Do you know any important events that Happened The same day your birthday is?

That first 1968 event is really distubing!

2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.
1997 "Jekyll and Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City
1996 "Big," opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 193 performances
1996 Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania
1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1995 Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
1995 Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer and wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
1994 Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium
1994 Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough
1993 "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 5 performances
1993 Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1993 New York Islanders beat Washington Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
1992 Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
1991 "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 105 performances
1991 "Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 78 performances
1991 Space Shuttle STS-39 (Discovery 12) launched
1990 "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 6,137 performances
1990 Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat New York Knicks 157-128
1990 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
1990 Guns and Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
1990 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1988 "Chess" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 68 performances
1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1988 Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row
1988 New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
1987 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte North Carolina and Miami Florida in 1988 and Minneapolis Minnesota and Orlando Florida in 1989
1986 Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H; Golf Classic
1985 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time
1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season
1984 "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 187 performances
1983 Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
1983 Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1
1983 NASA launches Geos-F
1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
1980 Reunion Arena in Dallas opens
1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
1977 Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" and Ringo on "Smother Brothers"
1975 South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race
1971 Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
1971 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes 1st black Admiral in U.S. Navy
1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France
1969 King Crismson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts
1968 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 Expo 67 opens in Montreal
1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title
1966 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win
1966 Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
1966 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
1965 Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
1965 Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
1965 Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA
1965 U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1965 William F. Raborn, Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA
1964 Japan joins OECO
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1963 17th Tony Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win
1961 Lieutenant Colonel Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude
1961 Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0
1960 "Christine" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 12 performances
1960 WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1957 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam
1956 Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 home runs
1955 WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
1952 St. Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1947 Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia
1945 British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg
1945 U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border
1944 Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1943 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
1943 German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
1943 U.S. 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
1942 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast
1941 Last British troops in Greece surrenders
1940 Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
1937 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York City)
1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1935 Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act
1934 Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
1934 Spanish government of Samper forms
1934 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
1932 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio
1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1931 Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track and field
1930 1st night organized baseball game Independence. Kansas
1925 Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army
1925 Netherlands and Great Britain return to gold standard
1924 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
1922 WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
1920 Azerbaijan SSR joins U.S.S.R. (1st time)
1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
1914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner
1910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
1901 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) and Netherlands (0)
1901 Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
1892 1st performance of Antonin Dvorak's overture "Carneval"
1865 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris
1865 Opera "L'Africaine" is produced (Paris)
1855 1st veterinary college in U.S. incorporated in Boston
1848 Free last slaves in French colonies
1847 George B. Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar
1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony
1796 Cease fire of Cherasco
1789 Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty and Captain William Bligh
1788 Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution
1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1655 English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet
1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office
1550 Powers of Dutch inquisition extends
1521 Treaty of Worms: Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria
1503 Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France
1376 English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
1202 King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France
585 War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse
357 Emperor Constantius II visits Rome

46 BC – Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
871 – Battle of Reading: Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1490 – Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
1493 – Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey.
1642 – King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
1698 – Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.
1717 – The Netherlands, England, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
1762 – England declares war on Spain and Naples.
1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, established in Hamburg, Germany.
1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
1878 – Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in London.
1885 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1948 – Burma regains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1962 – New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London.
1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1974 – Serial killer Ted Bundy murders his first known victim when he entered the basement bedroom of 18-year-old Joni Lenz and suffocated her.
1975 – Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint.
1987 – The Chase, Maryland rail wreck: An Amtrak train en route to Boston, Massachusetts from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
1999 – Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2006 – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.

July 31 Events in History

1997 A's trade Mark McGwire to St. Louis Cardinals07940601
1994 102.7 degrees F (39.3 degrees C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
1994 28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9
1994 Arcen Limburg averages 71.6 degrees F (22.0 degrees C) in July: record
1994 Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Netherlands averages 21.4 degrees C; their warmest July since 1783
1994 Phil Rizzuto (Yankees) and Steve Carlton enter the Hall of Fame
1994 Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
1994 Stockholms avgs 21.5 degrees C; their warmest July since 1855
1994 U.N. votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
1993 A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
1993 Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
1993 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
1993 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
1992 Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec)
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4)
1992 Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36)
1992 Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die
1992 Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec)
1991 Russia and U.S. sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1990 Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
1989 Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
1988 Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 home runs in 1st 3 years
1988 Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers 27-21 in London
1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1987 "Living Daylights" premieres in U.S.
