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Edited on Thu Apr-15-10 09:24 AM by slackmaster
I'm sure you could find some auspicious or inauspicious association with any date on the calendar.
Events
* 1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London. * 1529 At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fόrst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation. * 1587 Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cαdiz harbor. * 1713 With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717). * 1770 Captain James Cook sights Australia. * 1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI by Proxy marriage. * 1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. * 1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy. * 1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria; part of a four day campaign which ended in a French victory. * 1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed. * 1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom. * 1847 New portico at British Museum opened * 1855 Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London * 1861 American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city. * 1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. * 1919 Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute. * 1927 Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. * 1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. * 1936 First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine. * 1942 World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp. * 1943 World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. * 1943 Bicycle Day Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time. * 1945 The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established. * 1948 Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations. * 1950 Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. * 1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military. * 1954 Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan. * 1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network. * 1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco. * 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. * 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders. * 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. * 1971 Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC. * 1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. * 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders. * 1975 India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched. * 1984 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. * 1985 U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk U.S.S.R.
Heavy smoke pours from USS Iowas #2 Turret following an internal explosion
* 1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show * 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors. * 1993 The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die. * 1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed in Iowa. * 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. * 1997 The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, ND. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings. * 1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. * 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave. * 2008 Bowie Seamount on the coast of British Columbia, Canada becomes a Marine Protected Area.
Births
* 1603 Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685) * 1658 Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716) * 1665 Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721) * 1686 Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750) * 1721 Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793) * 1772 David Ricardo, English political economist * 1785 Alexandre Pierre Franηois Boλly, French composer (d. 1858) * 1787 Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837) * 1793 Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875) * 1814 Louis Amιdιe Achard, French novelist (d. 1875) * 1832 Josι Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) * 1874 Ernst Rόdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952) * 1877 Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934) * 1882 Getϊlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954) * 1883 Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953) * 1889 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946) * 1892 Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983) * 1897 Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian * 1897 Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970) * 1897 Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973) * 1899 George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985) * 1900 Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976) * 1900 Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991) * 1903 Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957) * 1912 Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) * 1920 Gene Leis, American Jazz guitarist and educator (d. 1993) * 1921 Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (d. 2006) * 1922 Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1993) * 1925 Hugh O'Brian, American actor * 1928 Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984) * 1930 Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994) * 1931 Garfield Morgan, English actor * 1931 Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004) * 1932 Fernando Botero, Colombian artist * 1933 Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire * 1933 Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967) * 1934 Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989) * 1935 Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002) * 1935 Justin Rigali, American Roman Catholic cardinal * 1936 Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium * 1937 Elinor Donahue, American actress * 1937 Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines * 1940 Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977) * 1940 Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive) * 1941 Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer * 1941 Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992) * 1941 Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set) * 1942 Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975) * 1942 Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur * 1943 Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers) * 1944 James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize * 1944 Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk) * 1944 Keith Erickson, American basketball player * 1946 Tim Curry, British actor * 1946 Mary Jo Slater, American casting director * 1947 Murray Perahia, American pianist * 1947 Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles, The Mothers Of Invention) * 1948 Rick Miller, American baseball player * 1949 Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso * 1949 Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (d. 1993) * 1951 Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978) * 1951 Jσannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands * 1952 Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009) * 1953 Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger) * 1953 Ruby Wax, British television personality * 1954 Trevor Francis, English footballer * 1954 Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas) * 1957 Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman * 1957 Tony Martin, English musician * 1959 Donald Markwell, Australian educator, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford * 1960 Roger Merrett, Australian footballer * 1960 John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach * 1960 Frank Viola, American baseball player * 1961 Spike Owen, American baseball player * 1962 Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver * 1963 Valerie Plame Wilson, American former C.I.A. agent * 1964 Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer * 1965 Natalie Dessay, French soprano * 1965 Suge Knight, American record producer * 1966 Vιronique Gens, French soprano * 1966 Julia Neigel, German singer, songwriter, producer, author and entertainer * 1966 David La Haye, Canadian actor * 1966 Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler * 1967 Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor * 1967 Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter * 1968 Ashley Judd, American actress * 1968 Craig McNeil, American writer, lawyer, and military officer * 1968 Mswati III, King of Swaziland * 1968 Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician * 1968 Arshad Warsi, Indian actor * 1969 Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder * 1969 Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player * 1969 Andrew Carnie, Linguistics Professor at the University of Arizona * 1970 Kelly Holmes, English athlete * 1970 Luis Miguel, Mexican pop-singer * 1972 Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer * 1972 Jeff Wilkins, American football player * 1974 Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor * 1975 Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer * 1975 Jussi Jδδskelδinen, Finnish footballer * 1976 Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation) * 1976 Scott Padgett, American basketball player * 1977 Joe Beimel, American baseball player * 1977 Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer * 1977 Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player * 1978 James Franco, American actor * 1978 Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer * 1978 Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist * 1979 Kate Hudson, American actress * 1980 Alexis Thorpe, American actress * 1981 Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor * 1981 Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player * 1981 Troy Polamalu, American football player * 1981 Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress * 1983 Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player * 1983 Zack Duke, American baseball player * 1983 Joe Mauer, American baseball player * 1983 Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player * 1984 Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress * 1985 Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer * 1986 Candace Parker, American basketball player * 1987 Joe Hart, English Under-21 footballer * 1987 Maria Sharapova, Russian-born professional tennis player * 1987 Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress * 1987 Courtland Mead, American actor * 1989 Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars), Danny "DSilva #1" Silverberg was born. * 1990 Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
Deaths
* 1012 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954) * 1054 Pope Leo IX (b. 1002) * 1390 King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316) * 1560 Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497) * 1567 Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487) * 1578 Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530) * 1588 Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528) * 1608 Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536) * 1618 Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist * 1627 John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583) * 1629 Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer * 1684 Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603) * 1686 Antonio de Solνs y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610) * 1689 Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626) * 1733 Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England * 1739 Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682) * 1751 Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678) * 1768 Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697) * 1791 Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723) * 1813 Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745) * 1824 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788) * 1831 Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765) * 1840 Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777) * 1854 Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774) * 1881 Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804) * 1882 Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809) * 1892 Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821) * 1901 Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839) * 1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) * 1906 Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850) * 1914 Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839) * 1916 Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839) * 1926 Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874) * 1930 Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827) * 1937 William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856) * 1941 Johanna Mόller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878) * 1949 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) * 1950 Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886) * 1966 Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931) * 1967 Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876) * 1988 Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901) * 1989 Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907) * 1991 Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905) * 1992 Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924) * 1993 David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959) * 1993 George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941) * 1997 El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958) * 1998 Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) * 1999 David Sanes, US Navy employee (b. 1954) * 1999 Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919) * 2000 Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918) * 2002 Layne Staley, American musician, Alice in Chains (b. 1967) * 2004 Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925) * 2004 John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920) * 2005 Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911) * 2005 Niels-Henning Ψrsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946) * 2005 George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941) * 2005 Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929) * 2006 Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921) * 2006 Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938) * 2007 Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932) * 2007 Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919) * 2008 John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963) * 2008 Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907) * 2008 Alfonso Lσpez Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935) * 2009 J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
* Bicycle Day * Christian Feast day o Ζlfheah of Canterbury o Emma of Lesum o Expeditus o George of Antioch * Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States) * End of the Cerealia (Roman Empire) * King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland) * Landing of the 33 (Uruguay) * Patriots' Day (Traditional) (Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin, USA) * Primrose Day (United Kingdom)
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