!!Events that happend on your Birthday!!

1952:George VI dies of cancer.
2005-In Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra wins an unprecedented landslide victory in the general election.
2005-In Britain, Tony Blair becomes the longest serving Labour prime minister.
2004-In Russia, a suicide-attack in the Moscow metro kills 40 people and injures a 129. The blast is blamed on Chechen rebels.
2001-Ariel Sharon is elected prime minister of Israel.
1997-In Britain, the Court of Appeal rules that Diane Blood is allowed to be artificially inseminated with her dead husband’s sperm.
1971-The first golf ball is hit on the moon by Alan Shepard during a two day walk from Apollo 14.
1958-7 Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed when their plane crashes in snow and ice during its take-off from Munich Airport.
1820-In the US, the first organised immigration of freed slaves to Africa departs from New York City.
46 BC-Julius Caesar emerges victorious at the battle of Thapsus. (see more)

1975
The world's highest mountain, Mount Everest is successfully scaled for the first time via its southwest face by British climbers Dougal Haston and Doug Scott.
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1941 - World War II: Pacific War - After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress passes a declaration of war against Japan. (and many other negative things in WWII...)

1973 - Corey Taylor born (Slipknot & Stone Sour vocalist >:P)

2004 - Dimebag Darrell dies ( =( ) (see more)

1492
Explorer Christopher Columbus reaches the American mainland and names it Santa Isla, believing it to be an island.

1774
English chemist and Presbyterian Minister Joseph Priestley identifies a new gas- calling its a 'new species of air' - later called oxygen.

1798
A British fleet, commanded by Lord Horatio Nelson, defeats the French fleet at Aboukir Bay in the Battle of the Nile - stopping Napoleon Bonaparte's plans to invade the Middle East.

1934
In Germany, Adolf Hitler becomes Reichfurhrer following the death of President Hindenberg.

1936
German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin.

1961
Comic strip hero Spiderman makes his debut.

1969
The unmanned US spacecraft Mariner begins beaming pictures of the surface of Mars back to Earth. (see more)

Ickky was born!! (see more)

1944
World War II: D- Day. The beginning of the Allied invasion of German-held Europe with troop landings on beaches in Normandy, France at dawn.

1936
In Britain, the opening of Gatwick Airport, south of London.

1933
Opening of world's first Drive-In movie in new Jersey with room for 400 cars.
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30 B.C: Cleopatra commits suicide

1973
Faced with the threat of extinction of the elephant , Kenya bans the hunting of elephants and the trade in ivory.


1968
British group The Beatles release Hey Jude (see more)

1521
Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church.
1777
George Washington defeats the British at the Battle of Princeton.
1958
The West Indies Federation is formed.
1959
Alaska becomes the 49th, and largest, American State.
1961
President Eisenhower closes the American embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1993
Russia and the U.S.A. sign the second START agreement in Moscow. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is a further indication that the Cold War is over.
2000
Having first appeared in 1950, the last daily Peanuts comic strip is published as Charles Schulz retires. The comic strip followed the exploits of Charlie Brown and friends and his dog Snoopy. (see more)