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indigowombat posted an interesting experiment, and krsfm expanded it a bit.
Drop your birthday into Wikipedia, sans year, and look at what comes out:
July 2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining.
It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It falls on the same day of the week as New Years Day (of non-leap years).
Events
* 1298 - The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
* 1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
* 1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.
* 1644 - Battle of Marston Moor in the English Civil War.
* 1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
* 1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4.
* 1777 - Vermont becomes the first American state to abolish slavery.
* 1808 - Simon Fraser reaches Pacific near New Westminster.
* 1819 - The Factory Act is passed in Britain, creating restrictions on child labor.
* 1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
* 1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
* 1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
* 1863 - Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
* 1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
* 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
* 1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
* 1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
* 1917 - Forty-eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.
* 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
* 1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
* 1950 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.
* 1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
* 1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
* 1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
* 1985 - Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
* 1990 - A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj.
* 2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) after more than 70 years of continuous rule from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
* 2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
* 2005 - Ten Live 8 concerts are held around the world in an attempt to force G8 countries to address poverty.
Births
* 419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
* 1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
* 1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
* 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
* 1647 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
* 1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
* 1714 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
* 1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
* 1821 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
* 1856 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (d. 1920)
* 1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
* 1865 - Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916)
* 1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
* 1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
* 1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
* 1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
* 1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
* 1906 - Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
* 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
* 1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
* 1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
* 1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
* 1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (d. 1982).
* 1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
* 1923 - Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1925 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
* 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
* 1927 - Brock Peters, American actor
* 1929 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
* 1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
* 1932 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
* 1933 - Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1937 - Polly Holliday, American actress
* 1937 - Richard Petty, American race car driver
* 1939 - John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush
* 1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet.
* 1940 - Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician
* 1942 - Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
* 1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1946 - Ron Silver, American actor
* 1947 - Larry David, American television producer
* 1955 - Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
* 1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress and model
* 1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
* 1958 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
* 1959 - Mike Hallett, English snooker player
* 1960 - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
* 1964 - Jose Canseco, baseball player
* 1970 - Yancy Butler, American actress
* 1970 - Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
* 1971 - Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
* 1974 - Sean Casey, Baseball player
* 1974 - Matthew Reilly, Australian author
* 1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
* 1976 - Tomas Vokoun, Czech hockey player
* 1983 - Michelle Branch, American musician
* 1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress
* 1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
Deaths
* 862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
* 1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans
* 1504 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
* 1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
* 1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
* 1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician
* 1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
* 1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
* 1684 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
* 1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English statesman
* 1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
* 1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
* 1778 - Bathsheba Ruggles, American murderer
* 1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757)
* 1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
* 1850 - Sir Robert Peel, British Prime Minister and Statesman, (b. 1788)
* 1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
* 1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
* 1926 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
* 1932 - King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
* 1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared) (b. 1897)
* 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)
* 1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
* 1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
* 1969 - Brian Jones, Founding member of the Rolling Stones (b. 1942)
* 1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
* 1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
* 1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
* 1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister (b. 1909)
* 1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
* 1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (murdered) (b. 1967)
* 1997 - James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
* 1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
* 2000 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
* 2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer and poet (b. 1919)
* 2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
* 2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
Holidays and observances
* Originally, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Feast of the Visitation was celebrated on this day, although it has since been transferred to May 31
* Palio di Provenzano in Siena, Italy
So that was the day, now lets look at the year:
1970
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). 1970 is the Unix epoch time.
Events
January-February
* January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
* January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network.
* January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
* January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under General Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.
* February 11 - Osumi, Japan's first satellite is launched on a a Lamba-4 rocket.
* February 17 - MacDonald family massacre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children and claims that "hippies" did it
* February 18 - A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty on charges of conspiring to incite a riot in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendents are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite to riot.
March
* March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom and declares itself a racially-segregated republic.
