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May 21 is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 224 days remaining. April 2007 is the fourth month of the year. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
May 2007 is the fifth month of that year. ...
May 2006 : â - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- â May 1, 2006 (Monday) Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association outraged Vatican by planning to ordain another bishop, Liu Xinhong in Anhui Province. ...
2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- â Wikimedia Commons has media related to: May 2005 Deaths in May May 26: Eddie Albert May 25: Ismail Merchant May 25: Sunil Dutt May 25: Graham Kennedy May 22: Thurl Ravenscroft May 21: Howard Morris May 21...
Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that his country will pursue ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. ...
May 21, 2003 An earthquake in northern Algeria measures 6. ...
2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for May, 2002. ...
2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: May 1 - Chandra Levy disapears while jogging. ...
2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December This is a timeline for events in May, 2000. ...
May 1999 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December May 2 - Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in Weimar, Texas. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...
A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day (or, in case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. ...
The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. ...
Events - 878 - Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
- 879 - Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state
- 996 - Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1502 - The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova.
- 1554 - Royal Charter of Derby School at Derby, England
- 1674 - the nobility elects John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
- 1725 - The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky was instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
- 1758 - Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
- 1851 - Abolition of slavery in Colombia, South America.
- 1856 - Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
- 1871 - French Government troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
- 1879 - War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru), battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
- 1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
- 1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
- 1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
- 1904 - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded in Paris.
- 1917 - Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
- 1924 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing."
- 1927 - Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1932 - Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1934 - Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.
- 1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
- 1937 - a Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
- 1941 - World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat.
- 1945 - United States screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.
- 1951 - opening of the Ninth Street Show otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition was a gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
- 1956 - Nuclear testing: Shot Redwing-Cherokee is successfully detonated at Bikini Atoll at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. With a yield of 3.8 megatons, it is the first aircraft deliverable hydrogen bomb tested by the United States.
- 1958 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
- 1961 - American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
- 1972 - Michelangelo's Pietà, in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, is damaged by a vandal.
- 1979 - White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
- 1981 - Pierre Mauroy becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1991 - Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
- 1994 - The Democratic Republic of Yemen secedes from the Republic of Yemen.
- 1996 - The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000.
- 1996 - The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
- 1998 - At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel, suspended for bringing a gun to school, shoots a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home.
- 1998 - In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
- 1998 - Soeharto, Indonesian dictator who had been ruling for 32 years, resigned.
- 2000 - A chartered British Aerospace Jetstream 31 crashes near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, killing 19.
- 2001 - French Taubira law which officially recognize the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- 2003 - An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
- 2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
- 2004 - Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
- 2005 - In Kiev, Ukraine, Greece wins the fiftieth Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One" performed by Elena Paparizou.
- 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; Montenegrin people choose independence by the majority of 55%.
- 2006 - The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
- 2007 - One of the best-preserved clippers in existence, the Cutty Sark, while preserved in Greenwich, is severely damaged by fire.
Events The Danes force king Alfred the Great of Wessex to retreat to a fort in Athelney, Somerset. ...
Syracuse (Italian, Siracusa, ancient Syracusa - see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a city on the eastern coast of Sicily and the capital of the province of Syracuse, Italy. ...
Sicily ( in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ...
Events Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona, founded the benedictine monastery at Ripoll. ...
John VIII was pope from 872 to 882. ...
Branimir was duke of the Dalmatian Croats from 879 to 892. ...
Events March/April - Pope John XV dies before being being able to coronate Otto III, King of Germany as Holy Roman Emperor. ...
Otto III in a medieval manuscript Otto III (980 â January 23, 1002, Paterno, Italy) was the fourth ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty. ...
The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. ...
1502 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A navigator is the person onboard a ship responsible for the navigation of the vessel. ...
João da Nova (died 1509 in Cochin, India) (or Juan de Nova) was a Spanish navigator who explored the Atlantic in the name of Portugal - hence more often known as João rather than Juan. ...
Events January 5 - Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands. ...
For the ship of the same name, see Royal Charter (ship). ...
Derby School was for a long time a school for boys at Derby in the English Midlands, existing for most of that time as a grammar school. ...
Derby (pronounced dar-bee ) is a city in the East Midlands of England. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
Events February 19 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. ...
