331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
1869 - Austria issues the world’s first postcards.
1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
1903 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 - Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1957 - First appearance of “In God We Trust” on U.S. paper currency.
1971 - Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1989 - Denmark: World’s first legal modern same-sex civil union called “registered partnership”
I wikepedia’d July 8 & found out that:
- Lots of battles happened.
- Lots of people died.
- A couple of other things happened. (Charo, Steve Allen, & I share same birthday? Huh.)
What’s important to me is that on July 8:
4. My youngest grandson was three days old. He and his mom, my daughter, came home from the hospital at 4:00 edt that day.
Okay, I don’t have 10 things. I recognize that there are lots of things that happened that day. As far as I’m concerned, only one thing important happened.
Love, Phil
November 13, per Wikipedia. Some neat stuff!
-1990 - The World Wide Web first began.
-1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
-1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
-1956 - United States Supreme Court declares Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal; thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
-1927 - The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
-1887 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
-1955 - Whoopi Goldberg born
-1967 - Jimmy Kimmel born
-1974 - Karen Silkwood died
-1963 - Margaret Murray died
10 August.
610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an.
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe.
1628 - The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage.
1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London is laid.
1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.
1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI’s representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1948 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.
August 26th.
1346-- Battle of Crécy in the Hundred Years War demonstrates English weapons supremacy- the longbow is used to defeat French crossbows and armored knights.
1498-- The Pietà commissioned from Michaelangelo.
1768-- Captain James Cook’s expedition to New Zealand and Australia on the HMS Bark Endeavour begins.
1789-- The National Assembley at the Palace of Versailles approves the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
1839-- The capture of the Amistad.
1858-- First use of the telegraph to send news.
1920-- Women extended suffrage in the US as the 19th Amendment takes effect.
1939-- First television broadcast of a Major League Baseball game (actually a doubleheader between the Reds and Dodgers).
1968-- The start of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1978-- Pope John Paul I elected.
In addition, in 1930, Lon Chaney died, as did Tex Avery in 1980. I was kind of disappointed that I couldn’t find an easy way to search release dates for films at IMDb; it’d be interesting to see what movies were released on a given date over the years.
Fun Facts about July 29th…
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1958 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1905 - Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1938 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
1946 - Neal Doughty, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
My birthday is June 26, 1971
[ul]
[li]1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children away from Hamelin.[/li][li]1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.[/li][li]1918 - World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.[/li][li]1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island[/li][li]1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.[/li][li]1948 - The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.[/li][li]1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.[/li][li]1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words “Ich bin ein Berliner” on a visit to West Berlin.[/li][li]1975 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.[/li][li]2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.[/li][/ul]
I share a birthday with Pearl S. Buck, Chesty Puller and Salvador Allende.
Robin
November 8…
1602 - The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum.
1895 - While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1892 - The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1933 - Great Depression: New Deal - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
1939 - In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1942 - World War II: Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
1966 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
September 8
**70 **- Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
**1504 **- Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence.
**1565 **- Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles St. Augustine, Florida.
**1930 **- 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
**1966 **- The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
**1968 **- The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit Hey Jude.
**1970 **- Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September
**1974 **- Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
**1991 **- Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
**1994 **- A USAir Boeing 737 crashes in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.
- Francis Drake sinks Spanish Fleet (1587)
- American revolution begins with “shot heard round the world” (1775)
- Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (1892)
- Albert Hoffman take LSD for the first time (1943)
- The Warsaw Ghetto uprising began. (also 1943)
- U.S. Surveyor III lands on Moon (1967)
- The Chosen One born in Colorado (1968)
- Launch of first space station, Salyut 1 (1971)
- Feds kill a bunch of people in Waco, Tx. (1993)
- Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombed in Oklahoma (1995)
[ul][li]1429 Joan of Arc raises siege of Orleans. [/li][li]1794 Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Gnrale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris. [/li][li]1877 At Gilmore’s Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens (ends May 11).[/li][li]1886 Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named “Coca-Cola”.[/li][li]1902 In Martinique, Mount Pele erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast. [/li][li]1911 Navy ordered its first airplane, Curtiss A-1, Birthday of Naval Aviation [/li][li]1926 The first flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd) [/li][li]1945 Combat in Europe ends in World War II: VE Day. German forces agree to an unconditional surrender. [/li][li]1984 Cpl. Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. Ren Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour. [/li]1988 Death - Robert A Heinlein sci-fi writer, dies of heart failure at 80[/ul]
On the day I was born (mo/da/year):
Pope Paul VI ruled that Catholics could eat meat on Fridays.
