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[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Hello,
Bit Bored. Lets play a quick game of "see which celebtrities are born on the same day as you".
Just google your Bday and see what comes up, also include EVENTS* which have happenend

Me, 9th June:

1915 - Les Paul, Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar)


2006
The football World Cup kicks off in Munich, Germany.
1985
American academic, Thomas Sutherland, is kidnapped from his home in Beirut, Lebanon by Islamic Jihad. He is finally released in 1991.
1983
In Britain, Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party win a second consecutive general election.
1975
The first live radio broadcast from the House of Commons is transmitted in Britain.
1970
King Hussein of Jordan survives an assassination attempt. A gunman fired at his car but only injured the driver.
1959
America launches the USS George Washington - the first submarine to be armed with ballistic missiles.
1958
In England, Queen Elizabeth II opens the new £7million facilities at Gatwick Airport.
1954
Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. Army. This confrontation marked the end of McCarthy’s power during the anti-communist hysteria of the Red Scare in America.
1944
The Second World War: The Red Army push into East Karelia, in Finland, fighting to gain back control of territory that had already been ceded to the Soviet Union.
1934
The Walt Disney character, Donald Duck, appears on television screens for the first time in the cartoon ‘The Little Wise Hen.’
1915
The First World War: U.S. Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, resigns due to his concerns over President Woodrow Wilson’s handling of the crisis generated by a German submarine’s sinking of the British cruiser Lusitania the previous month.
1870
English novelist, Charles Dickens, dies following a brain haemorrhage.
1772
In America, colonists board the Gaspee, a British vessel that ran aground off the coast of Rhode Island, and set it on fire.
1534
Frenchman Jacques Cartier becomes the first European explorer to discover the St. Lawrence River in present day Quebec, Canada.
68AD
Roman Emperor Claudius Nero commits suicide aged 31 after the Roman Senate declares him to be a public enemy.

thanks
Craig

Edited by Mini-Mad-Craig, 30 August 2010 - 10:28 PM.

[laura17]

Well i know fearne britton and that camilla woman were born 17th July same day as me.

Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California, how exciting lol

[kez_19]

ok i googled 2nd december and it made for great reading

1804
Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor Napoleon I by Pope Pius VII.

1927
In America, the successor to the Model T Ford, the Model A, first goes on sale.

1942
First nuclear fission reaction

1995
The rouge trader, Nick Leeson, is sentenced to six-and-a-half years for his part in the collapse of Barings Bank.

but the people born i have never heard of

1924
Former US Secretary of State General Alexander Haig.

1934
English Actress Maggie Smith

1899
British conductor and cellist Sir john Barbirolli

[abskie]

ok my birthday : 8th january!

1947
David Bowie, British pop star.
1942
English physicist Stephen Hawking.
1941
Comedian Graham Chapman - a member of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
1937
British singer Shirley Bassey in Cardiff, Wales.
1935
Elvis Presley, US singer. His twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, dies at birth.
1924
British actor Ron Moody.
1908
English actor William Hartnell. Becomes the first 'Dr Who' on British TV during 1960s.



wooo mines pretty good lol alot of good singers

[markaboot]

24th jan 1986

born the same day as phwoooarrr

[onefastmoke]

I fear if I put mine on google it might only come up with one thing

September 11th

[miniman retford]

21st February

Births

1910 World war 2 fighter pilot Sir Douglas Bader.

1937 English auther Jilly Cooper.

Deaths

1965 American black Muslim leader Malcom X

1991 Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn.

Events

1948 NASCAR is officially incorporated as the National association for stock car racing.

1952 Britain abloishes identity cards.

1972 Luna 20 the unmanned soviet spaceship lands on the moon.

1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st American president to visit China.

1988 Jimmy Swaggart, America's leading television evangelist is forced to resign after it emerges that he visits prostitutes.

1997 the Court of appeal quashes the convition of the "Bridgewater 3" three men convicted of murdering 13 year old Carl Bridgewater in 1979

2001 Foot & Mouth outbreak, The E uropean commision bans all British milk meat & livestock products.

[gsms]

The Moon Landing on the 20th of July!

[shorty]

19th March

to many to bother putting so ill put the most well known one

Tommy Cooper in 1921

[miniman retford]

19th March

to many to bother putting so ill put the most well known one

Tommy Cooper in 1921

Just like that

[*DJH*]

April 15th;

Events
1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.
1892 - The General Electric Company is formed.
1906 - The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
1912 - The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.
1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for use by diabetics.
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1940 - The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 - In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.
1942 - George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta - its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1943 - An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1952 - The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1957 - White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1967 - Scotland defeats rival England 3-2 at Wembley Stadium, causing the Scots fans to jokingly claim their side as "Unofficial world Champions", creating the phenomenon of the Unofficial Football World Championships.
1979 - A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
1986 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans.
1989 - Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
1992 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1994 - Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.

