Births, Deaths & Events On Your Birthday

[Jodes]

got this from another board. hiya Mikk:wink:

go to Wikipedia.com, type your birthday in and list 5 births, deaths & events that took place on that day.


October 28

Births
1972 - Terrell Davis, American football player
1974 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
1975 - Antonio Banks, American professional wrestler
1979 - Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
1983 - Jarrett Jack, basketball player

Deaths
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
1986 - John Braine, English novelist (b. 1922)
1987 - André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b. 1908

Events
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans
1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists
1848 - The first railway in Spain between Barcelona and Mataró is opened.
1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1943 - The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occurred

[Slash]

July 8th

Births:
1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor
1970 - Beck, American singer
1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer

Deaths:
810 - Pepin, King of Italy
1153 - Pope Eugene III
1623 - Pope Gregory XV
1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States
1981 - Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player

Events:
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1775 - The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress.
1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1933 - NFL team Pittsburgh Steelers was established.

[Mikk]

Hey Jodes :angel2:


June 20th

Births:

1389 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
1942 - Brian Wilson, American popular music composer and singer; founder of The Beach Boys
1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician and singer (The Commodores)
1952 - John Goodman, American actor
1978 - Frank Lampard, English footballer


Deaths:

451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
1997 - Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
2006 - Billy Johnson, baseball player (b. 1918)


Events:

1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murdering her stepmother and father.
1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship.

[flamesoffury]

March 30

Events:
1822 - Florida Territory created in the United States. (jody ;))
2006 - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
1870 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1981 - Reagan assassination attempt: President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan will become the first U.S. president to survive Tecumseh's curse, under which presidents elected in a year ending with zero died while in office.

Births:
1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer
1968 - Céline Dion, Canadian singer
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1952 - Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach

Deaths:
1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)
2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)

[Kaz]

December 19

Events
324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1828 - Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1835 - The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.

Births
1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1683 - King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
1778 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France (d. 1851)

Deaths
401 - Pope Anastasius I
1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England
1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)