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[Barry]

20th Jan

Facts:

1265- In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the "Houses of Parliament"

1841 - Hong Kong Island occupied by the British Empire.

1942 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide the "final solution to the Jewish problem".

1961 - John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as 35th President of the United States.

Births:

1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek industrialist (d. 1975)

1965 - Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

Death:

1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland

Holidays:

Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:

-Sebastian

-Saint Fabian

-Euthymus

-Desiderius

-Meinrad

-Epiphanius of Pavia

The Eve of St. Agnes.

Presidential Inauguration Day in the United States.

Astrology: First day of sun sign Aquarius.

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Astrology: First day of sun sign Aquarius.

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September 10

Facts:

1913 - The first paved coast-to-coast U.S. highway opens.

1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany.

1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in the U.S. state of Alabama.

1993 - The X-Files premieres on FOX

Births:

920 - King Louis IV of France (d. 954)

1169 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

Death:

1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)

Holidays:

* Calendar of Saints - Virgin of the Wonders; Nicholas of Tolentino

* Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

* Gibraltar - National Day

* World Suicide Prevention Day

* Software Freedom Day

* Teacher's Day in China

* Day of the Child in Honduras

I was born on my grandparents anniversary

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March 21

Facts:

1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.

2005 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.

1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.

1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Births:

1962 - Matthew Broderick, American actor

1980 - Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian current international footballer

Death:

2005 - Barney Martin, American actor

Holidays:

Iranian New Year's Day (Norouz): (also celebrated in many other countries of Asia) Iranian calendar.

Harmony Day in Australia.

Earth Day.

China: Chunfen.

Egypt: Mother's Day

Japan: Vernal Equinox Day (public holiday).

Namibia: Independence Day.

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[Aida]

December 20

Facts:

1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.

1989 - United States invasion of Panama: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega.

1995 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.

2005 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.

Births:

1970 - Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress

1980 - Ashley Cole, English footballer

Deaths:

1355 - Stefan Du

[Hime]

30 April

Events

313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.

711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).

1006 - Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus.

1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503.

1492 - Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

1671 - Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

1794 - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.

1789 - On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling

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19 OCTOBER

Events

* 202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.

* 439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

* 1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.

* 1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.

* 1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Toruń. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.

* 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

* 1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).

* 1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.

* 1789 - Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

* 1812 - Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.

* 1813 - The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

* 1822 - In Parna

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July 28th

EVENTS

1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.

1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.

1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.

1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton.

BIRTHS

1901 - Rudy Vallee, American entertainer

1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States

1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress

DEATHS

1057 - Pope Victor II

HOLIDAYS

Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians

Faroe Islands -

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November 2nd

Events

1861 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.

1981 - Antigua and Barbuda become independent from the United Kingdom.

1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day, currently the only national holiday honoring an individual American.

Births

1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor

1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain

1988 - Lindze Letherman, American actress

1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer

Deaths

2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)

2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)

2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - All Souls Day (unless on a Sunday)

Ancient Latvia - Dveselu Diena held

Mexico and the United States - Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Dia de los Muertos), a Mexican and Mexican-American celebration of dead ancestors.

USA - admission day (1889) of North Dakota and South Dakota as 39th and 40th states.

Rastafari movement - The coronation of Haile Selassie (1930) celebrated

Brazil - Memorial Day (Portuguese: Dia de Finados), a Brazilian celebration of dead ancestors.

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March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining.

Events

537 - Vigilius is consecrated and enthroned as Pope, replacing Silverius.

1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.

1632 - Treaty of Saint-Germain signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.

1638 - Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.

1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.

1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.

1806 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

1807 - The asteroid Vesta is discovered.

1809 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.

1831 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.

1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.

1849 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.

1857 - Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

1865 - American Civil War: Battle of Appomattox Court House begins.

1867 - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.

1871 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.

1882 - The Knights of Columbus are established.

1886 - Dr John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.

1936 - In Germany, dictator Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. In 1933 all political parties and political liberty had been abolished.

1941 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces intercept those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.

1941 - 80% of American AM radio stations change frequencies under the terms of NARBA.

1942 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major succes for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.

1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

1961 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.

1971 - My Lai massacre: Lt. William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

1971 - A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.

1973 - Vietnam War: The last United States soldiers leave South Vietnam.

1974 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.

1979 - The Mall of Acadiana opens up in Lafayette, Louisiana.

1982 - The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982

1984 - The Baltimore Colts flee to Indianapolis by the cover of night

1986 - Beatles records first become available in the Soviet Union

1993 - Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and Canada's first female to be elected in a general election as a premier.

1993 - Edouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister of France.

1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.

2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.

2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.

