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CalypsoBelle
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# Posted: 2 Jul 2008 23:02
6th May:
Birthdays --
1856: Robert Peary, American Artic explorer
1856: Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist
1895: Rudolph Valentino, silent film star
1915: Orson Wells, American actor
In history --
1910: George V becomes the King of England
1937: The Hindenberg airship catches fire and is destroyed while in the USA
1987: Black South African workers go on strike over whites only election
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# Posted: 3 Jul 2008 06:46
7th May
Birthdays...
1812 - Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
1901 - Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
1919 - Eva Peron, Argentine first lady (d. 1952)
In history...
1824 - World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the deaf composer's supervision.
1895 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1960 - Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers
1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its maiden voyage (STS-49).
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# Posted: 3 Jul 2008 09:30
8th May:
Birthdays --
1698: Henry Baker, English naturalist
1884: Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
1926: David Attenborough, English director
1940: Peter Benchley, British author
1946: Candice Bergen, American actress
In history --
1902: The volcano Mount Pelee, in the Caribbean, erupts, killing 30,000 people
1911: Iceland gives the vote to women
1933: Gandhi, in India, begins a hunger strike in protest against the British
1945: Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared
1950: American General MacArthur becomes comander of the UN forces in Korea
1984: The USSR and Warsaw Pact countries announce they will boycott the Los Angeles Olympics
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# Posted: 4 Jul 2008 05:43
9th May
Birthdays...
1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1860 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)
1874 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
1934 - Alan Bennett, British author
In history....
1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1901 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne
1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British
1980 - The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana.
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# Posted: 4 Jul 2008 15:59
10th May:
Birthdays --
1899: Fred Astaire, American Actor
1902: David O Selznick, American film producer
In history --
1869: The American trans-continental railroad is completed
1933: Nazis burn 'un-German' books outside Berlin University
1994: Nelson Mandella sworn in as the President of South Africa
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# Posted: 4 Jul 2008 21:58
11th May
Birthdays...
1811 - Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins (d. 1874)
1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
1904 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
1950 - Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author
In history...
1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
1813 - In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1985 - Fifty-six spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.
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# Posted: 5 Jul 2008 22:29
12th May
Birthdays -
1812 - Edward Lear, British author and poet (d. 1888)
1820 - Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet (d. 1882)
1924 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (d. 1968)
1942 - Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
1948 - Steve Winwood, British musician (The Spencer Davis Group; Traffic)
In History -
1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey.
1942 - Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz
1967 - At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.
2008 - 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 60,000 people.
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# Posted: 6 Jul 2008 19:55
13th May
Birthdays...
1655 - Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1907 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
In history...
1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
1940 - World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1989 - Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
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# Posted: 7 Jul 2008 17:24
14th May:
Birthdays --
1686: Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German inventor of mercury thermometer
1727: Thomas Gainsborough, British artist
1944: George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars films
In history --
1610: Henry IV of France assassinated
1940: Rotterdam, Holland, captured by German forces during WW2
1948: Jewish provisional government formed as British Mandate for Palestine ends
1955: The Warsaw Pact signed by Eastern Bloc countries
1973: The United States launch the Skylab 1 space station
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# Posted: 7 Jul 2008 22:10
15th May
Birthdays...
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1909 - James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
In history...
1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France.
1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1858 - Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 10:42
6th May:
Birthdays --
1856: Robert Peary, American Artic explorer
1856: Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist
1895: Rudolph Valentino, silent film star
1915: Orson Wells, American actor
In history --
1910: George V becomes the King of England
1937: The Hindenberg airship catches fire and is destroyed while in the USA
1987: Black South African workers go on strike over whites only election
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 19:56
17th May
Birthdays...
1749 - Edward Jenner, English medical researcher (d. 1823)
1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (d. 1998)
1956 - Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer
In history...
1900 - Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1943 - World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1967 - Six-Day War: President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
1984 - Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture
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# Posted: 8 Jul 2008 20:04
18th May:
Birthdays --
1872: Bertrand Russell, English philospher
1883: Walter Gropius, American architect
1918: Pope John Paul II, Head of the Catholic Church
In history--
1900: Tonga becomes a British protectorate
1910: The first ever conference on air traffic opens in Paris
1936: The Spanish Civil War breaks out
1980: Mt St. Helens, North America, erupts causing widespread damage
1983: Sri Lanka imposes a State of Emergency after election violence
1990: Treaty forming the basis for monetary union between East and West Germany signed
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2008 17:33
19th May
Birthdays...
1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
1925 - Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1932 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
In history...
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England has Mary Queen of Scots arrested.
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
1943 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather).
1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday.
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# Posted: 9 Jul 2008 22:58
20th May:
Birthdays --
1908: James Stewart, American film actor
1915: Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader
1946: Cher, American actress
In history --
1927: Britain recognises the independence of Saudi Arabia
1944: Failed assassination attempt made on Hitler by his own officers
1990: An estimated 2 million people across China protest Martial Law
1991: The Soviet government begins allowing citizens to leave the country if they wished
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2008 01:09
21st May
Birthdays...
1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
1780 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
1904 - Fats Waller, American pianist (d. 1943)
1916 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
In history...
1502 - The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova.
1851 - Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
2007 - The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England. She was the last surviving clipper, now there is none.
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# Posted: 14 Jul 2008 00:09
22nd May
Birthdays -
1813 - Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
1907 - Hergé, Belgian comic book creator (d. 1983)
1907 - Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
1924 - Charles Aznavour, French singer, actor, and composer
1930 - Kenny Ball, British musician
1946 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
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1840 - The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1906 - The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
1968 - The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores
1969 - Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
1972 - Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1990 - The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.
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# Posted: 14 Jul 2008 05:35
23rd May...
Birthdays...
1734 - Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d.1815)
1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
1918 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician (d. 2008)
1944 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
In history...
1533 - The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1701 - After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
1998 - The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
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# Posted: 15 Jul 2008 23:03
24th May:
Birthdays --
1819: Queen Victoria
1941: Bob Dylan, American singer/songwriter
1969: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader
In history --
1948: The USSR stop road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West
1956: 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha celebrated in India
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# Posted: 16 Jul 2008 01:59
25th May
Birthdays...
1913 - Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1939 - Ian McKellen, English actor
1993 - Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets
In history...
1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1938 - Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1977 - Star Wars is released. It rapidly becomes a cult classic and is the start of a six-movie franchise.
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# Posted: 16 Jul 2008 21:41
(25th May: Hubby's birthday)
26th May:
Birthdays --
1886: Al Jolson, American singer
1907: John Wayne, American actor
1913: Peter Cushing, British-born film actor
1925: Roy Dotrice, American actor
In history --
1805: Napoleon Bonaparte crowned King of Italy
1924: The United States start limiting immigration, banning all Japanese
1991: Presidential elections, after the collapse of the USSR, are held in Georgia
1992: With the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Ukraine decide to split the Black Sea fleet
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# Posted: 16 Jul 2008 22:44
27th May
Birthdays...
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1894 - Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
In history...
1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1967 - Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
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# Posted: 18 Jul 2008 13:14
28th May:
Birthdays --
1660: King George I
1908: Ian Fleming, British writer (James Bond)
In history --
1906: The Tsar of Russia makes large areas of land available to the peasants
1915: Women in Berlin demonstrate for peace
1940: Holland and Belgium surrender to German forces, during WW2
1961: Last ever Orient Express from Paris to Bucharest
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# Posted: 19 Jul 2008 07:16
29th May
Birthdays....
1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685)
1874 - G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
1903 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
In history...
1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.
1919 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1999 - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
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# Posted: 19 Jul 2008 12:57
30th May:
Birthdays --
1672: Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia
1846: Peter Faberge, Russian jeweller
1896: Howard Hawks, American film director
1908: Mel Blanc, provided many cartoon voices for Warner Brothers
1909: Benny Goodman, American bandleader
In history --
1536: King Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1842: Assassination attempt made on Queen Victoria
1934: Nazis open trials of alleged communists
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# Posted: 19 Jul 2008 14:33
31st May:
Birthdays --
1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, Austria, composer
1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, Hastings, 1st woman doctor of medicine
1930 Clint Eastwood, California, actor
1971 Sarah O'Hare, London, Model
In history --
1678 Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest against taxes
1879 Madison Square Garden opens
1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1925 Fisrt aerial crossing of Pacific Ocean takes off from Oakland
1991 Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
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# Posted: 19 Jul 2008 14:40
1st June:
Birthdays --
1926: Andy Griffith, American film and television actor
1926: Marilyn Monroe, American film actress
1937: Morgan Freeman, American film actor ('Driving Miss Daisy')
In history --
1952: East Germany closes its links with West
1958: General De Gaulle named the premier of France
1973: Greece becomes a republic, scrapping its monarchy
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# Posted: 20 Jul 2008 05:50
2nd June
Birthdays...
1774 - William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
1840 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
In history...
1692 - Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10.
1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
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# Posted: 20 Jul 2008 16:01
3rd June:
Birthdays --
1865: King George V
1925: Tony Curtis, American film actor
In history --
1098: Crusaders take Antioch, considered the first Christian city and now located in Turkey
1940: Paris suffers heavy bombing from German aircraft
1974: Yitzhak Rabin takes over from Golda Meir as Israe'ls premier
1989: Chinese government sends military troops to Tianamen square, in an effort to repress pro-democracy protesters
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# Posted: 22 Jul 2008 14:25
4th June:
Birthdays:
1908 Rosalind Russell, USA Actress
1975 Angelina Jolie - USA Actress
In History:
1896 Henry Ford takes his first Ford car through streets of Detroit
1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as the first woman to circle the globe alone
1990 Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die.
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