Births
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (d. 1539)
1489 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)
1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653)
1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1646 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
1721 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
1741 - Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
1772 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1800 - James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)
1809 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877)
1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
1841 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1843 - Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
1858 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
1861 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1874 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
1875 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
1878 - Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)
1879 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1885 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
1886 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1888 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)
1889 - A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)
1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
1892 - Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
1894 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
1895 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1904 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1907 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (d. 1995)
1908 - Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1912 - Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
1916 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 - Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
1917 - James Kee, American politician (d. 1989)
1920 - Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany
1921 - Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1995)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor
1922 - Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987)
1924 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor
1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
1933 - Roy Clark, American musician
1933 - David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
1933 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian author
1936 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
1937 - Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)
1938 - Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
1939 - Marty Wilde, British singer
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, British author
1940 - Willie Davis, American baseball player
1940 - Woodie Fryman, American baseball player
1940 - Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
1940 - Robert Walker Jr., American actor
1941 - Howard Berman, American politician
1942 - Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
1942 - Walt Hazzard, American basketball player
1942 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
1944 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996)
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician
1947 - Lois Chiles, American actress
1947 - Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
1947 - Mike Chapman, British songwriter
1947 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American writer and television producer
1948 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1949 - Tonio K, American singer
1949 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
1949 - Craig Zadan, American film producer
1950 - Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter
1950 - Amy Wright, American actress
1951 - Heloise, American newspaper columnist
1952 - Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer
1952 - Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian
1952 - Sam McMurray, American actor
1954 - Seka, American pornographic actress
1955 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1956 - Michael Cooper, American basketball player
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, American athlete
1958 - Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 - Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer
1958 - Noni Ιoannidou, Greek fashion model and actress
1958 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer
1959 - Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
1959 - Emma Thompson, English actress
1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
1959 - Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager
1960 - Tony Jones (snooker), English snooker player
1960 - Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist
1960 - HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne
1962 - Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler
1962 - Tom Kane, American voice actor
1963 - Bobby Pepper, American journalist
1965 - Linda Perry, American musician
1966 - Samantha Fox, English singer
1967 - Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)
1967 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
1967 - Alt, Brazilian comic creator
1968 - Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)
1968 - Stacey Williams, American model
1969 - Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
1969 - Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1970 - Flex Alexander, American actor
1971 - Katy Hill, British television presenter
1971 - Sarah Jane Hamilton, British pornographic actress
1971 - Jason Sehorn, American football player
1972 - Lou Romano, American voice actor
1972 - Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer
1974 - Mike Quinn, American football player
1974 - Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster (Keith and The Girl)
1974 - Danny Pino, American actor
1974 - Douglas Spain, American actor
1974 - Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry)
1975 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1976 - Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Susan Ward, American actress
1977 - Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
1978 - Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 - Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 - Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1980 - Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 - James Foster, English cricketer
1980 - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 - Willie Mason, Australian Rugby League Player
1980 - Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1981 - Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 - Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 - Anthony Green, American musician
1982 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1982 - Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 - Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
1983 - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
1984 - Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
1984 - Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1984 - Ben Kasica, Guitarist of rock band Skillet
1985 - John Danks, American baseball player
1985 - Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer
1987 - Daniel John Harle Esq.
1990 - Emma Watson, English actress
1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
1993 - Madeleine Martin, American television actress

Deaths
1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
1610 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)
1704 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
1764 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679)
1765 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)
1788 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1938 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892)
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880)
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1945 - Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (b. 1895)
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1962 - Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1969 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (b. 1887)
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
1980 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)
1988 - Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1989 - Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
1990 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1993 - Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (b. 1907)
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)
1995 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (b. 1903)
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 - Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2008 - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
2008 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian movie director (b. 1945)

just a small post

Edited by *DJH*, 20 October 2008 - 04:15 PM.

[kez_19]

[shorty]

19th March

to many to bother putting so ill put the most well known one

Tommy Cooper in 1921

Just like that

indeed just like that
the legend he is

[cambiker71]

1st september
Seems a lot of bad things really

2004
An armed gang of Chechen separatist rebels enters a school in southern Russia and takes more than 1,000 people hostage.
2003
In Britain, the widow of Dr David Kelly testifies before the Hutton Inquiry, the inquest into her husband’s suicide.
1997
French police reveal that the driver of the car in which Princess Diana was fatally injured, Henri Paul, who was also killed, was three times over the French drink-drive limit and may have been driving at more than 120 mph.
1985
A joint U.S. French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
1983
The Soviet Union shoots down a Korean Airlines passenger plane after it accidentally strayed into Russian airspace. All 269 people onboard are killed.
1969
In Libya, military leader Muammar Gaddafi overthrows the regime of King Idris I.

1939: Germany invades Poland

Covered by the fearsome Luftwaffe that bombed Polish cities beyond recognition, 58 German divisions cross the border into Poland on 1 September 1939. The Polish army fought bravely to defend the country against the invasion, but were hopelessly outmatched by Germany’s modern technology and overwhelming numbers. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler expected appeasement from Britain and France after those nations had given Czechoslovakia away to German conquest in 1938. However, neither Britain nor France was willing to allow Hitler’s new violation of Europe’s borders, and Germany was presented with an ultimatum: withdraw by 3 September or face war. Hitler refused, and Britain, France, India, Australia and New Zealand declared war against Germany on 3 September. The European chapter of the Second World War had begun.

1923
An earthquake in Japan leaves the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama in ruins and kills over 100,000 people.
1894
In America, the town of Hinckley, Minnesota is destroyed by a forest fire, killing 440 people.

[*DJH*]

19th March

to many to bother putting so ill put the most well known one

Tommy Cooper in 1921

Just like that

indeed just like that
the legend he is

and he died in 1984 on april 15th so you have his birth, and i have his death

Edited by *DJH*, 20 October 2008 - 04:21 PM.