Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[disco]

Anybody seen this?

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[Krandall]

Wow.. I read about it, but I didn't know it was on ebay!!!! That's insane!

[Colorado700R]

Anybody seen this?

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If the corpse is involved, I bet Socal is the highest bidder

[socalrappy700]

August 22 is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
565 – St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 – Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1770 – James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
1775 – King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1827 – José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1901 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1911 – Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1926 – Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
1963 – Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi).
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1978 – The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
1989 – The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 – A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

Births

1601 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1624 – Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
1764 – Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1771 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1773 – Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 – James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1800 – William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1800 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1811 – William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 – Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 – Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918)
1845 – William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1848 – Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1854 – Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1857 – Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940)
1860 – Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1862 – Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
1867 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1874 – Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928)
1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880 – Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1887 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
1891 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973)
1893 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
1893 – Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
1895 – Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1900 – Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
1902 – Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
1909 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1909 – Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
1909 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1915 – David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1915 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 – James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1915 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
1917 – John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001)
1918 – Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1920 – Ray Bradbury, American writer
1920 – Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon
1921 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1922 – Micheline Presle, French actress
1925 – Honor Blackman, English actress
1925 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
1928 – Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
1930 – Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general
1934 – Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
1935 – E. Annie Proulx, American author
1936 – Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
1936 – Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer
1938 – Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 – George Reinholt, American actor
1939 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
1940 – Valerie Harper, American actress
1940 – Bill McCartney, American football coach
1941 – Bill Parcells, American football coach
1941 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
1942 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 – Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1945 – Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies)
1945 – Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress
1947 – Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1948 – Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer
1949 – Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 – Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer
1950 – Ray Burris, baseball player
1950 – I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff
1951 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 – Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 – Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1955 – Will Shetterly, writer
1955 – Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1956 – Paul Molitor, baseball player
1957 – Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 – Colm Feore, American actor
1958 – Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 – Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959 – Juan Croucier, American musician
1959 – Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 – Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears)
1961 – Debbi Peterson, American musician (The Bangles)
1963 – Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter
1963 – Terry Catledge, American basketball player
1964 – Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player
1965 – Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1965 – Courtney Gains, American actor
1966 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
1966 – GZA, American rapper
1966 – Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer
1967 – Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
1967 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 – Ant, American comedian
1967 – Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 – Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1968 – Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 – Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
1968 – Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1968 – Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1968 – Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
1970 – Charlie Connelly, English writer
1970 – Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
1971 – Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 – Rick Yune, American actor
1972 – Steve Kline, American baseball player
1972 – Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
1972 – Paul Doucette, American drummer (Matchbox 20)
1972 – Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1973 – Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1973 – Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1974 – Brimstone, American professional wrestler
1974 – Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 – Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
1975 – Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 – Sheree Murphy, British actress
1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1977 – Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1977 – Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
1978 – Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 – Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
1979 – Matt Walters, American football player
1980 – Christi Shake, American model and actress
1980 – Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1980 – Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1981 – Alex Holmes, American football player
1983 – Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1983 – Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1984 – Lee Camp, English footballer
1986 – Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
1991 – Federico Macheda, Italian soccer player

Deaths

408 – Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
1155 – Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 – Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 – Pope Gregory IX, (b. c.1143)
1280 – Pope Nicholas III (b. c.1216)
1304 – John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
1350 – Philip VI, King of France (b. 1293)
1358 – Isabella, Queen of England (b. c. 1295)
1485 – Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)
1553 – John Dudley, English admiral and politician (b. 1501)
1572 – Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1599 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
1599 – Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c.1553)
1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1609 – Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
1773 – George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
1793 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
1793 – Cäcilia Weber, German mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1727)
1797 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
1806 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
1818 – Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (b. 1732)
1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
1861 – Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1903 – Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
1914 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1922 – Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (b. 1890)
1926 – Charles William Eliot, American University president (b. 1834)
1940 – Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
1942 – Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
1950 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1951 – J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1884)
1953 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1960 – Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
1965 – Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1973 – Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
1976 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (b. 1918)
1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (b. c.1892)
1979 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
1980 – James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
1980 – Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924)
1994 – Gilles Groulx, French-Canadian film director (b. 1931)
2003 – Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
2003 – Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2004 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (b. 1920)
2004 – Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
2005 – Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2006 – Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
2008 – Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)

[socalrappy700]

Anybody seen this?

