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October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year. 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
October 2007 is the tenth month of that year. ...
October 2006 is the tenth month of that year and has yet to occur. ...
2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- â Deaths in October 28: Richard Smalley 26: Emil Kyulev 24: José Azcona del Hoyo 24: Rosa Parks 23: Stella Obasanjo 22: Liam Lawlor 22: Shirley Horn 20: Endon Mahmood 17: Ba Jin 10: Milton Obote 7: Charles...
October 14, 2004 Prince Norodom Sihamoni is named the new King of Cambodia by the countrys Throne Council. ...
October 14, 2003 Religion: RTÃs Prime Time current affairs programme reports that Cahal Cardinal Daly, then Bishop of Down and Conor, refused to accept allegations passed on to him by students of improper sexual conduct by Monsignor Micheal Ledwith, then head of St Patricks College, Maynooth, Irelands...
October 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December // Events October 31, 2002 The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative. ...
2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: October 2 - Bankruptcy of Swissair. ...
October 2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events October 1 - 2 - Nine Israeli-Arabs are killed by Israeli security forces after a riot/violent demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians under military rule in the West Bank and Gaza. ...
For the 1921 film starring Fatty Arbuckle, see Leap Year (film). ...
For the calendar of religious holidays and periods, see liturgical year. ...
Events - 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.
- 1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
- 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1586 - Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
- 1656 - Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
- 1758 - Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk
- 1773 - The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland.
- 1773 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
- 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
- 1805 - Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria
- 1806 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia
- 1812 - Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
- 1834 - In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
- 1840 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.
- 1843 - The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station - Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.
- 1867 - The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.
- 1882 - University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
- 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
- 1888 - Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
- 1910 - English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House.
- 1912 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
- 1913 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.
- 1916 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
- 1916 - The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
- 1920 - Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.
- 1925 - Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)
- 1926 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
- 1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
- 1939 - German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak.
- 1940 Balham tube disaster during the Blitz.
- 1942 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.
- 1943 - Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war.
- 1943 - U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt.
- 1944 - Allied troops land in Corfu.
- 1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
- 1949 - Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
- 1949 - Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou).
- 1957 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
- 1958 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
- 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
- 1964 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro.
- 1967 - Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
- 1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.
- 1968 - A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.
- 1968 - Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983.
- 1968 - The rebuilt Euston station in London is opened.
- 1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971.
- 1973 - Thailand's University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured.
- 1979 - The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.
- 1981 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
- 1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
- 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
- 1994 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
For the book, see 1066 And All That. ...
Bayeux Tapestry depicting events leading to the Battle of Hastings The Norman Conquest of England was the conquest of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings and the subsequent Norman control of England. ...
Belligerents Normans supported by: Bretons (one third of total), Flemings, French Anglo-Saxons, the Ãingalið Commanders William of Normandy, Odo of Bayeux Harold Godwinson â Strength 7,400-8,400 (maximum 2,200 cavalry, 1,700 archers, 4,500 men-at-arms) 7,500 (2,000 housecarls, 5,500 fyrd) Casualties...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
For other uses, see Hastings (disambiguation). ...
William I ( 1027 â September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ...
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Name Harold Godwinson Lived c. ...
Events September 27/September 28 - Battle of Ampfing, often called the last battle of knights, in which Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria Births January 11 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (died 1380) Deaths January 3 - King Philip V of France (born 1293) March 16 - Humphrey de...
Robert I, King of Scots, usually known as Robert the Bruce (July 11, 1274 – June 7, 1329, reigned 1306 – 1329), was, according to a modern biographer (Geoffrey Barrow), a great hero who lived in a minor country. ...
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Edward II, (April 25, 1284 – October, 1327), of Caernarvon, was king of England from 1307 until deposed in January, 1327. ...
For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...
