Question:
First correct answer gets ten points?
Just William
2007-12-23 09:32:25 UTC
Why is January 8th a special day to millions of people?
36 answers:
hotnezz_betty
2007-12-23 09:36:41 UTC
its elvis presleys birthday! =] durr
Emma Jean
2007-12-23 09:39:37 UTC
Elvis...

and Roy Kinnear

and Shirley Bassey

and David Bowie!
SMARTIEPANTSBETH
2007-12-23 10:30:37 UTC
Since millions of people are Christians, I would say that January 8th is the feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, and that's why it's special.
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2007-12-23 09:37:09 UTC
I think that it is important for some people because in the Northern Mariana Islands, January 8th is Commonwealth Day or maybe because it is their birthday or because it is Elvis Presley's birthday or it could be some other significant event in their lives........
j_emmans
2007-12-23 09:52:55 UTC
133 million people will be born this year, so if you divide that by 365 days you get 364,000.



So you have 364,000 special days.



But 18,200,000 actual birthdays an average!



so over 18 million special days of the living.



and of the dead



well thats only Elvis to many people
PreciosaB
2007-12-23 09:43:05 UTC
UnionLeader.com has learned that Secretary of State Bill Gardner has selected Jan. 8, 2008, for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
flowerpot41
2007-12-23 09:38:32 UTC
It is the day that Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points after World War I
puma
2007-12-23 09:40:21 UTC
January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
2007-12-23 09:38:48 UTC
January 8th 1297...Monaco gained its independence. The millions of people there probably celebrate this.
Maid Angela
2007-12-23 09:38:43 UTC
I think it is because Jan 8th is Christmas day in some communities.
seemorebetter
2007-12-23 09:41:25 UTC
Elvis Presley's Birthday.. YAAAAHOOO!!
Crazy Dude902
2007-12-23 11:10:00 UTC
Your birthday!



Gosh, I hate it how people just copy and paste a 5 page Wikipedia article and put that as their answer.
2007-12-23 15:58:05 UTC
The people's choice awards
maggie
2007-12-23 09:54:21 UTC
I know Spanish people celebrate the festive season then
allen r
2007-12-23 10:21:16 UTC
Isn't it the old New Year's Day in some countries?
Sal*UK
2007-12-23 09:35:09 UTC
State of the Union??
AHHH CHOOOOOOOO (sneeze)!
2007-12-23 10:00:58 UTC
Elvis's birthday?
jennyfe27
2007-12-23 09:37:14 UTC
it's Elvis Presley's birthday.
Mistress B
2007-12-23 12:17:07 UTC
the Kings birthday?
Best of British
2007-12-23 09:38:47 UTC
Because you are 21 again...
LedZeppelin
2007-12-23 11:10:36 UTC
871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.

1297 - Monaco gains its independence.

1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.

1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.

1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.

1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1835 - US national debt is 0 for the first and only time.

1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield

1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.

1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.

1912 - The African National Congress was founded.

1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farský.

1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.

1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.

1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.

1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.

1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.

1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.

1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).

1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.

1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).

1979 - The NBC game show Password Plus premieres, hosted by Allen Ludden.

1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.

1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.

1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.

1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.

2000 - Winning Lines, a worldiwde national lottery game show, premieres on CBS and is hosted by Dick Clark.

2002 - United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.

2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
2007-12-23 09:36:15 UTC
its the day after the 7th
Midnight_Angel
2007-12-23 09:39:33 UTC
it is elvis birthday..

born 1935
2007-12-23 09:37:01 UTC
It's the day you get paroled.
Denz
2007-12-23 09:35:27 UTC
Because its their birthday
2007-12-23 09:37:29 UTC
Its my Dad's, and two of my friends birthdays, and Elvis presely's .....Is it your birthday?
Anonie Mouse
2007-12-23 09:36:28 UTC
Islamic new year?
2007-12-23 09:56:14 UTC
871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.

1297 - Monaco gains its independence.

1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.