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If the corpse is involved, I bet Socal is the highest bidder

just need to drill a hole in the bottom of the crypt.

[Colorado700R]

pour in some draino so you get your moneys worthy, E

[Colorado700R]

1901 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

Jan 2nd 1901, the first body is thrown in a Cadillac trunk in Chicago 

[socalrappy700]

August 23 is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 130 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman GERD of fire.
1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1514 – Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1555 – Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1595 – Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1708 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1775 – King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn't accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1793 – French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
1799 – Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
1896 – First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 – World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
1923 – Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1939 – World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1942 – World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
1943 – World War II: Kharkov liberated.
1944 – World War II: Marseille liberated.
1944 – World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1975 – Successful Communist coup in Laos.
1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1989 – Hungary: the last communist government open the Iron curtain and causes the exodus of thousands of Eastern Germans to West Germany via Hungary (September 11).
1989 – Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 – 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 – A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who is abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.

Births

1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologist (d. 1675)
1724 – Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1754 – King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1783 – William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
1805 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
1814 – James Roosevelt Bayley, American religious leader (d. 1877)
1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
1836 – Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902)
1843 – William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846 – Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
1849 – William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
1854 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
1864 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1936)
1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
1875 – William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1875 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1883 – Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953)
1884 – Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1884 – Ogden L. Mills, American Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
1900 – Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
1900 – Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
1901 – John Sherman Cooper, American politician (d. 1991)
1901 – Guy Bush, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1903 – William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
1905 – Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
1908 – Hannah Frank, Scottish artist (d. 2008)
1909 – Syd Buller, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1910 – Lonny Frey, American baseball player
1911 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper (d. 1998)
1912 – Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
1917 – Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (d. 1984)
1921 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1921 – Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996)
1922 – Jean Darling, American child actress
1922 – Pierre Gauvreau, French Canadian painter, television writer and producer
1922 – George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
1924 – Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel laureate
1925 – Robert Mulligan, American film director (d. 2008)
1926 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006)
1927 – Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1927 – Martial Solal, French jazz pianist and composer
1928 – Marian Seldes, American actress
1929 – Vera Miles, American actress
1930 – Michel Rocard, French politician
1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1932 – Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian and political commentator
1933 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Pete Wilson, American politician
1934 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
1934 – Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1943 – Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1944 – Antonia Novello, former United States Surgeon General
1945 – Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 – Keith Moon, English musician (The Who) (d. 1978)
1947 – Willy Russell, British playwright
1947 – David Robb, British actor
1948 – Andrei Pleşu, Romanian writer, essayist
1948 – Daniel Ruettiger, American motivational speaker
1949 – Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer
1949 – Geoff Capes, English strongman
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress
1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
1951 – Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951 – Allan Bristow, American basketball head coach
1951 – Queen Noor of Jordan
1951 – Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
1952 – Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1953 – Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 – Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
1956 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 – Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1956 – Skipp Sudduth, American actor
1957 – Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 – Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player
1959 – George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
1960 – Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
1960 – Chris Potter, Canadian actor
1961 – Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1961 – Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
1962 – Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
1963 – Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
1963 – Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1963 – Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter
1963 – Richard Illingworth, England cricketer
1964 – Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor
1964 – Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 – Wendy Pepper, American designer
1965 – Roger Avary, Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer
1966 – Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player
1967 – Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer
1968 – Chris DiMarco, American golfer
1969 – Keith Tyson, English artist
1969 – Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
1969 – Geneviève Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress
1970 – Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970 – River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
1970 – Lawrence Frank, American basketball coach
1970 – Brad Mehldau, American pianist
1971 – Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1971 – BoneCrusher, American rapper
1972 – Martin Grainger, English footballer
1972 – Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 – Mark Butcher, England cricketer
1973 – Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 – Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
1973 – Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model
1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor
1974 – Seth Binzer, aka Shifty Shellshock, American musician (Crazy Town)
1974 – Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 – Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor
1975 – Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
1975 – Sean Marks, New Zealander-born basketball player
1975 – Jarkko Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player
1976 – Scott Caan, American actor
1976 – Pat Garrity, American basketball player
1977 – Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
1978 – Julian Casablancas, American singer (The Strokes)
1979 – Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1979 – Ritchie Neville, British musician
1980 – Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 – Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1981 – Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress.
1981 – Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1982 – Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 – YTCracker, American musician
1982 – Scott Palguta, American soccer player
1983 – Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1984 – Glen Johnson, English footballer
1986 – Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
1987 – Nikki Gil, Filipina actress and host