Births

1553 - Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet (d. 1613/1614)

1584 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)

1602 - John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)

1713 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)

1769 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)

1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)

1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)

1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)

1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)

1867 - Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)

1869 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)

1870 - Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)

1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)

1874 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)

1889 - Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)

1891 - Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)

1892 - József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)

1895 - Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)

1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)

1900 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)

1900 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)

1901 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)

1902 - Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)

1902 - William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)

1905 - Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)

1906 - E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977)

1907 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)

1908 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)

1908 - Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)

1911 - Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)

1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (d. 1979)

1913 - Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)

1913 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)

1914 - Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985}

1916 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)

1917 - Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)

1918 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)

1918 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)

1919 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)

1927 - John McLaughlin, American political commentator

1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)

1928 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)

1929 - Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)

1929 - Richard Lewontin, American biologist

1931 - Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut

1933 - Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet

1936 - Judith Guest, American author

1936 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician

1937 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)

1939 - Terence Hill, Italian actor

1940 - Ray Davis, American musician (P-Funk) (d. 2005)

1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer

1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

1941 - Eden Kane, British singer

1943 - Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer

1943 - John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1943 - Vangelis, Greek musician and composer

1944 - Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist

1944 - Denny McLain, American baseball player

1945 - Walt Frazier, American basketball player

1946 - Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)

1947 - Bobby Kimball, American singer (Toto)

1948 - Bud Cort, American actor

1949 - Keith Simpson, British politician

1949 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)

1949 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)

1952 - Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer

1954 - Dianne Kay, American actress

1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)

1955 - Earl Campbell, American football player

1955 - Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor

1955 - Christopher Lawford, Irish actor

1955 - Marina Sirtis, English actress

1956 - Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (d. 1996)

1956 - Stephen Cole, English journalist

1956 - Kurt Thomas, American gymnast

1957 - Christopher Lambert, French actor

1958 - Victor Salva, American film director

1959 - Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer

1959 - Perry Farrell, American musician (Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros)

1959 - Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player

1961 - Mike Kingery, American baseball player

1961 - Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian

1961 - Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver

1964 - Elle Macpherson, Australian model

1965 - Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete

1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)

1967 - Brian Jordan, American baseball player

1967 - John Popper, American musician (Blues Traveler)

1968 - Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer

1968 - Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist

1971 - Aaron Lawrence, American porn actor

1972 - Rui Costa, Portugal footballer

1972 - Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor

1973 - Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer

1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver

1976 - Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player

1976 - Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist

1978 - Michael Kaczurak, American singer and actor

1980 - Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress

1980 - Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein, of Jordan

1980 - Amy Mathews, Australian actress

1981 - Megan Hilty, American actress

1981 - Jlloyd Samuel, WestIndian-born footballer

Deaths

1058 - Pope Stephen IX

1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)

1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)

1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)

1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)

1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)

1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)

1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)

1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)

1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist

1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)

1788 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707)

1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot) (b. 1746)

1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)

1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733)

1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)

1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)

1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)

1888 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)

1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)

1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:

Henry Robinson Bowers (b. 1883)

Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)

Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872)

1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)

1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)

1957 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)

1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)

1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)

1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)

1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (b. 1888)

1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)

1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)

1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)

1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)

1986 - Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)

1989 - Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)

1991 - Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)

1992 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)

1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1912)

1994 - Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922)

1995 - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)

1995 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (b. 1912)

1996 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)

1999 - Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)

2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)

2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)

2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)

2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)

2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)

2005 - Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)

2006 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

Festival of Ishtar.

Youth Day in Taiwan

Memorial day and commemoration of the 1947 revolt against French colonization in Madagascar

Liturgical feasts

Saint Armosgastes (Archmimus, died after 460)

Saint Barachasius (Berikjesu)

St. Bertold (d. 1179)

St. Eustace

Firminus

Gwynllyw (Woollos; Gundleus)

St. Jonas (d. 327)

St. Ludolf of Ratzeburg (d. 1250)

Blessed Hugo (d. 1239)

Hugh of Vaucelles (Dean of the church in Cambrai. Cistercian monk at Vaucelles. Died 1239 of natural causes)

Lasar

Ludolph

Saint Mark of Arethusa bishop, martyred in 362 during the persecution of Julian the Apostate

Pastor

Saint Saturus

Secundus

Saint Gladys (Gwladys)

Blessed Jeanne Marie de Maille

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12 April

events

1980 - Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" by dipping his artificial leg into the Atlantic at St. John's, Newfoundland

1996 - Yahoo! has its initial public offering, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each

1999 - American President Bill Clinton was cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

birthdays:

1973 - Claudia Jordan, American model

1985 - Jeisa Chiminazzo, Brazilian supermodel

1987 - Brendon Urie, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)

Deaths

1555 - Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)

1999 - Boxcar Willie, American singer (b. 1931)

2001 - Harvey Ball, American inventor of the Smiley (b. 1921)

2003 - Cecil H. Green, American manufacturer (b. 1900)

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Events

* 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus was founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.

* 1201 - The city of Riga is founded.

*1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first

flight of the Wright Brothers.

*2005 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.

Births

*1904 - Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur

*1969 - Christian Slater, American actor

Death

*1990 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904) (ok,this is freaky,this is my birthdate-18.08.1990. )

Holidays and observances

* International Lighthouse Day

* Australia - Long Tan Day (also called Vietnam Veterans' Day) named after the Battle of Long Tan

* Roman Catholic Saints - Saint Helena of Constantinople, and Saint Alberto Hurtado

* Buhe in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church