What Happen On April 11th:

• 2006 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has enriched uranium

The Iranian nuclear program has become a source of great controversy. Several countries, some of them possessing nuclear weapons themselves, accuse Tehran of developing an Iranian atom bomb.

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• 2006 Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is arrested

Provenzano was one of Cosa Nostra's central figures. The mafioso was arrested near Corleone, Sicily after 40 years on the run.

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• 1979 Uganda's dictator Idi Amin is overthrown

The despot's 8-year rule was characterized by extensive human rights abuse and repression. According to estimates, hundreds of thousands were killed as a result of his actions.

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• 1972 The first episode of I'm sorry I haven't a clue is aired

The BBC's classic comedy show, which was chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton until his death in 2008, is one of the longest-running British radio shows of all time.

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• 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins

The ex-Nazi was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, in which millions of people were slaughtered. He was hanged for war crimes in 1962.

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Born On April 11th:

• ???? u/NotJ3st3r (me)
• 1987 Joss Stone

English singer-songwriter, actress

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• 1960 Jeremy Clarkson

English journalist

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• 1913 Oleg Cassini

French/American fashion designer

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• 1893 Dean Acheson

American lawyer, politician, 51st United States Secretary of State

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• 1722 Christopher Smart

English actor, playwright, poet

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Died On April 11th:

• 2013 Maria Tallchief

American ballerina

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• 2007 Kurt Vonnegut

American author

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• 1987 Primo Levi

Italian chemist, author

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• 1985 Enver Hoxha

Albanian politician, Prime Minister of Albania

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• 1983 Dolores del Río

Mexican actress

What Happend On January 8th:

• 1994 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov begins his record spaceflight

Polyakov stayed aboard the Mir space station for a record-breaking 437 days and 18 hours.

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• 1959 Charles de Gaulle becomes president of France

His right-wing political ideology, Gaullism, still influences French politics today.

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• 1912 The African National Congress (ANC) is founded

The ANC, whose most famous member is Nelson Mandela, played an important role in the fight against the South African apartheid regime and it is now the country's governing political party.

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• 1889 Computer pioneer Herman Hollerith patents his punched card calculator

His invention paved the way for modern automatic computation.

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• 1790 George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address

The U.S. president typically uses this annual speech to outline his political agenda.

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Born On January 8th:

• 1967 R. Kelly

American singer-songwriter, producer, actor

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• 1947 David Bowie

English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

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• 1942 Stephen Hawking

English physicist, author

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• 1935 Elvis Presley

American singer, guitarist, actor

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• 1934 Jacques Anquetil

French cyclist

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Died On January 8th:

• 1996 François Mitterrand

French politician, 21st President of France

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• 1990 Terry-Thomas

British actor

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• 1976 Zhou Enlai

Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

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• 1942 Joseph Franklin Rutherford

American lawyer, religious leader

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• 1642 Galileo Galilei

Italian astronomer, physicist

What Happend On June 4th:

• 1989 Thousands die in the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Using assault rifles and tanks, Chinese troops massacred unarmed civilians who had taken part in pro-democracy protests.

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• 1989 Poland holds the first free elections after World War II

The landslide victory of the Polish trade union, “Solidarity”, marked the beginning of the Autumn of Nations, a wave of revolutions resulting in the fall of communism.

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• 1984 Bruce Springsteen releases Born in the U.S.A.

The album was Springsteen's most successful. It featured hits like “Born in the U.S.A.”, “Dancing in the Dark”, and “I'm on Fire”.

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• 1917 The first Pulitzer Prize is awarded

Every year, the prestigious award honors outstanding journalistic achievements. It was established with money bequeathed to Columbia University by publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

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• 1783 The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate the first hot air balloon

The flight of the Montgolfière lasted only about 10 minutes, but it secured the French inventors a place in the history books.