* March 5 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
* March 11 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
* March 15 - The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
* March 16 - Publication of complete New English Bible.
* March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
* March 18 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
* March 18 - United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
* March 21 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
* March 25 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).
* March 31 - NASA's Explorer I, the first American artificial satellite and the first of the Explorer program spacecrafts, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
April
* April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.
* April 1 - American Motors introduces the Gremlin.
* April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded.
* April 11 - US spaceflight Apollo 13 launches for the moon, carrying Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. On April 13, an oxygen tank in the spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission. The crew returns to earth safely on April 17
* April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated.
* April 24 - Launch of China's first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 with a Long March-1 Rocket(CZ-1).
* April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong. Massive protests against the war continue in the U.S.
May
* May 4 - The Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia.
* May 5 - Earthquake in Yungay, Peru below Hauscaran Mountain buries the city
* May 6 - Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use in Northern Ireland.
* May 9 - 100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War.
* May 14 - Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape.
* May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
* May 23 - An outbreak of fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
* May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
* May 27 - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I.
* May 31 - The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
June-July
* June 2 - Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.
* June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* June 10 - President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
* June 11 - The United States gets its first female Generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
* June 18 - Edward Heath is elected Prime Minister of United Kingdom.
* June 21 - Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 to win the Football World Cup 1970
* June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
* June 28 - US ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.
* July 4 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona - at least 112 dead.
* July 11 - The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the Basque towns of Aranoutes and Biesma.
* July 21 - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed.
* July 30 - Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims,
August
* August 7 - Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge taken hostage and murdered in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
* August 8 - Christopher Killian Jr. is born in Rolla, MO.
* August 17-18 - US sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas
* August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.
* August 26- The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
* August 26- August 30- The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
September
* September 1 - Assassination attempt against king Hussein of Jordan
* September 3-6 - Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.
* September 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (operation ends in October 1971).
* September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
* September 7 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan
* September 8-10 - Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make truces that keep breaking.
* September 9 – Guinea recognizes East Germany.
* September 9 - Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
* September 10 – Cambodian government forces break the blockage around Kompong Tho after a 3-month siege.
* September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
* September 13 - First running of the New York City Marathon.
* September 15 - King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
* September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies of barbiturate overdose in London
* September 20 - End of term for Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III as the 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
* September 20 - Syrian armored forces cross Jordanian border.
* September 20-21 - Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the day later with samples. Lands on Earth September 24.
* September 21 - Palestinian armored forces reinforce Palestinian guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.
* September 21 - Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, Sultan of Kedah becomes the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
* September 26 - Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
* September 27 - Richard Nixon begins a tour in Europe and visits Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland.
* September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser dies - vice president Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt.
* September 29 - US Congress gives president Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
* September 29 - In Berlin, Baader-Meinhof Gang members rob three banks, loot totaling over DM200.000.
October
* October 2 - The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with adminastradors and fans) to a game with Utah State University
* October 3 - In Lebanon, government of the prime minister Rashid Karami resigns.
* October 4 - In Bolivia, army commander general Rogelio Miranda and group of officers rebel and demand resignation of the president Alfredo Ovando Candía – president fires him.
* October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose inside her hotel room in Los Angeles, California
* October 5 - Nixon's European tour ends.
* October 5 - The Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't accept the demand - first stirrings of Quebec's October Crisis.
* October 6 - Bolivian president Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns – general Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
* October 6 - French president Georges Pompidou visits Soviet Union.
* October 7 - General Juan José Torres becomes the new president of Bolivia.
* October 7 - Anwar Sadat accepted as Egyptian president.
* October 8 - US foreign office announces that it renews its arms sales to Pakistan.
* October 8 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
* October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
* October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
* October 9 - Divorce law in Italy.
* October 10 - Fiji becomes independent.
* October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
* October 11 - 11 French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
* October 12 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
* October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations.
* October 13 - Saeb Salam's government forms in Lebanon.