Combatants Kingdom of Scotland Kingdom of England Commanders Robert Bruce John de Bretagne, 1st Earl of Richmond Strength unknown unknown Casualties unknown unknown The Battle of Old Byland was a significant encounter between Scots and English troops in Yorkshire in October 1322, forming part of the Wars of Scottish Independence. ...
Gregorian Calendar switch: Year 1582 involved conversion to the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the calendar of religious holidays and periods, see liturgical year. ...
1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ...
Mary, Queen of Scots redirects here. ...
Elizabeth I redirects here. ...
// Events Mehmed Köprülü becomes Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. ...
This article is about the U.S. state. ...
Quaker redirects here. ...
The Puritans were members of a group of radical Protestants which developed in England after the Reformation. ...
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). ...
For other uses, see Prussia (disambiguation). ...
The battle of Hochkirch was a battle fought on October 14, 1758 during the Seven Years War. ...
Year 1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Several countries have government departments named the Ministry of Education Komisja Edukacji Narodowej of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1773. ...
Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (KEN, Polish for Commission of National Education) was the central educational authority in Poland, created by the Sejm and king Stanisław August Poniatowski on October 14, 1773. ...
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The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was the first joint-stock company (the Dutch East India Company was the first to issue public stock). ...
Annapolis redirects here. ...
Year 1789 (MDCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
George Washington (February 22, 1732 â December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775â1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ...
For the Canadian holiday, see Thanksgiving (Canada). ...
Thomas Jefferson. ...
The Battle of Elchingen was fought on October 14, 1805, between French forces and a small Austrian force. ...
1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The twin battles of Jena and Auerstädt were fought on October 14, 1806 near Naumburg in todays Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia. ...
For other uses, see Prussia (disambiguation). ...
For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
The Regents Canal is a canal across an area just to the north of central London. ...
Year 1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area - City 369. ...
The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. ...
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1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Maronites (Marunoye ܡܪÜÜ¢ÜÜܶ; in Syriac, Mâruniyya Ù
ارÙÙÙØ© in Arabic) are members of an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope of Rome. ...
Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
For other persons named Daniel OConnell, see Daniel OConnell (disambiguation). ...
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 Tuesday 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...
Motto Deo Vindice (Latin: Under God, Our Vindicator) Anthem (none official) God Save the South (unofficial) The Bonnie Blue Flag (unofficial) Dixie (unofficial) States that seceded under CSA control States and territories claimed by CSA without formal secession and/or control Capital Montgomery, Alabama (until May 29, 1861) Richmond, Virginia...
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The 21st Michigan Infantry, a company of Shermans veterans. ...
This article is about the U.S. state. ...
Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate ShÅgun ) is supreme general of the samurai,a military rank and historical title in Japan. ...
The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (å¾³å·å¹åº) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868. ...
Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
University of the Punjab (abbreviated as PU) (Urdu: جاÙ
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Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
For other uses, see George Eastman (disambiguation). ...
Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (28 August 1841, vanished 16 September 1890) was an inventor who is generally recognized as the first person to record motion images on film. ...
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Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Claude Grahame White (1879 â 1959) was an pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail London to Manchester race in 1910. ...
Farman Aviation Works was an aeroneutic enterprise founded and run by the brothers Henry and Maurice Farman. ...
Pennsylvania Avenue street sign, 2004. ...
For other uses, see White House (disambiguation). ...
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). ...
For other persons named Theodore Roosevelt, see Theodore Roosevelt (disambiguation). ...
John F. Schrank was a saloonkeeper from New York, best known for his attempt to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. ...
Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
The Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, also known as the Senghenydd Explosion, occurred in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales on 14 October 1913, killing 439 miners. ...
Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 â January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, fellow traveler, Spingarn Medal winner, and Stalin Peace Prize laureate. ...
Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is located in New Brunswick, Piscataway, Camden and Newark, New Jersey. ...
Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia. ...
Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The area of Petsamo (Pechenga in Russian) in northern Lapland, indigenously inhabited by Samis, came to Finland in 1920 and to the Soviet Union in 1944. ...
Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other uses, see Damascus (disambiguation). ...
Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Childrens books redirects here. ...
Winnie the Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. ...
Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 _ January 31, 1956), also known as A. A. Milne, is an English author best known for his books about the talking stuffed bear; Winnie the Pooh and for various childrens poems, some of which also feature Winnie-the-Pooh and friends. ...
Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the First World War at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. ...
Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Unterseeboot 47 (U-47) was a German type VII B U-Boat (submarine). ...
HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy, sunk early in World War II. She was laid down at Devonport, Devon on 15 January 1914 and launched on 17 November of that year. ...
Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Balham tube station is a station on London Undergrounds Northern Line located between Clapham South and Tooting Bec stations. ...
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Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...
The SS Caribou a passenger ferry used by the Newfoundland government ferry service between Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and North Sydney, Nova Scotia was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk in the Cabot Strait October 14, 1942. ...
Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sobibór was a Nazi extermination camp that was part of Operation Reinhard. ...
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the US Army Air Corps (USAAC). ...
Schweinfurt is a city in the Unterfranken region of Bavaria in Germany on the right bank of the canalized Main, which is here spanned by several bridges, 27 km North-East of Würzburg. ...
Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the Greek island Kerkyra known in English as Corfu or Corcyra. ...
Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and a noted test pilot. ...
The Bell X-1, originally designated XS-1, was a joint NACA-U.S. Army Air Forces/US Air Force supersonic research project and the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in controlled, level flight. ...
For other uses, see Speed of sound (disambiguation). ...
Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. ...
Alternate meaning: Shining Path The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA); Traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍, Simplified Chinese: 人民解放军, pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàng Jūn), including strategic nuclear forces, an army, navy and air force, serves as the military of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
CITIC Plaza Guangzhou (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; jyutping : Gwong²zau¹) is the capital and a sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in the southern part of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ...
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...
This article is about the monarchy of Canada, one of sixteen that share a common monarch; for information about this constitutional relationship, see Commonwealth realm; for information on the reigning monarch, see Elizabeth II. For information about other Commonwealth realm monarchies, as well as other relevant articles, see Commonwealth realm...
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Queen Elizabeth II reads Canadas Speech from the Throne in 1977 The Speech from the Throne (or Throne Speech) is an event in certain monarchies in which the monarch (or a representative) reads a prepared speech to a complete session of parliament, outlining the governments agenda for the...
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The Nevada Test Site is a United States Department of Energy reservation located in Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the City of Las Vegas, near . ...
Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ...
Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the video game based on the possible outcomes of this event, see Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath. ...
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed Dragon Lady, is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency. ...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ...
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The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: ÐоммÑниÑÑиÌÑеÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÐаÌÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¡Ð¾Ð²ÐµÌÑÑкого СоÑÌза, transliterated Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, acronym: ÐÐСС (KPSS)) was the ruling political party in the Soviet Union. ...
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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. ...
Martin Luther King Jr. ...
Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ...
Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...
Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Region Montréal Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3] - City 365. ...
The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation within the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ...
Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...
Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peopleâs Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. ...
Oakland redirects here. ...
Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peopleâs Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...
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Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam Peopleâs Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000...
The United States Department of Defense (DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military. ...
The United States Army is the largest, and by some standards oldest, established branch of the armed forces of the United States and is one of seven uniformed services. ...
United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ...
Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. ...
This article is about the natural seismic phenomenon. ...
Meckering is a town 130 km east of Perth, Western Australia along the Great Eastern Highway. ...
James Ray (Jim) Hines (born September 10, 1946) is an American athlete who held the 100 m world record for 15 years. ...
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The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
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For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ...
Facade of Euston Station, London Euston Arch: the original Euston Station, as enlarged, ca 1851 Euston station concourse Euston station (also known as London Euston), is a large railway station in Central London. ...
