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Doing that Wikipedia/Birthday Thing that everybody else is doing because I'm a history geek
Public Birthday:
In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch." However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes the book Mein Kampf.
Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announced the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered.
The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring surgeon general's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.
Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
The first legal same-sex marriage in the Netherlands is celebrated.
The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the only nation in the world to do so.
George W. Bush signs the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes an attack that leads to the death of a mother and her unborn child two criminal charges.
The first legal same-sex marriage in the Canadian province of Quebec: Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf wed in Montreal.
Births:
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet
Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer
Otto von Bismarck, German politician
Edmond Rostand, French dramatist
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor
Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
Samuel Alito, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Deaths:
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of Henry II of England
Scott Joplin, American musician and composer
Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
The Other One:
Richard III is crowned king of England.
Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start march towards Lahore.
Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.
Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper agrees to testify to a grand jury that Karl Rove revealed to him Valerie Plame's secret CIA identity.
Births:
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia
Louis Armstrong, Famous Musician
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady of the United States
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
Heather Nova, West Indian-born guitarist and singer
Deaths:
King Henry II of England
Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake)
Sir Thomas More, English writer and philosopher (executed)
Tsar Peter III of Russia (murdered)
Guy de Maupassant, French author
Louis Armstrong, American musician
Otto Klemperer, German conductor
Public Birthday:
In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch." However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes the book Mein Kampf.
Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announced the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered.
The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring surgeon general's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.
Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
The first legal same-sex marriage in the Netherlands is celebrated.
The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the only nation in the world to do so.
George W. Bush signs the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes an attack that leads to the death of a mother and her unborn child two criminal charges.
The first legal same-sex marriage in the Canadian province of Quebec: Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf wed in Montreal.
Births:
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet
Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer
Otto von Bismarck, German politician
Edmond Rostand, French dramatist
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor
Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
Samuel Alito, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Deaths:
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of Henry II of England
Scott Joplin, American musician and composer
Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
The Other One:
Richard III is crowned king of England.
Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start march towards Lahore.
Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premieres.
Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper agrees to testify to a grand jury that Karl Rove revealed to him Valerie Plame's secret CIA identity.
Births:
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia
Louis Armstrong, Famous Musician
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor
Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady of the United States
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
Heather Nova, West Indian-born guitarist and singer
Deaths:
King Henry II of England
Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (burned at the stake)
Sir Thomas More, English writer and philosopher (executed)
Tsar Peter III of Russia (murdered)
Guy de Maupassant, French author
Louis Armstrong, American musician
Otto Klemperer, German conductor
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