* October 14 - Chinese nuclear test in Lop Nor.
* October 15 - In Egypt, referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
* October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below.
* October 16 - Canadian government declares state of emergency and outlaws Quebec Liberation Front.
* October 17 - Pierre Laporte is found killed in south of Montreal.
* October 17 - Cholera epidemic in Istanbul.
* October 17 - Anwar Sadat becomes officially president of Egypt.
* October 20 - Soviet Union launches Zond 8 lunar probe.
* October 20 - Algerian ex-minister Krim Belkacem is found strangled in his hotel room in Frankfurt.
* October 20 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
* October 21 - US Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. Soviets release the American officers, including two generals, November 10.
* October 22 - Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago – government declares state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
* October 24 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
* October 26 - US and Soviet space researchers meet in Moscow.
* October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury, debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
* October 28 - In Jordan, government of Ahmed Toukan resigns – next prime minister is Wasfi Al-Tal.
* October 28 - Cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia – Hungary closes its border with Czechoslovakia.
* October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
* October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
November
* November 1 - Fire destroys Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, France – 144 dead.
* November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam. Genie "the Wild Child" discovered in her house at the age of 13 after being in complete isolation for 10 years with no language skills.
* November 4 - Social authorities in California, USA, take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth
* November 5 - Vietnam War: United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however).
* November 8 - Egypt, Sudan and Libya announce their intentions to form a federation.
* November 9 - Charles de Gaulle dies – he is buried November 13.
* November 9 - Soviet Union launches Luna 17.
* November 9 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of Massachusetts asking to allow the state the ability to enforce its law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
* November 10 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
* November 12 - Soviet author Andrei Amalrik sentenced for three years for anti-Soviet writings.
* November 12 - The Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of Transportation) is given the task of removing a rotting beached Grey whale, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident.
* November 13 - Military coup in Syria – Hafez al-Assad takes the power.
* November 13 - 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).
* November 14 - fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, claims the lives of the entire Marshall University football team.
* November 16 - Canadian Child Advocate John Dunn is born in Toronto at Doctors Hospital
* November 17 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
* November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
* November 18 - US President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).
* November 18 - United Nations Security Council demands that no government should recognize Rhodesia.
* November 19 - EEC prime minister meeting in Munich.
* November 21 - Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
* November 21 - in Ethiopia, Eritrea Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.
* November 21 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
* November 22 - Guinean president Sekou Toure accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near capital Conakry. Guinean army repels the landing attempts in November 23-24. November 25-29 UN delegation arrives to investigate the situation. In December 4 UN announces that Portuguese navy and army units are responsible.
* November 25 - In Japan, world-famous author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over Inchigaya HQ of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and take general Kanetoshi Mashita hostage. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits seppuku.
* November 26 - East Pakistan leader sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.
* November 26 - Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.
* November 27 - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Paul VI during pope's visit in Manila.
December
* December 1 - Italian House of Representatives accepts the divorce law.
* December 1 - Ethiopia recognizes People's Republic of China.
* December 1 - Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastian.
* December 1 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez becomes president of Mexico.
* December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
* December 3 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
* December 3 - Burgos Trial - In Burgos, Spain, begins a trial against 16 Basques accused of terrorism.
* December 4 - Spanish government declares a three-month martial law in Basque county of Guipuzco due to strikes and demonstrations.
* December 5 - Asian and Australian tour of Paul VI ends.
* December 7 - Giovanni Enrico Bucher, Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand release of 70 political prisoners.
* December 7 - UN general assembly supports the isolation of South Africa due to its apartheid policies.
* December 7 - During his visit to the Polish capital, German chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument for the victims in the ghetto of Warsaw.
* December 12 - Landslide in western Colombia – over 200 dead.
* December 13 - Government of Poland announces increases in the price of food. Riots and looting erupt until a bloody confrontation between the rioters against army and the police in December 15. Martial law December 17-22. December 23 the government will freeze the food prices for two years.
