What notable historic event happened on your birthday?

[raz_10]

Feb 14th...

• 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
• • 1929 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
  • • • • • • 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
  • • 2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.

• 2005 – Youtube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.

 

[ildd]

August 1st. I'm bolding my favorite/most important(to me) ones.

30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
527 - Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire
1086 - Results of the Domesday inquiry presented to William the Conqueror in Salisbury (the date of compilation and the Great Domesday are historically contestable)
1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
1588 - English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada
1589 - Assination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément
1619 - 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
1715 - 1st Doggett's Coat and Badge race (Waterman's race) held on Thames River (London Bridge to Chelsea)
1774 - Joseph Priestley, English theologian and chemist author discovers oxygen
1781 - English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia
1785 - Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
1789 - US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act
1790 - 1st US census (population of 3,939,214; 697,624 are slaves)
1793 - France becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins
1828 - Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
1831 - London Bridge opens to traffic
1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
1834 - Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil
1843 - Robert Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, is born
1863 - Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign
1863 - Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA
1867 - Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn)
1883 - Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
1903 - 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed
1914 - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WW I)
1918 - Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
1928 - Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace
1933 - Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3)
1936 - Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1941 - The first Jeep is produced. Get jealous
1944 - Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested
1945 - Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)
1955 - 1st microgravity research begins
1969 - Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
1972 - 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
1972 - Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header
1978 - Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games
1981 - MTV premieres at 12:01 AM (OH GOD, WHY)

 

[BROHAM]

Nuremburg trials started.

 

[jimipitbull]

November 27, shared with Bruce Lee and Jimi Hendrix

1911 - Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US.

???

 

[Boone]

I was born on a Tuesday, Sept 29th.

• 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
• 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
• 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
• 1918 – World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
• 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
• 1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend.
• 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
• 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
• 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
• 1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
• 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
• 1982 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
• 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
• 1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
• 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".

 

[Solo]

October 3rd:

1920: The NFL began
1993: Battle of Mogadishu - the basis of the film Black Hawk Down

 

[rallymorten]

September 25:

• 275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
• 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
• 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
• 1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
• 1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
• 1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.
• 1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. Beat this one
• 1790 – Peking opera is born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
• 1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
• 1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland (Denmark, hooray!) while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
• 1890 – The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
• 1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
• 1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston
• 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunitionmagazines and destroys the ship.
• 1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
• 1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
• 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
• 1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
• 1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
• 1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
• 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• 1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
• 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
• 1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
• 1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• 1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah as-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemena republic under his presidency.
• 1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair.
• 1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
• 1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
• 1972 – In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
• 1974 – The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John.
• 1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
• 1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
• 1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
• 1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
• 1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
• 1995 – I'm born ()
• 1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.
• 2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
• 2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
• 2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
• 2009 – U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.

A very quick look to the births (well knowing there's another thread dedicated to those) reveals I'm born the same day (different year, of course) as Ole Rømer, Henri Pescarolo (Beat this one while you're trying anyway), Michael Douglas, Will Smith and many more, including the 7th Prime Ministers of Italy and Australia, the 2nd Prime Minister of France, the 1st Prime Ministers of Spain and Greenland, the 22nd US Secretary of Defence and none less than 3 "Miss something".

So maybe, in the light of things, I chose the right day to be born after all.

 

[MidnightRider]

Too much to write down, so if you're curious, click this link and found out what happened on my birthday

Same website I used mate. http://www.historyorb.com/events/october/2

 

[Inferno251]

A notable one to all the Aussie's out there

September 7

• 2013 – The Liberal Party of Australia led by Tony Abbott win the Australian federal election, 2013.

And many more at:

http://www.historyorb.com/events/september/7

Thanks @kikie

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I was born! Seriously, I have no idea what happened, I was too busy to follow the news.

 

[Pophead]

Too much happened on my birthday, nearly 2 pages

 

[Beerz]

Only showing the most interesting ones here (apparently a lot happened on February 4th throughout history, namely quite a lot of devastating earthquakes, one of them on the exact day of my birthday...). Also, Facebook started.

• 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
• 1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
• 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
• 1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
• 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
• 1899 – The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
• 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
• 1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
• 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
• 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
• 1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
• 1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
• 1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
• 2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
• 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

Most notable (at least to me) birthdays on Febryary 4th:

• 1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (d. 1731)
• 1799 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (d. 1854)
• 1940 – George A. Romero, American director and producer
• 1948 – Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1975 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1979 – Giorgio Pantano, Italian race car driver

Most notable deaths on that day:

• 1987 – Liberace, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1919)

Yay...