Deaths

93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 578)
1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
1176 – Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot (b. 1272)
1387 – King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 – Jean Molinet, French writer (b. 1435)
1519 – Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
1540 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
1591 – Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
1618 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (b. 1585)
1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1592)
1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1706 – Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 – Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1806 – Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
1853 – Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1867 – Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1892 – Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist (b. 1891)
1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (b. 1888)
1937 – Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
1955 – Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1962 – Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1962 – Hoot Gibson, American actor (b. 1892)
1963 – Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
1966 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor (b. 1883)
1967 – Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1971 – The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1974 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1977 – Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1987 – Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
1989 – Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1989 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
1990 – David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (b. 1910)
1995 – Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
1997 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1999 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
1999 – James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
2000 – John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
2001 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
2001 – Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2003 – Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
2003 – John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
2005 – Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 – Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
2006 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
2007 – Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 – John Russell, British-born American art critic and author (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals – Vulcanalia.
RC Saints – Saint Rose of Lima, Philip Benitius
European Union – Remembrance Day for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes
Swaziland – Umhlanga Day.
Ukraine – Flag Day.
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

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August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
410 – The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days.
1200 – John of England, famous for issuing the first Magna Carta, married Isabella of Angouleme at the Bordeaux Cathedral.
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1391 – Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
1572 – Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.
1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1662 – Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1690 – Calcutta, India is founded.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands was signed.
1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1831 – Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1858 – In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.
1870 – The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1898 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presented a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
1902 – A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1929 – Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1932 – Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1937 – In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
1939 – The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (also known as Nazi-Soviet Pact) is signed between German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
1944 – World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
1949 – The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
1954 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
1960 – A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low.
1963 – The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).
1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.
1968 – France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1989 – Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1989 – Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
1990 – A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane.
1994 – Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
1995 – Microsoft releases Windows 95, and revolutionizes the PC world, with the introduction of the Start Menu
1998 – The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
1998 – First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2000 – Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
2001 – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
2004 – 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
2008 – Three men are arrested in Denver for in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate United States presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Births