* December 15 - The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to earth
* December 16 - Ethiopian government declares state of emergency in the county of Eritrea due to activities of Eritrea Liberation Front.
* December 20 - General secretary of the communist part of Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka, resigns – Edward Gierek takes his place.
* December 20 - Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.
* December 22 - Libyan revolutionary council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
* December 22 - Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* December 23 - Bolivian government releases Regis Debray.
* December 25 - ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
* December 27 - Indian president declares new elections.
* December 28 - Burgos Trial – three Basques are sentenced to death (three twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years and one released. December 30 Franco commutes the death sentences to 30 years in prison.
* December 28 - Suspects of killing Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
* December 30 - In Viscaya Basque county 15.000 goes to strike to protest Burgos trial death sentences.
* December 31 - The trial about money of The Beatles starts.
Unknown date
* The first Regional Technical Colleges open in Ireland.
* Disappearance of Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress.
* Discovery in England of the Sweet Track, the World's oldest engineered roadway.
Births
January-February
* January 1 - Kimberly Page, American model and valet
* January 6 - Julie Chen, American television host
* January 6 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player and model
* January 13 - Keith Coogan, American actor
* January 13 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
* January 15 - Shane McMahon, American Wrestler
* January 17 - Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player
* January 17 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian animator
* January 20 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
* January 22 - Alex Ross, American comic artist
* January 29 - Heather Graham, American actress
* January 29 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
* January 31 - Minnie Driver, English actress
* February 24 - Jeff Garcia, American football player
* February 26 - Linda Brava, Finnish classical and popular music violinist
March
* March 8 - Jason Elam, American football player
* March 9 - Stuart Neild, English Author
* March 18 - Queen Latifah, American rapper, record producer, and actress
* March 22 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
* March 24 - Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
* March 24 - Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
* March 27 - Mariah Carey, American singer
* March 27 - Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d. 2001)
* March 28 - Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer, and producer
April-May
* April 4 - Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
* April 12 - Nick Hexum, American singer and guitarist
* April 13 - Rick Schroeder, American actor
* April 18 - Greg Eklund, American drummer (Everclear)
* April 21 - Nicole Sullivan, American actress, comedienne, and writer
* April 22 - Regine Velasquez, Filipina singer, actress, model, record producer, and entrepreneur
* April 25 - Jason Lee, American skateboarder and actor
* April 27 - Kylie Travis, English-born actress and model
* April 29 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
* April 29 - Uma Thurman, American actress
* May 12 - Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
* May 15 - Rod Smith, American football player
* May 16 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
* May 18 - Tina Fey, American writer, comedienne, and actress
* May 22 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
* May 24 - Jeff Zgonina, American football player
* May 25 - Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian
* May 26 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
* May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
June
* June 2 - B. Louis Freese, Mexican/Cuban rapper from Cypress Hill (B. Real)
* June 6 - Anthony Norris, American professional wrestler
* June 8 - Kelli Williams, American actress
* June 13 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
* June 16 - Phil Mickelson, American golfer
* June 19 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
* June 20 - Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
* June 20 - Moulay Rachid, Prince of Morocco
* June 25 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
* June 26 - Patrick Norton, American writer and television host
* June 26 - Chris O'Donnell, American actor
* June 27 - Jim Edmonds, baseball player
* June 27 - Vitamin C, American singer
* June 30 - Brian Bloom, American actor
July
* July 2 - Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
* July 3 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
* July 3 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
* July 5 - Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
* July 7 - Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
* July 8 - Beck, American singer
* July 11 - Saj Karim, British politician
* July 23 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
* July 23 - Thea Dorn, German writer
August
* August 2 - Tony Amonte, American hockey player
* August 4 - Pete Abrams, American webcomic artist, author of Sluggy Freelance
* August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian film director, writer, producer, and actor
* August 13 - Alan Shearer, English footballer
* August 14 - Leah Purcell, Australian actress
* August 17 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
* August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
* August 20 - John Carmack, American computer game programmer
* August 20 - Fred Durst, American singer
* August 21 - Erik Dekker, Dutch professional cyclist
* August 23 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
* August 23 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
* August 25 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
* August 27 - Jim Thome, baseball player
* August 29 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
* August 31 - Deborah Gibson, American singer
September
* September 4 - Daisy Dee, Dutch singer and actress
* September 5 - Liam Lynch, American musician, comedian, puppetteer, creator of the Sifl and Olly Show.
