Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Krandall]

mornin homo's

[Peelz]

mornin homo's

Mornin' Mr Pot


-your friends, the Kettles

[Krandall]

 


Afternoon now peelz. Where the heck are ya?

[Peelz]

Afternoon now peelz. Where the heck are ya?

work

one more week, and it should level off. But...supervisor is gone next week. It will be a long week for sure.

[dragonz]

Afternoon now peelz. Where the heck are ya?

Still walking round inside my box

one more week, and they might let me out. But...supervisor is gone next week. It will be a long week for sure.

[Krandall]

[dragonz]

Getting you is like shooting fish in a barrell!

[socalrappy700]

September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 – The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart, receives its premiere performance at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 – The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 – The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs are killed at Babi Yar on September 29 – 30, 1941.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 – Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 – General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists.
1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 – BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1977 – Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III escape from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines.
1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1989 – Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1991 – President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
1993 – An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
1999 – Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 – With 120 votes for and 15 against, the Parliament of Catalonia passes the Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its first article, "Catalonia is a nation".
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2006 – the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.

Births

1207 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 – Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
1631 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
1700 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
1715 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 – Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
1765 – José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
1800 – Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1811 – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in England (d. 1924)
1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1870 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
1883 – Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
1887 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
1893 – Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
1895 – Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
1897 – Alfred Wintle, British WW1 & WW2 soldier; author of "The Last Englishman" (d. 1966)
1898 – Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
1912 – Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 – Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
1915 – Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 – Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
1917 – Buddy Rich, American big band drummer (d. 1987)
1918 – Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
1919 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
1919 – Patricia Neway, American soprano
1920 – Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
1922 – Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 – Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player
1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet
1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
1932 – Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1933 – Cissy Houston, American gospel/r&b singer
1933 – Barbara Knox, English actress
1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
1934 – Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer
1935 – Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
1937 – Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
1937 – Jurek Becker, German author.
1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The 5th Dimension)
1943 – Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
1944 – Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
1945 – Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1945 – Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
1946 – Paul Sheahan, Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974
1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
1946 – Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
1946 – Fran Brill, American actress, voice actress and puppeteer
1947 – Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
1947 – Dave Arneson, American game designer
1947 – Rula Lenska, English actress
1948 – Craig Kusick, American baseball player
1950 – Renato Zero, Italian musician
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1952 – Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
1953 – Deborah Allen, American singer
1953 – S. M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 – Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
1954 – Barry Williams, American actor
1954 – Patrice Rushen, American musician
1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress
1958 – Marty Stuart, American musician
1959 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor
1961 – Crystal Bernard, American actress
1961 – Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
1961 – Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
1962 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
1963 – David Barbe, American musician (Sugar)
1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1964 – Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 – Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1965 – Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
1965 – Omid Djalili, British stand-up comedian and actor
1966 – Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
1966 – Gary Armstrong, Scotland rugby player
1969 – Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
1969 – Mark Smith, English body builder, former Gladiators player
1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress
1972 – Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1972 – Shaan, Indian singer
1972 – Jamal Anderson, American football player
1974 – Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1974 – Daniel Wu, American-born Chinese film actor, director, and producer
1975 – Marion Cotillard, French actress
1975 – Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – Georges-Alain Jones, French singer
1977 – Maia Brewton, American actress
1977 – Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
1977 – Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
1978 – Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1978 – Róbinson Zapata, Colombian footballer (goalkeeper)
1979 – Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1979 – Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
1979 – Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
1979 – Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer
1980 – Camilla D'Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
1980 – Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
1981 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish author
1981 – Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1981 – Brandon Watson, American baseball
1982 – Seth Smith, American baseball player
1982 – Lacey Chabert, American actress
1982 – Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 – Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
1982 – Michelle Marsh, British model
1982 – Teal Redmann, American actress
1982 – Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Ryan Stout, American comedian
1982 – Ryane Clowe Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
1983 – Adam Jones, American football player
1985 – Adam Cooney, Australian footballer
1986 – Christian Zapata, Colombian footballer
1986 – Martin Guptill, New Zealand Cricketer
1987 – Denise Laurel, Filipino actress and singer