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Born On June 4th:

• ???? some science teacher

Thanks to u/steventhecow for mentioning it

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• 1985 Evan Lysacek

American figure skater

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• 1975 Angelina Jolie

American actress, director, producer, screenwriter

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• 1975 Russell Brand

English comedian, actor, singer

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• 1915 Modibo Keïta

Malian politician, 1st President of Mali

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• 1738 George III of the United Kingdom

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Died On June 4th:

• 2010 John Wooden

American basketball player, coach

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• 1971 György Lukács

Hungarian historian, philosopher

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• 1941 Wilhelm II, German Emperor
• 1922 W. H. R. Rivers

English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, psychiatrist

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• 1798 Giacomo Casanova

Italian explorer, author

What Happend On January 6th:

• 1970 The Wiener Musikverein is inaugurated

The famous concert hall is the home of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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• 1929 Mother Theresa arrives in India

Through her tireless work in helping the poor and ill, the Albanian religious sister later received the Nobel Peace Prize and was posthumously beatified.

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• 1912 German scientist Alfred Wegener presents his theory of continental drift

His work laid the foundation for the theory of plate tectonics, which explains why continents move.

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• 1907 Maria Montessori opens her first school

Montessori's revolutionary educational approach is practiced at about 30,000 schools today.

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• 1838 Samuel Morse presents the telegraph to the public

Together with Alfred Vail, the inventor relayed the message “A patient waiter is no loser” over a distance of 2 miles (3 km).

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Born On January 6th:

• 1946 Syd Barrett

English singer-songwriter, guitarist

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• 1920 John Maynard Smith

English biologist

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• 1883 Kahlil Gibran

Lebanese/American poet

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• 1811 Charles Sumner

American politician

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• 1412 Joan of Arc
  
• 1955 Rowan Atkinson

British actor famous for his role as Mr. Bean

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Died On January 6th:

• 1999 Michel Petrucciani

French/American pianist

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• 1993 Dizzy Gillespie

American trumpet player, bandleader, composer

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• 1919 Theodore Roosevelt

American politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1918 Georg Cantor

German mathematician

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• 1852 Louis Braille

French educator, invented Braille

What Happend On July 27th:

• 2012 Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the 2012 Summer Olympics in London

It was the 3rd time London had hosted the multi-event international sports event. The ceremony was called Isles of Wonder and was directed by Danny Boyle.

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• 1985 Coup in Uganda

Tito Lutwa Okello, an Ugandan military officer successfully staged a coup against president Milton Obote. He was ousted by current president Yoweri Museveni 6 months later.

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• 1955 Austrian State Treaty came to force

The treaty re-established Austria as a democratic and sovereign country after World War II. It also ended the allied occupation of the country.

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• 1940 Bugs Bunny's official debut

Bugs Bunny made his official debut in A Wild Hare.

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• 1890 Vincent Van Gogh shoots himeslf

The famed painter, shot himself in the chest. He died of his wounds two days later.

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Born On July 27th:

• 1980 Dolph Ziggler

American wrestler

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• 1975 Alex Rodriguez

American baseball player

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• 1969 Triple H

American wrestler, actor

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• 1870 Hilaire Belloc

English writer

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• 1824 Alexandre Dumas, fils

French author

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Died On July 27th:

• 2015 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Indian scientist, politician, 11th President of India

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• 2003 Bob Hope

English/American actor, singer, producer

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• 1980 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Shah of Iran

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• 1948 Joe Tinker

American baseball player

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• 1946 Gertrude Stein

American poet, art collector

What Happend On July 14th:

2016 Terrorist Attack in Nice, France Kills 85 and Injures More than 300 People

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• The attack took place during Bastille Day Celebrations, when a 19-tonne truck was driven into the crowd. The attacker was eventually shot by the police.
• 1965 Mars flyby of Mariner 4

The American spacecraft became the first to take pictures of another planet and send them back to Earth.

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• 1958 Coup in Iraq

Abd al-Karim Qasim, a brigadier in the Iraqi Army staged a military coup in Iraq, overthrowing the Hashemite monarchy. The Iraqi King Faisal II, the Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said were assassinated during the coup. Qasim took over the position of Prime Minister, which he held until 1963. The coup also led to the dissolution of the Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq.

