What do you do when you're bored?

Events:
1001 - Leif Erikson discovers America, 500 years before Columbus.

1938 -German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered that a tiny portion of the uranium atom's mass could be converted into an estimated 200 million electron volts of potentially usable energy. This process was to be called fission.

October 4, 1957 - The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite.


Births:
October 12, 1875 - Edward Alexander Crowley, Poet and Mountaneer

July 12, 1895 - Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, Inventer and Architect


Deaths:

April 18, 1955 - Dr. Albert Einstien, Physicist

 

Uh, they are supposed to have happened on your birthday.

 

yeah... I knew that.... No really..., I was still recovering from the baby-seal bashing comments.

Events:
1999 - 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey kills more than 17000.

1969 - Hurricane Camille is said to be the worst storm ever to hit mainland United States. With winds in excess of 200 mph and tides over 20 feet.

1862 - Indian Wars: Lakota (Sioux) uprising begins in Minnesota as desperate Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. They will be overwhelmed by the U.S. military six weeks later.

Deaths:
1987 - Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's second in command, committed suicide.

2003 - LANGLEY, Washington -- A 40-year-old carnival worker was killed at the Island County Fair Saturday after when his hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a fence, according to a Local 6 News report.


Births:
Robert De Nero, Actor

 

Uh, you're sopposed to have two births and one death.

 

Mathboy, you're a doll :heart:

Vorak, you stole my mom's birthday!

 

Wow Mathboy, you must be a lawyer...? Personally I dont worry
about conformity as much, but since your so concerned:

1786 - Davy Crocket, Statesman and celebrated Hero

 

one of my ancestresses was supposed to marry one of Davy Crockett's best friends, some guy named Campbell. she ran away instead.

 

Events
362 - Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the religions in the Roman Empire.
1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1943 - Battle of Stalingrad ends.

Births
1964 - Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress

Deaths
1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and musician (Carpenters) (anorexia) (b. 1950)

Not that many famous people or events on my birthday.

 

1314 - Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling
1532 - Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
1812 - Napoleon begins the famous offensive on Russia, which fails horribly.

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1534 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (d. 1582)
1800 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)

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79 - Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)

 

Ok, I can't read that shit. It's beyond comprehension.

 

Events

1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1964 - The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
1998 - Google is first established

Births

1947 - Meat Loaf, American singer and actor
1984 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer and songwriter

Deaths

1590 - Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
1700 - Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)

ha! two deaths for the price of one!

 

Happy 999th post Mathboy!

Thank you! I think I'll stop posting now and just edit what you write. Or maybe not. //mathboy

 

You know, that editing thing is kinda creepy. It's as if mathboy's the voice inside our heads.

Have a safe passage to the 1000, babe! :heart: