(*) = Events you find especially cool
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April 11:

491: Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

*1471: Wars of the Roses: King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI.

1512: Battle of Ravenna: French forces under Gaston de Foix defeat Holy League in a major battle of the Italian Wars.

1564: England & France sign Peace of Troyes.

1713: Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty.

1775: The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.

*1783: Hostilities formally cease in the American Revolutionary War.

*1814: Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba.

*1868: The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.

1890: Ellis Island, New York, designated as an immigration station.

1898: President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration.

1899: Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US.
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So what happened on your birthdays? Go to http://www.onthisday.com to find out.

374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
1249 Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
1486 Maximilian I is elected King of the Romans at Frankfurt
1512 Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen
1559 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy

On my birthday, loads of bad things happened, but I'm not naive enough to put it on here.

More happening on April 11:

1979: Idi Amin is overthrown by Tanzanian military forces.
1241: Khan Bat decisively slays the military forces of Béla IV, and Hungary is taken by the Mongol forces with little further resistance.

I cried

some of the ones I got:


28 Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome

1418 An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.

1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples

1665 New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York

1673 Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral

1714 Prussia & Russia sign secret treaty

1830 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.

1898 Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain

1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury

1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam)

1942 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples

1968 U.S. premiere of horror film "Rosemary's Baby", based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Ira Levin

1981 "Raiders Of The Lost Ark", the 1st an Indiana Jones film directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford premieres

2007 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin

November 3:
507 - Leonardo DaVinci was commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa.

1631 - The Reverend John Eliot arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the first Protestant minister to dedicate himself to the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity.

1793 - Stephen F. Austin was born. He was the principal founder of Texas.

1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President.

1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain erupted.

1892 - The first automatic telephone went into service at LaPorte, IN. The device was invented by Almon Strowger.

1900 - The first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1903 - Panama proclaimed its independence from Columbia.

1911 - Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.

1934 - The first race track in California opened under a new pari-mutuel betting law.

1941 - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Grew warned that the Japanese may be planning a sudden attack on the U.S.

1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time in a supermarket in Chester, NY.

1953 - The Rules Committee of organized baseball restored the sacrifice fly. The rule had not been used since 1939.

1957 - Sputnik II was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the second manmade satellite to be put into orbit and was the first to put an animal into space, a dog named Laika.

1973 - The U.S. launched the Mariner 10 spacecraft. On March 29, 1974 it became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury.

1975 - "Good Morning America" premiered on ABC-TV.

1979 - Five members of the Communist Workers' Party are shot to death in broad daylight at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, NC. Eight others were wounded.

1986 - The Ash-Shiraa, pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran to secure the release of seven American hostages. The story turned into the Iran-Contra affair.

1987 - China told the U.S. that it would halt the sale of arms to Iran.

1991 - Israeli and Palestinian representatives held their first-ever face-to-face talks in Madrid, Spain.

1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman U.S. senator.

1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, was arrested for drowning her two sons. Nine days earlier Smith had claimed that the children had been abducted by a black carjacker.

1995 - U.S. President Clinton dedicated a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

1998 - Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, died at the age of 83.

1998 - A state-run newspaper in Iraq urged the country to prepare for to battle "the U.S. monster."

1998 - Minnesota elected Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a former pro wrestler, as its governor.

2002 - At Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, 777 people assembled a 58,435 square foot jigsaw puzzle with 21,600 pieces.

2003 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, a post-Taliban draft constitution was unveiled.

2005 - Walt Disney Pictures released "Chicken Little." It was the first Disney film completely created with computer animation.

2014 - In New York City, One World Trade Center opened for business.
Share birthday with:
Gabe Newell
Emperor Meiji
Osman II

Edited 4/16/2016 01:18:18

May 2

1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1611 – The King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria. ... April?
1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

I was born.

Not many interesting events on December 22nd, mostly relatively mundane stuff.

I was born on the same day as Giacomo Puccini which i take as a large compliment. But also on the same day as Ted Cruz and Meghan Trainor which is a gigantic bitch slap. On the upside, born on same day as re-opening of Brandenburg gate in 1989, on the down side, born same day as Bernhard Goetz subway shooting uproar. On the up side, born on same day as the first prime minister of Japan was chosen, on the down side, born on same day as Ted Cruz.

Edited 4/15/2016 23:55:11

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Noryang

Not many interesting events on December 22nd, mostly relatively mundane stuff.

