Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Flynbyu]

Today in history....

     May 16

    * 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
    * 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
    * 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
    * 1568 – Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
    * 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
    * 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
    * 1777 – Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
    * 1811 – Peninsular War – The allies Spain, Portugal and Britain, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
    * 1815 – The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains.
    * 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
    * 1836 – Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.
    * 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
    * 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
    * 1866 – Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
    * 1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
    * 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
    * 1877 – May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
    * 1910 – The United States Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
    * 1914 – The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
    * 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
    * 1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
    * 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
    * 1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
    * 1943 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
    * 1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
    * 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
    * 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
    * 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
    * 1965 – The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
    * 1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the 'May 16 Notice', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
    * 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
    * 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
    * 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote was in favour of merging with India.
    * 1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
    * 1983 – Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
    * 1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
    * 1988 – A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
    * 1992 – STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
    * 2003 – In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
    * 2004 – The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
    * 2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
    * 2006 – A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1490 – Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)
    * 1578 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
    * 1611 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
    * 1710 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
    * 1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
    * 1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (d. 1829)
    * 1788 – Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
    * 1801 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)
    * 1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
    * 1824 – Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrison (d. 1920)
    * 1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)
    * 1831 – David E. Hughes, American musician (d. 1900)
    * 1845 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
    * 1860 – Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)
    * 1891 – Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)
    * 1898 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)
    * 1898 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (d. 1956)
    * 1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
    * 1906 – Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)
    * 1906 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)
    * 1906 – Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
    * 1909 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (d. 1960)
    * 1910 – Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
    * 1910 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (d. 1972)
    * 1912 – Studs Terkel, American writer (d. 2008)
    * 1913 – Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
    * 1914 – Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author
    * 1916 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (d. 1997)
    * 1916 – Ephraim Katzir, President of Israel
    * 1917 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (d. 1986)
    * 1917 – James C. Murray, American politician (d. 1999)
    * 1917 – George Gaynes, American actor
    * 1918 – Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)
    * 1919 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
    * 1919 – Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (d. 2004)
    * 1920 – Martine Carol, French actress (d. 1967)
    * 1921 – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor
    * 1923 – Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
    * 1925 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian entertainer
    * 1926 – Ronald Podrow, British peace activist (d. 2004)
    * 1927 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
    * 1928 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
    * 1929 – John Conyers, American politician
    * 1929 – Claude Morin, French Canadian politician
    * 1929 – Adrienne Rich, American writer
    * 1930 – Betty Carter, American jazz singer (d. 1998)
    * 1930 – Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (d. 2000)
    * 1931 – Jack Dodson, American actor (d. 1994)
    * 1931 – Denise Filiatrault, French Canadian actress and director
    * 1931 – Natwar Singh, Indian politician
    * 1931 – Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American politician
    * 1931 – Hana Brady, Killed during Holocaust
    * 1935 – James Bolam, English actor
    * 1936 – Roy Hudd, English radio and television actor
    * 1936 – Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal
    * 1937 – Yvonne Craig, American actress
    * 1944 – Billy Cobham, American virtuoso drummer
    * 1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor
    * 1945 – Nicky Chinn, English songwriter (Sweet, Suzi Quatro)
    * 1945 – Alan Flusser, American clothing designer
    * 1946 – Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson)
    * 1946 – Roger Earl, English rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)
    * 1947 – Bill Smitrovich, American actor
    * 1948 – Katia Dandoulaki, Greek actress
    * 1948 – Judy Finnegan, English TV presenter (Richard & Judy)
    * 1948 – Adrian Legg, English guitarist
    * 1950 – J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel laureate
    * 1950 – Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician
    * 1951 – Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
    * 1951 – Jonathan Richman, American proto-punk icon
    * 1952 – James Herndon, American media psychologist
    * 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
    * 1954 – Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut
    * 1955 – Olga Korbut, Belarussian gymnast
    * 1955 – Jack Morris, American baseball player
    * 1955 – Hazel O'Connor, English singer
    * 1955 – Debra Winger, American actress
    * 1959 – Mare Winningham, American actress
    * 1960 – Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician
    * 1961 – Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian and actor
    * 1961 – Charles Wright, American professional wrestler
    * 1963 – Jon Coffelt, American artist
    * 1963 – Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
    * 1964 – John Salley, American basketball player
    * 1964 – Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
    * 1964 – Edit Berces, Hungarian marathon runner
    * 1965 – Krist Novoselic, American musician, author, and activist
    * 1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer
    * 1966 – Scott Reeves, American actor and singer
    * 1966 – Thurman Thomas, American football player
    * 1968 – Ralph Tresvant, American singer (New Edition)
    * 1968 – Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress
    * 1969 – David Boreanaz, American actor
    * 1969 – Tucker Carlson, American television commentator
    * 1969 – Tracey Gold, American actress
    * 1969 – Steve Lewis, American athlete
    * 1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
    * 1970 – Danielle Spencer, Australian singer and actress
    * 1971 – Rachel Goswell, English singer and songwriter (Slowdive, Mojave 3)
    * 1972 – Derek Mears, American actor
    * 1972 – Khary Payton, American actor
    * 1973 – Special Ed, American rapper
    * 1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress
    * 1973 – Jason Acuña, American television personality
    * 1974 – Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
    * 1974 – Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
    * 1975 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
    * 1975 – Tonéx, American singer
    * 1976 – Brian Langtry, American lacrosse player
    * 1976 – Dirk Nannes, Dutch/Australian cricketer
    * 1977 – Dolcenera, Italian singer
    * 1977 – Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1978 – David Ford, English singer/songwriter
    * 1978 – Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer
    * 1979 – McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
    * 1980 – Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer
    * 1980 – Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player
    * 1980 – Melanie Lofton, American Journalist
    * 1981 – Jim Sturgess, English actor
    * 1982 – Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
    * 1982 – Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
    * 1982 – Hanna Mariën, Belgian athlete
    * 1983 – Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
    * 1983 – Mince Fratelli, Scottish Drummer (The Fratellis)
    * 1983 – Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1983 – Daniel Kerr, Australian football player (AFL)
    * 1984 – Mickie Knuckles, American female professional wrestler
    * 1984 – Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
    * 1985 – Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor
    * 1985 – Anja Mittag, German footballer
    * 1985 – Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1985 – Okura Tadayoshi, Japanese singer (Kanjani8)
    * 1986 – Megan Fox, American actress
    * 1986 – Andy Keogh, Irish footballer
    * 1998 – Ariel Waller, Canadian child actress