Matthew Laborteaux (the actor who played Albert Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie) was born.
In other years:
1991: Ukraine declared independence from the USSR.
1981: AIDS virus officially recognized by that name (it’s still “celebrated” as World AIDS Day)
1969: The first U.S. draft lottery was held since WW2.
1958: Birth of Charlene Tilton.
1945: Birth of Bette Midler.
1940: Birth of Richard Pryor.
1935: Birth of Woody Allen.
659/660 (dependent on calendar): Death of St. Eligius (thus it’s the feast day of St. Eligius)
When I was a kid it irked me that my mother hadn’t done jumping jacks or my father hadn’t snuck up behind her with an air horn or something that would have made her give birth just a few hours before. If she had I’d have shared a birthday with Mark Twain.
You mean it doesn’t still irk you?
I agree that is a shame for you, not to share a birthday with Samuel Clemens.
Woke up.
Ate food.
Saw things.
Walked.
Sat.
Received presents.
Spoke to people.
Touched things.
Breathed in.
Breathed out.
Only kidding…
1979 - Kate Hudson Born. (Same year as well as day)
1770 - Captain James Cook sights Australia.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.
1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
1934 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.
1542: Mary, Queen of Scots, was born.
1765: Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and uniform methods of musket engineering, was born.
1776: George Washington’s retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.
1813: Beethoven’s “Opus 92: Symphony No. 7 in A major” was performed for the first time.
1854: Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
1941: US Congress passed a declaration of war against Japan, as did the Republic of China.
1952: On the show “I Love Lucy,” a pregnancy was acknowledged in a TV show for the first time.
1980: John Lennon was killed.
1987: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed.
1995: “Father of the Bride - Part II” opened in the U.S. As one moviegoer put it, “This film is proof that sequels should never be made to comedies.”
On this day in history - today’s my birthday!
(Just random stuff that caught my eye.)
1984: “Baby Fae” gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1970: “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1964: Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1954: Walt Disney’s 1st television program, “Disneyland,” premieres on ABC
1951: Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1950: Mother Teresa founded her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1900: After 4 years of work, 1st section of New York subway opens
1881: Gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona
1861: Pony Express ends
1825: Erie Canal between Hudson River and Lake Erie opened
ETA: On my exact birthday:
October 26, 1958: PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris
October 25th -
304 - Pope Marcellinus died.
1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain.
**1875 **- The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
1881 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor was born (d. 1973).
1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
**1945 **- The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
**1971 **- The United Nations seated the People’s Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China.
1984 - Katy Perry, American singer was born.
1993 - Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911) died.
Oh and number 11… I turned 23!
On my birthday:
622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1054 - Three Roman legates placed an invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. This is often dated as the start of the schism between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1790 - Washington DC is established as the capital of the United States.
1935 - The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1945 - The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1969 - Apollo 11 is launched.
1979 - Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter.
390 B.C.: Battle of the Allia–the Gauls defeat the Roman army, which leads to Rome’s sacking
64 A.D.: Great Fire of Rome, during which Nero [del]fiddled[/del] played the lyre and sang
1698: Heidegger died
1817: Jane Austen died
1925: Adolf Hitler published *Mein Kampf *
1936: France initiates a coup d’etat against the Spanish in Morocco, kicking off the Spanish Civil War
1982: the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Guatemala, where 268 people are slain
1986 (the year I was born!): KARE is a television station in Minnesota; one of their pilots runs into a tornado by accident and broadcasts it live on TV
1995: the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts on Montserrat, eventually destroying the capital and forcing pretty much everyone to leave the island
1996: the Saguenay River in Québec floods
Awwww. 
On the plus side, I share a birthday with Thackeray, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Nelson Mandela, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Layton, Vin Diesel, Kristen Bell, and Chase Crawford. So that’s pretty cool.
JFK was born on mine.