StanisÅaw Antoni Szczuka, a Polish nobleman Szlachta ( ) was the noble class in Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the two countries that later jointly formed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ...
Reign From May 21, 1674, until June 17, 1696 Elected On May 21, 1674 in Wola, today suburb of Warsaw, Poland Coronation On February 2, 1676 in the Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland Nobel Family Sobieski Coat of Arms Janina Parents Jakub Sobieski Zofia Teofillia Daniłowicz Consorts Marie...
Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ...
// History The introduction of the Order of St. ...
Emperor is also a Norwegian black metal band; see Emperor (band). ...
Catherine I (In Russian: Екатерина I Алексеевна) (April 15, 1683/1684–May 17, 1727) was the second wife of Russia from 1725 until her death. ...
Soviet version of the order Order of Alexander Nevsky (Russian: ÐÑден ÐлекÑандÑа ÐевÑкого) was first instituted in 1725 by Catherine I of Russia. ...
Year 1758 (MDCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Memorial to Mary Campbell, placed just outside Mary Campbell Cave. ...
Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area Ranked 33rd - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²) - Width 280 miles (455 km) - Length 160 miles (255 km) - % water 2. ...
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Combatants France First Nations allies: Algonquin Lenape Wyandot Ojibwa Ottawa Shawnee Great Britain American Colonies Iroquois Confederacy Strength 3,900 regulars 7,900 militia 2,200 natives (1759) 50,000 regulars and militia (1759) Casualties 3,000 killed, wounded or captured 10,400 killed, wounded or captured The French and...
1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Slave redirects here. ...
South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Lawrence is a river city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States, 41 miles (66 km) west of Kansas City, along the banks of both the Kansas (Kaw) and Wakarusa Rivers. ...
Slave redirects here. ...
Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...
Combatants United States of America Confederate States of America Commanders Nathaniel P. Banks Franklin Gardner Strength XIX Army Corps, Army of the Gulf Confederate forces, 3rd District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, Port Hudson Casualties 5,000 7,208 The Siege of Port Hudson occurred in the summer of...
Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...
A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition, often accompanied by an assault. ...
Motto Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God, Our Vindicator) Anthem (none official) God Save the South (unofficial) The Bonnie Blue Flag (unofficial) Dixie (unofficial) Capital Montgomery, Alabama (until May 29, 1861) Richmond, Virginia (May 29, 1861âApril 2, 1865) Danville, Virginia (from April 3, 1865) Language(s) English (de facto) Religion...
Port Hudson, is a small town in Louisiana located about 20 mile northeast of Baton Rouge. ...
1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Le Père Duchesne looking at the statue of Napoleon I on top of the Vendome column: Eh ben ! bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu !⦠(Well now! buggering rascal, we will knock you the fuck off just like your crook of...
The Communards were also an 80s Britpop group Communard is an archaic term that is a synonym of communist. With respect to the history of France, the Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived Paris Commune formed in the disturbed period immediately after the Franco-Prussian War. ...
1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Combatants Republic of Peru Republic of Bolivia Republic of Chile Commanders Juan BuendÃa Andrés Cáceres Miguel Grau Manuel Baquedano Patricio Lynch Juan Williams Strength Peru-Bolivian Army 7,000 soldiers in 1878 Peruvian Navy 2 ironclad, 1 corvette, 1 gunboat Army of Chile 4,000 soldiers in...
Walk Baquedano Iquique (IPA /ikike/) is a city in northern Chile, capital of Tarapacá Region, on the Pacific coast, just west of the Atacama Desert. ...
Naval Combat of Iquique Conflict War of the Pacific Date May 21, 1879 Place Vicinity of Iquique Result Minor Peruvian victory Tactical Chilean victory Template:Campaignbox Pacific 1879 Iquique Naval Combat is a battle that took place during the War of the Pacific, between Chile and the joint forces of...
Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
A WWII-era poster encouraged American women to volunteer for the Red Cross as part of the war effort. ...
Famed American nurse Clara Barton, first president of the American Red Cross. ...
1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
âQueen Victoriaâ redirects here. ...
Look up sir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Sir Edward Leader Williams (1828-1910) was an English civil engineer, chiefly remembered as the designer of the Manchester Ship Canal, but also heavily involved in other canal projects in north Cheshire. ...