     Famous deaths...

    *  583 – Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
    * 1265 – Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
    * 1569 – Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
    * 1620 – William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
    * 1657 – Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
    * 1667 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
    * 1669 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1596)
    * 1691 – Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)
    * 1703 – Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
    * 1778 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
    * 1782 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
    * 1790 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
    * 1830 – Joseph Fourier, French scientist (b. 1768)
    * 1891 – Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
    * 1913 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
    * 1920 – Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
    * 1926 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
    * 1943 – Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
    * 1944 – George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
    * 1947 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
    * 1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
    * 1954 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (b. 1893)
    * 1955 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
    * 1956 – H. B. Reese, American confectioner (b. 1876)
    * 1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
    * 1959 – Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
    * 1961 – George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
    * 1969 – Robert R., American AIDS victim (b. 1954)
    * 1975 – Al Helfer, American radio sportscaster (b. 1911)
    * 1979 – A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist (b. 1889)
    * 1981 – Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)
    * 1984 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
    * 1984 – Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
    * 1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
    * 1988 – Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)
    * 1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)
    * 1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)
    * 1992 – Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b. 1960)
    * 1993 – Marv Johnson, American R&B and soul singer (b. 1938)
    * 1996 – Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
    * 1997 – Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)
    * 2000 – Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
    * 2001 – Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
    * 2002 – Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
    * 2002 – Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
    * 2003 – Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)

    Holidays and observances...