1987 Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
1987 Eddie Murray hits his 300th home run
1987 Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
1987 Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs
1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1984 Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1984 U.S. men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1984 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
1983 38th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1983 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
1983 Dutch July avg temp is 20.1 degrees C; warmest July since 1852
1982 46 kids and 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide in France
1982 Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die
1982 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association
1980 John Phillips of Mamas and Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1979 "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 7 performances
1978 Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1978 New York Yankees now 7 out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
1978 Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic
1977 E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1977 John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
1976 Seychelles Independence, Independence day
1976 Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)
1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to New York Nets
1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1973 Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs. WI as England lose
1972 Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon
1971 Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
1970 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 and kills 5 at University of Texas
1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
1964 George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell
1964 Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
1964 U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1963 Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina
1963 Cleveland ties record of 4 consecutive home runs (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
1963 Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, and Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels)
1962 Federation of Malaysia forms
1962 Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall
1961 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
1961 Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
1960 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1959 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1958 Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
1956 Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match
1955 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open
1955 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 home runs, 1 double)
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills SS and 3rd baseman
1948 "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 581 performances
1948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York
1944 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
1944 Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 U.S. troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea
1943 Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany
1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
1941 U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton
1940 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
1940 Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1938 New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"
1937 Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians
1936 Tokyo, Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled
1935 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in
1934 29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1)
1934 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant
1932 27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Philadelphia A's beat Indians 1-0
1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1932 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yankees beat Red Sox 14-13
1929 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1925 Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied
1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1923 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1922 Italy's general strike against fascist violence
1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins
1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914 Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
1912 RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
1912 U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights
1911 Hungarian education is only taught in German
1910 Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St. Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1909 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1905 Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa
1901 Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
1900 Boer Generals Prinsloo and Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin
1899 Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's
1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts
1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown U
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers
1861 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record
1855 Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4 degrees C avg)
1852 Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4 degrees F (20.2 degrees C) avg)
1849 Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon
1830 Charles X of France resigns by force
1813 British invade Plattsburgh, New York
1809 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