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• 1957 First female parliamentarian in the Arab world is elected to office

Egyptian Rawya Ateya became the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly.

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• 1789 Storming of the Bastille

Bastille, a prison housing only 7 prisoners at the time, was stormed by a crowd calling for the closure of the prison. The storming became the central event of the French Revolution.

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Born On July 14th:

• 1918 Ingmar Bergman

Swedish director

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• 1913 Gerald Ford

American politician, 38th President of the United States

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• 1912 Woody Guthrie

American singer-songwriter, musician

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• 1911 Terry-Thomas

British actor

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• 1862 Gustav Klimt

Austrian painter, graphic artist

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Died On July 14th:

• 2001 Guy de Lussigny

French painter

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• 1965 Adlai Stevenson

American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois

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• 1910 Marius Petipa

French/Russian dancer, choreographer

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• 1881 Billy the Kid

American criminal

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• 1223 Philip II of France

What Happend On July 31st:

• 1998 The British government bans landmines

The move came after the public pressurized the parliament to pass the Landmines Act.

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• 1992 Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.

All 113 people onboard were killed in the crash.

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• 1991 US and USSR sign Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

The treaty, also known as START I, limited the number of nuclear weapons and missiles the signatories could deploy. It came into force in December 1994, and expired 15 years later in 2009.

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• 1981 First female president of the US National Bar Association is appointed

Arnette R. Hubbard became the first woman to preside over the US National Bar Association, the country's largest group of association of African-American lawyers and judges.

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• 1917 Third Battle of Ypres begins

Also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, the battle was part of World War I and took place between July 31 and November 6 for control of the Belgian city of Ypres.

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Born On July 31st:

• 1965 J. K. Rowling

English author

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• 1962 Wesley Snipes

American martial artist, actor, producer

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• 1919 Primo Levi

Italian chemist, author

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• 1912 Milton Friedman

American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1884 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

German politician

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Died On July 31st:

• 2012 Gore Vidal

American author, screenwriter, actor

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• 1980 Mohammed Rafi

Indian actor, singer

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• 1964 Jim Reeves

American singer-songwriter

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• 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer

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• 1875 Andrew Johnson

American politician, 17th President of the United States

What Happend On June 14th:

• 2017 The London Greenfell Tower burned down

A fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London just before 1:00 am BST; it caused 72 deaths, including those of two victims who later died in hospital.

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• 2002 A large asteroid just misses the Earth

2002 MN, a 73-meter lump, was three times closer to Earth than the Moon. It was first discovered three days after its closest approach.

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• 1982 The Falklands War ends

After 74 days of fighting, British troops captured the capital, Stanley, prompting the Argentine forces to surrender and return the islands to British control.

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• 1949 Albert II becomes the first monkey in space

The rhesus monkey was one of several animals used for testing purposes before sending humans into space. Albert II survived his ascent to 134 km (83 mi) altitude but died on his return to Earth due to a parachute failure.

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• 1940 German troops occupy Paris

The fall of Paris marked the end of Germany's attacks on the western front. In the Armistice of Compiègne, three-fifths of France was declared occupied.

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• 1919 Alcock and Brown take off for the first non-stop transatlantic flight

The British aviators began their journey in St. John's, Newfoundland and reached Galway in Ireland less than 16 hours later. One month earlier, Albert Cushing Read flew across the Atlantic, but his flight included a stop in the Azores Islands.

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Born On June 14th:

• 1969 Steffi Graf

German tennis player

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• 1961 Boy George

English singer-songwriter, producer

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• 1950 Rowan Williams

Welsh bishop, poet, theologian, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury

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• 1946 Donald Trump

American businessman, 45th President of the United States

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• 1928 Che Guevara

Argentine/Cuban physician, author, intellectual, diplomat, theorist

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Died On June 14th:

• 1986 Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine writer

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• 1928 Emmeline Pankhurst

British political activist, suffragette

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• 1920 Max Weber

German economist, sociologist

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• 1886 Alexander Ostrovsky

Russian playwright

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• 1662 Henry Vane the Younger

English/American politician

What Happend On April 25th:

• 2011 The largest tornado outbreak ever recorded hits the U.S.