1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.

1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.

1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1835 - US national debt is 0 for the first and only time.

1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield

1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.

1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.

1912 - The African National Congress was founded.

1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farský.

1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.

1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.

1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.

1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.

1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.

1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.

1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).

1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.

1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).

1979 - The NBC game show Password Plus premieres, hosted by Allen Ludden.

1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.

1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.

1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.

1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.

2000 - Winning Lines, a worldiwde national lottery game show, premieres on CBS and is hosted by Dick Clark.

2002 - United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.

2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
2007-12-23 09:35:58 UTC
its lots of peoples birthdays???
Ĕrotic Ńightmare
2007-12-23 09:35:14 UTC
it's their birthday including yours?
hidiousboy
2007-12-23 09:40:26 UTC
bcoz ur goin back to school that day!...right??
Katie.
2007-12-23 09:36:26 UTC
ikd
country bumpkin [sheep nurse]
2007-12-23 10:35:29 UTC
Chinese new year.
jettica24
2007-12-23 11:30:44 UTC
871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.

1297 - Monaco gains its independence.

1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.

1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.

1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.

1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1835 - US national debt is 0 for the first and only time.

1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield

1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.

1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.

1912 - The African National Congress was founded.

1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farský.

1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.

1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.

1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.

1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.

1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.

1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.

1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).

1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.

1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).

1979 - The NBC game show Password Plus premieres, hosted by Allen Ludden.

1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.

1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.

1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.

1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.

2000 - Winning Lines, a worldiwde national lottery game show, premieres on CBS and is hosted by Dick Clark.

2002 - United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.

2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.



[edit] Births

1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)

1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)

1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)

1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)

1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)

1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)

1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)

1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)

1786 - Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)

1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)

1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)

1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)

1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)

1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)

1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)

1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)

1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)

1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)

1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)

1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)

1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)

1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)

1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)

1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)

1860 - Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)

1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)

1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)

1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)

1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)

1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)

1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)

1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)

1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)

1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)

1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)

1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)

1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch activist and pacifist (d. 1967)

1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)

1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)

1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)

1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)

1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)

1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)

1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)

1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)

1904 - Karl Brandt, Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)

1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)

1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)

1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)

1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)

1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)

1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)

1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)

1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)

1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)

1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)

1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard

1923 - Larry Storch, American actor

1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)

1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist

1924 - Ron Moody, English actor

1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German anti-Hitler activist (d. 1942)

1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano

1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer

1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian

1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)

1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)

1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator

1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director

1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet

1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)

1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)

1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)

1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player

1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)

1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer

1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host

1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)

1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator

1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author

1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician

1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress

1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer

1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host

1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)

1947 - David Bowie, English musician

1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician

1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master

1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director

1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician

1951 - John McTiernan, American film director

1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player

1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician (Loverboy)

1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer

1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler

1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)

1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete

1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh

1962 - Chris Marion, American musician (Little River Band)

1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress

1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player

1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)

1967 - R. Kelly, American singer

1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer

1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress

1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel)

1970 - Melissa Hill, American porn actress

1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player

1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer

1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer

1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer

1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer

1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer

1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)

1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor

1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player

1977 - Amber Benson, American actress

1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress

1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player

1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer

1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress

1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer

1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress

1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player

1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer

1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress

1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer

1982 - wiL Francis, American singer

1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American professional wrestler

1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player

1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer

1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)

1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer

1988 - Adam T. Siska, American Musician, (The Academy Is...)

1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer

1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

1995 - Hannah Robinson, American actress

2000 - Noah Cyrus, American actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus
Helen
2007-12-23 09:38:00 UTC
Its when you take your Christmas decorations down! idk =)
2007-12-23 10:15:32 UTC
on january 8th

[edit] Events

871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.

1297 - Monaco gains its independence.

1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.

1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.

1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.

1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.

1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1835 - US national debt is 0 for the first and only time.

1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).

