In the year 1871, the German Empire is founded (Jan 18) and Otto von Bismarck becomes its first Chancellor (Mar 21), the Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria (Mar 29), the first supposedly Major League Baseball game is played in America (May 4), the first cat expedition is held, at Crystal Palace in London (Jul 13), British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada (Jul 20), New York Herald correspondent Stanley locates the missing missionary and asks: Dr. Continue reading

In the year 1878, Umberto I becomes King of Italy (Jan), the phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison (Feb 19), the Tokyo Stock Exchange is established (May 15), the Congress of Berlin convenes to discuss the Ottoman Empire, and as a result the empire gradually shrinks in size (Jun 4), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves on a voyage that makes him the first man to navigate the Northern Sea Route (Jun 22), Cleopatra’s Needle is erected in London (Sep 12), the last remnants of the once-great herds of bison around the Calgary area cross south into Montana - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_1461” align=“alignleft” width=“414”]A dining hall at Oxford University[/caption] In the year 1879, the Anglo-Zulu War begins in Southern Africa (Jan 11), Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time (Feb 8), the world’s first ocean-going steamer made of mild steel is launched in Scotland (Jun 6), the first issue of what will be known as The Watchtower, is published (Jul 1), Oxford University allows female students to study for degrees (Oct 13), Thomas Edison buys the patent for the incandescent light bulb (Nov 4) and demonstrates it to the public for the first time in Menlo Park, New Jersey (Dec 31) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

1967 re-release poster In the year 1939, the Hewlett-Packard Company is founded (Jan 1), Hitler´s speech before the Reichstag forebodes the holocaust (Jan 30), Batman makes his first appearance in a comic book (May 2), the last public guillotining in France takes place (Jun 17), Siam changes its name to Thailand (Jun 24), the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed by the Nazis (Jul 6), Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe (Sep 1), Soviet forces attack Finland, starting the Winter War (Nov 30), Gone with the Wind premieres in an Atlanta theater (Dec 15) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1994, NAFTA is established (Jan 1), China gets its first connection to the internet (Mar 1), the Rwandan genocide begins (Apr 7), Nelson Mandela wins the first fully multiracial presidential elections in South Africa (Apr 27), the Channel Tunnel between England and France opens (May 6), the O. J. Simpson case begins (Jun 12), the Russian army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe’s Soviet occupation (Aug 31), MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people (Sep 28), the first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens in San Francisco (Nov 4) - and all these fine people were born: 1994-0102 Valentina Giacinti* football player - Trescore Balneario, Italy 1994-0103 Katri Lylynperä* cross-country skier - Vammala, Finland 1994-0103 Simon Pettersson* athlete (discus)/OS - Sweden 1994-0104 Viktor Axelsen* badminton player/OB - Odense, Denmark 1994-0105 Zemgus Girgensons* hockey player - Riga, Latvia 1994-0110 1994-0112 Emre Can* football player/with Turkish ancestry - Frankfurt, Germany 1994-0114 Connor Brown* hockey player - Etobicoke, ON Canada 1994-0114 Muktar Edris* long-distance runner/WC - Ethiopia 1994-0115 Eric Dier* football player - Cheltenham, England 1994-0116 Mikko Lehtonen* hockey player/OG - Turku, Finland 1994-0120 Hampus Lindholm* hockey player - Helsingborg, Sweden 1994-0121 Marny Kennedy* actress - Melbourne, VIC Australia 1994-0121 Toni Kuusela* athlete (javelin) - Vimpeli, Finland 1994-0121 Nico Salo* floorball player - Tampere, Finland 1994-0 1994-0123 