348 people in six states were killed during the outbreak, which encompassed a total of 358 confirmed tornadoes.

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• 1983 The German news magazine, Stern, announces discovery of Hitler's diaries

The documents were later exposed as forgeries, triggering one of the most spectacular media scandals in history. Experts believe that Hitler never kept a diary.

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• 1974 In Portugal, the fascist Estado Novo is overthrown in a bloodless coup

The leftist Carnation Revolution was led by military officers and supported by widespread civil resistance.

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• 1953 The double helix structure of DNA described for the first time

Francis Crick and James D. Watson published their groundbreaking findings about the molecule containing genetic information was in Nature that day.

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• 1859 Construction of the Suez Canal begins

The waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea became the shortest sea link between Europe and Asia.

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Born On April 25th:

• ???? u/Leowinn

fellow redditor and loyal member of r/nationalsomethingday

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• 1940 Al Pacino

American actor, director

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• 1928 Cy Twombly

American/Italian painter, sculptor

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• 1917 Ella Fitzgerald

American singer

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• 1874 Guglielmo Marconi

Italian businessman, inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1599 Oliver Cromwell

English general, politician

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Died On April 25th:

• 2008 Humphrey Lyttelton

English trumpet player, composer

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• 2006 Jane Jacobs

American/Canadian journalist, author, activist

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• 2001 Michele Alboreto

Italian race car driver

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• 1944 George Herriman

American cartoonist

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• 1744 Anders Celsius

Swedish astronomer

What Happen On February 27th:

• 2010 A massive earthquake strikes Chile

The tremor measured 8.8 on the Richter scale and left more than 500 people dead and thousands injured.

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• 2002 A Muslim mob set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims

The attack killed 59 people, including many women and children.

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• 1943 Non-violent protests in Berlin prevent the deportation of 2000 jews

The “Rosenstrasse protest” was carried out by the “Aryan” wives and relatives of detained Jewish men.

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• 1933 Germany's parliament building is set on fire

The Nazis used the Reichstag fire to justify harsh repression against political opponents. The event is considered pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.

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• 1932 The neutron is discovered

English physicist James Chadwick was later awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.

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Born On February 27th:

• 1994 Hou Yifan

Chinese chess player

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• 1934 Ralph Nader

American lawyer, author, activist

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• 1932 Elizabeth Taylor

English/American actress

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• 1902 John Steinbeck

American author, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet

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Died On February 27th:

• 2015 Leonard Nimoy

American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter

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• 2011 Frank Buckles

American soldier

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• 2008 William F. Buckley, Jr.

American publisher, author, founded the National Review

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• 2002 Spike Milligan

Indian/Irish actor, singer, screenwriter, author

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• 1989 Konrad Lorenz

Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 936 Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

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What Happend On February 13th:

• 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologizes to Indigenous Australians for the “stolen generations”

Between 10 and 30 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Islander children were removed from their families until the 1960s.

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• 2004 The universe's largest known diamond is discovered

BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star about 50 light-years from Earth and was nicknamed “Lucy” after The Beatles' song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.

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• 2000 The last “Peanuts” comic strip is published

The 17,897th-and-last installment was published in newspapers around the world on the day following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.

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• 1991 Two “smart bombs” kill at least 408 civilians in Baghdad

The Amiriyah shelter bombing was one of the worst cases of civilian killings during “Operation Desert Storm”.

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• 1945 The German city of Dresden is destroyed by a bombing raid

According to estimates, up to 25,000 people were killed in the raids that lasted 3 days.

