Curse

unienaule · Nov 02, 2005, 11:27 AM // 11:27

Nope, this is probably not about what you thought. I just noticed the most users ever recorded was on my birthday, even though I wasn't yet on the forums then. Also, Episode I of Star Wars was shown for the first time ever on TV for my birthday. Can't think of anything else sweet about that day. I'd like to hear what has happened on other people's birthdays.

huh · Nov 02, 2005, 12:17 PM // 12:17

I got a cake on my birthday.

And a few gifts here and there too!

It was all fine and dandy, then I turned 16 and my family forgot about my birthday, and 17, and 18, and 19...surprisingly, they remembered at 20.

Other than that...no I don't think anything important happened on my birthday...other than the fact that I was born

Naprius · Nov 02, 2005, 12:23 PM // 12:23

nothign happens on my birthday, i make sure people forget my birthday

jonnybegood · Nov 03, 2005, 05:13 AM // 05:13

lamborghini rolled out it's first car 50 years before my birthday.

Jaia Shadowless · Nov 03, 2005, 05:46 AM // 05:46

December 29, 1891 - Thomas Edison patents the radio.

That's pretty cool. I actually had no idea that anything interesting happened on my birthday. Wikipedia rocks.

nightrunner · Nov 03, 2005, 05:46 AM // 05:46

There was world peace before my birthday. Since then, it's all sorta gone to hell.

D.E.V.i.A.N.C.E · Nov 03, 2005, 06:30 AM // 06:30

huh well the leader singer of KoRn shares a birth day with me and my grand mother and her mother.
was a fan since elementry but anyhow...
oh great look at these events...
1919 - Bentley Motors is founded.
1939 - Louis Armstrong records Jeepers Creepers.
(I liked the movie and the sequal)
1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City.
1977 - Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
1990 - Former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey are acquitted in a Los Angeles, California court of 52 child molestation charges.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website The Drudge Report.
2002 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
2003 - Canberra firestorm, kills 4 and destroys 491 homes

man all hell breaks loose once the plans are revealed for the World Trade Center.

