On December 6:
* 1240 - Kiev falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
* 1534 - Spanish found Quito, Ecuador.
* 1768 - First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
* 1790 - U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* 1865 - Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
* 1877 - First publication of the Washington Post
* 1884 - Washington Monument completed.
* 1917 - Finland declares its independence from Russia.
* 1917 - Halifax explosion kills more than 1900 people, destroys part of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
* 1921 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London by British and Irish representatives
* 1922 - One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty the Irish Free State comes into existence.
* 1933 - Federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce novel Ulysses is not obscene
* 1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
* 1957 - A launchpad explosion thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite (Project Vanguard).
* 1969 - The Rolling Stones’ Altamont Disaster rock festival
* 1977 - South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana - not recognized by any other country
* 1978 - Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
* 1989 - The École Polytechnique Massacre: a man kills 14 young women in Montreal, Quebec.
* 1992 - In Ayodhya, India, right-wing Hindus belonging to the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and allied organisations demolish the Babri Masjid, a 16th century mosque, which they claim was built upon the birth place of Lord Rama.
* 1996 - Daylight is released, starring Sylvester Stallone.
* 1997 - A Russian Antonov AN-124 transport cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67
* 1999 - Digitally Imported, one of the largest internet radio stations dedicated to electronic dance music, is started by Ari Shohat.
I share a birthday with King Ferdinand IV of Castile, King Henry VI of England, Joyce Kilmer, Ira Gershwin, and Castiglione.
We’ve got a match! (I think there are a lot of us who were conceived in the wee hours of New Year’s Day.)
June 18th:
[ul]
[li]Battle of Waterloo[/li][li]Uday Hussein and Paul McCartney born (Frog Chorus = WMD?)[/li][li]Republic of Egypt declared[/li][li]Hendrix burns his guitar onstage[/li][li]Monmouth Rebellion[/li][li]National holidays in the Seychelles and the Philippines[/ul][/li]
(No particular order 
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July 15 has a large number of results. I’ve tried cutting it down to major highlights.
* 1799 - In the Egyptian village of Rosette, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.
* 1806 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
* 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon
* 1862 - American Civil War: Confederates break naval blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
* 1870 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
* 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
* 1929 - First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
* 1944 - World War II: Americans take Saipan
* 1954 - First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
* 1958 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there.
* 1975 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space.
* 1988 - Die Hard opens in theaters, starring Bruce Willis
* 1995 - Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter becomes the first item sold on Amazon.com
* 1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
* 2002 - So-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each of the charges.
* 2002 - Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
* 2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.mine is loaded with depressing history …
1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1529 - At the Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement.
1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz Harbor.
1861 - American Civil War: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the United States will be abandoning the gold standard.
1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the Sharon Tate murders.
1989 - A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1989 - Trisha Meili, the “Central Park Jogger” is raped.
1993 - The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.
but one that makes me happy:
1928 - The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1555 - Laurence Saunders was led barefoot to his execution and burned at the stake.
1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots is executed.
1924 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
I was born to be an executioner. :eek:
1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo back from the Moors.
1420 - Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth.
1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
1810 - In the May Revolution, armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
1865 - In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of sodomy and gross indecency and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 - The Republic of Taiwan is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1914 - The United Kingdom’s House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.
1925 - The National Forensics League of the U.S. is founded.
1926 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People’s Republic.
1935 - In a span of 45 minutes at the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jesse Owens sets or ties four track and field world records.
1935 - Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last home run at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a baseball record that will stand for 39 years.
1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
1946 - The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
1953 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1955 - Kanchenjunga, third highest peak in the world is scaled successfully for the first time.
1961 - Apollo program: U.S. president John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the moon” before the end of the decade.
1963 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 - Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1968 - In St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
1973 - Mike Oldfield releases Tubular Bells.
1977 - Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) opens a limited run in theaters before expanding to become the highest grossing movie to date.
1979 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O’Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 - The movie Alien opens in theaters.
1981 - In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 - HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1995 - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
1997 - A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1997 - Strom Thurmond becomes the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Senate, at 41 years and 10 months.
2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2001 - 64-year-old Sherman Bull, of New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 - China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2003 - Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the December 2001 economic crisis.
2004 - The theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (movie) is released on DVD.
2005 - Liverpool win the UEFA Champions League after beating AC Milan in the final.
2005 - State of Origin Football, Queensland def New South Wales 24-20
Various Birthdays also on May 25th:
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
1820 - Anne Brontë, English writer (d. 1849)
1888 - Miles Malleson, actor (d. 1969)
1889 - Igor Sikorsky, developer of a working helicopter (d. 1972)
1926 - Miles Davis, musician (d. 1991)
1927 - Robert Ludlum, writer (d. 2001)
1929 - Beverly Sills, American soprano
1938 - Raymond Carver, writer and poet (d. 1988)
1939 - Ian McKellen, English actor
1939 - Dixie Carter, actress
1943 - Jessi Colter, country music singer
1944 - Frank Oz, puppeteer, director
1949 - Jamaica Kincaid, novelist
1958 - Paul Weller, British musician
1963 - Mike Myers, Canadian actor, comedian
1966 - Sugar Minott, singer
1967 - Poppy Z. Brite, author
1969 - Anne Heche, actress (and MissTake, but I at least claim to be normal)
1970 - Jamie Kennedy, actor
1971 - Sonya Smith, actress
1975 - Lauryn Hill, singer
1976 - Miguel Tejada, Major League Baseball player
AND It’s Towel Day, in memory of Douglas Adams.