    * Iraq: Mass Graves Day
    * Malaysia: Teachers' Day
    * Southern Sudan: National Day
    * Middlesex Day

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

[dragonz]

 * Middlesex Day
Preddy, Peels, Temptation, a day just for you

[Flynbyu]

* Middlesex Day
Preddy, Peels, Temptation, a day just for you

Owned by the kiwi!

~Brian

[Peelz]

* Middlesex Day

I love being in the "middle" of Preddy and Temptation.

They like it too.

[dragonz]

* Middlesex Day

I love being in the "middle" of Preddy and Temptation.

They like it too.

As you should well know

[Krandall]

WOOT!
* 1965 – The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.

[dragonz]

WOOT!
* 1965 – The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.

You tryin to change the subject?

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

May 17th

    * 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
    * 1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
    * 1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
    * 1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612-1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
    * 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
    * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
    * 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
    * 1805 – Muhammad Ali became Wāli of Egypt.
    * 1809 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
    * 1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
    * 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
    * 1849 – A fire threatens to burn St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
    * 1860 – German football club TSV 1860 München is founded
    * 1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
    * 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established.
    * 1873 – El Paso, Texas is established by charter from the Texas Legislature.
    * 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
    * 1895 – The first Omonoia station of the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.
    * 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
    * 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
    * 1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
    * 1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
    * 1919 – War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
    * 1927 – U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
    * 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
    * 1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the first-ever televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
    * 1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
    * 1940 – World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
    * 1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
    * 1943 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
    * 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
    * 1963 – Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in Madison Square Garden for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in professional wrestling history.
    * 1967 – Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
    * 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
    * 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
    * 1973 – Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
    * 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
    * 1974 – Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
    * 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
    * 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
    * 1983 – U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
    * 1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
    * 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
    * 1987 – An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
    * 1992 – the WHO takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses.
    * 1992 – In Thailand, the so-called Black May begins. Thai police and protesters start attacking one another. By midnight, the current Thai government declares a state of emergency, and military troops open fire.
    * 1994 – Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
    * 1995 – After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
    * 1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic Of Congo
    * 2000 – In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
    * 2004 – Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
    * 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
    * 2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.


     Birthdays today...