1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield

1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.

1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.

1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.

1912 - The African National Congress was founded.

1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.

1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farský.

1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.

1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.

1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.

1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.

1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.

1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.

1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).

1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.

1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.

1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).

1979 - The NBC game show Password Plus premieres, hosted by Allen Ludden.

1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Leicestershire, England.

1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.

1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.

1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.

2000 - Winning Lines, a worldiwde national lottery game show, premieres on CBS and is hosted by Dick Clark.

2002 - United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial No Child Left Behind Act.

2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.



[edit] Births

1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)

1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)

1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)

1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)

1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)

1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)

1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)

1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French diplomat (d. 1834)

1786 - Nicholas Biddle, American banking executive (d. 1844)

1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)

1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)

1805 - John Bigler, American politician (d. 1871)

1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)

1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)

1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)

1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)

1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)

1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)

1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)

1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)

1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)

1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)

1843 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (d. 1926)

1852 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)

1860 - Emma Booth, daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)

1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)

1866 - William G. Conley, American politician (d. 1940)

1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)

1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1930)

1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)

1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)

1873 - Elena of Montenegro, queen of Italy (d. 1956)

1881 - Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)

1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)

1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)

1885 - John Curtin, Australian politician (d. 1945)

1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch activist and pacifist (d. 1967)

1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish-American actor (d. 1960)

1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)

1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)

1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic (d. 1971)

1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)

1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)

1902 - Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician (d. 1988)

1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)

1904 - Karl Brandt, Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)

1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)

1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)

1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)

1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)

1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)

1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)

1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)

1911 - Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)

1911 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (d. 2006)

1915 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)

1921 - Herta Bothe, Nazi concentration camp guard

1923 - Larry Storch, American actor

1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)

1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist

1924 - Ron Moody, English actor

1925 - Helmuth Hubener, German anti-Hitler activist (d. 1942)

1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano

1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer

1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian

1926 - Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian Odissi dancer (d. 2004)

1927 - Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)

1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator

1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director

1933 - Ko Un, Korean poet

1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)

1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)

1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)

1934 - Gene Freese, American baseball player

1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)

1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer

1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host

1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)

1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator

1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author

1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician

1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress

1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer

1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host

1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)

1947 - David Bowie, English musician

1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician

1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master

1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director

1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician

1951 - John McTiernan, American film director

1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player

1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician (Loverboy)

1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer

1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler

1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)

1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete

1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh

1962 - Chris Marion, American musician (Little River Band)

1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress

1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player

1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)

1967 - R. Kelly, American singer

1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer

1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress

1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel)

1970 - Melissa Hill, American porn actress

1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player

1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer

1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer

1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer

1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer

1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer

1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)

1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor

1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player

1977 - Amber Benson, American actress

1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress

1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player

1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer

1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress

1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer

1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress

1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player

1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer

1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress

1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer

1982 - wiL Francis, American singer

1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American professional wrestler

1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player

1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer

1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)

1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer

1988 - Adam T. Siska, American Musician, (The Academy Is...)

1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer

1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

1995 - Hannah Robinson, American actress

2000 - Noah Cyrus, American actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus



[edit] Deaths

482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum

1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)

1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)

1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)

1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)

1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)

1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)

1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)

1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)

1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)

1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)

1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)

1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)

1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)

1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)

1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)

1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)

1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)

1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)

1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)

1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)

1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)

1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)

1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)

1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)

1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)

1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)

1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)

1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)

1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley

1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)

1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)

1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)

1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)

1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)

1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)

1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)

1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)

1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)

1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)

1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)

1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)

1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)

1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)

1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)

1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)

1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)

1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)

1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)

1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)

1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)

1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)

1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)

1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)

1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)

1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)

1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)

1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)

1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)

1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)

1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)

1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)

2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)

2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)

2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)

2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)

2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)

2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)

2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer

2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)

2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)

2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)

2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)

2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)

2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)

2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)



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