and Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
1945 -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
1947 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Phila
1948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with communists
1953 "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
 and WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1954 Mario Scelba forms new govt in Italy
1955 US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
1956 -5øF (15øC) in Sicily
 and KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
 and R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
1960 AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
1961 Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
1962 Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet (Would have made news had my birth not eclipsed this event)
 and 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1964 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
 and 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
 and GI Joe character created
 and NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
1966 Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
1968 Rotterdam metro inaugurated
1969 KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
 and World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1971 Apollo 14 returns to Earth
 and Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
1975 L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #1963 Bezovec
 and Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
1978 Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City, Fla; later executed
1979 ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
 and Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
 and Nigeria amends constitution
1980 Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game
1981 L Brozek discovers asteroid #2622 Bolzano & #3423
 and T Seki discovers asteroid #2396 Kochi & #2621 Goto
1983 Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1985 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
 and Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
 and Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
 and Tomb of Tutanchamons found in Egypt
1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1988 Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference 6-5 in NHL All Star Game
1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
 and Michael Manleys Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1990 "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
 and Doina Melinte runs world record 1500m (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
 and Galileo flies by Venus
 and Namibia's constitution ratified
1991 Johan Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)
 and US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
1992 NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1971  Quake in the San Fernando Valley kills 26 and causes over
      half $billion damage.

1971  Quake in the San Fernando Valley kills 26 and causes over

 LIVED in San Fernando Valley, my birthday, was quite ugly.

[Masherbrum]

Diablo, I just found out I share it with Les Paul.

