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 RE: MATCHING BIRTHDAYS!!!!!
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[edit] Events
534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1491 - An auto de fe, held in Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States).
1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
1857 - Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24).
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York.
1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.
1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1920 - Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) is older.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1934 - James J. Braddock won one of the most important fights of his career against then future heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis
1940 - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940 - Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.
1944 - Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied aerial bombers.
1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.
1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
1959 - The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.
1979 - The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1981 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
1984 - Queen Elizabeth II visited Uppingham School, Rutland, UK on the occasion of its Quatercentenary.
1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1989 - Devastating tornado strikes Huntsville, Alabama.
1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
1996 - The Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.
1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first serving U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
2001 - The first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), is released in theatres in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Mexico.
2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.
[edit] Births
42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1603 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 178
1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831)
1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, Hawaiian king (d. 1891)
1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 190
1841 - Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1847 - Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1862 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944)
1880 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1885 - Michael Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
1873 - W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 195
1889 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
1892 - Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
1892 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 197
1895 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
1896 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980)
1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, American singer (d. 1960)
1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
1905 - Eddie Condon, American musician (d. 1973)
1907 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
1916 - Daws Butler, voice actor (d. 198
1922 - Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist
1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete
1928 - Clu Gulager, American actor
1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author
1930 - Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso
1931 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
1933 - Garnet Mimms, American singer
1938 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1942 - Willie Carson, Scottish jockey
1942 - Joanna Pettet, English-American actress
1943 - Michael Cimino, American film director
1946 - Terrence McKenna, American writer (d. 2000)
1950 - David Leisure, American actor
1951 - Miguel Sandoval, American actor
1952 - Robin McKinley, writer
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1954 - Andrea Barrett, American author
1954 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004)
1955 - Pierre Larouche, National Hockey League player
1957 - Jacques Gamblin, French actor
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1958 - Boris Krivokapić, Serbian academic
1961 - Frank Bruno, British boxer
1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative)
1964 - Dwight Gooden, American athlete
1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian singer
1964 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress
1966 - Dean McDermott, Canadian actor
1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1967 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
1967 - Craig Arnold, American poet
1968 - Vlado Šola, Croatian handball goalkeeper
1969 - Maeve Quinlan, American actress
1970 - Martha Plimpton, American actress
1971 - Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
1971 - Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer
1972 - Missi Pyle, American actress
1973 - Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player
1974 - Paul Scholes, British footballer
1976 - Danny Wallace, British author
1977 - Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
1977 - Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor
1978 - Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
1980 - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
1981 - Allison Crowe, Canadian singer
1981 - Caitlin Glass, American actress
1982 - Amare Stoudemire, American basketball player
1983 - K, South Korean singer
1984 - Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
1990 - Michael Cole, Irish Actor & Creator of MJG inc.
Quit a list :dizzy: I was born on November 16, a month after my grandfather died, almost excactly to the day. I think he died on the 14 or around there and the 14 was my actual due date.
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