Your Birthday in History

[Colin]

What were some of the notable events, births and deaths on your birthday?

I happen to have alot of communists that seem to share my birthdate. Leon Trotsky and Mikhail Kalinin were born on my birthday, the Russian Revolution started on my birthday in the Gregorian calendar, and Alexander Dubcek, the Communist leader involved in the "Prague Spring" died on my birthday. For non-Commies I have Marie Curie and Billy Graham both born on my birthday. Also it seems that Mussolini's National Fascist Party was formed on my birthday and the last Communist East German PM was ousted on my birthday.

[Sensei]

I share a birthday with Peyton Manning, Houdini, and Thomas Dewey

Jules Verne, Oscar Romero, and John Hersey died on my birthday.

Canada gave Blacks the right to vote
NATO attacked Yugoslavia
The Exxon-Valdes crashed
The Tydings-McDuffie act passed Congress

[Robespierre's Jaw]

Born on February 7

Apollo 15 Astronuat Al Worden
British Actor Pete Postlewaite
British Actor and Comedian Eddie Izzard
Country Singer Garth Brooks
Former member of KISS Mark St. John
President of Malta Eddie Fenech Adami
Host of Punked Ashton Kutcher

Died on February 7

Pope Pius XI
Emperopr Qianlong of China
King Hussien of Jordan
Charles Lindbergh's wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Notable Events on February 7

Julius III becomes Pope
Woman gain the right to vote in Switzerland
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's first Democratically elected President
The US Government bans all Cuban imports and exports

[Joe Biden 2020]

April 29 is the 119th day of the year (120th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar.  There are 246 days remaining.

Events:

April 29, 1945 -- The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
April 29, 1945 -- Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Donitz as his successor
April 29, 1986 -- Roger Clemens sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners
April 29-May 2, 1992 -- The Los Angeles Riots begin killing 54 people
April 29, 2004 -- Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production
April 29, 2004 -- President George Walker Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney testify before the 9/11 Commission in closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
April 29, 2005 -- Syria completes its withdrawal of Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.

Births:

April 29, 1901 -- Japanese Emperor Hirohito (died 1989)
April 29, 1950 -- California Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Stabenow
April 29, 1951 -- American race car driver Dale Earnhardt (died 2001)
April 29, 1954 -- Actor and Comedian Jerry Seinfeld
April 29, 1958 -- Actress Michelle Pfeifer
April 29, 1958 -- Baseball Announcer Gary Cohen
April 29, 1970 -- Retired American Tennis Player Andre Agassi
April 29, 1978 -- Venezuelan Baseball Player Tony Armas, Jr.
April 29, 1982 -- ME
April 29, 1983 -- Denver Broncos QB Jay Cutler
April 29, 2003 -- American racehorse Barbaro (died 2007)

Deaths:

April 29, 1980 -- English film director Alfred Hitchcock

Holidays and observances:

International Dance Day
Japan (public holiday since 1927.  Holiday of Emperor Hirohito's birthday until his death in 1989)
Roman Empire -- second day of the Floralia in honor of Flora

[Lief 🗽]

January 4th

Ariel Sharon suffered the stroke that would put him into the vegetative state he is currently in.
The first female Speaker of the House was elected.

Born:
Isaac Newton, Louis Braille, George Tenet, Dave Foley

[Padfoot]

My birthday is Bastille Day in France (July 14th) which celebrates the 1789 French Revolution.

Other notable events:

*1798 - The Sedition Act Become Law in the US
*1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party are outlawed.
*1958 - In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader

Notable Births:
*1910 - William Hanna, American animator (Hanna of Hanna-Barbera fame)
*1913 - Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 38th President of the United States
*1967 - Patrick J. Kennedy, politician (current US Rep. from RI)
*1977 - Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée, Crown Princess of Sweden

Notable Deaths:
*1223 - King Philip II of France
*1965 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate
*1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (yes that McDonald)

[Tetro Kornbluth]

August 16th in History (According to Wikipedia):

Major Notable events:

*1792: Maximilien Robespierre presents a petition to legislative assembly of France demanding the setting up of a revolutionary Tribunal; which would later lead "the Terror".

*1819: Peterloo Massarce.

*1841: President John Tyler vetoes bill to re-establish Second bank of the United States. Whig Party member riot.

*1960: Cyprus gains independance from the UK.

*1964: Coup in South Vietnam replaces Duong Van Minh with Nguyen Khanh as President; Coup strongly supported by the United States goverment.

*1969: Charles Manson Arrested.

Births:
*1892: Otto Messmer, Cartoonist and Inventor of Felix the Cat
*1913: Menachem Begin, Former Prime Minister of Israel in the 80s, instigator of the Lebanon War.
*1939: Sir Trevor Macdonald, British Newscaster for lowgrade tabloid sh**te ITV.
*1947: Carol Moseley Braun, US poltician, former Presidential candidate
*1954: James Cameron, Film Director - The Terminator, Aliens, etc
*1958: Madonna.. You know. (Is she really almost 50?)
*1988: The one and only Gulliver T. Foyle.

Deaths:
*1888: John Pemberton, Inventor of Coke Cola.
*1948: Babe Ruth, That Baseball guy.
*1949: Margaret Mitchell, Writer of Gone with the Wind
*1956: Bela Lugosi, Actor - Horror film roles, Dracula, etc
*1977: Elvis Presley. Yes, THAT Elvis
*1979: John Diefenbaker, Former Canadian Prime Minister
*2003: Idi Amin, Former Madman in Charge of Uganda
*2006: Alfredo Stroessner, Former Dictator of Paraguay

[Hash]

July 23rd

* 1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.
* 1793 - The Prussians conquer Mayence.
* 1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precurser to the typewriter.
* 1833 - Corner stones laid for construction of the Kirtland Temple in Ohio
* 1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
* 1862 - American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
* 1874 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
* 1881 - The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded.
* 1903 - Ford Motor Company sold its first car.
* 1903 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
* 1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914
* 1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
* 1929 - Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words.
* 1936 - In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.
* 1940 - US Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles`s declaration on the US non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
* 1942 - The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened
* 1942 - World War II: Hitler signed the Operation Edelweiss.
* 1945 - The process against Philippe Pétain begins.
* 1952 - Establishment of the European Coal and Steel community.
* 1952 - General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser - the real power behind the coup) in the overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt.
* 1956 - The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
* 1961 - Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founded in Nicaragua.
* 1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
* 1962 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos was signed.
* 1967 - 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned).
* 1968 - Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurred. During the shootout, a riot began that lasted for five days.
* 1968 - The first and only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft took place when a 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers was taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
* 1970 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id, becomes Sultan of Oman.
* 1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
* 1982 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
* 1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when a helicopter spins out of control.
* 1983 - Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Shinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka.
* 1983 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 lands "dead-stick" in Gimli, Manitoba.
* 1984 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
* 1986 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
* 1988 - General Ne Win, effective ruler of Myanmar since 1962 resigns after pro-democracy protests.
* 1992 - A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes it is necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and non-married couples.
* 1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and is visibly seen with a naked eye nearly a year later.
* 1997 - Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
* 1997 - Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat to avoid capture by the police
* 1999 - Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan, is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morroco at the death of his father.
* 1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.
* 2001 - Megawati Soekarnoputri becomes the fifth President of Indonesia, replacing Abdurrahman Wahid.
* 2003 - Operation Warrior Sweep is the first major military deployment of the Afghan National Army.
* 2004 - Eleven years after its destruction, Stari most (the Old Bridge) in Mostar is reopened.
* 2005 - Three bombs hit the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.

[Inmate Trump]

March 4th.

1925 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.

1993 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.

1994 - John Candy dies

1997 - President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.

[Joe Republic]

February 23rd.

1633 - Samuel Pepys born.

1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel born.

1836 - The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.

1848 - John Quincy Adams dies.

1893 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.