    * 1155 – Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)
    * 1443 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1460)
    * 1551 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)
    * 1628 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)
    * 1682 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
    * 1706 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
    * 1718 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778)
    * 1743 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
    * 1749 – Edward Jenner, English medical researcher (d. 1823)
    * 1758 – John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
    * 1768 – Caroline of Brunswick, Queen consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1821)
    * 1768 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
    * 1794 – Anna Brownell Jameson, British writer (d. 1860)
    * 1821 – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)
    * 1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (d. 1900)
    * 1836 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923)
    * 1844 – Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
    * 1866 – Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
    * 1868 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
    * 1873 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
    * 1873 – Dorothy Richardson, English writer (d. 1957)
    * 1879 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
    * 1886 – Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
    * 1888 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965)
    * 1891 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
    * 1891 – Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and resistance leader during World War II (d. 1957)
    * 1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
    * 1898 – Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
    * 1900 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Muslim cleric (d. 1989)
    * 1901 – Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
    * 1903 – Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (d. 1991)
    * 1904 – Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
    * 1906 – Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (d. 1989)
    * 1911 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-born supermodel (d. 1992)
    * 1911 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (d. 1998)
    * 1913 – Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
    * 1918 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
    * 1919 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
    * 1919 – Merle Miller, American biographer (d. 1986)
    * 1921 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (d. 1957)
    * 1921 – Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 1998)
    * 1931 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (d. 1997)
    * 1935 – Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
    * 1936 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director
    * 1937 – Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
    * 1938 – Jason Bernard, American actor (d. 1996)
    * 1939 – Gary Paulsen, American author
    * 1940 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
    * 1940 – Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
    * 1941 – David Cope, American composer and author
    * 1941 – Ben Nelson. American politician
    * 1941 – Grace Zabriskie, American actress
    * 1942 – Taj Mahal, American musician
    * 1943 – Johnny Warren, Australian Footballer (d. 2004)
    * 1943 – Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
    * 1945 – Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
    * 1946 – Udo Lindenberg, German musician
    * 1946 – F. Paul Wilson, American novelist
    * 1948 – Dick Gaughan, Scottish musician, singer and songwriter
    * 1949 – Bill Bruford, English musician (Yes)
    * 1950 – Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
    * 1950 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician (d. 2008)
    * 1950 – Valeria Novodvorskaya, Russian politician, dissident, the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party
    * 1951 – Simon Hughes, British politician
    * 1952 – Howard Hampton, Canadian politician
    * 1953 – Luca Prodan, Italian singer musician (Luca Prodan)
    * 1955 – Bill Paxton, American actor and film director
    * 1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer
    * 1956 – Bob Saget, American actor
    * 1956 – Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist
    * 1957 – Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player
    * 1958 – Paul Di'Anno, English singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
    * 1959 – Marcelo Loffreda, Argentine rugby player and coach
    * 1959 – Jim Nantz, American broadcaster
    * 1960 – Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter
    * 1961 – Enya, Irish singer and songwriter
    * 1962 – Craig Ferguson, Scottish actor and comedian
    * 1962 – Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
    * 1963 – Page McConnell, American musician and songwriter (Phish)
    * 1963 – Jon Koncak, American basketball player
    * 1964 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (d. 1999)
    * 1965 – Richard Baumhammers, American spree killer
    * 1965 – Trent Reznor, American musician (Nine Inch Nails)
    * 1966 – Hill Harper, American actor
    * 1966 – Danny Manning, American basketball player
    * 1966 – Mark Kratzmann, Australian tennis player
    * 1969 – Thom Filicia, American television personality
    * 1969 – Alan Doyle, Canadian musician (Great Big Sea)
    * 1970 – Jordan Knight, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
    * 1970 – Hubert Davis, American basketball player
    * 1970 – Angelica Agurbash, Belarusian singer, actress and model
    * 1970 – Matt Lindland, American mixed martial arts fighter
    * 1971 – Shaun Hart, Australian footballer
    * 1971 – Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
    * 1972 – Busta Rhymes, American Rapper
    * 1973 – Josh Homme, American musician and songwriter (Queens of the Stone Age)
    * 1973 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (d. 2005)
    * 1973 – Sasha Alexander, American television actress
    * 1973 – Steve Barakatt, Canadian composer
    * 1974 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
    * 1974 – Wiki González, Venezuelan baseball player
    * 1974 – Eddie Lewis, American football (soccer) player
    * 1974 – Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
    * 1975 – Cheick Kongo, French martial artist
    * 1975 – Jonti Picking, British cartoonist
    * 1975 – Kostas Sommer, Greek actor
    * 1975 – Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
    * 1975 – Alex Wright, German professional wrestler
    * 1976 – José Guillén, Dominican baseball player
    * 1976 – Lee-Hom Wang, American-born Taiwanese musician and composer
    * 1977 - Brandy Sheppard aka Mrs. Flynbyu
    * 1978 – John Foster, American baseball player
    * 1978 – Paddy Kenny, Irish goalkeeper
    * 1978 – Carlos Pena, Dominican baseball player
    * 1979 – Wayne Thomas, English footballer
    * 1980 – Davor Džalto, Serbian art historian
    * 1980 – Dallas Taylor, American singer (Underoath)
    * 1981 – Beñat Albizuri, Spanish cyclist
    * 1981 – R. J. Helton, American Idol finalist
    * 1981 – Shiri Maimon, Israeli singer
    * 1981 – Leon Osman, English footballer
    * 1981 – Giannis Taralidis, Greek footballer
    * 1981 – Lim Jeong Hee, Korean singer
    * 1982 – Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
    * 1982 – Matt Cassel, American Football player
    * 1983 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
    * 1983 – Nicky Hofs, Dutch footballer
    * 1983 – Jeremy Sowers, American baseball player
    * 1984 – Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
    * 1984 – Christian Bolaños, Costa Rican footballer
    * 1985 – Matt Ryan, American football player
    * 1985 – Derek Hough, American dancer and singer
    * 1986 – Tahj Mowry, American actor
    * 1988 – Nikki Reed, American actress
    * 1989 – Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
    * 1990 – Leven Rambin, American actress


