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discovery of penicillin was announced.
The USSR and Israel resume diplomatic relations

Deborah Kerr, English born film actress

February 8th in History
1725: Catherine the Great becomes the Empress of Russia
1924: Gas chamber used for the first time in an American state prison
1926: Walt Disney Studios is formed
1942: Congress advises FDR that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1969: Last edition of Saturday Evening Post, which used to carry Norman Rockwell covers.
1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 Jumbo jet
1973: Senate names seven members to investigate Watergate scandal
1974: The US spacestation, Skylab, crashes back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere


February 8th birthdays
1819: John Ruskin, English writer and artist
1820: William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after
1828: Jules Verne, French author
1920: Lana Turner, American film actress
1925: Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor
1931: James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')
1932: John Williams, US film score writer

Check that out, James Dean was born as the same day as I was.

FTW

Birthdays:
1946: Liza Minnelli, American actress

This Day in History > February 27th
February 27th in History
1879: Two American chemists announce the discovery of saccharin
1933: German parliament building (Reichstag) destroyed by fire
1948: The Communist Party takes control in Czechoslovakia
1991: An allied ceasefire in the Gulf War begins, Iraqi forces withdraw from Kuwait.


February 27th birthdays
1807: Henry Longfellow, American poet
1902: John Steinbeck, American writer
1930: Joanne Woodward, British actress
1932: Elizabeth Taylor, American actress

December 21st in History
This Day in History > December 21st
December 21st in History
1620: The Mayflower lands at Plymouth, Massachusetts
1958: Charles de Gaulle elected President of France
1986: Over 50,000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China
1988: After a record 365 days in space, two Russian and one French cosmonaut return to Earth


December 21st birthdays
1401: Masaccio, 'Florentine' painter
1804: Benjamin Disraeli, British politician
1879: Joseph Stalin, Russian revolutionary leader ed:
1937: Jane Fonda, American actress

Elizabeth Taylor rings a bell....

Then again, I think Im thinking Hurley.

September 13th in History
1759: British defeat French forces at the Battle of Quebec, Canada happy:
1788: New York becomes the capital of the United States (later replaced by Washington)
1942: German forces begin attack on Stalingrad
1993: Israel and the PLO sign historic peace agreement at the White House, USA


September 13th birthdays
1905: Claudette Colbert, French actress
1944: Jacqueline Bisset, English actress

1986: A god was born.

September 2nd in History
1666: A fire in a bakery in Pudding Lane, spread to engulf 13,000 buildings; 'The Great Fire of London'
1945: On board the aircraft carrier 'Missouri', in Tokyo Bay, General Douglas MacArthur accepts the Japanese surrender


September 2nd birthdays
1925: Russ Conway, Popular pianist of the 50's
1952: Jimmy Connors, American tennis player

Wonderful.

August 15th in History
1543: Jesuit order founded in Paris
1901: The Cadillac motor company founded in Detroit
1944: Allied forces land in the south of France, Marseilles recaptured.
1947: India gains independence from Britain
1948: Korea proclaims itself a republic
1965: US National Guard called out to deal with race riots in Los Angeles
1969: Woodstock music festival


August 15th birthdays
1769: Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
1771: Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist
1888: T.E Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia'; soldier and author

November 23rd in History
1642: The Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman, discovers Van Dieman's Land (later to be re-named Tasmania)


November 23rd birthdays
1859: Billy The Kid, Born William Bonny; legendary US outlaw
1887: Boris Karloff, English actor

I win.

February 9th in History
This Day in History > February 9th
February 9th in History
1923: Soviet Aeroflot airlines established
1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy says the US State Department is infested with communists
1970: World's first nerve transplant, in Germany
1971: First British soldier killed in Northern Ireland
1989: Neo-Nazi groups outlawed in West Germany
1992: Fighting between government and guerrilla forces in Rwanda
1994: Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat.


February 9th birthdays
1700: Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
1909: Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress.
1943: Joe Pesci, American actor.
1945: Mia Farrow, American film actress

I got TWO great american actors. I mean fucking Joe pesci!

I got James Dean, suckaaaaaa.

I saw Rebel Without a Cause a year ago... and thats about it. freak:

January 19th in History
1793: King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention
1915: German zeppelins bomb London for the first time in World War I
1942: Japanese forces invade Burma during World War 2
1991: Iraqui Presidential Palace attacked as the Gulf War begins
1992: A new Bulgarian President is elected in the countries first free elections
1993: Israel recognizes PLO


January 19th birthdays
1736: James Watts, Scottish 'steam' inventor
1737: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French author
1807: Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general
1809: Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet
1839: Paul Cézanne, French painter
1943: Janis Joplin, American rock singer
1946: Dolly Parton, US country singer and film actress

E. Lee cool:

August 17th in History

This Day in History > August 17th

August 17th in History
1896: Gold discovered in the Yukon Territory, Canada
1943: Allied forces take control of the island of Sicily


August 17th birthdays
1786: Davy Crockett, US frontiersman killed at the Alamo
1892: Mae West, American actress
1943: Robert De Niro, American actor