Deaths

420 – Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 – Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
1101 – Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
1246 – Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
1440 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
1487 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1551 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1572 – St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1626 – Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1770 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
1772 – James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1888 – Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
1888 – Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
1891 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
1897 – St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
1910 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1955 – James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
1961 – Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)
1965 – Six generals of Indonesian National Army assassinated by counter-coup action known as 30 September Movement
1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1977 – Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
1985 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
1988 – Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
1989 – Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896)
1990 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1990 – Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
1990 – Rob Moroso, American NASCAR driver (b. 1968)
1994 – Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1998 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer (b. 1966)
2003 – Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
2003 – Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
2004 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
2004 – Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (b. 1935)
2008 – Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singapore Opposition Leader & former Secretary-General of Singapore's Worker's Party (b. 1926)
2009 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

RC Saints – Saint Jerome
Botswana – Independence Day (1966)
São Tomé and Príncipe – Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
French Republican Calendar – Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
International Translation Day, introduced in 1991 by International Federation of Translators

[Peelz]

Morning fellers. Bet they are partying like mutha in Botswana.

[Krandall]

1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.


Rode my first one 2 years ago going to Australia. HUUUUGE!

[Krandall]

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[Krandall]

 

Good Night Raptor Source!!! 

[socalrappy700]

October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
911 – During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
959 – Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 – The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1843 – The News of the World tabloid began publication in London.
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
1869 – Austria issues the world's first postcards.
1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
1880 – First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 – Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
1890 – The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1894 – First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.
1898 – Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
1920 – Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1926 – An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 – USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 – First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 – Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 – The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 – First appearance of "In GERD We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA created to replace NACA.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1961 – Baseball: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees engage in an epic battle to break Babe Ruth's single season home run record of 60 in 1927. Maris ends up hitting his 61st against the Boston Red Sox, passing Ruth
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 – Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou.
1965 – General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 – The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 – The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 – EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
1987 – The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.
1989 – Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"
1991 – New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
1992 – Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet (DM-357) damaged by two Sea Sparrow missiles mistakenly launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
1998 – Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2004 – Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2005 – Bombing kills 19 people in Bali.
2007 – Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom.