Guess the Terror Archives are mundane, or Lech Wałęsa getting elected to be president of Poland.

Seriously, don't be arrogantly wrong - this wouldn't nearly be so mind-numbing if you said "I don't think many interesting happenings happened on December 22".

Tons of awesome sh*t went down on my birthday.

404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.

1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.

1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.

1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.

1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.

1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

1945 – Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.

1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.

1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

2015 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.

People I share a birthday with:

Oliver Cromwell

Al Pacino

153 BC Roman consuls begin their year in office.
45 BC The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
1 Origin of Christian Era
69 Roman garrison of Mainz uprising
89 Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome
313 Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction
404 Last gladiator competition in Rome
630 The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly.
722 Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from bishop Willibrord
990 Russia adopts Julian calendar
1259 Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
1430 Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services
1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Hungary
1494 Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia
1502 Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
1504 King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta
1515 Francis, Duke of Angouleme succeeds King Louis XII as Francis I of France
1515 Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria
1527 Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
1573 Geuzen sets fire to Woudrichem
1583 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders
1600 Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.

1st of july:

sunglasses were invented in china

1st burning of protestants at stake in netherlands by the spanish

lithuania and poland became 1 country

1st vote on declaration of independence

napoleons fleet reaches alexandria

central america gains independence from mexico

slavery abolished in suriname and dutch antiles

dominion of canada formed

treaty of berlin divides africa for colonialism

start of sherlock holmes

1st tour de france

albert einstein introduces his theory of relativity

orange free state is granted self government

union of south africa becomes a dominion

UK loses 19,240 men in the battle of the Somme

communist party of china is formed

popeye created

iraq gains independence

FDR nominated for president

Australia refuses entry to WWII dutch jewish refugees

sevastopol conquered by germans

atomic bomb dropped on bikini atoll

vietnam gains independence from france

somalia gains independence from italy and UK

ghana gains independence

algeria votes for indepedence

burundi and rwanda gain indepedence

britain and argentina sign accord about falkland islands

pinochet becomes president of chile

madeira gains autonomy from portugal

sony introduces the walkman

first search and rescue satelite launched

hong kong given to china

oresund bridge(connecting sweden and denmark) opened to trafic

The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

croatia becomes a member of the EU

Greek Credit Crisis: Greece becomes 1st developed country to default on debt to the International Monetary Fund (1.7 billion)

US and Cuba announce agreement to re-open embassies and establish full diplomatic ties

Edited 4/16/2016 00:17:26

Aug. 3
1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.
1949 - The National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed. The league was formed by the merger between the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.
2009 - Bolivia became the first South American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.

Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas.

No, common misconception. He really left for America from San Sebastián, in the Canary islands (since it's a tad wester).

Pie, you and I share a birthday :P

October 8th. Sharing only interesting-ish ones I found. Bold = Specially interesting or just fun to know.

1480 – Great stand on the Ugra River, a battle between the Muscovy and the Golden Horde that resulted in the De Jure independence of Russia from mongol influence since Genghis Khancer.

1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, October 8th did not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1850 – Henry Louis Le Châtelier, French chemist and academic, is born.

1862 - Otto Von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire.

1871 - The Great Chicago Fire happens in... Chicago.

1895 – Eulmi incident: Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by Japanese infiltrators inside Gyeongbok Palace.

1895 – Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina, is born; he was the second to last president before the argentinian army striked a coup as part of the multiple coups in south america during the 1960s and 1970s. The last president, Isabel Perón, was his wife. He is also suspected of protecting Nazi War Criminals.

1912 – First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.

1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor.

1939 – German annexation of (Western) Poland, as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop deals.

1967 – Che Guevara and most of his men are captured in Bolivia. He was executed the following day. This would eventually be the base for the name "Movimento Revolucionário Oito de Outubro" (October 8th Revolutionary Action), also known as the MR-8, a guerilla group in Brazil that seeked to take over the country and start a communist government (though they claimed their goal was only democracy)

1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine".

1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

1985 - Bruno Mars is born.

1991 – Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, rendering the country fully independent.

1997 - Bella Thorne, american actress and singer, is born, literally on the same day as yours truly.

2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

2015 - Actress and singer Selena Gomez reveals she has Lupus.

Edited 4/16/2016 01:57:10

http://www.onthisday.com/day/january/3

http://www.onthisday.com/day/january/3?p=2

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