Mattias Nilsson* hockey player - Visby, Sweden 1994-0125 1994-0126 Steph Catley* football player - Melbourne, Australia 1994-0127 Anouck Jaubert* sport climber - Saint-Étienne, France 1994-0131 1994-0201 Julia Garner* actress - New York, NY USA 1994-0201 Teemu Suninen* rally driver - Tuusula, Finland 1994-0202 *Brock McGinn* hockey player - Fergus, ON Canada 1994-0203 Malaika Mihambo* athlete (long jump)/OG/w Tanzanian father - Heidelberg, Germany 1994-0203 Aimee Lou Wood* actress - Stockport, Greater Manchester, England 1994-0204 Alexia Putellas* football player - Mollet del Vallès, Spain 1994-0206 Charlie Heaton* musician/actor - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 1994-0207 Nina Christen* sport shooter/OB - Stans, Switzerland 1994-0207 Nathan Walker* Australian hockey player/SC - Cardiff, Wales 1994-0208 Nikki Yanofsky* singer - Montreal, QC Canada 1994-0210 Kelvin Hoefler* skateboarder/OS - Sao Paulo, Brazil 1994-0210 Makenzie Vega* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 1994-0211 Dylan Arnold* actor - Seattle, WA USA 1994-0212 Alex Galchenyuk* hockey player - Milwaukee, WI USA 1994-0212 Arman Hall* sprinter/OGr - Miami, FL USA 1994-0213 Memphis Depay* football player - Moordrecht, Netherlands 1994-0214 Becky Hill* singer - Bewdley, Worcestershire, England 1994-0214 Thanapob Leeratanakachorn* model/ actor/singer - Bangkok, Thailand 1994-0216 Annika Beck* tennis player - Gießen, Germany 1994-0219 Fausto Desalu* athlete (sprinter/OGr) - Casalmaggiore, Italy 1994-0220 Brigid Kosgei* long-distance runner/marathon world record - Kenya 1994-0223 Dakota Fanning* actress - Conyers, GA USA 1994-0225 Mackenzie Arnold* football goalie - Gold Coast, QLD Australia 1994-0225 Eugenie Bouchard* tennis player - Montreal, QC Canada 1994-0225 Ifeoma Onumonu* American-Nigerian football player - Rancho Cucamonga, CA USA 1994-0226 Kalle Koljonen* badminton player - Helsinki, Finland 1994-0226 Jacob Trouba* hockey player - Rochester, MI USA 1994-0301 Justin Bieber* singer - London, ON Canada 1994-0301 Camille Razat* model/ actress - Toulouse, France 1994-0302 1994-0303 Amir Khosravani* Paralympic athlete (long jump)/OG - Bandar Ganaveh, Iran 1994-0305 Daria Gavrilova* Russian-Australian tennis player - Moscow, Russia 1994-0306 Mads Burnell* mixed martial artist - Husum, Denmark 1994-0307 Chase Kalisz* swimmer/OG - Bel Air, MD USA 1994-0307 Jordan Pickford* football goalie - Washington, England 1994-0308 1994-0310 Nikita Parris* football player/EC - Liverpool, Merseyside, England 1994-0311 Andrew Robertson* football player - Glasgow, Scotland 1994-0312 Katie Archibald* Scottish-British racing cyclist/OG - Chertsey, England 1994-0312 Noemi Zbären* athlete (hurdles) - Langnau, Emmenthal, Switzerland 1994-0313 1994-0314 Jasmine Abrams* Guyanese athlete (sprinter) - New York, NY USA 1994-0314 Ansel Elgort* actor - New York, NY USA 1994-0315 1994-0316 Sierra McClain* actress /singer - Decatur, GA USA 1994-0317 Christin Hussong* athlete (javelin) - Zweibrücken, Germany 1994-0318 Megan Tapper* (b Simmonds) hurdler/OB - Kingston, Jamaica 1994-0321 Erik Back* athlete/sprinter - Helsinki, Finland 1994-0325 An Baul* 안바울 judoka/OB - Anyang, South Korea 1994-0326 Paige VanZant* mixed martial artist - Dundee, OR USA 1994-0327 Wesley Vázquez* middle-distance runner - Bayamón, Puerto Rico 1994-0328 1994-0329 Jack Bandeira* actor - Middlesbrough, England 1994-0329 Tom Wilson* hockey player/SC - Toronto, ON Canada 1994-0401 Ella Eyre* singer/ songwriter - London, England 1994-0403 Feng Bin* athlete (discus/WG) - Penglai District, China 1994-0406 Simona Brown* actress/ of Jamaican heritage - London, England 1994-0406 Ilya Lyubushkin* hockey player - Moscow, Russia 1994-0407 1994-0409 Clara Henry* actress/ blogger/television presenter - Landsvetter, Sweden 1994-0411 Duncan Laurence* (b de Moor) singer - Spijkenisse, Netherlands 1994-0412 Saoirse Ronan* actress/ Irish parents - New York City, NY USA 1994-0413 Elvis Merzļikins* hockey goalie - Riga, Latvia 1994-0414 1994-0415 Elena Linari* football player - Fiesole, Italy 1994-0415 Shaunae Miller-Uibo* (b Miller) sprinter - Nassau, Bahamas 1994-0418 Olli Kokko* swimmer - Finland 1994-0420 1994-0422 Chandler Stephenson* hockey player/SC - SK Canada 1994-0424 Henri Liipola* athlete (hammer) - Koski Tl, Finland 1994-0425 Omar McLeod* athlete (hurdles/OG) - Clarendon, Jamaica 1994-0426 Zoe Smith* weightlifter - England 1994-0428 Alexandra Burghardt* athlete (sprinter & bobsleigh/OS) - - Mühldorf am Inn, Germany 1994-0428 Joonas Korpisalo* hockey goalie - Pori, Finland 1994-0428 Mina Tanaka* 田中 美南 Japanese football player/w Thai mother - Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand 1994-0428 Haftamnesh Tesfay* athlete (runner) - Ethiopia 1994-0501 Jaccob Slavin* hockey player - Erie, CO USA 1994-0501 Krisztián Tóth* judoka/OB - Darmstadt, Germany 1994-0502 Alexander Choupenitch* fencer/OB - Brno, Czechia 1994-0502 Gerard Descarrega* Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG - La Selva del Camp, Tarragona, Spain 1994-0502 Sara Forsberg* singer/television personality - Finland 1994-0505 “Celeste” Epiphany Waite* singer/songwriter - Culver City, CA USA 1994-0507 Josh Anderson* hockey player - Burlington, ON Canada 1994-0508 Ajeé Wilson* middle-distance runner - Neptune, NJ USA 1994-0510 1994-0511 Menno Vloon* athlete (pole vault) - Zaandam, Netherlands 1994-0516 Mikhail Grigorenko* hockey player - Khabarovsk, Russia 1994-0518 Chris Driedger* hockey goalie - Winnipeg, MB Canada 1994-0520 Alex Høgh Andersen* actor (Vikings) - Skælskør, Denmark 1994-0523 Esa Lindell* hockey player - Helsinki, Finland 1994-0524 Emma McKeon* swimmer/OB - Wollongong, NSW Australia 1994-0525 Matt Murray* hockey goalie - Thunder Bay, ON Canada 1994-0525 Aly Raisman* gymnast/OG - Needham, MA USA 1994-0526 Lindsey Horan* football player - Golden, CO USA 1994-0528 John Stones* football player - Barnsley, England 1994-0529 Lorelei Linklater* American actress - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1994-0529 Saku Mäenalanen* hockey player/OG - Tornio, Finland 1994-0530 Scott Laughton* hockey player - Oakville, ON Canada 1994-0531 Heorhiy Bushchan* football goalie - Odessa, Ukraine 1994-0531 Senja Mäkitörmä* athlete (shot put) - Varpaisjärvi, Finland 1994-0601 1994-0603 Bethany England* football player - Barnsley, England 1994-0603 Ville Pokka* hockey player/OG - Tornio, Finland 1994-0603 Anne Winters* actress - Dallas, TX USA 1994-0604 Roosa Laakkonen* volleyball player - Finland 1994-0605 Petra Olli* freestyle wrestler/WG - Lappajärvi, Finland 1994-0606 Markus Nutivaara* hockey player - Oulu, Finland 1994-0610 1994-0611 Jessica Fox* Australian canoeist/OG - Marseille, France 1994-0615 Lee Kiefer* fencer/OG - Cleveland, OH USA 1994-0615 Yussuf Poulsen* football player/w a Tanzanian father - Copenhagen, Denmark 1994-0616 1994-0617 Mimosa Jallow* swimmer/w Gambian father - Jyväskylä, Finland 1994-0618 Takeoff* (b Kirshnik Khari Ball) rapper - Lawrenceville, GA USA (2022/28) 1994-0619 Mallory Franklin* canoeist/OS - Windsor, Berkshire, England 1994-0619 Ala Zoghlami* Italian runner (steeplechase)/twin of Osama - Tunis 1994-0619 Osama Zoghlami* Italian runner (steeplechase) - Tunis 1994-0620 Drake Caggiula* hockey player - Pickering, ON Canada 1994-0620 Collin Delia* hockey goalie - Rancho Cucamonga, CA USA 1994-0620 Sarah Köhler* swimmer/OB - Hanau, Germany 1994-0622 1994-0624 Erin Moriarty* actress - New York City, NY USA 1994-0625 1994-0626 Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard* judoka/OB - Canada 1994-0629 Camila Mendes* actress/singer - Charlottesville, VA USA 1994-0630 1994-0701 Edvin Endre* actor/son of Lena Endre - Stockholm, Sweden 1994-0705 Shohei Ohtani* 大谷 翔平 baseball player - Ōshū, Iwate, Japan 1994-0707 Hali Flickinger* swimmer/OB - York, PA USA 1994-0707 Ned Porteous* actor (Emmerdale) - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England 1994-0708 Buse Arikazan* athlete (pole vault) - Ankara, Turkey 1994-0708 Andrew Copp* hockey player - Ann Arbor, MI USA 1994-0709 Akiane Kramarik* painter (Prince of Peace)/poet - Mount Morris, IL USA - Akiane. 