June 9, 1981 Natalie Portman, actress, Professional, Everyone Says I Love You
June 9, 1979 Amisha Patel, Indian Actress
June 9, 1973 Chris Villarrial, center/guard for the Chicago Bears
June 9, 1973 Grant Marshall, Mississauga, NHL right wing for the Dallas Stars
June 9, 1973 Orlondo Steinauer, CFL cornerback for the Hamilton Tiger Cats
June 9, 1973 Tedy Bruschi, linebacker for the New England Patriots
June 9, 1972 Bryan Strang, cricket pace bowler, brother of Paul Zimbabwe 1995-
June 9, 1972 Steven Salter, CFL offensive linebacker for the Toronto Argonauts
June 9, 1972 Wardell Rouse, NFL linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
June 9, 1971 D'Marco Farr, defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams
June 9, 1971 Joey Gullion, Gallopolis, Ohio, Nike golfer, NIKE South Carolina Classic-18th
June 9, 1971 Roderick Lewis, NFL tight end, Houston/Tennessee Oilers
June 9, 1971 Romano Sion, soccer player, Dordrecht '90/FC Groningen
June 9, 1970 Harry Van Hofwegen, CFL defensive tackle for the BC Lions
June 9, 1970 Russ Romaniuk, born in Winnipeg, NHL left wing for the Philadelphia Flyers
June 9, 1969 Keith Alex, NFL guard for the Minnesota Vikings
June 9, 1969 Mitch McLee, born in Miles, Michigan, drummer, Southgang
June 9, 1968 Tom Rouen, NFL punter, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32
June 9, 1967 Robert Reading, born in Buffalo, New York, 110m hurdler
June 9, 1966 Anthony Martino, CFL punter for the Calgary Stampeders
June 9, 1965 Gloria Reuben, actress, Jeanie Boulet-ER
June 9, 1965 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner
June 9, 1964 Gloria Reuben, born in Toronto, actress, Jeanie Boulet-ER
June 9, 1964 Wayman Tisdale, NBA center and forward for the Phoenix Suns
June 9, 1963 Johnny Depp, born in Queensboro, Kentucky, actor, 21 Jump Street, Ed Wood
June 9, 1962 Eddie Lundon, rocker, China Crisis-Christian
June 9, 1961 Michael J. Fox, actor, Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf
June 9, 1961 Aaron Sorkin, American Producer
June 9, 1959 Peter Fowler, Hornsby NSW, Australasia golfer
June 9, 1957 Elly van Holly, running star, 3k indoor world record
June 9, 1956 Patricia Cornwell, American Writer
June 9, 1954 Pete Byrne Bath England, rocker, Naked Eyes
June 9, 1951 Benny Neyman, Dutch singer, I Don't Know How
June 9, 1951 Bonnie Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins], rocker, Total Eclipse of the Heart
June 9, 1951 Dave Parker, baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates, NL MVP 1978
June 9, 1949 Douglas Henderson, British MP
June 9, 1948 Jim Bailey, NCAA punter, most punts in season-101, Virginia Miltary Academy
June 9, 1948 Nathaniel Rosen, born in Altadena, California, cellist, Tchaikovsky-gold-1978
June 9, 1947 Mitch Mitchell, drummer, Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze
June 9, 1946 Peter Kilfoyle, British MP
June 9, 1945 Faina Myelink, U.S.S.R., discus thrower, Olympics gold 1972
June 9, 1944 Brigid Bazlen, born in Wisconsin, actress, Pam-Too Young to go Steady
June 9, 1944 Viscount Craigavon
June 9, 1943 Charles Saatchi, English magnate, Saatchi and Saatchi
June 9, 1943 Joe [William] Haldeman, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart
June 9, 1943 Joe Haldeman, American Author
June 9, 1942 Nicholas Lloyd, editor, Daily Express
June 9, 1942 Richard Hutton, cricketer, son of Len, 5 Tests 1971
June 9, 1941 Billy Hatton, rocker
June 9, 1941 Jon Lord, born in England, keyboardist, Deep Purple-Hush, White Snake
June 9, 1941 Peter Wilson, CEO, Gallaher
June 9, 1940 Dick Vitale, U.S., sportscaster, ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!"
June 9, 1940 Shirley Muldowney, American Celebrity
June 9, 1939 David Hobbs, auto racer
June 9, 1939 Derek Hunt, CEO, MFI Furniture Group
June 9, 1938 Anne Kenny, Mudgee NSW, golfer, 1968, 71 Australian Champ
June 9, 1938 Charles Wuorinen, New York City, composer, Pulitzer 1980
June 9, 1938 Jeremy Hardie, CEO, W. H. Smith Group
June 9, 1938 Peter Sanders, CEO, Commission for Racial Equality
June 9, 1938 Roger Hurn, CEO, Smith's Industries
June 9, 1937 Sven Conrad Stayers, cricketer, WI fast bowler 1962
June 9, 1935 Diana Van Der Vlis, actress, Lovespell, Girl in Black Stockings
June 9, 1934 Helga Haase, German FR, 500m speed skater 1960 Olympics gold
June 9, 1934 Jackie Wilson, Detroit, singer, Lonely Teardrops, Night
June 9, 1934 Joe Santos, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Rockford Files, AKA Pablo, Shamus
June 9, 1934 Michael Mates, MP
June 9, 1934 Pal Karolyi, composer
June 9, 1934 Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
June 9, 1933 Dick Orkin, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, actor, Tim Conway Show
June 9, 1933 Don Young, Rep-R-AK, 1973-
June 9, 1933 Patrick Symons, British vice-admiral
June 9, 1932 Douglas Smith, CEO, Acas
June 9, 1931 Bill Virdon, 2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals/mgr, New York Yankees
June 9, 1931 Jackie Mason, born in Wisconsin, comedian, World According to Me, Chicken Soup
June 9, 1930 Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, U.S., sci-fi author, Thongor of Lemuria
June 9, 1930 Marvin Kalb, born in New York City, educator/newscaster, CBS/NBC, Meet the Press