Anarchist redirects here. ...
Ãmile Henry Ãmile Henry (1872 - May 21, 1894) was a French anarchist, who on February 12, 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty. ...
Historic replicas (1:6 scale) of the two main types of French guillotines: Model 1792, left, and Model 1872 (state as of 1907), right The guillotine is a device used for carrying out executions by decapitation. ...
1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ...
FIFA logo (usage restricted): For the Good of the Game Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the international governing body of the sport of association football (called simply football or soccer). ...
This article is about an international football organization. ...
This article is about the capital of France. ...
1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ...
Extent of the fire The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 began just after noon on Monday, May 21 and was finally extinguished by 10 PM. Destroyed were 300 acres (much of the Fourth Ward), including nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, and 10,000 people were displaced. ...
Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...
Nathan Leopold (left) and Richard Loeb (center) under arrest Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. ...
Bobby Franks(1910 or 1909-1924) was the son of Chicago millionaire Jacob Franks. ...
A Thrill killing is a nickname for a kind of premeditated murder committed by a sane criminal who is motivated by the sheer excitement of the act. ...
Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 â 26 August 1974), known as Lucky Lindy and The Lone Eagle, was an American pilot famous for the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Paris in 1927 in the Spirit of St. ...
Le Bourget airport (Aéroport du Bourget) is an airport, located in Le Bourget, close to Paris, France, nowadays only used for general aviation (business jets) as well as air shows. ...
This article is about the capital of France. ...
Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Amelia Mary Earhart (24 July 1897 â missing 2 July 1937, declared deceased 5 January 1939) flews a lot of airplanes, except for that one time when she didnt come back. ...
For other places with similar names, see Derry (disambiguation) and Londonderry (disambiguation). ...
Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...
Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Oskaloosa is a city in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. ...
1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Newspaper photo taken shortly after her arrest. ...
For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ...
A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, narrowly defined, is any of those parts of the body (which are not always bodily organs according to the strict definition) which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in an complex organism; namely: Male: penis (notably the glans penis...
A scandal is a widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage. ...
Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations are important contributors to exploration of the Arctic. ...
Drift ice consists of slabs of ice that float on the surface of the water in cold regions. ...
For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...
Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 â January 14, 1957) was an American actor. ...
Betty Joan Perske (born on September 16, 1924), better known as Lauren Bacall, is a Golden Globeâ and Tony Awardâwinning, as well as Academy Awardânominated, American film and stage actress. ...
Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The 9th Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show was a historical, ground-breaking exhibition during a critical period of art history. ...
The 9th Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show May 21-June 10 1951 was a historical, ground-breaking exhibition during a critical period of art history. ...
âNYâ redirects here. ...
A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...
The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in New York City. ...
Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Preparation for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the 1980s. ...
The Flag of Bikini Atoll Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 6. ...
The United States began using the Marshall Islands as a nuclear testing site beginning in 1946. ...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ...
Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In the United Kingdom, the Postmaster General is a now defunct ministerial position. ...
(Alfred) Ernest Marples, Baron Marples (9 December 1907 â 6 July 1978) was a British politician. ...
Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) (also known as subscriber toll dialling) is a term for the UK telephone system allowing subscribers to dial trunk calls without operator assistance. ...
This article is about the English city. ...
Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all citizens of United States. ...
This article is about the U.S. State. ...
For other uses, see Governor (disambiguation). ...
John Malcolm Patterson (born September 27, 1921) is an American politician who was the forty-ninth Governor of Alabama, from 1959 to 1963. ...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil unrest in which race is a key factor. ...
Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other uses, see Michelangelo (disambiguation). ...
The Pietà (1498â1499) by Michelangelo is a marble sculpture in St. ...
This article is about the famous building in Rome. ...
Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1,285 km² (580 sq mi) - Urban 5...
The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. ...
Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...
The White Night Riots, beginning on May 21, 1979, were the San Francisco, California, gay communitys response to the minimal sentence given to former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White for killing George Moscone, then Mayor of San Francisco and Harvey Milk, the openly gay supervisor of said city...
This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
Dan White during his 1977 campaign for Supervisor. ...
Mayor Moscone George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929 â November 27, 1978) was the mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. ...