Births

1207 – King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
1507 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
1540 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1577 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (d. 1622)
1620 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
1644 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
1671 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
1685 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
1691 – Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
1730 – Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1760 – William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
1771 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
1791 – Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1859)
1800 – Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
1835 – Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (d. 1920)
1842 – Charles Cros, French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
1865 – Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
1870 – Josiah Edward Spurr, American Geologist (d. 1950)
1878 – Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
1881 – William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
1885 – Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
1890 – Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
1893 – Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1893 – Yip Man, Martial Arts Master (d. 1972)
1896 – Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1951)
1896 – Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1899 – Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
1900 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1989)
1904 – Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1904 – A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
1909 – Maurice Bardèche, French fascist, (d. 1998)
1909 – Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
1910 – Bonnie Parker, American Outlaw Bonnie and Clyde (d. 1934)
1910 – Fritz Köberle, Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
1910 – José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
1913 – Helio Gracie, Martial Arts Master (d. 2009)
1914 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
1917 – Cahal Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Armagh
1920 – Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 – James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)
1922 – Kim Ki-young, South Korean film director (d. 1998)
1924 – Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1924 – William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
1925 – Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1926 – Roger Williams, American pianist
1927 – Tom Bosley, American actor
1927 – Sandy Gall, Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster
1928 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
1928 – George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
1928 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
1928 – Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician
1929 – Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby league identity
1930 – Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
1930 – Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1930 – Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
1930 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
1931 – Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
1932 – Albert Collins, American guitarist (d. 1993)
1935 – Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
1936 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
1936 – Stella Stevens, American actress
1939 – George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
1939 – Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor
1942 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French race car driver
1943 – Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director
1943 – Angèle Arsenault, Canadian singer and songwriter
1943 – Jerry Martini, American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1945 – Rod Carew, Panamanian-born baseball player
1945 – Donny Hathaway, American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
1945 – Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
1945 – Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
1946 – Tim O'Brien, American writer
1947 – Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist
1947 – Stephen Collins, American actor
1947 – Adriano Tilgher, Italian politician
1947 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (d. 2006)
1948 – Cub Koda, American singer (Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
1949 – Isaac Bonewits, American author
1950 – Randy Quaid, American actor
1950 – Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
1950 – Elpida, Greek singer and Eurovision contestant (Sokrati, Tora Zo)
1952 – Jacques Martin, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
1953 – John Hegley, British poet
1953 – Pete Falcone, American baseball player
1953 – Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete
1954 – Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
1955 – Howard Hewett, R & B Singer
1956 – Theresa May, British politician
1957 – Stelios Mainas, Greek actor
1958 – Masato Nakamura, Japanese musician
1959 – Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer
1961 – Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
1961 – Robert Rey, Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
1961 – Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
1961 – Corrie van Zyl, former South African cricketer
1962 – Esai Morales, American actor
1962 – Paul Walsh, English footballer
1963 – Jean-Denis Délétraz, Swiss race car driver
1963 – Mark McGwire, American baseball player
1964 – Harry Hill, British comedian
1964 – Max Matsuura, Japanese record producer
1964 – Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
1965 – Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
1965 – Cindy Margolis, American model and spokesmodel
1965 – Cliff Ronning, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Ted King, American actor
1965 – Chris Reason, Australian journalist
1966 – Christopher Titus, American actor/comedian
1966 – George Weah, Liberian politician and footballer
1966 – Cuco Ziganda, Spanish footballer
1967 – Scott Young, American ice hockey player
1967 – Mike Pringle, American football player
1968 – Jon Guenther, American author
1968 – Rob Collard, British racing driver
1969 – Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
1969 – Ori Kaplan, Israeli jazz musician
1969 – Marcus Stephen, Nauruan weightlifter and politician, current President of Nauru
1970 – Gam Wu-seong, South Korean actor
1970 – Jung Joon-ho, South Korean actor and singer
1970 – Simon Davey, Barnsley football manager
1970 – Alexei Zhamnov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Andrew O'Keefe, Australian television personality
1971 – Song Il Gook, Korean actor
1971 – Gigi Lai, Hong Kong actress
1972 – Jean Paulo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer
1972 – Ronen Altman Kaydar, Israeli Author
1973 – Jana Henke, German swimmer
1973 – Rachid Chékhémani, French runner
1973 – John Thomson, American baseball player
1974 – Mats Lindgren, Swedish ice hockey player
1974 – Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone) and actor
1974 – Christian Borle, American actor
1975 – Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
1975 – Zoltán Sebescen, German footballer
1975 – Kim Suna, Korean actress
1976 – Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
1976 – Denis Gauthier, Canadian hockey player
1976 – Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic film actress
1976 – Ümit Karan, Turkish footballer
1977 – Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian race car driver
1978 – Andrew JC Jackson, Australian surf lifesaver
1978 – Leticia Cline, American model and TV Personality
1979 – Cameron Bruce, Australian rules footballer
1979 – Rudi Johnson, American football player
1979 – Gilberto Martínez, Costa Rican footballer
1979 – Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union footballer
1980 – Antonio Narciso, Italian footballer
1981 – Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Rupert Friend, British actor
1981 – Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Arnau Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 – Haruna Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1982 – Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish singer
1983 – Mirko Vučinić, Montenegrin footballer
1983 – Ashley Green, Yorkshire Author/Comic
1984 – Matt Cain, American baseball player
1984 – Daniel Guillén, Spanish footballer
1985 – Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
1985 – Nazimuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi cricketer
1985 – Revazi Zintiridis, Greek judoka
1985 – Tim Deasy, English footballer
1986 – Justin Westhoff, Australian rules footballer
1986 – Jurnee Smollett, American actress
1986 – Sayaka, Japanese singer
1986 – Ricardo Vaz Tê, Portuguese footballer
1987 – Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor, singer
1987 – Lionel Ainsworth, English footballer
1988 – Cariba Heine, Australian actress
1988 – Jorge Núñez, Puerto Rican singer
1990 – Charlie Mcdonnell, English videoblogger


Deaths

959 – King Edwy of England
1040 – Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar
1310 – Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
1404 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
1499 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
1500 – John Alcock, English Catholic bishop
1567 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
1570 – Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
1574 – Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (b. 1498)
1578 – Don John of Austria, military leader (b. 1547)
1588 – Blessed Edward James, Catholic martyr
1602 – Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1541)
1609 – Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
1684 – Pierre Corneille, French author (b. 1606)
1693 – Pedro Abarca, Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
1708 – John Blow, British composer (b. 1649)
1768 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
1837 – Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
1838 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
1864 – Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1876 – James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
1885 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
1901 – Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir
1913 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
1919 – Princess Charlotte of Prussia (b. 1860)
1929 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor (b. 1861)
1942 – Ants Piip, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1884)
1955 – Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
1958 – Robert Falk, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1959 – Enrico de Nicola, 1st President of the Italian Republic (b. 1877)
1970 – Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1974 – Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1901)
1975 – Al Jackson, American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (b. 1935)
1984 – Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
1985 – E. B. White, American author (b. 1899)
1988 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
1990 – Curtis LeMay, American Air Force general (b. 1906)
1992 – Petra Kelly, German politician (b. 1947)
1994 – Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
1996 – Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (b. 1956)
1997 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
1998 – Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (b. 1928)
1999 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and Child star (b. 1963)
2000 – Robert Allen, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)
2000 – Reginald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
2001 – Guy Beaulne, French-Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (b. 1919)
2002 – Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2004 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)
2006 – Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
2006 – André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (b. 1952)
2007 – Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1965)
2007 – Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
2007 – Al Oerter, American track and field athlete (b. 1936)
2007 – Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931)
2007 – Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and theme song composer (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