June 9, 1929 Johnny Ace, born in Memphis, Tennessee, R&B singer, My Song
June 9, 1929 June O'Dell, deputy CEO, Equal Opportunities Commission
June 9, 1929 Robert E. Badham, Rep-R-CA, 1977-
June 9, 1928 Geraint Gruffydd, director, University of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies
June 9, 1927 Franco Donatoni, composer
June 9, 1927 Norman Sisisky, Rep-D-VA, 1983-
June 9, 1926 Mona Freeman, born in Baltimore, actress, Black Beauty, Dear Wife, Heiress
June 9, 1926 Roy Smalley, shortstop, Cubs, Braves, Phillies, Twins, Yankees
June 9, 1925 Roy Hughes, MP
June 9, 1925 John Keith Laumer, [Anthony LeBaron], U.S., science fiction author, Retief's War
June 9, 1924 Christine Goitschel, born in France, slalom 1964 Olympic gold
June 9, 1924 Peter Heatly, CEO, Commonwealth Games Federation
June 9, 1924 Tony Britton, born in Birmingham, England, actor, Day of Jackal, Girl in my Soup
June 9, 1923 Gerald Gotting, German DR president, CDU
June 9, 1922 George Axelrod, playwright, Breakfast at Tiffany, Bus Stop
June 9, 1922 P G Beazley, MEP
June 9, 1921 Agnes Keleti, born in Hungary, gymnist, Olympics gold 1952, 56
June 9, 1920 Isobel June Braybrooke English, novellist
June 9, 1919 Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player
June 9, 1918 Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor, Ciske de Rat
June 9, 1916 Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Sec of Defense, 1961-68, head World Bank
June 9, 1915 Jane Cowan, cello teacher
June 9, 1915 Les Paul, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, guitarist/inventor, Les Paul guitar
June 9, 1914 Barbara Mullen, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Thunder Rock, Innocent Sinners
June 9, 1914 Hermann Haller, composer
June 9, 1913 Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, Lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army
June 9, 1912 Edgar Evans, tenor
June 9, 1912 Ingolf Dahl, born in Hamburg, Germany, composer, Andante and Arioso
June 9, 1912 Kenneth L. Pike, American Sociologist
June 9, 1910 Geoffrey Musson, British General
June 9, 1910 Vbilmos Demian, composer
June 9, 1909 Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher
June 9, 1908 J F Williams-Wynne, Lord-Lieutenant, Gwynedd
June 9, 1908 Robert Cummings, born in Joplin, Missouri, actor, Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder
June 9, 1906 Tonio Selwart, born in Germany, actor, Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja
June 9, 1905 Harry "Bull" Alexander, cricketer, Aus quick 1 Test Bodyline series
June 9, 1905 Walter Kraft, composer
June 9, 1903 Marcia Davenport, American Author
June 9, 1901 George Price, cartoonist
June 9, 1901 Marion Gering, actress, Sarumba, Rumba, Ready for Love, 24 Hours
June 9, 1900 Fred Waring, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, musician/conductor/inventor, Waring Blender
June 9, 1900 Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot
June 9, 1893 Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist, Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate
June 9, 1893 Samuel N. Behrman, U.S. screenwriter, Tale of 2 Cities, Daddy Long Legs
June 9, 1892 Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics CEO/founder, Helena Rubinstein
June 9, 1890 Leslie Banks, English actor and director, Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours
June 9, 1888 Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer
June 9, 1888 Hugo Kauder, composer
June 9, 1886 Kusaku Yamada, composer
June 9, 1884 Johannes Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/conductor
June 9, 1879 Dudley Digges
June 9, 1879 Oscar Back, Austrian-Dutch viola player
June 9, 1877 Rudolf Borchardt, writer
June 9, 1875 Henry Dale, London, physiologist, Nobel-1936
June 9, 1865 Alberic Magnard, composer
June 9, 1865 Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer, Det Uuslukkelige
June 9, 1865 Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer
June 9, 1861 Floris H Verster, [van Wulverhorst], painter/cartoonist/etcher
June 9, 1854 Gerardus J P J Bolland, Dutch philosopher, Bolland Society
June 9, 1849 Joseph Vezina, composer
June 9, 1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905
June 9, 1836 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England, Aldeburgh
June 9, 1833 John Rogers Cooke, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1891
June 9, 1829 Gaetano Braga, composer
June 9, 1828 Carlo Marsili, composer
June 9, 1812 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist, Fehling's reagens
June 9, 1812 Johann G Galle, German astronomer, discovered Neptune.
June 9, 1810 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer
June 9, 1792 Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary
June 9, 1791 John Howard Payne, U.S., author/actor/diplomat, Home Sweet Home
June 9, 1781 George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor, RR locomotive
June 9, 1672 Peter I Romanov, tsar of Russia, 1682-1725
June 9, 1640 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1658-1705
June 9, 1597 Pieter J Saenredam, architecture painter
June 9, 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, composer
June 9, 1573 Henricus Hondius, Dutch etcher/publisher
June 9, 1510 Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Harlem