May 10:
1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.
1497 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
1774 - Louis XVI becomes King of France.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic. They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.
1837 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1908 - Mother’s Day is observed for the first time (Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, USA).
1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
1940 - World War II: Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
1969 - The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota, is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
1994 - The U.S. state of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
1996 - A “rogue storm” near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain’s history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
1997 - An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400 people.
1998 - National elections are held in Hungary.
2001 - In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.
2002 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
I share a birthday with John Wilkes Booth (1838), Fred Astaire (1899), David O. Selznick (1902), Mark David Chapman (1955), Bono (1960), and Linda Evangelista (1965).
Deaths on my birthday: King Louis XV of France (1774), Paul Revere (1818), Stonewall Jackson (1863), Joan Crawford (1977) and Shel Silverstein (1999).
Well, you’re in good company. It looks like I got the assassin birthday. 
On the date of my birth–Sunday, November 29, 1959–the last intra-city football game between the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals took place at Soldier Field. The following winter, the Cardinals decamped to carry on their unhappy existence in St. Louis and Phoenix.
The loss of the Cardinals was a great blow to the sports fans of Chicago, leaving us with no alternative to the over-hyped, under-performing Bears. Thankfully we still have an alternative to the equally smarmy Cubs.
Robert Kennedy was shot on 5 June and died on 6 June (the same day & year I was born).
Other events on 6 June (from wikipedia unless otherwise noted):
1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler. (from historychannel.com)
1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train (B&O from Ellicott’s Mills to Baltimore) (detail from historychannel.com)
1844 - The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Memphis - Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee from the Confederates.
1865 - William Quantrill killed by Union soldiers. William Quantrill, the man who gave Frank and Jesse James their first education in killing, dies from wounds sustained in a skirmish with Union soldiers in Kentucky. (from historychannel.com)
1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.
1918 - World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood begins. The first large-scale battle fought by American soldiers in World War I begins in Belleau Wood, northwest of the Paris-to-Metz road.
1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per gallon sold.
1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
1934 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins - Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 - The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
1949 - George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four is published. (from historychannel.com)
1958 - Truth or Consequences goes off air. On this day in 1958, game show Truth or Consequences goes off the air as a prime-time TV game show, although a daytime version of the program continued on NBC until 1965, and a syndicated version ran until 1974. (from historychannel.com)
1962 - The Beatles audition for EMI Records.
1966 - James Meredith shot. James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, is shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South. Known as the “March Against Fear,” Meredith had been walking from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, in an attempt to encourage voter registration by African Americans in the South. (from historychannel.com)
1971 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
1971 - The Ed Sullivan Show goes off the air.
1972 - David Bowie releases the classic album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
1997 - A teenage mother gives birth and murders her baby at the prom. Eighteen-year-old Melissa Drexler gives birth to a baby boy in the bathroom stall at the Aberdeen Township banquet hall in New Jersey during her high school prom. Maintenance workers called to clean up blood found in the stall discover a bag in the garbage with her dead baby inside. An autopsy later revealed that the baby had been born alive but had been suffocated to death. (from historychannel.com)
Also born on 6 June:
1755 - Nathan Hale, American writer, patriot (d. 1776)
1799 - Alexander Pushkin Russian poet (d. 1837)
1907 - Bill Dickey, baseball star, coach, manager, and scout (d. 1993)
1936 - Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops)
1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds, musician
1949 - Robert Englund, American actor (aka. Freddy Krueger)
1954 - Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1955 - Sandra Bernhard, American actress, comedian
1956 - Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
1970 - James “Munky” Shaffer, American musician (Korn guitarist)
Other notable deaths on 6 June:
1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1861)
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
1979 - Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
The great Tsunami of 2004. You may have heard of it.
Interesting…the only historic event that I knew occurred on my birthdate isn’t in Wikipedia. Maybe I should update it?
1943: Allies invade Sicily.
Famous birthdays in Wikipedia…I mostly knew (Whistler, Proust, Arthur Ashe, Jake LaMotta). I did not know that I share it with Jessica Simpson. Could’ve been worse; could’ve been Ashlee.
Wow! We have the same birthday! Nifty 
So let’s add:
January 19th: Two of the greatest people in world history were born- no, not Robert E Lee and Dolly Parton ;).
Absolutely nothing happened on my birthdate. Oh wait, the senators played the pilots. So yeah, nothing.
What is that, like baseball or something?