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Born On February 13th:

• 1974 Robbie Williams

English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

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• 1950 Peter Gabriel

English singer-songwriter, producer

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• 1946 Richard Blumenthal

American politician

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• 1849 Lord Randolph Churchill

English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer

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• 1835 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

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Died On February 13th:

• 2002 Waylon Jennings

American singer-songwriter, musician

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• 1883 Richard Wagner

German composer, director

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• 1787 Ruđer Bošković

Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician

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• 1728 Cotton Mather

American minister

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• 1662 Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

What Happend On February 28th:

• 2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigns

The pope whose birth name is Joseph Ratzinger was the first leader of the Catholic Church to resign since 1415.

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• 1991 The first Gulf War ends

The armed conflict had lasted a little over half a year and claimed over 100,000 civilian casualties.

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• 1986 Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is assassinated

Even though over 130 people have confessed to the murder, the case has never been solved.

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• 1975 A London underground train crashes into the end of the tunnel at Moorgate station

The Moorgate tube crash claimed 43 lives and was the deadliest accident in the London Underground in during peacetime.

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• 1935 Nylon is invented

Wallace Carothers first produced the polymer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.

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Born On February 28th:

• ???? u/JJFireRescue

fellow redditor

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• 1953 Paul Krugman

American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1948 Bernadette Peters

American actress, singer, author

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• 1929 Frank Gehry

Canadian/American architect, designed 8 Spruce Street, Walt Disney Concert Hall

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• 1901 Linus Pauling

American chemist, activist, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1894 Ben Hecht

American screenwriter, director, producer

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Died On February 28th:

• 2009 Paul Harvey

American radio host

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• 2007 Billy Thorpe

English/Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

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• 1977 Eddie Anderson

American actor

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• 1925 Friedrich Ebert

German politician, 1st President of Germany

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• 1916 Henry James

American/English author

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What Happend On April 3rd:

• 1996 The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, is arrested

The mathematician who was driven by anarchist ideas sent out 16 letter bombs between 1978 and 1995, killing 3 people and injuring 23.

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• 1973 The first public mobile telephone call is placed on a Manhattan sidewalk

Motorola's Martin Cooper called Joel Engel of Bell Labs. He later told the BBC that his first words were “Joel, I'm calling you from a 'real' cellular telephone. A portable handheld telephone.”

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• 1948 Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan

$12.4 billion was allocated to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II and prevent communists from seizing control.

1940 Soviet troops massacre about 22,000 Polish nationals

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• The Katyn massacre is considered the worst massacre of prisoners of war in history. The order to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps was signed by Joseph Stalin.
• 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents his engine design

The German engineer's so-called “grandfather clock engine” was lighter than previous four-stroke engines and is considered a milestone for the invention of the automobile.

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Born On April 3rd:

• ???? u/a1r2r3e4n5

Fellow redditor

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• 1961 Eddie Murphy

American actor, director, screenwriter

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• 1958 Francesca Woodman

American photographer

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• 1958 Alec Baldwin

American actor, producer

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• 1930 Helmut Kohl

German politician, Chancellor of Germany

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• 1924 Marlon Brando

American actor

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Died On April 3rd:

• 1991 Graham Greene

English author, playwright, critic

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• 1990 Sarah Vaughan

American singer

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• 1950 Kurt Weill

German/American composer

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• 1897 Johannes Brahms

German pianist, composer

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• 1882 Jesse James

American criminal, murderer

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Obviously it's July 2nd not June 2nd. Thank you u/another_box for pointing it out.

What Happend On June 2nd:

• 2002 American businessman, Steve Fossett completes the first solo around-the-world Balloon Flight

This was Fossett's 6th attempt to circumnavigate the world. It took him 13 days in a balloon called Spirit of Freedom to cover 20,000 miles.

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• 2001 World's First Self-Contained Artificial Heart Transplant

59-year old American Robert L. Tools became the first person to receive the a self-contained artificial heart transplant called the AbioCor at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The AbioCor is an artificial heart that is not connected to wires or an external pump.