PieXags · Nov 03, 2005, 07:43 AM // 07:43

August 3rd

Holidays Which Occur August 3:
New Zealand Arbor Day (1872)
Niger Independence Day (1960)
Tunisia Bourguiba's Birthday (1902)
Religious Observances on August 3:
RC Lydia, daughter of Jozef of Nazareth
415 RC Commemoration of Finding of Body of St Stephen, martyr
Things to Remember for August 3:
FLOWERS-gladiolus & poppy GEMS-sardonyx & peridot
Sandwich-National Catfish-Month
1 ?? [Hawaii] Aukake
12 Days Dog Days
19 Days ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo
Highlights in History Which Occur August 3:
881 Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings
1108 Louis VI, King of France, crowned
1312 Power of Luik Patriarch murders over 200
1492 All Jews are expelled from Spain
and Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for "Indies"
1529 Women's peace (treaty of Cambrai)-emperor Charles V & King French I
1557 Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes
1596 David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
1640 2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka
and Zorilla's "Bire el Ojo," premieres in Toledo
1645 Battle of Allersheim
1650 Viceroy Willem II & Amsterdam reach accord about standing army
1676 Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"
1678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon
1692 Battle at Steenkerke: French beats English/Dutch army
1704 English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar
1708 Battle at Trencs‚n: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
1778 Teatro alla Scale opens in Milan
1797 Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in
"Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews
1829 Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell," premieres in Paris
1833 HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro
1852 1st intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
1855 Rotterdam-Gouda railway opens
1860 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
1861 Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
1863 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in NY
and Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1864 Battle of Mobile AL
1881 Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
and US Nation Lawn Tennis Association removes "Nation" from name
1882 Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1889 A Charlois discovers asteroid #285 Regina
and J Palisa discovers asteroid #286 Iclea
1897 John McNally's musical "Good Mr Best," premieres in NYC
1904 British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
and M Wolf discovers asteroid #540 Rosamunde
1914 1st ship through Panama Canal
and Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
and French fleet sails to North-Africa
and German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
and Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
and Great Britain declares war on Germany
and Turkey signs military pact with Germany
and World Alliance for Promoting Intl Friendship through Churches forms
and Yankee catcher Nunamaker throws out 3 would be stealers in 1 inning
1918 Wolf discovers asteroid #897 Lysistrata, #898 Hildegard & #899 Jokaste
1921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
and Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox
scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
1923 VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th president
1924 Cyclist Piet Moeskops regains world sprint championist
1925 Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912)
1926 Traffic lights installed on Piccadilly Circus
1928 Ray Barbuti saves US team from defeat in Amsterdam Olympics track
events by winning 400 m (47.8 sec)
1930 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
and E Skvortsov discovers asteroid #1167 Dubiago
1933 Yanks are shut out for 1st time after 308 games
1937 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1437 Diomedes & #1457 Ankara
1939 Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris
1940 German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies
and Italian troops attack British-Somalia
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1881 Shao
and Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
and seaplane Clare makes 1st British passagiersvlucht to the US
1941 Benzine sales limited in US
and German troops conquer Roslavl USSR
1943 Nazi occupiers attack city Orel, leave it in fire
1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
and General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter
1946 Belgiangovt-Huysmans, forms
1948 Cleveland's Satchel Paige make his 1st start & goes 7 innings
and FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
and M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1569 Evita
1949 Republic Indonesia ends cease fire
Basketball Assoc of America & National Basketball League merge to
and form National Basketball Association
1952 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
1953 Frank Blair becomes news anchor of Today Show
1954 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown
1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
and Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
and Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7)
1956 Willie Williams of US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
1957 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
1958 USS Nautilus begins 1st crossing of Arctic Ocean under icecap
1959 50 killed in uprising in Guinea-Bissau
and AL beats NL 5-3 in 27th All Star Game (Dodger Stadium)
1960 Niger gains independence from France
1962 NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
1963 Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
and Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool
and Great Train Robbery-œ2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
1967 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam
and James Law rides entire NYC subway in 22 hrs 12 minutes
1968 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1969 Reds beats Phillies 19-17
1970 4 day NFL strike ends
and Christopher Hampton's "Philanthropist," premieres in London
and Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
and L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2140 Kemerovo
and Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
1971 Paul McCartney announces formation of his group Wings
1972 British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
and Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii
1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
and National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
1974 Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
1975 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River
and Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
and Poland & West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer
25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
1979 Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR
and Duke Snider & Al Kaline enter baseball's Hall of Fame
1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
and E Bowell discovers asteroids #3115 Baily & #3690
and France performs nuclear test
1982 Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as Yankee manager
1983 John Sain of South Bend, Ind builds 3.91 m house of cards
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
and Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
1985 "Nihilator" set harness pacing mile (1:49.6) in East Rutherford, NJ
and Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
1987 Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
and Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
1988 Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC
1989 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
and Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
and Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning
and as they score 14 runs in 1st inning
1990 98.8øF (37.1øC) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)
and NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
and Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
and US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Phila 11-0
and For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in
1991 Pan Am games open in Havana
1992 Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)
and Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
1993 NBA Michael Jordan's father James found dead near McColl SC
1994 102.4øF (39.1øC) in Tokyo Japan: record
and 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, U.K.)
1975 At least 500 drowned when 2 river boats collided and sank
in China's West River.

TheEPIC · Nov 03, 2005, 07:51 AM // 07:51

Things that happened on January 13th

1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas.
1930 - Mickey Mouse comic strip makes first appearance.
1987 - The second greatest gift is given to the world... me!!!
1999 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls basketball team announces his retirement (for the second time -- he has since rescinded his retirement).
2002 - US President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel. (lol)
1929 - Wyatt Earp, Western lawman dies

Shared Birthdays
1977 - Orlando Bloom, English actor (I really wish this weren't true)
1983 - William Hung, Hong Kong-born singer (ditto)

Avari Zi · Nov 03, 2005, 07:56 AM // 07:56

Things that happened on my birthday February 25th

1570 - England's Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.
1751 - Edward Willet displayed the first trained monkey act in the U.S.
1793 - The department heads of the U.S. government met with U.S. President Washington for the first Cabinet meeting on U.S. record.
1836 - Samuel Colt received a patent for the Colt 45.
1901 - The United States Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.
1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized a graduated income tax.
1919 - The state of Oregon became the first state to place a tax on gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.
1928 - The Federal Radio Commission issued the first U.S. television license to Charles Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, DC.
1930 - The bank check photographing device was patented.
1933 - The first aircraft carrier, Ranger, was launched.
1940 - The New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens played in the first hockey game to be televised in the U.S. The game was aired on W2WBS in New York with one camera in a fixed position. The Rangers beat the Canadiens 6-2.
1948 - Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia.
1950 - "Your Show of Shows" debuted on NBC.
1956 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party congress in Moscow.
1972 - Germany gave a $5 million ransom to Arab terrorist who had hijacked a jumbo jet.
1986 - Phillippino President Ferdinand E. Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule after a tainted election.
1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
1999 - William King was sentenced to death for the racial murder of James Byrd Jr in Jasper, TX. Two other men charged were later convicted for thier involvement.
1999 - In Moscow, China's Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and Russia's President Boris Yeltsin discussed trade and other issues.
2000 - In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.

