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Originally posted by tcatron565
What are some "historic" events to happen on your birthday.
For me:
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
1775 – King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China; the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
1939 – World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad; The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
1943 – World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 – World War II: Marseille liberated; King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. SWEET!
1989 – All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War; West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
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My birthday was on November 28th.
* 1095 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
* 1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
* 1520 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
* 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
* 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
* 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
* 1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
* 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
* 1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
* 1843 – Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
* 1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
* 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
* 1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
* 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Fιin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
* 1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
* 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
* 1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
* 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
* 1918 – Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
* 1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markiewicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
* 1920 – Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
* 1929 – Ernie Nevers of the then Chicago Cardinals scores all the points in this game as the Cardinals defeat the Chicago Bears 40-6.
* 1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
* 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
* 1944 – Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
* 1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
* 1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.
* 1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
* 1964 – Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
* 1972 Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
* 1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
* 1975 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
* 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
* 1982 – Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
* 1984 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
* 1987 – South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
* 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power.
* 1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
* 1991 – Flashing Lights was born.
* 1994 – Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994).
* 1994 – In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
* 1997 – First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
* 2000 – Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
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