For Harvey Milk High School Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 â November 27, 1978), an American politician and gay rights activist, was the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. ...
Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...
Lionel Jospin and Pierre Mauroy, October 17, 2000. ...
A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ...
Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...
A prime minister is the most senior minister of a cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ...
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (IPA: ) (August 20, 1944 â May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira. ...
Though the majority of suicide bombers were and are male, female suicide bombers have carried out a number of attacks since 1985. ...
, âMadrasâ redirects here. ...
Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Democratic Republic of Yemen in southern Yemen seceded from the Republic of Yemen in 1994. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
MV Bukoba is the name of a passenger steamer that sank 30 kilometers from Mwanza, Tanzania on May 21, 1996, killing nearly one thousand people. ...
For other places with the same name, see Lake Victoria (disambiguation). ...
Trappist can refer to: a religious order - see Trappists some of the products, made by the order - see Trappist beer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Roman Catholic Trappist Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.) commemorate the 1996 martyrdom of their seven brother monks of Atlas, Algeria. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
Thurston High School is located in Springfield, Oregon in Lane County. ...
Location in Oregon Coordinates: , County Lane County Incorporated 1885 Government - Mayor Sid Leiken Area - City 37. ...
Kipland Philip Kinkel (born August 30, 1982) perpetrated a school shooting at a Springfield, Oregon secondary school, killing two people and wounding twenty-five. ...
It has been suggested that Last Call Poker be merged into this article or section. ...
A semi-automatic rifle is a type of rifle that fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled, without the need to manually operate a bolt, lever or other firing or loading mechanism. ...
Nickname: Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country State County Miami-Dade Incorporated July 28, 1896 Government - Type Mayor-Commissioner Plan - Mayor Manny Diaz (I) - City Manager Pedro G. Hernandez - City Attorney Jorge L. Fernandez - City Clerk Priscilla Thompson Area - City 55. ...
A clinic or outpatient clinic is a small medical facility that provides health care for ambulatory patients - as opposed to inpatients treated in a hospital. ...
Butyric acid, (from Greek βοÏ
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General Suharto (born June 8, 1921) was an Indonesian dictator and military strongman. ...
Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft and defence systems manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ...
The Handley Page HP.137 Jetstream was a small twin turboprop airliner, with a pressurised fuselage, designed to meet the requirements of the United States feederliner and regional airline market. ...
Wilkes-Barre (IPA: , , or [1]) is the central city of the Wyoming Valley and county seat of Luzerne County in northeastern Pennsylvania. ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
Christiane Taubira (February 2, 1952, Cayenne, French Guiana -) is a French politician. ...
The Atlantic slave trade was the trade of African slaves by Europeans that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Pemba Dorjie is a Sherpa who currently holds the world record for the quickest climb up Mount Everest. ...
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Lakpa Gelu Sherpa born in 1969 is a climber from Jubing - 1, KhariKhola, Solukhumbu, Nepal. ...
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A nuclear holocaust is often associated with World War III For other uses, see World War III (disambiguation). ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted Coordinates: , Country Ukraine Oblast Kiev City Municipality Raion Municipality Government - Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi Elevation 179 m (587 ft) Population (2006) - City 4,450,968 - Density 3,299/km² (8,544. ...
The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest (in Istanbul) to create a consistent visual identity. ...
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Elena Paparizou (Greek: ; born January 31, 1982) is a Greek singer, born and raised in Sweden. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Motto: None Anthem: Oj, svijetla majska zoro Capital Podgorica Largest city Podgorica Official language(s) Serbian Government ⢠President ⢠Prime Minister Republic Filip VujanoviÄ Milo ÄukanoviÄ Independence Part of Serbia and Montenegro Area - Total - Water (%) 13,812 km² (157th if ranked) 5,333 sq mi N/A Population - 2003 est. ...
The Montenegrin independence referendum was a referendum on the independence of the Republic of Montenegro from Serbia and Montenegro that was held on May 21, 2006. ...
Serbia and Montenegro â Serbia â Kosovo and Metohia (UN administration) â Vojvodina â Montenegro Official language Serbian language written in Cyrillic alphabet Capital Belgrade President Svetozar MaroviÄ Area â Total â % water Ranked 105th 102,350 km² 0. ...
Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...