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In the year 1953, Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia (Jan 14), Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th U.S. President (Jan 20), Joseph Stalin dies after 31 years of ruling the Soviet Union (Mar 5), Dag Hammarskjöld is elected U.N. Secretary-General (Apr 7), Edmund Hillary conquers Mount Everest at 8848 m/29029 ft (May 29), Elisabeth II is crowned at Westminster Abbey (Jun 2), The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan (Jun 30), the EEC assembles for the first time (Jul 5), The Korean War ends (Jul 27), the discovery of REM sleep is first published (Sep 4), the first issue of Playboy Magazine comes out (Dec) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1935, Italy’s Benito Mussolini and France’s Pierre Laval agree upon mutual non-interference of colonial claims (Jan 7), Amelia Earhart becomes the first to fly solo from Hawaii to California (Jan 11), the first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia (Jan 24), the use of radar is demonstrated for the first time (Feb 26), Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public (May 15), Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio (Jun 10), the world’s first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City (Jul 16), the Nuremberg Laws remove citizenship from Jews (Sep 15), Lebensborn program in support of Nazi eugenics is founded by Heinrich Himmler in Germany (Dec 12) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1880, Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lighted city in the world (Mar 31), in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway (May 13), France annexes Tahiti (Jun 29), The University of Southern California opens its doors (Oct 6), the first cash register is patented in Ohio (Nov 4) - and all these fine people were born: 1880-0101 Ernst Gennat* director of the Berlin criminal police/coined the term “Serienmörder” (serial killer) - Plötzensee, German Empire (1939/59) Continue reading

In the year 1882, P. T. Barnum acquires Jumbo the elephant from the London Zoo (Feb 3), polygamy is made a felony in the United States (Mar 22), the world’s first trolley bus begins operating in Berlin (Apr 29), the Chinese Exclusion Act is the first law restricting immigration into the U.S. (May 8), the first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City (Sep 4), Egypt becomes a British protectorate (Sep 13) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1887, construction of the Eiffel Tower begins (Jan 28), the first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania (Feb 2), Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs (Mar 4), Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opens in London (May 9), Emile Berliner is granted a patent for his Gramophone (Nov 8), Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves i.e. radio - and all these fine people were born: 1887-0101 Max Ritter von Müller* WWI fighter ace - Rottenburg an der Laaber, Bavaria, German Empire (1918/31) 1887-0104 Viljo Huttunen* Finnish actor/theater director - Toksova, Ingria, Russian Empire (1951/64) 1887-0110 1887-0111 Monte Blue* actor - Indianapolis, IN USA (1963/76) 1887-0120 1887-0121 Georges Vézina* hockey goalie (NHL 100)/the Vezina Trophy since 1926 - Chicoutimi, QC Canada (1926/39) 1887-0122 Helen Hoyt* poet - Norwalk, CT USA (1972/85) 1887-0128 Arthur Rubinstein* pianist - Lodz, Poland, Russian Empire (1982) 1887-0131 1887-0201 1887-0210 John Franklin Enders* biomedical scientist/N/“the Father of Modern Vaccines” - West Hartford, CT USA (1985/88) 1887-0217 Leevi Madetoja* composer - Oulu, GD of Finland (1947/60) 1887-0220 1887-0223 Kössi Kanto* actor/killed by an ice block - Kangasala, GD of Finland (1917/30) 1887-0228 Annie Mörk* actress/ theater director - Hanko, GD of Finland (1959/72) 1887-0303 Kurt Wolff* journalist/ writer/publisher - Bonn, Prussia, German Empire (1963/76) 1887-0311 Raoul Walsh* film director/actor - New York, NY USA (1980/93) 1887-0314 Sylvia Beach* bookseller/publisher/active in France - Baltimore, MD USA (1962/75) 1887-0315 Marjorie Merriweather Post* businesswoman/ socialite/ philanthropist - Springfield, IL USA (1973/86) 1887-0322 Chico Marx* actor/comedian/musician - New York, NY USA (1961/74) 1887-0323 Juan Gris* (b González-Pérez) painter - Madrid, Spain (1927/40) 1887-0324 Roscoe Arbuckle* actor/screenwriter/director - Smith Center, KS USA (1933/46) 1887-0324 Dickinson Bishop* businessman/ honeymoon survivor of the Titanic - Dowagiac, MI USA (1961/73) 1887-0325 1887-0331 1887-0401 1887-0402 Louise Schroeder* politician - Altona, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (1957/70) 1887-0403 Edgar Lansbury* politician/ father of Angela Lansbury - London, England (1935/48) 1887-0403 Nishizō Tsukahara* 塚原 二四三 navy admiral - Fukui Prefecture, Empire of Japan (1966/78) 1887-0410 Bernardo Houssay* physiologist/N - Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971/84) 1887-0412 Harold Lockwood* actor/ director/producer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1918/31) 1887-0415 Felix Pipes* Austrian tennis player (OSd)/physician - Prague, Austria-Hungary (1983/95) 1887-0420 1887-0422 Harald Bohr* football player/mathematician/brother of Niels Bohr - Copenhagen, Denmark (1951/63) 1887-0425 Kojo Tovalou Houénou* (b Marc Tovalou Quénum) prominent critic of the French colonial empire in Africa - Porto-Novo, Kingdom of Dahomey (1936/49) 1887-0426 Elisabeth Risdon* actress - London, England (1958/71) 1887-0430 1887-0502 Vernon Castle* (b William Vernon Blyth) dancer - Norwich, Norfolk, England (1918/30) 1887-0510 1887-0513 Lorna Hodgkinson* educator/psychologist - Melbourne, Australia (1951/63) 1887-0522/28 Jim Thorpe* athlete/first native American to win OG - Prague, Indian Territory, USA (1953/65) 1887-0531 Saint-John Perse* (b Alexis Leger) French poet-diplomat/N - Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (1975/88) 1887-0603 Toivo Niskanen* dancer/choreographer/ popularizer of tango in Finland - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1961/74) 1887-0620 Floyd Collins* cave explorer - Auburn, KY USA (1925/37) 1887-0622 Julian Huxley* evolutionary biologist/eugenicist - London, England (1975/87) 1887-0630 William Rosenberg* painter - Nurmijärvi, GD of Finland (1952/64) 1887-0706 Marc Chagall* Russian-French painter - Liozna, Russian Empire (1985/97) 1887-0716 Shoeless Joe Jackson* baseball player - Pickens County, SC USA (1951/64) 1887-0718 Vidkun Quisling* military officer/politician - Fyresdal, Telemark, Norway (1945/58) 1887-0722 Gustav Ludwig Hertz* physicist/N - Hamburg, German Empire (1975/88) 1887-0812 Erwin Schrödinger* physicist/N - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (1961/73) 1887-0817 Marcus Garvey* proponent of Black nationalism - Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica (1940/52) 1887-0830 Kalle Anttila* wrestler/OG - Muhos, Finland (1975/87) 1887-0830 Adam Kuckhoff* writer/journalist/ German resistance member (Rote Kapelle) - Aachen, German Empire (1943/55) 1887-0901 Blaise Cendrars* (b Frédéric-Louis Sauser) Swiss-French novelist - La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (1961/73) 1887-0903 Frank Christian* jazz trumpeter - New Orleans, LA USA (1973/86) 1887-0905 Irene Fenwick* (b Frizell) actress/m to Lionel Barrymore - Chicago, IL USA (1936/49) 1887-0910 Giovanni Gronchi* politician/P - Pontedera, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy (1978/91) 1887-0913 Frank Gray* physicist/ researcher at Bell Labs/remembered for the Gray code - Alpine, IN USA (1969/81) 1887-0913 Theodore Roosevelt Jr* government&business& military leader - Cove Neck, NY USA (1944/56) 1887-0913 Leopold Ružička* chemist/N - Vukovar, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (1976/89) 