The British decimal fifty pence (50p) coin â often pronounced fifty pee â was issued on October 14, 1969 in the run-up to decimalisation to replace the ten shilling note. ...
For the system of library classification, see Dewey Decimal Classification. ...
Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ...
For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...
Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...
The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also...
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AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Richard Jacqueline Marshall (June 16, 1895 - August 3, 1973) was a Major General in the US Army. ...
AIM logo AIM flag The American Indian Movement (AIM), is a Native American activist organization in the United States. ...
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Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...
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For the Barenaked Ladies song War on Drugs, see Everything to Everyone. ...
Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ...
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Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist,[2][3] who committed a series of bombings across the southern United States, which killed three people and injured at least 150 others. ...
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. ...
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Births - 1257 - King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)
- 1404 - Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
- 1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- 1499 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
- 1630 - Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)
- 1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
- 1643 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
- 1644 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
- 1687 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1712 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
- 1726 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)
- 1733 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
- 1784 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
- 1801 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)
- 1806 - Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
- 1842 - Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
- 1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
- 1869 - Joseph Duveen, British art dealer (d. 1939)
- 1873 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937)
- 1873 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (d. 1954)
- 1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975)
- 1882 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
- 1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British General. (d. 1976)
- 1888 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
- 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
- 1892 - Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961)
- 1893 - Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
- 1900 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
- 1902 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
- 1904 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)
- 1906 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
- 1906 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
- 1908 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (d. 1938)
- 1909 - Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1910 - John Wooden, American basketball player and coach
- 1911 - Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)
- 1914 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
- 1914 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
- 1914 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1916 - C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General
- 1918 - Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
- 1926 - Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
- 1927 - Roger Moore, English actor
- 1928 - Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995)
- 1929 - Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
- 1931 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
- 1932 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
- 1932 - Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
- 1935 - La Monte Young, American composer
- 1938 - John W. Dean III, Watergate figure
- 1938 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran
- 1938 - Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach
- 1939 - Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
- 1939 - Rocky Thompson, American golfer
- 1940 - Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
- 1940 - Cliff Richard, English singer
- 1940 - Christopher Timothy, British actor
- 1941 - Art Shamsky, American baseball player
- 1942 - Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (d. 1986)
- 1944 - Udo Kier, German actor
- 1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
- 1946 - Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues)
- 1946 - James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, American football coach
- 1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
- 1946 - Al Oliver, American baseball player
- 1946 - Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)
- 1947 - Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
- 1948 - Harry Anderson, American actor
- 1948 - David Ruprecht, American game show host
- 1948 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
- 1949 - Katy Manning, English/Australian actress
- 1949 - Katha Pollitt, American writer
- 1952 - Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast
- 1953 - Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer
- 1954 - Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
- 1957 - Michel Després, Quebec politician
- 1958 - Thomas Dolby, English musician
- 1960 - Steve Cram, English athlete
- 1961 - Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
- 1962 - Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
- 1963 - Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
- 1963 - Lori Petty, American actress
- 1964 - Olu Oguibe, American artist
- 1964 - Joe Girardi, American baseball player
- 1964 - Jim Rome, American sport talk show host
- 1965 - Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
- 1965 - Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
- 1965 - Steve Coogan, English actor
- 1965 - Karyn White, American singer
- 1966 - Savanna Samson, American porn star
- 1967 - Pat Kelly, American baseball player
- 1967 - Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist
- 1968 - Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
- 1968 - Johnny Goudie, American musician
- 1969 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1969 - P. J. Brown, American basketball player
- 1970 - Jim Jackson, American basketball player
- 1970 - Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
- 1970 - Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
- 1971 - Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
- 1971 - Antonios Nikopolidis, Greek footballer
- 1974 - Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
- 1974 - Jessica Drake, American porn star
- 1974 - Joseph Utsler, American musician
- 1975 - Floyd Landis, American cyclist
- 1975 - Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
- 1976 -
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