1903 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".

1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.

1917 - First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.

1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.

1927 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies.

1945 - During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten US Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

1966 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government.

1991 - Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war.

1997 - A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir.

[afleitch]

I share a birthday with Ray Harryhausen and Richard Lewis but no one particularly famous It's a rather uneventful day world affair wise too.

[Democratic Hawk]

January 21st (though every bit an Aquarian)

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.

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 manufactured its first automobile .

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 Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.

1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which tops the pop charts and brings 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.

1997 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct. Pond life

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.

2001 - The first comic of El Goonish Shive is posted.

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 Royal Canadian Mounted Police (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 6.

2005 - In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

Dave

[Speed of Sound]

Hey Colin, the communism must be a forum thing, because the Cultural Revolution officially started on my b-day (with the May 16th notice). Also, Lowell Weicker shares my birthday, as well as Pope Innocent XI, Root Beer, and Spaghetti O's.

[Friz]

Events--
1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of the St. Lawrence River.
1768 - A Boston customs official is locked up in John Hancock's sloop the Liberty while an illegal importation is taking place in Boston Harbor.
1863 - Battle of Brandy Station, VA.
1899 - U.S. boxing heavy weight champ James Jackson Jeffries knocks out Britain's Bob Fitzsimmons to become the World Heavy Weight Champ.
1934 - Donald Duck debuts.
1959 - The George Washington is launched. The first nuclear submarine carrying Polaris missiles.
1973 - Secretariat wins Triple Crown.

Births--
1755 - Cole Porter, composer.
1961 - Michael J. Fox, actor.

[HappyWarrior]

Events:1603 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.
1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1807 - The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
1809 - The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress.
1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
1851 - The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1864 - Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".
1885 - Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1894 - The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.
1920 - The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
1942 - World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge--German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium; prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "NUTS!"
1944 - World War II: Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.
1947 - The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution.
1956 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.
1963 - Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.
1964 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity.
1964 - First SR-71 (Blackbird) flight.
1965 - In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
1974 - Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
1974 - Ted Heath's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
1984 - Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American men on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City.
1988 - Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
1989 - After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist dictatorship.
1989 - Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1989 - Kempsey bus crash: Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey, New South Wales
1990 - Lech Wałęsa is sworn in as President of Poland.
1990 - Paul Coffey of the Pittsburgh Penguins becomes the National Hockey League's first defenseman to score 1,000 points. He would finish his career with 1,531 points.
1997 - Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives (see related event on December 21 1999).
1999 - Tandja Mamadou becomes President of Niger.
2001 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2001 - Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