Tre kronor may refer to: Tre Kronor, a national emblem of Sweden. ...
The Ice Hockey World Championship is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. ...
The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
A model of a vessel of the clipper type, the four-masted barque named Belle Ãtoile A clipper was a very fast multiple-masted sailing ship of the 19th century. ...
Cutty sark is 18th century Scots for short chemise or short undergarment[1]. Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname for a fictional character created by Robert Burns, and from there it became part of an idiom - Weel done, Cutty-sark! (Well done, Cutty-sark!) in colloquial English, especially Scottish English. ...
Greenwich is a town, now part of the south-eastern urban sprawl of London, England, on the south bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. ...
Births - 1471 - Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528)
- 1527 - King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
- 1664 - Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (d. 1754)
- 1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
- 1755 - Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
- 1763 - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
- 1775 - Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier and academic (d. 1840)
- 1780 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
- 1792 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
- 1835 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
- 1843 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
- 1844 - Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
- 1850 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
- 1851 - Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel laureate (d. 1925)
- 1853 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
- 1860 - Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
- 1863 - Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954)
- 1873 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
- 1878 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
- 1880 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
- 1885 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d.1936)
- 1898 - Armand Hammer, American physician (d. 1990)
- 1901 - Horace Heidt, American band leader (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
- 1901 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (d. 1992)
- 1902 - Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
- 1902 - Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
- 1903 - Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d. 1986)
- 1904 - Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1904 - Fats Waller, American pianist (d. 1943)
- 1909 - François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
- 1912 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1913 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
- 1916 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
- 1916 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
- 1917 - Raymond Burr, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Dennis Day, American singer and comedian (d. 1988)
- 1920 - Anthony Steel, British actor (d. 2001)
- 1921 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
- 1923 - Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
- 1923 - Ara Parseghian, American football coach
- 1924 - Peggy Cass, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
- 1928 - Tom Donahue, American disc jockey (freeform radio) (d. 1975)
- 1930 - Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician
- 1933 - Maurice André, French trumpeter
- 1934 - Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
- 1936 - Günter Blobel, German biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1939 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician
- 1941 - Martin Carthy, English musician
- 1941 - Ronald Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
- 1943 - Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
- 1944 - Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
- 1944 - Marcie Blane, American singer
- 1945 - Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
- 1947 - Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
- 1948 - Leo Sayer, English musician
- 1951 - Al Franken, American comedian
- 1952 - Mr. T, American actor
- 1954 - Marc Ribot, American musician
- 1955 - Paul Barber, British field hockey player
- 1955 - Stan Lynch, American drummer
- 1957 - Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
- 1957 - Judge Reinhold, American actor
- 1957 - Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
- 1959 - Nick Cassavetes, American actor
- 1960 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
- 1960 - Kent Hrbek, American professional baseball player
- 1963 - Richard Appel, American writer
- 1963 - Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
- 1964 - Danny Bailey, English footballer
- 1964 - Danny Lee Clark, American football player
- 1964 - Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1966 - Lisa Edelstein, American actress
- 1967 - Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1968 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
- 1968 - Matthias Ungemach, German rower
- 1969 - Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
- 1970 - Carl Veart, Australian soccer player
- 1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997)
- 1972 - Alesha Oreskovich, American model
- 1973 - Noel Fielding, British comedian
- 1974 - Fairuza Balk, American actress
- 1974 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
- 1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
- 1976 - Deron Miller, American rock musician
- 1976 - Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
- 1977 - Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
- 1977 - Ricky Williams, American football player
- 1978 - Briana Banks, German-American pornographic actress
- 1978 - Jamaal Magloire, Canadian professional basketballer
- 1978 - Adam Gontier, Canadian singer Three Days Grace
- 1979 - Damian Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
- 1979 - Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress
- 1979 - Jamie Hepburn, Member of the Scottish Parliament
- 1979 - Scott Smith, mixed martial arts fighter
- 1980 - Chris Raab, American actor
- 1981 - Belladonna, American pornographic actress
- 1981 - Max, German singer
- 1984 - Bria Myles, American model
- 1985 - Kano, British rapper
1996- a princess was born and is now in the 6th grade. Do you know her? This article is about the year 1471, not the BT caller ID service accessible by dialling 1-4-7-1. ...
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Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St. ...
January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church. ...
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