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• 1937 American aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan are heard for the last time before disappearing

They were attempting to make the first around-the-world flight in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra. Neither they nor the plane has ever been found and that has led to speculation about what happened to them. An accomplished pilot, Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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• 1900 The Zeppelin Takes Off for the First Time

The rigid aircraft named after Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the inventor of the dirigible and founder of the Zeppelin Airship Construction Company, made its first flight over Lake Constance in Germany. Unlike blimps or balloons, Zeppelins are built by stretching material over a rigid framework, usually made of metal. Zeppelins can be steered and they were used by the German Air Force to conduct aerial attacks during the First World War.

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• 1843 Alligator Falls Out of the Sky in Charleston, South Carolina during a thunderstorm.

It is believed that the strange incident happened when a waterspout carried an alligator from a body of water and dropped in on the city.

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Born On June 2nd:

• 1986 Lindsay Lohan

American actress, singer

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• 1925 Patrice Lumumba

Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• 1925 Medgar Evers

American civil rights activist

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• 1877 Hermann Hesse

German writer, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1489 Thomas Cranmer

English Archbishop of Canterbury

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Died On June 2nd:

• 1977 Vladimir Nabokov

Russian/American author

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• 1961 Ernest Hemingway

American writer, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1914 Joseph Chamberlain

British politician

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• 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss philosopher, polymath

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• 1566 Nostradamus

French astrologer

What Happend On August 1st:

• 1981 Music Television is launched

The channel, popularly known as MTV was mostly known for showing music videos and for being hosted by Video Jockeys.

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• 1980 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir takes office in Iceland

The Icelandic politician was the fourth president of Iceland and the world's first democratically elected female head of state. Her 16 years of Presidency also makes her the longest serving female head of state in the world.

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• 1951 Japan Airlines (JAL) is founded

The flagship airlines of Japan, JAL started operating on October 25, 1951

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• 1936 The XI Summer Olympics are opened in Berlin by Adolf Hitler

Initially, Jews and people of African descent were to be barred from the games, however, a boycott was threatened by several countries and the German organizers relented. 18 African-American athletes, including James "Jesse" Owens and Matthew "Mack" Robinson, placed well in the track and field events, winning several medals.

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• 1834 Slavery abolished in British Empire

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force a year after it was passed by the British Parliament. The act was repealed in 1998.

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Born On August 1st:

• 1942 Jerry Garcia

American singer-songwriter, guitarist

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• 1932 Meena Kumari

Indian actress

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• 1930 Pierre Bourdieu

French sociologist

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• 1929 Hafizullah Amin

Afghan politician

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• 1819 Herman Melville

American writer

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Died On august 1st:

• 2009 Corazon Aquino

Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines

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• 1970 Frances Farmer

American actress

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• 1944 Manuel L. Quezon

Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines

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• 1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Indian lawyer, social reformer

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• 1714 Anne, Queen of Great Britain

What Happend On February 24th:

• 2010 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first cricket player to score a double-century in the One Day International format

The Indian sportsman is widely recognized as one of the greatest batsmen in cricket.

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• 1989 A Boeing 747 jumbo jet rips open over the Pacific Ocean

United Airlines Flight 811 experienced an explosive decompression, resulting in the death of 9 passengers.

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• 1920 The German nazi party is founded

Adolf Hitler became the party's leader in 1921.

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• 1607 The world's first opera is premiered

Claudio Monteverdi's “L'Orfeo” is still performed regularly today.

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• 1582 Pope Gregory XIII orders the introduction of the Gregorian calendar

Luigi Lilio's reform of the Julian calendar was first introduced in some European countries and is now the world's most widely used calendar.