* September 8 - Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
* September 9 - Macy Gray, American singer
* September 10 - Phaswane Mpe, South African writer (d. 2004)
* September 10 - Jeff Marx, Broadway composer
* September 14 - Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
* September 18 - Darren Gough, English cricketer
* September 19 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer
* September 21 - Bridget Moynahan, American actress
* September 22 - Mike Matheny, baseball player
* September 23 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
* September 28 - Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
* September 29 - Emily Lloyd, English actress
October-November
* October 2 - Kelly Ripa, American actress and talk-show hostess
* October 8 - Matt Damon, American actor
* October 9 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
* October 9 - Rebecca Cummings, American porn star
* October 10 - Bai Ling, Chinese actress
* October 15 - Eric Benét, American singer
* October 17 - Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
* October 18 - Jose Padilla, American gang member and suspected terrorist
* October 18 - Kristy Martin, American english teacher
* November 3 - Dawn Marie Psaltis , former ECW and WWE performer
* November 7 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
* November 9 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician and singer
* November 12 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater
* November 12 - Harvey Stephens, British, child-actor
* November 18 - Peta Wilson, Australian actress
* November 23 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
* November 26 - Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
* November 26 - Alex Taylor, Latin porn star
* November 30 - Natalie Williams, American basketball player
December
* December 2 - Sarah Silverman, American comedian
* December 15 - Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
* December 16 - Nancy Valen, American actress
* December 17 - Joshua Seth, American voice actor and hypnotist
* December 18 - DMX, American rapper
* December 18 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
* December 18 - Cowboy Troy, American singer and rapper
* December 20 - Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
* December 20 - Massimo Ellul, Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
* December 29 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television presenter
* December 29 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
Unknown date
* Naomi Klein, Canadian journalist and activist
* Dean Del Mastro, Canadian Member of Parliment
* Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor.
Deaths
January
* January 4 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
* January 5 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
* January 10 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925)
* January 18 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
* January 25 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
* January 27 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
* January 29 - Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (b. 1895)
* January 29 - Thelma Morgan, American socialite (b. 1904)
* January 31 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
February-April
* February 2 - Bertrand Russell, English logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
* February 5 - Rudy York, baseball player (b. 1913)
* February 14 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880)
* February 16 - Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1879)
* February 17 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
* February 17 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
* February 20 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
* February 25 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (b. 1903)
* March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American author (b. 1889)
* March 11 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
* March 16 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
* March 23 - Del Lord, Canadian film director (b. 1894)
* March 30 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
* April 5 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant American geneticist (b. 1891)
* April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
* April 30 - Inger Stevens, Swedish-born actress (b. 1934)
May-July
* May 1 - Ralph Hartley, American inventor (b. 1888)
* May 1 - Yi, Eun, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897)
* May 9 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
* May 9 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (b. 1907)
* May 14 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1885)
* May 12 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
* May 21 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian scientist and writer (b. 1885)
* May 31 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
* June 7 - E. M. Forster, English writer (b. 1879)
* June 8 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
* June 16 - Brian Piccolo, American football star (b. 1943)
* June 21 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
* June 27 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
* July 10 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
* July 19 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (b. 1904)
* July 21 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
* July 22 - Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (b. 1892)
* July 24 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
* July 29 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
* July 29 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
August-October
* August 1 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
* August 1 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1883)
* August 18 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish Actress (b. 1943)
* August 19 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
* September 1 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
* September 2 - Marie Pierre Koenig, French general and politician (b. 1898)