Naprius · Nov 03, 2005, 07:59 AM // 07:59

wow the titanic rolled into the water on my birth day

heist23 · Nov 03, 2005, 09:10 AM // 09:10

jeezm crole, this is a long list...

Events
1295 - Pope Boniface VIII enters Rome.
1305 - Flemish-French peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314 - Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
1532 - Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
1611 - The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic Ocean; they are never heard from again.
1661 - Marriage contract between Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal.
1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada. [1]
1724 - Russia and Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople.
1757 - Battle of Plassey - 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.
1758 - Seven Years War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 - Seven Years War: Battle of Landshut - Austria beats Prussia.
1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
1810 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1858 - Six-year-old Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
1860 - The US Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
1865 - American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1887 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [2]
1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
1894 - International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. [3]
1938 - The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1938 - Marineland opens near St. Augustine, Florida.
1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1941 - Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
1944 - Thomas Mann becomes a US citizen.
1947 - The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1955 - In the Strahov Stadium in Prague the 1st all-national Spartakiáda begins.
1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt.
1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1959 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.
1960 - Japan signs security treaty with the U.S.
1962 - Larry Doby retires from the Cleveland Indians to play in Japan.
1967 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.
1969 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief Earl Warren.
1972 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1979 - Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
1985 - A Boeing 747 carrying Air India Flight 182 blew-up 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, South of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
1989 - The movie Batman is released in the United States.
1990 - Moldavia declares independence.
1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Genesis in North America.
1992 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2.
1992 - Yitzhak Rabin wins the Israeli parlamentary elections..
1996 - Clan Knightmare, a Quake gaming clan was formed
2005 - The IWW Centennial in Chicago, Illinois
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Births
47 BC - Pharaoh Ptolemy XV of Egypt
1433 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1488)
1456 - Margaret of Denmark, queen of James III of Scotland (d. 1486)
1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1596 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
1612 - André Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660)
1668 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1744)
1683 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745)
1763 - Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (d. 1814).
1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
1889 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (d. 1966)
1894 - Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist and sexologist (d. 1956)
1894 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
1907 - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1910 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
1910 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1912 - Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)
1916 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
1927 - Bob Fosse, American choreographer (d. 1987)
1929 - June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
1936 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
1940 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
1940 - Lord Irvine of Lairg, Scottish Lord Chancellor
1940 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (d. 1994)
1941 - Robert Hunter, American singer and songwriter (The Grateful Dead)
1943 - James Levine, American conductor
1943 - Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer
1946 - Ted Shackleford, American actor
1948 - Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1948 - Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author and professor of music education
1956 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
1957 - Frances McDormand, American actress
1962 - Chuck Billy, American singer
1963 - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
1964 - Joss Whedon, American producer, director, and screenwriter
1966 - Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
1972 - Selma Blair, American actress
1972 - Zinedine Zidane, French footballer
1973 - Marie N, Latvian singer
1975 - Kevin Dyson, American football player
1976 - Brandon Stokley, American football player
1976 - Patrick Vieira, French footballer
1977 - Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
1979 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan, Guyanese cricketer
1991 - Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega mascot

Deaths
79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. AD 9)
1018 - Henry I of Austria
1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
1555 - Pedro Mascarenhas, Portuguese explorer (b. 1470)
1582 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1615 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1677 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1647)
1686 - William Coventry, English statesman
1707 - John Mill, English theologian
1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
1770 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (b. 1721)
1775 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
1832 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
1891 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804)
1893 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone British South African statesmen (b. 1817)
1956 - Reinhold Glière, Russian composer (b. 1875)
1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
1969 - Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)
1980 - Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
1995 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher (b. 1914)
1996 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
1998 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
2002 - Pedro 'El Rockero' Alcazar, Panamanian boxer (b. 1975)
2003 - Vasil Bykau, Belarusian writer (b. 1924)
2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia - Jāņi held.
Midsummer's Eve, Christianized the eve of the feast of Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated in much of Northern Europe and the British Islands <--heck, i'm a Christian (Catholic) and i didn't even know that.
Victory Day - Estonia
Saint Jonas Day - Lithuania

well, June 23rd is a crazy day. who knew?

unienaule · Nov 03, 2005, 09:37 AM // 09:37

1987, April 29, I was born!

1861 - American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union
1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.

Births
1954 - Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian
1955 - Kate Mulgrew, American actress
1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, Irish actor
1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
1967 - Master P, American rapper, composer, actor, athlete, and sports agent
1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress

Deaths
1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1980 - Alfred HitchRED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO, English film director (b. 1899)