1887-0916 Nadia Boulanger* music teacher/conductor - Paris, France (1979/92) 1887-0928 Avery Brundage* athlete/ businessman/IOC president - Detroit, MI USA (1975/87) 1887-0930 Tyyne Savia* photographer/ photography teacher - Tampere, GD of Finland (1959/72) 1887-1001 1887-1015 Frederick Fleet* sailor/ Titanic crewman and survivor - Liverpool, England (1965/77) 1887-1020 Arne Halse* athlete (javelin/OS) - Kristiansund, Norway (1975/87) 1887-1022 John Reed* journalist/political activist - Portland, Oregon USA (1920/32) 1887-1031 Chiang Kai-shek* Chinese political and military leader - Fenghua, Zheijang (1975/87) 1887-1110 Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu* one of the first female engineers - Galati, Kingdom of Romania (1973/86) 1887-1119 James B. 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In the year 1931, Thomas Edison submits his very last patent application (Jan 6), the Empire State Building is completed (May 1), the Huang He floods killed between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster), the George Washington Bridge is dedicated (opening to traffic Oct 25) - and all these fine people were born: 1931-0101 Furio Colombo* journalist/politician - Châtillon, Kingdom of Italy (2025/94) 1931-0102 1931-0105 Robert Duvall* actor - San Diego, CA USA **** 1931-0106 Dickie Moore* hockey player (NHL 100)/businessman - Montreal, QC Canada (2015/84) 1931-0111 Mary Rodgers* composer/author/ screenwriter - New York City, NY USA (2014/83) 1931-0117 James Earl Jones* actor - Arkabutla, MS USA (2024/93) 1931-0119 Carl Brashear* U. Continue reading

In the year 1965, Canada gets a new flag - the Maple Leaf Flag (Feb 15), Malcolm X is assassinated (Feb 21), Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama is followed by similar treatment of civil rights demonstrators (Mar 7), first American ground combat troops arrive in Vietnam (Mar 8), cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space (Mar 18), first photos of Mars are taken (Jul 15), the first stadium concert takes place as The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City (Aug 15), Fidel Castro announces that anyone who wants to can emigrate to the United States (Sep 28), Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC (Nov 8) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1967, Charlie Chaplin’s last film is launched (Jan 5), the first Boeing 737 takes it maiden flight (Apr 9), 400 million viewers around the world watch Our World, the first live satellite television production, featuring Beatles' All You Need Is Love (Jun 25), world’s first ATM is installed in England (Jun 27), Fleetwood Mac makes their live debut (Aug 13), Sweden switches to right-hand traffic (Sep 3), Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia (Oct 9), around 70,000 people protest against the Vietnam War in Washington D. Continue reading

In the year 1890, the Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in northeast Africa (Jan 1), Wilhelm II of Germany fires Otto von Bismarck (Mar 20), Vincent van Gogh allegedly shoots himself in the stomach and dies two days later (Jul 27), in New York´s Auburn Prison, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the electric chair (Aug 6), the New Scotland Yard opens near the Big Ben clock tower (Nov), at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a massacre takes place (Dec 29) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1891, paying of old age pensions begins in Germany (Jan 1), Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator at Coney Beach (Mar 15), the Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago (Apr 1), Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes appears in the Strand Magazine in London for the first time (Jun 25), James Naismith invents baseball, production of the Swiss Army Knife (see the video below) by Victorinox begins, Nikola Tesla invents the Tesla coil - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1972, East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh (Jan 11), a Japanese WW2 soldier is discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years in the jungle (Jan 24), Nixon’s visit in China begins (Feb 21), The Godfather premiers in New York City (Mar 15), Okinawa is returned to Japan (May 15), Watergate scandal commences (Jun 17), 11 Israeli athletes are murdered at the Munich Olympics (Sep 5), M*A*S*H begins its run on CBS (Sep 17), Emmerdale premiers on ITV (Oct 16), Apollo 17 crew takes on their way to the Moon The Blue Marble photograph (Dec 7) and conclude on their return the program of lunar exploration (Dec 19), worship of Norse gods is officially approved in Iceland - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1892, Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States (Jan 1), the Liverpool Football Club is founded (Mar 15), the world’s first fingerprinting bureau is formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police (Mar 31), the Pledge of Allegiance is first recited (Sep 8), the Dalton Gang is shot by two townspeople in Coffeyville, Kansas (Oct 5), first issue of Vogue is published (Dec 17), a tortoise called Timothy is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England, where she lives until her death in 2004 - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1828, the first American-Indian newspaper, Cherokee Phoenix, is published in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation (Feb 21), French explorer René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, and later return alive (Apr 20), Simon Bolivar declares himself dictator of Gran Colombia (Aug 27), Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States (Dec 3) - and all these fine people were born: 1828-xxxx James McKay* fur trader - Fort Edmonton, Canada (1879/51) 1828-0101 1828-0103 Karl Collan* writer/ composer - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1871/43) 1828-0105 Gabriel Jussilainen* farmer/folk lorist/fennoman - Korvi village, GD of Finland (1884/56) 1828-0110 1828-0117 Alexandru Cernat* Romanian general/politician - Galați or Vârlezi, Principality of Moldavia (1893/65) 1828-0122 Dora d’Istria* Romanian writer/feminist - Bucharest, Wallachia (1888/60) 1828-0123 Saigō Takamori* 西郷 隆盛 samurai - Kagoshima, Japan (1877/49) 1828-0131 Oskar Toppelius* schoolteacher/literary reseacher/theater critic - Oulu, GD of Finland (1904/76) 1828-0201 Meyer Guggenheim* the patriarch of the Guggenheim family - Lengnau, Aargau, Switzerland (1905/77) 1828-0208 Jules Verne* poet/playwright/science fiction writer - Nantes, Kingdom of France (1905/77) 1828-0224 Matthew T. Continue reading

In the year 1895, Mintonette - later known as volleyball - is created by William G. Morgan in Massachusetts (Feb 9), first worldwide gasoline bus starts in Germany (Mar 18), Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine (Mar 30), Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a type of radiation later known as X-rays (Nov 5), Alfred Nobel signs his last will, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death (Nov 27), Svante Arrhenius becomes the first scientist to deliver quantified data on climate change (Dec 11), Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris (Dec 28) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1896, the X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time (Jan 18), the very first speeding fine is written in England (Jan 28), the first edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport is published (Apr 3), the first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens, Greece (Apr 6), the Ford Quadricycle is completed, marking the start of “putting America - and the rest of the world - on wheels” (Jun 4), Richard Strauss' _Also Sprach Zarahustra_is first performed, in Frankfurt (Nov 27), the third-oldest underground metro system in the world, the Glasgow Subway in Scotland, opens (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading