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CalypsoBelle
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# Posted: 22 Jul 2008 15:53
5th June:
Birthdays --
1878: Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary
1882: Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor
In history --
1967: The six-day war in the Middle East, between Israel and its neighbours, begins
1968: US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2008 13:54
6th June:
Birthdays -
1799 Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author
1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill fated South Pole expedition
1892 Pearl Buck, American Novelist
1956 Bjorn Borg, Swedish tennis champion
In History -
1850 Levi Strauss made first blue jeans
1933 First drive in theatre opens in Camden, New Jersey
1944 D-Day, 150,000 Allied Expeditiionary Force lands in Normandy, France
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2008 21:10
7th June:
Birthdays --
1799: Alexander Pushkin, Russian playwright and poet
1848: Paul Gauguin, French artist; lived with Van Gogh for some time
1909: Jessica Tandy, American actress
In history --
1965: Monarchy restored in Morocco
1990: Hungary announces plan to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2008 21:36
8th June
Birthdays--
1960;English singer *SWEAR* Hucknall.
1940;Nancy Sinatra - daughter of American singer Frank Sinatra.
1933;American comedienne Joan Rivers.
1921;Indonesian president General Suharto.
1916;British scientist Francis Crick. Nobel Prize winner in 1962.
1867;American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
1772;Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Stephenson.
In History--
1942; World War II: Japanese submarines fire at the Australian city of Sydney.
1926; Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba gives her final stage performance at Covent Garden in London.
1925; In Britain, Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman Cabinet Minister when she is appointed Minister of Labour.
1924; The last sighting of English climber George Mallory - seen 800 feet from the summit of Mount Everest during his third attempt to become the first man to conquer the world's highest mountain.
1915; World War I: Allied troops capture the town of Neuville in France from the Germans.
1536; English Parliament agrees that the succession to the throne should go to the future children of King Hnery VIII and his new wife Jane Seymour - declaring Princesses Mary and Elizabeth (by previous wives) to be illegitimate.
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2008 22:33
9th June:
Birthdays --
1672: Peter The Great, Tsar Of Russia
1875: Sir Henry Dale, English physiologist and Nobel prize winner
1893: Cole Porter, American composer of musicals
In history --
1897: Japan protests United States' takeover of Hawaii
1898: China leases Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years
1931: The rocket-fueled aircraft design is patented by Robet Goddard
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2008 08:20
10th June
Birthdays-
1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (d. 1976)
1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
1922 - Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, British actress
In History-
1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1829 - The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1886 - Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1996 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin.
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2008 10:04
11th June:
Birthdays --
1776: John Constable, English painter
1910: Jaques Cousteau, French underwater explorer
1935: Gene Wilder, American comedy film actor
In history --
1727: George I becomes the new King of England
1959: Hovercraft demonstrated for the first time
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2008 10:29
12th June
Birthdays--
1921 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
1921 - James Houston, Canadian artist (d. 2005)
1923 - Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States
In History--
1902 - Australia: women in the four Australian States without female suffrage are given the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for a Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote are 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia.
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2008 10:48
13th June:
Birthdays --
1831: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist
1943: Malcolm McDowell, Film actor
In history --
1971: Francois Mitterrand named head of French Socialist Party
1982: Argentine forces surrender to the British in the Falklands conflict
1983: Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system
1990: Official removal of the Berlin Wall begins
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2008 18:02
14th June;
Birthdays--
1801 - Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (d. 1896)
1812 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (d. 1881)
1819 - Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
In History--
1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States' Pledge of Allegiance
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2008 21:20
15th June:
Birthdays --
1843: Edvard Hagerup Grieg, composer,
1884: Harry Langdon, American silent film star
1950: Heidi Schuller, Germany, 1st woman to take Olympic oath, 1972
1963: Helen Hunt, American actress
1964: Courteney Cox, American actress
1973: Neil Patrick Harris, American actor (Doogie Howser MD)
In history --
1215: King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England
1626: King Charles I disbands English parliament
1752: Ben Franklin's performs his kite-flying experiment
1844: Vulcanised rubber patented by Charles Goodyear
1919: 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland
1924: Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens
1972: 75,000 attend gathering of religious leader Billy Graham, in Texas
1972: Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
1977: General elections held in Spain, the first since 1936
1989: Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth
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# Posted: 24 Jul 2008 21:57 - Edited by: happyhippy
16th June;
Birthdays--
1979;Damien-my second eldest son
2004;Dylan-my eldest grandson
Sorry could not resist that LOL
In History--
1883 - The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children
1891 - John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
1897 - A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 - The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
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# Posted: 25 Jul 2008 00:20
17th June-
Birthdays-
1239 - King Edward I of England (d. 1307)
1867 - John Robert Gregg, inventor of shorthand system (d. 1948)
1882 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (d. 1971)
1898 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
1936 - Ken Loach, British film director
1980 - Venus Williams, American tennis player
In History-
1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1939 - Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
2008 - First day of legal same-sex marriage in California
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# Posted: 25 Jul 2008 21:11
18th June;
Birthdays--
1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
1980 - Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
In History--
1984 - A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 miners' strike. The incident later becomes known as the Battle of Orgreave.
1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
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# Posted: 25 Jul 2008 22:32
19th June
Birthdays...
1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)
1896 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)
1925 - Charlie Drake, British actor, writer and singer (d. 2006)
1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author
In history...
1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2008 04:20
20th June
Birthdays-
1909 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
1934 - Wendy Craig, English actress
1936 - Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2002)
1942 - Brian Wilson, American musician; founder of The Beach Boys
1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores)
1954 - Allan Lamb, South African born English cricketer
1967 - Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
In History-
1214 - The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother.
1990 - Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2008 06:28
21st June
Birthdays...
1732 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791)
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (d. 1980)
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2007)
In history...
1940 - The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
1948 - The "Manchester Baby" (SSEM) runs the first ever computer program stored in electronic memory.
1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and *PROFANITY* Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2008 10:31
22nd June
Birthdays--
1704 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (d. 1766)
1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess master (d. 1884)
1953 - Bruce McAvaney, Australian sports broadcaster
1957 - Garry Gary Beers, Australian bassist from group INXS
In History--
1783 - Poisonous cloud from Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1942 - Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2008 18:51
23rd June
Birthdays...
1894 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972)
1916 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
1940 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
In history...
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 what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer.
1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
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
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2008 21:54
24th June
Birthdays-
1850 - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British field marshal (d. 1916)
1893 - Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
1895 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983)
1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula One driver and five-time World Driving Champion (d. 1995)
1944 - Jeff Beck, English musician (The Yardbirds)
1947 - *CENSOR* Fleetwood, English musician (Fleetwood Mac)
In History-
1509 - Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
1813 - Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
1901 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
1902 - King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
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# Posted: 26 Jul 2008 23:19
25th June;
Birthdays--
1939 - Clint Warwick, English musician (The Moody Blues) (d. 2004)
1960 - Craig Johnston, Australian soccer player
1968 - Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
In History--
1947- The Diary of Anne Frank is published.
1950 - The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
2008 - Robert Mugabe had his honourary knighthood stripped by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2008 05:27
26thJune
Birthdays -
1817 - Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848)
1824 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907)
1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
1909 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
1914 - Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)
1943 - Georgie Fame, British singer
1971 - Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
In History--
1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children away from Hamelin.
1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1975 - Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2008 07:30
27th June
Birthdays...
1462 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
1880 - Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
In history...
1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
2008 - Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2008 09:26
28th June
Birthdays--
1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
In History--
1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2008 09:57
29th june
Birthdays...
1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
1986 - Austin Drage, English singer
In History...
512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
2008 - Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2008 18:47
30th June
Birthdays -
1803 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
1899 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1971
1951 - Stanley Clarke, American musician
1966 - Mike Tyson, American former boxer1975 - Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)
In History-
1859 - French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1912 - The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
1953 - The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1997 - The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2008 20:13
1st July
Birthdays...
1872 - Louis Blériot, French aviator (d. 1936)
1903 - Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
In history...
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1881 - The world's first international telephone call takes place between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1916 - World War I: First day on the Somme - On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
2007 - Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. The ban is also put into effect in Australia.
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2008 20:48
2nd July
Birthdays...
419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1954 - Pete Briquette, Irish musician (Boomtown Rats)
1970 - Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
In History...
1494 - The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed by Spain.
1644 - English Civil War: the Battle of Marston Moor.
1900 - First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1971 - Australian Evonne Goolagong becomes the first Aborigine to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title.
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2008 08:49
3rd July
Birthdays....
1851 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1933 - Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
In History...
1863 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1986 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2008 14:35
4th July:
Birthdays --
1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author
1807: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian soldier
1927: Neil Simon, American author
1942: Prince Michael of Kent
In history --
1776: The United States adopt the Declaration of Independence
1946: The Philippine Islands granted independence by the United States
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