* September 3 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
* September 5 - Jesse Pennington, English footballer (b. 1883)
* September 5 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
* September 11 - Ernst May, German architect (b. 1886)
* September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
* September 25 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
* September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first President of Egypt (b. 1928)
* September 28 - John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
* September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1895)
* October 4 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
* October 17 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (b. 1921)
* October 21 - John T. Scopes, American Scopes Monkey Trial defendant (b. 1900)
* October 24 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (b. 1916)
November-December
* November 7 - Eddie Peabody, American musician (b. 1902)
* November 9 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
* November 14 - Louis Rich, American Entrepreneur (b. 1896)
* December 12 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
Unknown date
* Paul Celan, Romanian-born German-language poet (body found on May 1) (b. 1920)
* Sada Abe, Japanese actress (unconfirmed)
Nobel prizes
* Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
* Chemistry - Luis Federico Leloir
* Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
* Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
* Peace - Norman E. Borlaug
* Economics - Paul Samuelson
Fields Medalists
* Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Petrovich Novikov, John Griggs Thompson
And of course, dead fucking center, was little ole me. I was even born just about the middle of the day.
indigowombat posted an interesting experiment, and krsfm expanded it a bit.Drop your birthday into Wikipedia, sans year, and look at what comes out:
July 2
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining.
It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after. It falls on the same day of the week as New Years Day (of non-leap years).
Events
* 1298 - The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
* 1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
* 1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.
* 1644 - Battle of Marston Moor in the English Civil War.
* 1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
* 1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4.
* 1777 - Vermont becomes the first American state to abolish slavery.
* 1808 - Simon Fraser reaches Pacific near New Westminster.
* 1819 - The Factory Act is passed in Britain, creating restrictions on child labor.
* 1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
* 1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
* 1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
* 1863 - Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
* 1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
* 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
* 1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
* 1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
* 1917 - Forty-eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.
* 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
* 1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
* 1950 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
* 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.
* 1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
* 1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
* 1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.
* 1985 - Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
* 1990 - A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj.
* 2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) after more than 70 years of continuous rule from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
* 2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
* 2005 - Ten Live 8 concerts are held around the world in an attempt to force G8 countries to address poverty.
Births
* 419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
* 1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
* 1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
* 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
* 1647 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
* 1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
* 1714 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
* 1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
* 1821 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
* 1856 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (d. 1920)
* 1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
* 1865 - Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916)
* 1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
* 1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
* 1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
* 1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
* 1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
* 1906 - Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
* 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
* 1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
* 1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
* 1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
* 1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German pilot (d. 1982).
* 1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
* 1923 - Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1925 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
* 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
* 1927 - Brock Peters, American actor
* 1929 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
* 1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
* 1932 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
* 1933 - Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1937 - Polly Holliday, American actress
* 1937 - Richard Petty, American race car driver
* 1939 - John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush
* 1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet.