1794 All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
1792 Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Philadelphia
1790 1st U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
1751 Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1667 Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends
1664 Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris
1658 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
1653 Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1588 English fleet beats Spanish Armada
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
904 Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies and plunders Thessalonica
768 [Philip] begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
432 St. Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1983 Lee Ryan, British Musician
1980 Andee Pickens, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, gymnast alternate for 1996 Olympics
1980 Brittney McConn, born in Largo, Florida, figure skater, 1997 Eastern Sr champ
1980 Venus Williams, born in Lynwood, California, tennis star
1979 Cawey Schau, born in Seattle, Washington canoist alternate for 1996 Olympics
1978 Jenny Keim, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, diver, Olympics-9th-96
1977 Andrea Deak, Miss Universe-Hungary 1996
1977 Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
1977 Jason Miller, born in Silver Springs, Maryland, actor, New Mickey Mouse Club
1975 Frederick Koehler, born in Queens, New York, actor, Chip-Kate and Allie
1975 Petra Vaarakallio, ice hockey center, Finland, 1998 Olympics
1975 Joshua Leonard, American Actor
1972 Dirk-Jan Derksen, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC
1972 James McKnight, NFL wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks
1971 Tripp Schwenk, U.S., 100m/200m backstroke, 1996 Olympics silver
1970 Arnold Ale, WLAF linebacker for the Scottish Claymores
1970 Jason Hanson, NFL kicker, Detroit Lions
1970 Popeye Jones, NBA center for the Toronto Raptors
1970 Ron "Popeye" Jones, NBA forward, Dallas Mavericks
1970 Stephane Fiset, Montreal, NHL goalie for the Colorado Avalanche
1969 Karen Nystrom, ice hockey forward, Canada, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics
1969 Kevin Thornton, born in Amarillo, vocalist, Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up
1969 Patric Kjellberg, hockey forward, Team Sweden Olympics-1998
1967 Keith Sims, NFL guard for the Miami Dolphins
1967 Robyn Meagher, born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 5k runner 1996 Olympics
1967 Terry Davis, NBA forward and center, Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards
1966 Clare Look-Jaeger, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, high jumper
1966 Fred Barnett, NFL wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles
1965 Dan Jansen, born in West Allis, Wisconsin, speed skater, Gold Medal 1994 Olympics
1965 Danny McManus, CFL quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos
1965 Dermontti Dawson, NFL center for the Pittsburgh Steelers
1965 Gianluca Pozzi, born in Bari, Italy, tennis star, 1991 Brisbane
1965 Kami Cotler, born in Long Beach, California, actress, Elizabeth-Waltons
1965 Mike Magnante, born in Glendale California, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
1965 Ray Seals, NFL defensive end, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers
1964 Diane Murphy, actress, Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched
1964 Erin Murphy, actress, Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched
1964 Michael Gross, born in West Germany, swimmer, Olympic-2 world records-1984
1964 Steve Rhodes, cricketer, England wicket-keeper 1994-95
1963 Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host, Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later
1963 Kevin Glover, NFL center, Detroit Lions
1962 Ed Brady, NFL linebacker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1960 Mitzi Edge, born in Albany, Georgia, LPGA golfer, 1995 SAFECO Classic
1958 Dan McVicar, born in Independence, Missouri, actor, Clarke-Bold and Beautiful
1958 Jello Biafra, American Musician
1958 Bobby Farrelly, American Director
1957 Philip Chevron, English pop musician, Pogues-Peace and Love
1956 Nick Cook, cricketer, England lefty slow bowler in 15 Tests 1983-89
1954 Mark Linn-Baker, born in St. Louis, actor, Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers
1951 Joe Piscopo, born in Passaic, New Jersey, comedian, SNL, Miller Lite commercials
1950 Cathy Sherk, born in Bancroft, Ontario, professional golfer, achieved No. 1 World ranking by Golf Digest, 1978, earned silver medal with Canadian team at 1978 World Amateur Golf Team Championships, joined LPGA tour, inducted into Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, 1995
1949 Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator
1948 David Concepcion, born in Venezuela, all star shortstop, Cincinnati Reds
1948 Ruben Blades, born in Panama, singer and actor, Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition
1948 Joaquin Almunia, Spanish Politician
1947 Linda Chavez, American Author
1946 Barry Manilow, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer/pianist, Mandy, I Write the Songs
1946 Marcy Kaptur, born in Toledo, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio 1983 -
1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist, 5 time winner of Tour de France
1945 Ken Livingstone, MP, Labour
1945 Tony Roche, born in Tarcutta, Australia, professional tennis player, coach, upset Adriano Panatta to win the Davis Cup, 1977
1945 Art Bell, American Entertainer
1945 Tommy Franks, American Soldier
1945 Kenneth Robert Livingstone, British Politician
1945 Mercer Reynolds, American Businessman
1944 Bill Rafferty, comedian, Real People, Laugh-in '77
1944 Chris Spedding, born in Staveley, Derbyshire, England, born Peter Robinson, rocker, jazz guitarist, rock and roll, considered the most versatile session guitarist in the U.K.