National Day of the People's Republic of China (1949)
Republic of Cyprus – Independence Day (from Britain, 1960)
Nigeria – Independence Day (from Britain, 1960)
Tuvalu – Independence Day (from Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), 1975)
Singapore – Children's Day
Abai (martyr) in the Syrian Church
International Day of Older Persons
World Vegetarian Day (from North American Vegetarian Society, 1977)
World Day of Music by the proposal of Yehudi Menuhin (1975)

[Krandall]

1992 – Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet (DM-357) damaged by two Sea Sparrow missiles mistakenly launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.


It's a pretty interesting read:

During the fall of 1992, the United States, Turkey, and several other NATO members participated in "Exercise Display Determination 1992", a combined forces naval exercise under the overall command of Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda of the United States Navy. The forces of participating nations were assigned to either of two multinational teams. Vice Admiral T. Joseph Lopez of the United States Navy led the "Brown Forces," which included Saratoga. The opposing "Green Forces," including Muavenet were under the direct control of Admiral Kroon of the Netherlands.

During the "enhanced tactical" phase of the training exercises, the Brown Forces were to attempt an amphibious landing at Saros Bay in the Aegean Sea against the resistance offered by the Green Forces. Admiral Boorda ordered the units comprising each force to actively seek and "destroy" each other. Both task force commanders had full authority to engage the enemy when and where they deemed appropriate and to use all warfare assets at their disposal to achieve victory. Needless to say, all confrontations were intended to be simulated attacks.

On 1 October 1992 the Combat Direction Center Officer aboard Saratoga decided to launch a simulated attack on nearby opposition forces utilizing the Sea Sparrow missile system. After securing the approval of Saratoga's commanding officer and the Battle Group commander, Rear Admiral Philip Dur, the Combat Direction Center Officer implemented the simulated assault plan which took place on 2 October 1992. Without providing prior notice, officers on Saratoga woke the enlisted Sea Sparrow missile team and directed them to conduct the simulated attack. According to U.S. Navy, certain members of the missile firing team were not told that the exercise was a drill, rather than an actual event.
Muavenet in full cruise

As the drill progressed, the missile system operator used language to indicate he was preparing to fire a live missile, but due to the absence of standard terminology, it was failed to appreciate the significance of the terms used and the requests made. Specifically, the Target Acquisition System operator issued the command "arm and tune", terminology the console operators understood to require arming of the missiles in preparation for actual firing. The officers supervising the drill did not realize that "arm and tune" signified a live firing. As a result, shortly after midnight on the morning of 2 October, Saratoga fired two Sea Sparrow missiles at Muavenet. The missiles struck in the bridge, destroying it and the Combat Information Center, killing 5 of the ship's officers and injuring twenty-two. The sailors who actually fired the missiles were not punished, but the ship's commanding officer, Captain James M. Drager[1], four officers and three enlisted men received admiral's non-judicial punishment, an action that the New York Times stated would effectively end their US Navy careers.[2] USS Capodanno (FF-1093) was given to Turkey by the United States Navy as part of the restitution for the accident and it was renamed TCG Muavenet (F-250) by Turkey.