 

[Inferno251]

Only showing the most interesting ones here (apparently a lot happened on February 4th throughout history, namely quite a lot of devastating earthquakes, one of them on the exact day of my birthday...). Also, Facebook started.

• 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
• 1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
• 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
• 1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
• 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
• 1899 – The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
• 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
• 1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
• 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
• 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
• 1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
• 1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
• 1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
• 2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
• 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

Most notable (at least to me) birthdays on Febryary 4th:

• 1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (d. 1731)
• 1799 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (d. 1854)
• 1940 – George A. Romero, American director and producer
• 1948 – Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1975 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1979 – Giorgio Pantano, Italian race car driver

Most notable deaths on that day:

• 1987 – Liberace, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1919)

Yay...

Wow...some hugely historic stiffened happened on your birthday

 

[Bc4]

July 27

• 1999 – Tony Hawk lands the first 900 on a skateboard (2 and a half complete revolutions) at the fifth annual X Games in San Francisco, California.

 

[Davidies]

Quite a lot.

http://www.historyorb.com/events/august/27

 

[Anomaly]

Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas.

Christopher Columbus didn't discover anything... There were people already living in North America.

 

[ildd]

Christopher Columbus didn't discover anything... There were people already living in North America.

And nobody in Europe knew about it. Therefore be discovered it.

 

[Anomaly]

And nobody in Europe knew about it. Therefore be discovered it.

European ignorance does not make something they don't know unreal.

 

[Dagger311]

http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/11

The Goths laid siege to Rome on my birthday, along with everything in that list.

 

[Kitten]

June 2nd

[There's more but this thread would overflow]​

• 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks

• 1010 – The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Cordoba.

• 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.

• 1615 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.

• 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.

• 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.

• 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.

• 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.

• 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.

• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.

• 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.

• 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.

• 1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.

• 1866 – Fenian raids: the Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.

• 1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina

• 1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.

• 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.

• 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

• 1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.

• 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.

• 1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

• 1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.

• 1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.

• 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

• 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.

• 1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.

• 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.

• 1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.

• 1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.

• 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

• 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.

• 1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.

• 1994 – An RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland killing all 29 on board. The original cause of the crash is ruled as pilot error, this verdict is overturned in 2011.

• 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.

• 1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was executed four years later.

• 1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.

• 2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

• 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

• 2010 – The Cumbria Shootings - In West Cumbria, a 52-year old man went on a four hour killing spree, shooting dead 13 (inc. himself) and injuring 11 others. The massacre was branded "one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history" by Prime Minister David Cameron who paid tribute to the victims along with The Queen, Home Secretary Theresa May and the Prince of Wales.

• 2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

• 2010 – The Cumbria Shootings - In West Cumbria, a 52-year old man went on a four hour killing spree, shooting dead 13 (inc. himself) and injuring 11 others. The massacre was branded "one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history" by Prime Minister David Cameron who paid tribute to the victims along with The Queen, Home Secretary Theresa May and the Prince of Wales.

Me and my family were going to go where this monster was shooting that day... we decided to climb a mountain instead... got back to the car, turned on radio, bam. Had no idea.

 

[DrPuppetwarrior]

December 9th 1994 I was born

 

[JMoney]

Apparantly, Ken Block has the same birthday than me. (1967)

Also, the Bosnian War ended in 1995.

 

[Jahgee]

Germany signed the Armistice to end WWI

 

[Jet Badger]

Frankie Knuckles' death. Not fun at all.

 

[kikie]

Christopher Columbus didn't discover anything... There were people already living in North America.

Sure he did. The locals didn't know they were living in The Americas. Christopher Columbus, according the history books, discovered The Americas. Got it?

I for one, am not sure that he was the first to arrive there though.

 

[Jet Badger]

Sure he did. The locals didn't know they were living in The Americas. Christopher Columbus, according the history books, discovered The Americas. Got it?

I for one, am not sure that he was the first to arrive there though.

The first ones from the western world to find America were the Vikings according to my History teacher in high school. The first humans on the continent? Well, they were there for just as long as humans in Europe and Asia. Funky stuff

 

[kikie]

The first ones from the western world to find America were the Vikings according to my History teacher in high school. The first humans on the continent? Well, they were there for just as long as humans in Europe and Asia. Funky stuff

Yes, the vikings. But a few days ago, I saw on Discovery or National Geographic that the Chinese have been there even earlier.

We need a time machine!

 

[Parker]

July 18th...

1967 - The greatest actor the world has ever seen was born, Vin Diesel.