[cav58d]

I was sorta thinking we could all just pick like one or two things that were pretty cool from your birth date, but hey, this works...haha

[megadud]

Originally posted by ROC

1948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
 

W0OOoT!! Go Cincinnati!

Sept 18

i was born

that is all that is important in history

[Masherbrum]

Events

June 9, 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, Colorado Avalanche beat New Jersey Devils 4 games to 3
June 9, 1997 British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires
June 9, 1997 Detroit Tigers bat out of order against Oakland A's in 1st inning
June 9, 1996 Sunday League game Kent 6-314 overhaul Leicestershire's 4-311
June 9, 1993 "What's Love Got to Do with It", premieres
June 9, 1993 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Los Angeles Kings, 4 games to 1
June 9, 1993 Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale
June 9, 1991 Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa
June 9, 1991 Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI
June 9, 1991 WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0
June 9, 1990 Czechoslovakia beats U.S. 5-1 in World Cup soccer
June 9, 1990 Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with switch hit home runs in 10 games
June 9, 1990 Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) and Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed
June 9, 1990 Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage
June 9, 1990 Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf for French Open title
June 9, 1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
June 9, 1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals
June 9, 1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
June 9, 1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K.
June 9, 1986 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn
June 9, 1986 Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0
June 9, 1986 Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points
June 9, 1986 Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol
June 9, 1985 39th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
June 9, 1985 American Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped and held hostage in Lebanon
June 9, 1985 U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 deposits lander on surface of Venus
June 9, 1984 Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
June 9, 1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley
June 9, 1980 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers and Loretta Lynn
June 9, 1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine
June 9, 1980 Phillies and San Francisco Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
June 9, 1980 Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
June 9, 1979 Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st and last time
June 9, 1979 Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome
June 9, 1978 Gutenberg Bible, 1 of 21, sells for $2.4 million, London
June 9, 1978 Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
June 9, 1977 George and Patti Harrison divorce
June 9, 1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
June 9, 1974 Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
June 9, 1972 14" of rain in 6 hours burst Rapid City, South Dakota dam, drowns 237
June 9, 1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
June 9, 1971 Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
June 9, 1970 Argentine milt junta under lt-gen Lanusse drives out President Ongania
June 9, 1970 Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton
June 9, 1970 Harry A. Blackmun, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
June 9, 1969 Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems
June 9, 1969 Warren Burger confirmed as U.S. Chief Justice
June 9, 1968 Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms
June 9, 1967 Boycott scores 246* vs. India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
June 9, 1967 Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl
June 9, 1966 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, and Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4
June 9, 1964 Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament
June 9, 1963 1st Sunday night game in baseball San Francisco Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
June 9, 1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"
June 9, 1963 Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game
June 9, 1963 Equal Pay Act enacted
June 9, 1963 John F. Kennedy names Winston Churchill U.S. honorary citizen
June 9, 1962 Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
June 9, 1961 Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox
June 9, 1960 ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract
June 9, 1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched, George Washington
June 9, 1958 "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
June 9, 1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
June 9, 1955 100 degrees F - Hottest day in Seattle Washington
June 9, 1954 Joseph Welch asks Sen Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings
June 9, 1953 "Milton Berle Show/Texaco Star Theater," last airs on NBC-TV
June 9, 1953 Worcester County tornado, 94 killed, 1310 injured, 10,000 homeless
June 9, 1951 "Doodles Weaver Show," debuts on NBC-TV
June 9, 1948 WBZ TV channel 4 in Boston, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
June 9, 1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest
June 9, 1946 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
June 9, 1946 New York Giant Mel Ott is 1st mgr ejected from both games of a doubleheader
June 9, 1945 "Gruesome Twosome," premieres in USA
June 9, 1945 Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo
June 9, 1945 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
June 9, 1944 Russian offensive in Carelia
June 9, 1943 U.S. income tax withholding paycheck deductions authorized
June 9, 1942 Adipatie Ario Soejono becomes minister in Gerbrandy government
June 9, 1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
June 9, 1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Czechoslovakia
June 9, 1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500
June 9, 1941 Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio
June 9, 1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill
June 9, 1940 Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II
June 9, 1938 Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany
June 9, 1934 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released
June 9, 1934 Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little Hen")
June 9, 1934 Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for U.S. Open
June 9, 1933 Spanish president Zamora takes power
June 9, 1933 Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
June 9, 1931 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard
June 9, 1931 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon
June 9, 1929 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
June 9, 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane
June 9, 1924 "Jelly-Roll Blues," is recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton
June 9, 1923 Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans
June 9, 1923 Bulgarian premier Stamboeliski and King Boris III overthrown
June 9, 1919 General steel strike in France
June 9, 1914 Honus Wagner, is 2nd to get 3,000 hits
June 9, 1910 Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland
June 9, 1906 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3
June 9, 1902 1st Automat restaurant opens, 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
June 9, 1901 New York Giants get record 31 hits to beat Cin Reds 25-13
June 9, 1899 James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 for heavywgt boxing title
June 9, 1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
June 9, 1883 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation in Chicago
June 9, 1877 11th Belmont: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:46
June 9, 1870 Washington: President Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud
June 9, 1869 Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer, Philadelphia
June 9, 1868 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California
June 9, 1865 Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi
June 9, 1864 Battle of Big Shanty, Georgia
June 9, 1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha
June 9, 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia, Fleetwood, Beverly Ford
June 9, 1862 Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp
June 9, 1822 Charles Graham patents false teeth
June 9, 1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
June 9, 1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
June 9, 1784 John Carroll appointed supervisor of U.S. Catholic Missions
June 9, 1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
June 9, 1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI
June 9, 1752 French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
June 9, 1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia
June 9, 1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe
June 9, 1720 Sweden and Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
June 9, 1628 1st deportation from what is now U.S., Thomas Morton from Mass
June 9, 1588 Spanish Armada sails from Lisbon to England
June 9, 1572 Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland
June 9, 1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
June 9, 1549 England enforces Act of Supremacy
June 9, 1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St. Lawrence River
June 9, 1531 Pope Clemens VII and Francois I sign secret treaty against Karel V
June 9, 1529 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons
June 9, 1525 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch
June 9, 1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
June 9, 1075 Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen
June 9, 922 French republic chooses Robert I, King of France
June 9, 641 Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria