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October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1851 – The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1924 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of GERD", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
1938 – Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 – World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1990 – A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
1992 – The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 – An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
1997 – European Union: The Amsterdam Treaty is signed.
2001 – NATO backs US military strikes following 9/11.
2001 – Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2004 – American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2005 – NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Births

1452 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1470 – Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)
1538 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
1644 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
1722 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)
1737 – Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
1768 – William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
1798 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
1800 – Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
1828 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
1832 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
1833 – Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897)
1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
1851 – Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929)
1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)
1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi), Indian politician and spiritual leader (d. 1948)
1871 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
1871 – Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959)
1873 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924)
1873 – Plum Warner, English cricketer (d. 1963)
1879 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
1882 – Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1893 – Leroy Shield, American film score and radio composer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1962)
1895 – Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
1896 – Liaqat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister (d. 1951)
1901 – Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953)
1902 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (d. 1965)
1904 – Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1911 – Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
1913 – Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
1914 – Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952)
1914 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d. 1998)
1917 – Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, Nobel laureate
1917 – Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006)
1921 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
1926 – Jan Morris, English writer
1928 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
1928 – Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian
1929 – Howard Roberts, American Jazz Guitarist, Educator, and Session Musician (d. 1992)
1929 – Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)
1929 – Cesare Maestri, Italian climber, famous for climbing Cerro Torre
1930 – Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
1932 – Maury Wills, American baseball player
1933 – Phill Niblock, American composer, filmmaker and videographer
1934 – Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1935 – Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (d. 2005)
1936 – Dick Barnett, American basketball player
1937 – Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)
1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
1938 – Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor
1938 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983)
1940 – Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player
1941 – Zareh Baronian, Armenian theologian
1943 – Franklin Rosemont, American artist
1945 – Don McLean, American songwriter
1946 – Gen.Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Army
1946 – Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
1948 – Avery Brooks, American actor
1948 – Trevor Brooking, English footballer
1948 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer
1948 – Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005)
1949 – Richard Hell, American musician
1949 – Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
1950 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (d. 1998)
1950 – Ian McNeice, English actor
1950 – Mike Rutherford, English musician (Genesis)
1951 – Sting, English musician and actor
1951 – Romina Power, Italian singer
1952 – Robin Riker, American actress
1952 – Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer
1954 – Lorraine Bracco, American actress
1955 – Phil Oakey, English singer (The Human League)
1957 – Wade Dooley, English rugby union player
1960 – Al Connelly, Canadian Musician/Songwriter
1960 – Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter
1962 – Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes)
1962 – Aziz M. Osman, Malaysian actor and director
1964 – Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
1964 – Sam Bockarie, RUF Rebel Military Commander
1966 – Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
1967 – Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
1967 – Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
1967 – Gillian Welch, American singer and songwriter
1968 – Victoria Derbyshire, British radio presenter
1968 – Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter (The Tea Party)
1968 – Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player
1968 – Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Mitch English, American actor
1969 – Damon Gough, English singer
1969 – Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 – Eddie Guardado, American baseball relief pitcher
1970 – Kelly Ripa, American actress
1970 – Colin Rivas, Galician artist
1970 – Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
1971 – James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1971 – Tiffany, American singer
1972 – Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997
1972 – Aaron Mckie, American basketball player
1973 – Lene, Norwegian singer (Aqua)
1973 – Efren Ramirez, American actor
1973 – Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
1973 – Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian entertainer
1973 – Maria Wetterstrand, Swedish politician
1973 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006)
1974 – Simon Gregson, British actor
1974 – Michelle Krusiec, American actress
1974 – Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2006)
1974 – Sam Roberts, Canadian singer and songwriter
1974 – Paul Teutul Jr., American custom motorcycle builder
1976 – Jason Dodson, American political consultant and teacher of esotericism
1976 – Mandisa, American singer
1976 – John Thornton, American football player
1976 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
1978 – Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
1979 – Primož Brezec, Slovenian basketball player
1979 – Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer
1979 – Maja Ivarsson, Swedish singer (The Sounds)
1980 – Shane Andrus, American football player
1981 – Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
1981 – Toro, Taiwanese singer
1982 – Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
1982 – George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)
1982 – Amber Lee Ettinger, American actress
1985 – Buster Davis, American football player
1986 – Camilla Belle, American actress
1987 – Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
1989 – Karissa and Kristina Shannon, models
1990 – Dean Bouzanis, Australian footballer
1993 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress

Deaths

939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
1629 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
1708 – Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
1746 – Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
1775 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1780 – John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
1782 – Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
1803 – Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
1817 – Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
1850 – Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
1853 – François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1938 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
1947 – Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
1971 – Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
1973 – Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
1974 – Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
1975 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
1981 – Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
1981 – Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1987 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
1987 – Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
1988 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
1994 – Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
1996 – Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
1998 – Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
1998 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2003 – John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
2005 – Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
2005 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
2005 – August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
2006 – Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
2007 – Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
2007 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007 – Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
2008 – Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
2008 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968)

Holidays and observances

International Day of Non-Violence to commemorate birthday of Mahatma Gandhi
Guinea – Independence Day (from France, 1958)
India – Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869)