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« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2005, 07:38:59 PM »

I cut out most stuff:

Events
1156 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
1265 - In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the Houses of Parliament.
1320 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
1783 - Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War.
1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
1892 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.
1929 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
1936 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
1937 - The coldest temperature in California is recorded by Boca station at -45° Fahreinheit.
1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1942 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".
1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
1945 - Hungary drops out of the Second World War, agreeing an armistice with the Allies.
1952 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.
1958 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice.
1964 - Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released.
1969 - The first pulsar is discovered, in the Crab Nebula.
1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.

Births
225 - Gordian III, Roman emperor (d. 244)
1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1490)
1929 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR race car driver (d. 1964)
1930 - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
1951 - Ian Hill, British musician (Judas Priest)
1952 - Paul Stanley, musician, of the rock band KISS
1979 - Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)

Deaths
1479 - John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii
1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table (b. 1834)
1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1944 - James McKeen Cattell, first professor of Psychology in U.S. (b. 1860)
1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist, actor (b. 1904)
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« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2005, 04:28:27 AM »

Ok, here's my full "stats" from da wiki:

Events
1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1652 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
1631 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
1783 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1803 - Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
1848 - Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1863 - American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins, ending on July 4).
1869 - Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan.
1896 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.
1900 - The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
1910 - The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
1917 - World War I: The Selective Service Act passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of conscription.
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California, beach.
1927 - The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school board member in Michigan.
1933 - New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives.
1944 - Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
1944 - World War II: SS troops burn down six villages in the Brkini hills in south western Slovenia.
1948 - The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1953 - Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour (1049.835 km/h) at Rogers Dry Lake, California).
1958 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 launches.
1974 - Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1974 - Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
1980 - 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1995 - Alain Juppé becomes Prime Minister of France.
1998 - Microsoft antitrust case: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
2004 - Randy Johnson pitches a perfect game for the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. the Atlanta Braves.
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Births
1048 - Omar Khayyam, Persian poet (d. 1123)
1711 - Rudjer Josip Boscovich, Croatian atomic theorist (d. 1787)
1778 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British noble
1785 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
1797 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
1850 - Oliver Heaviside, physicist (d. 1925)
1872 - Lord Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1950 (d. 1970)
1883 - Walter Gropius, architect, founder of Bauhaus (d. 1969)
1889 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
1891 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
1892 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (assumed birthdate) (d. 1969)
1892 - Ezio Pinza, Italian-born bass opera singer (d. 1957)
1897 - Frank Capra, producer, director, writer (d. 1991)
1902 - Meredith Willson, composer (d. 1984)
1911 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (d. 1985)
1912 - Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
1912 - Perry Como, singer (d. 2001)
1918 - George Welch, pilot and war hero (d. 1954)
1919 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
1920 - Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
1920 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1922 - Kai Winding, jazz musician (d. 1983)
1928 - Pernell Roberts, actor
1931 - Don Martin, cartoonist (d. 2000)
1931 - Robert Morse, actor
1937 - Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer
1937 - Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman
1939 - Hark Bohm, film director
1942 - Albert Hammond, musician, composer
1944 - Justus Frantz, pianist
1946 - Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Famer
1949 - Rick Wakeman, musician ("Yes"), composer
1949 - Bill Wallace, musician The Guess Who, Winnipeg
1950 - Thomas Gottschalk, show master
1950 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997)
1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh, composer, musician
1952 - George Strait, country musician
1955 - Chow Yun-Fat, actor
1960 - Jari Kurri, Hockey Hall of Famer
1960 - Yannick Noah, tennis player
1969 - Martika, Cuban-American singer
1970 - Tina Fey, writer, comedienne, actress
1975 - John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
1975 - Jack Johnson, musician
1978 - Ricardo Carvalho, football player
1982 - Eric West, singer, actor
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Deaths
1799 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
1807 - John Douglas, Anglican bishop (b. 1721)
1808 - Elijah Craig, important to the invention of bourbon
1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
1909 - George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
1910 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer, composer (b. 1821)
1911 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1956 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
1973 - Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives (b. 1880)
1975 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
1980 - Ian Curtis, musician Joy Division (b. 1956)
1981 - William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
1988 - Daws Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (b. 1933)
1995 - Alexander Godunov, ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
1995 - Elisha Cook Jr., actor
1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
1999 - Betty Robinson, Olympic runner (b. 1911)
2000 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
2003 - Anna Santisteban, organizer of the Miss Universe contest (b. 1914)
2003 - Barb Tarbox, anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
2004 - Elvin Jones, jazz drummer (b. 1927)
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« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2005, 05:41:05 AM »

Nice, Ian Curtis killed himself the day you were born. Not very surprising actually Wink

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