[nirvana]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
Events

June 9, 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, Colorado Avalanche beat New Jersey Devils 4 games to 3
 

I remember that game, as well as it being the first time hitch hiking when the van broke down as we were coming home.  Good times:aok

[DieAz]

from google

November 26th in History
1789: First national thanksgiving day celebrated in America, to mark the 1621 harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers
1867: The first ever woman to vote in a British election casts her vote, due to a mistake in the electoral register
1922: In Egypt, Howard Carter and Lord Caernavon discover the tomb of Tutankhamun


November 26th birthdays
1922: Charles Schultz, American cartoonist
1933: Robert Goulet, American actor
1938: Tina Turner, American singer and actress

This Day In European History
26th November
Events
1580: The Peace of Fleix ends the Seventh War of Religion.
1703: Over 8000 killed by a storm in south-east England.
1894: Tsar Nicholas II succeeds to the throne.
1922: Howard Carter, British archaeologist, opens the tomb of Tutankhamen.
1983: The Brinks Mat robbery; thieves steal £26 million of gold from a British warehouse.
Births
1731: William Cowper, English poet.
1857: Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist.

Deaths
1504: Queen Isabella I of Castille and Aragon.
1686: Nicolas Steno, Danish astronomer.
1822: Karl August, Prussian statesman.
1851: Nicolas-Jean Soult, French marshal and prime minister.

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.za/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_November_26.php

this guy was born

this guy died


November 26th

On this day,  
 
 
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1789 1st national thanksgiving
1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12« fare)
1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, killing 15 (Washington)
1973 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1975 Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
 
Births
 
1607 John Harvard England, clergyman/scholar, major benefactor to Harvard University (library & half his estate)
1922 Charles M Schulz cartoonist (Peanuts)

Deaths
 
1883 Sojourner Truth abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies
1939 James Naismith Basketball inventor, dies
1970 B O Davis Sr 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1973 Albert DiSalvo Boston strangler, stabbed.

should have wikied it to begin with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_26th