Births:
245-Roman Emperor Diocletian
1178 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
1666 - Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1690 - Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1694 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
1696 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785)
1723 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787)
1765 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
1805 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
1807 - Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)
1819 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (d. 1870)
1819 - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)
1853 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917)
1853 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)
1856 - Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
1860 - Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927)
1862 - Connie Mack, American baseball executive (d. 1956)
1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935)
1869 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1872 - Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
1874 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944)
1883 - Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965)
1887 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
1888 - J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972)
1898 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1899 - Gustav Gründgens, German actor (d. 1963)
1901 - André Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980)
1903 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
1905 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
1905 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972)
1907 - Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (d. 1991)
1909 - Patricia Hayes, American actress (d. 1998)
1912 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States Go Lady Bird!
1915 - Barbara Billingsley, American actress
1917 - Gene Rayburn, American game show host (d. 1999)
1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (d. 1963)
1922 - Jack Brooks, American politician
1922 - Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999)
1925 - Lewis Glucksman, American financier (d. 2006)
1934 - David Pearson, American racecar driver
1936 - James Burke, British writer
1936 - Hector Elizondo, American actor
1936 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
1937 - Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer
1938 - Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player
1938 - Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician
1939 - James Gurley, American musician
1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1943 - Paul Wolfowitz, American politician Ouch
1944 - Steve Carlton, American baseball player
1945 - Diane Sawyer, American journalist
1948 - Noel Edmonds, English game show host
1948 - Steve Garvey, American baseball player
1948 - Patricia Hewitt, British politician
1948 - Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick)
1948 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees)
1951 - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster
1953 - BernNadette Stanis, actress
1953 - Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Lonnie Smith, American baseball player
1957 - Carole James, Canadian politician
1958 - Frank Gambale, Australian musician
1958 - Mikael Nordfors, Swedish physician and author
1959 - Bernd Schuster, German footballer
1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)
1960 - Patrick Fitzgerald, American attorney
1961 - Andrew Fastow, American businessman
1962 - Ralph Fiennes, English actor
1963 - Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer
1966 - Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
1967 - Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
1967 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) (disappeared in 1995)
1967 - Stéphane Gendron, Quebec politician
1968 - Dina Meyer, American actress
1968 - Lauralee Bell, American actress
1969 - Myriam Bédard, Canadian athlete
1972 - Big Tigger, television host
1972 - Vanessa Paradis, French singer
1974 - Heather Donahue, American actress
1975 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
1975 - Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer
1975 - Stanislav Neckář, Czech ice hockey player
1977 - Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress (d. 2005)
1980 - Chris Carmack, American Actor
1983 - Jennifer Hawkins, Australian Miss Universe
1984 - Jonas Altberg, Swedish musician (Basshunter)
1987 - Brian Barnes, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 - Jordin Sparks, American singer and American Idol finalist
1990 - Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor
1993 - Aliana Lohan, American singer

[WalterMitty]

from what i understand,  inks was born on my birthday.

cant get more historic than that.

[Platypus]

I'm New Year's Eve, so lots of stuff, but particularly...

1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, as the capital of Canada.
1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two).
1944 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.
President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1986 - A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
1991 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is officially dissolved.
1999 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
1999 - The United States Government handed Panama Canal control over to Panama as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter treaties
2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
2006 - United Kingdom repays final installment of Second World War debt to America

Plus Henri Matisse, George Marshall, Simon Wiesenthal, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Alex Ferguson, John Denver, Ben Kingsley, Donna Summer, Alex Salmond, Val Kilmer, Heather McCartney and Matthew Pavlich share my birthday.

[DWPerry]

February 7
Events
1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.

1882 - The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.

1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.

1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.

Births
1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist
1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author
1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureat
1962 - Garth Brooks, American singer
1965 - Chris Rock, American comedian and actor
1978 - Ashton Kutcher, American actor
1978 - Darryl W. Perry, American Statesman

Holidays and observances
Independence Day in Grenada (1974).
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mulk (Dominion) - First day of the 18th month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan (2005).
International Men's Day in Malta.

[Bacon King]

I share a birthday with Joseph Stalin.

[AkSaber]

Hmmm. I wonder what Wikipedia says...

Events

336 - Pope Mark dies, leaving the papacy vacant.
1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
1769 - English explorer, Captain Cook, discovers New Zealand.
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
1904 - Baseball: New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12).
1916 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football.
1952 - "American Bandstand" debuts on a local Philadelphia station.
1958 - U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury.
1959 - U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the Far side of the Moon.
1968 - Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1985 - The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
1996 - The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
1998 - Gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming by nineteen-year-old student Aaron Kreifels.
2001 - The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 - California governor Gray Davis is recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
 
Births

1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1573 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d. 1916)
1888 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1943 - Joy Behar, American co-host of The View
1943 - Oliver North, U.S. Marine and politician
1951 - John Mellencamp, American singer
1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian politician
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive
1976 - Taylor Hicks, American musician
1976 - Charles Woodson, American football player
 
Deaths

336 - Pope Mark
929 - Charles the Simple, King of France (b. 879)
1368 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
1792 - George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)
1796 - Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b. 1710)
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer (b. 1809)
1959 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904)
2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)

[Robespierre's Jaw]

February 7

Births
1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist

How could I forget that Charles Dickens was born on my birthday? Anyways happy birthday for February 7 DWPerry, likewise with myself.

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JFK assassination.