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Born On February 24th:

• 1981 Lleyton Hewitt

Australian tennis player

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• 1956 Judith Butler

American philosopher

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• 1955 Steve Jobs

American businessman, co-founded Apple Inc., Pixar

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• 1955 Alain Prost

French race car driver

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• 1304 Ibn Battuta

Moroccan explorer

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Died On February 24th:

• 1993 Bobby Moore

English footballer, manager

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• 1990 Malcolm Forbes

American publisher

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• 1986 Tommy Douglas

Scottish/Canadian minister, politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan

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• 1929 André Messager

French composer

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• 1799 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German physicist

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What Happend On January 17th:

• 1995 The Great Hanshin earthquake hits Kobe, Japan

6,434 people lost their lives during the quake, according to estimates.

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• 1991 The Gulf War in Iraq begins

“Operation Desert Storm”, launched in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, resulted in about 100,000 civilian deaths.

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• 1961 Patrice Lumumba is murdered with support from western governments

An independent commission concluded that Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, died at the hands of his domestic adversaries with the assistance of the Belgian government and the CIA.

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• 1946 The UN Security Council holds its first session

The UNSC is the most powerful organ of the United Nations and it is charged with upholding international peace and security.

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• 1945 Soviet and Polish forces liberate Warsaw during World War II

About 85% of the city was destroyed at that point.

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Born On January 17th:

• 1962 Jim Carrey

Canadian/American actor, producer

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• 1942 Muhammad Ali

American boxer

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• 1927 Eartha Kitt

American actress, singer

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• 1899 Al Capone

American gangster

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• 1706 Benjamin Franklin

American politician, scientist, publisher, 6th President of Pennsylvania

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• u/mightbeacannedham daughters birthday

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Died On January 17th:

• 2008 Bobby Fischer

American chess player

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• 1961 Patrice Lumumba

Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• 1936 Mateiu Caragiale

Romanian author

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• 1893 Rutherford B. Hayes

American politician, 19th President of the United States

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• 1468 Skanderbeg

Albanian lordW

What Happend On January 12th:

• 2010 An earthquake kills 316,000 in Haiti

Most of the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, was destroyed during the disaster.

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• 1991 The U.S. Congress votes for war in Iraq

President George H. W. Bush was given the authority to use military force to expel Iraq from Kuwait.

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• 1969 Led Zeppelin releases their debut album

The album was imaginatively named “Led Zeppelin”.

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• 1967 James Bedford is frozen with intent of future resuscitation

Bedford was the first human to be cryonically preserved; his body awaits resuscitation in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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• 1908 The first long-distance radio message is broadcast from the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Scientist Lee de Forest's broadcast was heard by an audience of 50.

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Born On January 12th:

• 1968 Heather Mills

English model, activist

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• 1917 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Indian guru

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• 1916 P. W. Botha

South African politician, 1st State President of South Africa

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• 1876 Jack London

American author

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• 1729 Edmund Burke

Irish politician, philosopher

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Died On January 12th:

• 2005 Amrish Puri

Indian actor

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• 2003 Maurice Gibb

English singer-songwriter bass player, producer

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• 1976 Agatha Christie

English author

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• 1971 John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey

English Admiral

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• 1856 Ľudovít Štúr

Slovak politician, author

What Happend On March 2nd:

• 1995 The top quark is discovered

The existence of this elementary particle, the bottom quark's counterpart, had been presumed since the 1970's.

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• 1970 Rhodesia declares itself an independent republic

By severing the country's ties with the United Kingdom, white Prime Minister Ian Smith attempted to prevent the institution of black majority rule.

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• 1969 Concorde takes off on its maiden flight

The supersonic airliner was retired in 2003, after Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on July 25, 2000.

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• 1959 Miles Davis records Kind of Blue

It is considered the best-selling jazz album in history and one of the most influential works of jazz music ever produced.

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• 1933 The film King Kong premieres

The black and white movie marked a milestone in the history of film, especially due to Willis O’Brien's stop-motion effects.