1113 – Geoffrey of Anjou, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
1198 – King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358 – King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1393 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
1552 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
1580 – John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654)
1591 – Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
1635 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
1669 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
1707 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
1750 – Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
1758 – Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
1759 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
1772 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
1787 – James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834)
1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
1837 – Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)
1845 – James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
1851 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
1852 – Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
1863 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
1865 – King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
1872 – Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
1880 – Joshua Lionel Cowen, American entrepreneur (d. 1965)
1884 – Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
1887 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (d. 1968)
1890 – Jean Rhys, British writer (d. 1979)
1895 – Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (d. 1970)
1897 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
1898 – Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic (d. 1989)
1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)
1899 – Gaylord DuBois, American comic book writer (d. 1993)
1901 – Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
1902 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
1902 – Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
1903 – Karl Hanke, Nazi official (d. 1945)
1904 – Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
1905 – Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1976)
1905 – Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
1909 – Ronald Grieveson, South African cricketer (d. 1998)
1911 – Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (d. 1995)
1912 – Durward Kirby, American television personality (d. 2000)
1913 – Charles Snead Houston, American mountaineer
1915 – James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
1916 – Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993)
1916 – Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
1917 – Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997)
1918 – Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
1919 – Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2004)
1920 – Alex Colville, Canadian painter
1921 – Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean racing driver (d. 2008)
1922 – René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian and activist
1923 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist
1924 – Alyn Ainsworth, British bandleader
1927 – David Ireland, Australian author
1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1929 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader (d. 2004)
1929 – Betty Dodson, American feminist and sex educator
1932 – Robert D. Hales, LDS apostle
1934 – Kenny Baker, English actor
1936 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist
1936 – Kenny Guinn, American Governor, Nevada
1937 – Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
1938 – Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
1938 – David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship)
1938 – Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
1940 – Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
1942 – Max Cleland, American politician
1942 – Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
1943 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989)
1943 – Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
1944 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1944 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler
1945 – Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
1945 – Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
1947 – Anne Archer, American actress
1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
1947 – Joe Manchin, American politician, governor of West Virginia
1947 – Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
1948 – Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
1948 – Kim Sung-Il, Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force
1949 – Joe Regalbuto, American actor
1949 – Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
1950 – John Banaszak, Pittsburgh Steelers three-time Super Bowl champion
1950 – Tim White, American anthropologist
1951 – Orson Scott Card, American writer
1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author
1952 – Bob Corker, American politician, junior senator of Tennessee
1952 – Holly Hallstrom American model for The Price is Right
1952 – Mike Shanahan, American football coach
1952 – Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican dub poet
1953 – Ron Holloway, American tenor saxophonist
1954 – Philippe Cataldo, French singer
1954 – Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, Governor/Presidential candidate
1956 – John Culberson, American politician
1956 – Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter
1957 – Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer (Shalamar)
1957 – Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor
1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
1958 – Tracy Harris, American artist
1958 – Chris Offutt, American author
1959 – Adrian Kuiper, former South African cricketer
1960 – Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
1960 – Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker
1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
1961 – Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka
1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
1962 – Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
1962 – David Koechner, American actor
1963 – John Bush, American singer (Anthrax)
1963 – Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
1964 – Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
1964 – Salizhan Sharipov, Russian cosmonaut
1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
1965 – Reggie Miller, American basketball player
1965 – Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer
1967 – Michael Thomas, English footballer
1968 – Benoît Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura)
1968 – Tim Salmon, American baseball player
1970 – Dan Henderson, American Mixed martial artist
1970 – Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer
1971 – Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
1972 – Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
1973 – Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Dave Chappelle, American actor and Comedian
1973 – Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
1973 – Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
1974 – Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman
1974 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
1975 – Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
1975 – Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
1976 – Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer
1977 – Denílson, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Robert Enke, German footballer
1977 – Per Gade, Danish footballer
1977 – John Green, American author/Nerdfighter
1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
1978 – Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
1978 – Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
1979 – Michael Redd, American basketball player
1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch International Footballer
1980 – Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
1981 – Jiro Wang Dong Cheng, Taiwanese singer, actor, model.
1981 – Chad Michael Murray, American actor
1982 – Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
1983 – Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
1983 – Christopher Parker, British actor
1984 – Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
1984 – Yesung, a singer, a member of Korean boy group Super Junior
1984 – Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
1986 – Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1986 – Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer
1987 – Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
1987 – Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
1988 – Rupert Grint, English actor
1988 – Helga Krapf, Filipina actress
2003 – Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Deaths

79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
1042 – Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (b. 1015)
1103 – King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (b. c.1170)
1540 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:

    Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
    Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
    Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (b. c.1535)

1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. c.1610)
1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
1683 – John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
1779 – Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
1798 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
1818 – James Carr (Massachusetts politician), U.S. Congressman (b. 1777)
1831 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
1841 – John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 (b. 1778)
1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
1946 – James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1954 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
1958 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
1967 – Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (murdered) (b. 1930)
1974 – Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
1977 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1978 – Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (b. 1912)
1979 – Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (b. 1898)
1980 – Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
1982 – Félix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (b. 1896)
1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
1987 – Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
1990 – Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
1999 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
2001 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
2002 – Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
2003 – Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
2005 – Kaleth Morales, Colombian Vallenato singer (b. 1984)
2006 – Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
2006 – Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b. 1979)
2007 – Andrée P. Boucher, Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
2007 – Aaron Russo, American film producer and director (b. 1943)

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2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.

See, Unions always FERK shit up

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2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.

See, Unions always FERK shit up

1858 – In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.

"trying to be all smart and $hit..."   So proud of our heritage sometimes

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1995 – Microsoft releases Windows 95, and revolutionizes the PC world, with the introduction of the Start Menu


WOOT FOR WINDOWS 95!!!!!


I remember when we got our copy! 

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1995 – Microsoft releases Windows 95, and revolutionizes the PC world, with the introduction of the Start Menu


WOOT FOR WINDOWS 95!!!!!


I remember when we got our copy! 

And the random crashes begin. 

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random crashes were happening in 3.1......

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DAMN!