1943 Christopher Brown, composer
1943 Newt Gingrich, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Representative-R-Georgia 1979 - 1999, Speaker of House 1995 - 1997
1943 Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days
1942 Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker, Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good
1942 Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Scientist
1940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs
1940 Tony Marlow, MP, Conservative
1939 Dickey Do, Gerry Granahan, rocker, Dickey Doo and The Dont's
1939 Donald Anderson, MP, Labour
1938 Judy Kimball-Simon, LPGA golfer
1937 Peter Lupus, actor, Mission Impossible
1933 Christian Ferras, French violinist and conductor
1933 Harry Browne, American Writer
1933 Rod Paige, American Politician
1932 Derek Ibbotson, 5K runner, Olympic-bronze-1956
1932 John P. Murtha, born in New Martinsville, West Virginia, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1974 -
1930 Brian Statham, born in Gorton, England, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009
1930 James Gathers, Sumter, South Carolina, 200m runner 1952 Olympics bronze
1930 Romuald Twardowski, composer
1929 Michael L. Strang, born in Pennsylvania, Representative-R-Colorado 1985 - 1987
1929 Tigran Petrosyan, U.S.S.R., world chess champion, 1963-69
1927 Austin J. Murphy, born in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1977 - 1993 and 1993 - 1995
1927 Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy
1926 Alan Walters, political economist
1926 Manuel Enriquez, composer
1925 Keith Larsen, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, actor, Hunter, Brave Eagle
1924 Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP
1924 Gotthold Gloger, writer
1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party
1923 Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end, Los Angeles Rams
1922 Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer
1922 Jerry Fielding, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, composer, Lively Ones, Hogan's Heroes
1922 Paul Schalluck, German writer, Don Quixote in Cologne
1920 Beryl Reid, actress, Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard
1920 Francois Jacob, born in France, biologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1965
1919 Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Lucifer
1919 Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer
1919 Kingman Brewster, college president, Yale
1919 Max Dendermonde, Henk Hazelhoff, Dutch literary
1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president, Welsh Liberal Party
1916 Einar Englund, composer
1916 Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live
1915 Stringbean, David Akeman, Kentucky, banjoist/comedian, Hee Haw
1914 John Hersey, American Writer
1913 Felix Hartlaub, writer
1912 Don Gillis, born in Cameron, Missouri, composer, Symphony #5
1912 Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist, Auschwitz-monument
1910 Herbert Owen Reed, composer
1910 Red Foley, born in Blue Lick, Kentucky, country singer, Mr Smith Goes to Washington
1908 Frank Sully, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief
1908 Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer
1908 John Verrall, composer
1907 Charles Eames, American Designer
1906 Thomas G. Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
1904 Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist
1904 Ralph Bellamy, born in Chicago, actor, Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places
1903 Michail Swetlow, writer
1900 Hermann Reuter, composer
1898 Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
1895 Louise Fazenda, Lafayette, Indiana, actress/comedienne, Almost an actress
1895 Slavko Osterc, composer
1888 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
1888 Heinz Guderian, German Soldier
1884 Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist
1883 Alexandre Cellier, composer
1882 Igor Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer, Rite of Spring,
1880 Russell Simpson, actor, Abraham Lincoln
1880 Carl Van Vechten, American Writer
1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1875 Philipp A. Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist, Mensch and World
1874 Grant Mitchell, Columbus, Ohio, actor, Man Who Came to Dinner
1871 James Weldon Johnson, lawyer, 1st black admitted to Florida Bar
1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania
1870 George Cormack, cereal inventor, Wheaties
1867 John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor, shorthand
1867 Henry Lawson, Australian Writer
1861 Sidney James Jones, composer
1858 Eben Sumner Draper, Gov-MA
1855 Fritz Steinbach, composer
1845 Hendrik P Staal, Dutch banker
1838 Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer, Kapala-Kundala
1838 Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer, Monastery of Delight
1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter
1832 William Crookes, English chemist/physicist, Crookes-pipe, thallium
1830 Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General Confederate Army
1828 Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian
1823 John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers
1818 Charles Francois Gounod, born in Paris, France, opera composer, Faust
1818 Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of Netherlands/wife of William III
1818 Charles Gounod, French Composer
1817 Ivan K Aivazovski, Russan painter, Harbor Scenes
1811 Jon Sigurdsson, born in Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends
1810 F Freiligrath, writer
1797 Alexandre Vinet, Swiss Criitic
1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public
1750 Michel Woldemar, composer
1742 William Hooper, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence
1725 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
1714 Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer, geodesic labor
1703 John B Wesley, England, religion co-founder, Methodists
1682 Charles XII, King of Sweden, 1697-1718
1604 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, Maurits House
1239 Edward I, King of England, 1272-1307, chased Jews out of England