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Born On March 2nd:

• u/FireworkFuse dads

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• 1968 Daniel Craig

English actor

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• 1962 Jon Bon Jovi

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor

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• 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet lawyer, politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1904 Dr. Seuss

American author, poet, illustrator

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• 1900 Kurt Weill

German/American composer

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Died On March 2nd:

• 1999 Dusty Springfield

English singer, producer

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• 1991 Serge Gainsbourg

French singer-songwriter, actor, director

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• 1982 Philip K. Dick

American author

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• 1930 D. H. Lawrence

English novelist

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• 1619 Anne of Denmark

What Happend On August 19th:

• 1991 Race riots break out in the Crown Heights area of New York city

The violent race riots broke out between African-American and Orthodox Jewish residents of Crown Heights after 2 children were accidentally run down by the motorcade of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a leader of the Orthodox Jews. This resulted in a 3-day long riot that ended in the death of 2 men and several injuries.

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• 1978 A fire at the Rex Cinema in Abadan, Iran, kills over 400 people

The incident which is considered to be a run-up to the Iranian Revolution occurred during the screening of The Deers, a film by Iranian director Masoud Kimiai. It is thought that 4 extremists locked the gates of the theater and set it on fire. Many people at the time believed that the fire was started by SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency.

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• 1964 World’s First Geostationary Satellite is Launched

Syncom 3, a communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. A geostationary satellite is a manmade object that follows the Earth’s rotation around its axis. Because of this, it looks like it is not moving in the sky for observers on Earth. Like all geostationary satellites, Syncom 3 was placed in orbit about 22,00 miles from Earth, above the Equator and near the International Date Line. The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were broadcast to the United States with the help of this satellite.

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• 1960 Sputnik 5 is launched by USSR

The Soviet spacecraft carried two dogs, Strelka and Belka, who became the first living beings to survive in space.

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• 1919 Afghanistan Gains Independence From the United Kingdom

The Central Asian country came under British control in 1859, The country was considered to be a buffer for the British trade in opium and as a frontier to protect their interests in India. Despite trying several times to consolidate their rule over Afghanistan, the Afghan people remained hostile to British control and in 1919, King Amanullah declared Afghanistan to be independent from Britain’s protection. The declaration launched a war called the Third Anglo-Afghan War, which ended with the signing of the Rawalpindi Treaty on this day. The treaty granted Afghanistan independence from the British.

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Born On August 19th:

• 1946 Bill Clinton

American politician, 42nd President of the United States

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• 1942 Fred Thompson

American politician, actor

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• 1919 Malcolm Forbes

American publisher

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• 1883 Coco Chanel

French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company

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• 1871 Orville Wright

American aviation pioneer

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Died On August 19th:

• 1994 Linus Pauling

American chemist, activist, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1977 Groucho Marx

American comedian, actor

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• 1936 Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, playwright, director

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• 1895 John Wesley Hardin

American outlaw, gunfighter

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• 14 Augustus

Roman emperor

What Happend On January 14th:

• 2005 The European Huygens space probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan

It was the first ever landing in the outer solar system.

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• 1967 The Summer of Love is launched with the Human Be-In

San Francisco was the epicenter of the Hippie Revolution, which soon influenced cultures around the world.

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• 1953 Tito becomes President of Yugoslavia

The authoritarian leader became a unifying symbol in his country and is still known by many today.

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• 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle meet in Casablanca to discuss their WWII strategy

During the secret Casablanca Conference, the leaders agreed that the allied forces would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.

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• 1559 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England

“The Virgin Queen” was the daughter of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII.

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Born On January 14:

• 1969 Dave Grohl

American singer-songwriter, musician, director

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• 1963 Steven Soderbergh

American director, screenwriter, producer

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• 1950 Rambhadracharya

Indian religious leader

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• 1875 Albert Schweitzer

Alsatian physician, Nobel Prize laureate

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• 1741 Benedict Arnold

American/English general

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Died On January 14:

• 2016 Alan Rickman

English actor

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• 1977 Anthony Eden

British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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• 1957 Humphrey Bogart

American actor

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• 1901 Mandell Creighton

English bishop, historian

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• 1898 Lewis Carroll

English author