     Famous deaths...

    * 1189 – Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
    * 1336 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
    * 1365 – Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
    * 1395 – Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm
    * 1464 – Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
    * 1510 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
    * 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
    * 1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat
                 Francis Weston, English courtier and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber (b. 1511)
                 Henry Norris, English courtier and groom of the stool
                 William Brereton, English courtier and Groom of the Privy Chamber
                 Mark Smeaton, English courtier and musician
    * 1575 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
    * 1626 – Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
    * 1643 – Giovanni Picchi, Italian composer
    * 1727 – Catherine I of Russia (b. 1684)
    * 1729 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
    * 1765 – Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
    * 1797 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
    * 1801 – William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
    * 1807 – John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
    * 1809 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (b. 1722)
    * 1822 – Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
    * 1829 – John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
    * 1838 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
    * 1838 – René Caillé, French explorer (b. 1799)
    * 1839 – Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
    * 1868 – Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
    * 1875 – John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
    * 1879 – Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)
    * 1886 – John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
    * 1888 – Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
    * 1916 – Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
    * 1917 – Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
    * 1919 – Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848)
    * 1927 – Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
    * 1935 – Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
    * 1936 – Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
    * 1937 – Guilląme Sebastian Furrét, Portuguese dramatist and social agitator (b. 1863)
    * 1938 – Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877)
    * 1947 – George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
    * 1963 – John Wilce, physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (b. 1888)
    * 1974 – Ernest Nash, German born archaeologist (b. 1898)
    * 1985 – Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910)
    * 1987 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
    * 1992 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (b. 1903)
    * 1995 – Hector "Toe" Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and NHL coach (b. 1912)
    * 1996 – Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966)
    * 1996 – Scott Brayton, American race car driver (b. 1959)
    * 1999 – Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)
    * 2000 – Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
    * 2001 – Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist and physician (b. 1908)
    * 2002 – Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
    * 2002 – Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940)
    * 2002 – Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
    * 2002 – Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
    * 2003 – Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (b. 1916)
    * 2004 – Jørgen Nash, Danish artist (b. 1920)
    * 2004 – Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
    * 2004 – Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943)
    * 2005 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934)
    * 2006 – Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911)
    * 2006 – Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (b. 1944)
    * 2006 – Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980)
    * 2007 – Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924)

    Holidays and observances...

    * International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia aka IDAHO.
    * World Information Society Day
    * Bahá'í Faith: Feast of 'Aẓamat
    * Argentina: Navy Day
    * Democratic Republic of the Congo: Liberation Day
    * Galicia (Spain): Galician Literature Day (Día das Letras Galegas)
    * Ireland: National Famine Memorial Day
    * Nauru: Constitution Day
    * Norway: Norwegian Constitution Day (Syttende Mai)
    * Perlis: Birthday of the Raja

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

   * 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef

That would be cool to watch!

[dragonz]

News not that interesting, hows the weather?
No?
ok time for the "sports" section

[Colorado700R]

   * 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef

That would be cool to watch!

We sunk an old WWII troop carrier ship (Massive) with Harpoon missiles and 5" guns off of HI.  Badass

[Krandall]

Weather here has been weird.

Saturday we were in the mid 50's today high of 80.

[Krandall]

Briiiiiiiiaaaaannnnnn

[socalrappy700]

Lets hope he's busy today....selling like a mofo.

[Krandall]

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