* 1940 - Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician
* 1942 - Vicente Fox, President of Mexico
* 1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1946 - Ron Silver, American actor
* 1947 - Larry David, American television producer
* 1955 - Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
* 1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress and model
* 1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
* 1958 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
* 1959 - Mike Hallett, English snooker player
* 1960 - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
* 1964 - Jose Canseco, baseball player
* 1970 - Yancy Butler, American actress
* 1970 - Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
* 1971 - Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
* 1974 - Sean Casey, Baseball player
* 1974 - Matthew Reilly, Australian author
* 1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
* 1976 - Tomas Vokoun, Czech hockey player
* 1983 - Michelle Branch, American musician
* 1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress
* 1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
Deaths
* 862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
* 1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans
* 1504 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
* 1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
* 1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
* 1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer and mathematician
* 1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
* 1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
* 1684 - John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
* 1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English statesman
* 1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
* 1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
* 1778 - Bathsheba Ruggles, American murderer
* 1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (b. 1757)
* 1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
* 1850 - Sir Robert Peel, British Prime Minister and Statesman, (b. 1788)
* 1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
* 1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
* 1926 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
* 1932 - King Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
* 1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared) (b. 1897)
* 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)
* 1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
* 1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
* 1969 - Brian Jones, Founding member of the Rolling Stones (b. 1942)
* 1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
* 1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
* 1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
* 1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister (b. 1909)
* 1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
* 1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (murdered) (b. 1967)
* 1997 - James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
* 1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
* 2000 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
* 2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer and poet (b. 1919)
* 2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
* 2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
Holidays and observances
* Originally, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Feast of the Visitation was celebrated on this day, although it has since been transferred to May 31
* Palio di Provenzano in Siena, Italy
So that was the day, now lets look at the year:
1970
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). 1970 is the Unix epoch time.
Events
January-February
* January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona.
* January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network.
* January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
* January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under General Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.
* February 11 - Osumi, Japan's first satellite is launched on a a Lamba-4 rocket.
* February 17 - MacDonald family massacre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children and claims that "hippies" did it
* February 18 - A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty on charges of conspiring to incite a riot in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendents are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite to riot.
March
* March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom and declares itself a racially-segregated republic.
* March 5 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
* March 11 - Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
* March 15 - The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
* March 16 - Publication of complete New English Bible.
* March 17 - My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
* March 18 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
* March 18 - United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
* March 21 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
* March 25 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).
* March 31 - NASA's Explorer I, the first American artificial satellite and the first of the Explorer program spacecrafts, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
April
* April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.
* April 1 - American Motors introduces the Gremlin.
* April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded.
* April 11 - US spaceflight Apollo 13 launches for the moon, carrying Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. On April 13, an oxygen tank in the spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission. The crew returns to earth safely on April 17
* April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated.
* April 24 - Launch of China's first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 with a Long March-1 Rocket(CZ-1).
* April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong. Massive protests against the war continue in the U.S.
May
* May 4 - The Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia.
* May 5 - Earthquake in Yungay, Peru below Hauscaran Mountain buries the city
* May 6 - Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use in Northern Ireland.
* May 9 - 100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War.
* May 14 - Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape.
* May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
* May 23 - An outbreak of fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
* May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
* May 27 - British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I.
* May 31 - The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
June-July
* June 2 - Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.
* June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* June 10 - President Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
* June 11 - The United States gets its first female Generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
* June 18 - Edward Heath is elected Prime Minister of United Kingdom.
* June 21 - Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 to win the Football World Cup 1970
* June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
* June 28 - US ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.
* July 4 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona - at least 112 dead.
* July 11 - The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the Basque towns of Aranoutes and Biesma.
* July 21 - Aswan High Dam in Egypt completed.
* July 30 - Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims,
August
* August 7 - Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge taken hostage and murdered in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
* August 8 - Christopher Killian Jr. is born in Rolla, MO.
* August 17-18 - US sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas
* August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.
* August 26- The Women's Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
* August 26- August 30- The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
September
* September 1 - Assassination attempt against king Hussein of Jordan
* September 3-6 - Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.
* September 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins - The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (operation ends in October 1971).
* September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
* September 7 - Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan
* September 8-10 - Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make truces that keep breaking.
* September 9 – Guinea recognizes East Germany.
* September 9 - Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
* September 10 – Cambodian government forces break the blockage around Kompong Tho after a 3-month siege.
* September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
* September 13 - First running of the New York City Marathon.
* September 15 - King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
* September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies of barbiturate overdose in London
* September 20 - End of term for Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III as the 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
* September 20 - Syrian armored forces cross Jordanian border.
* September 20-21 - Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the day later with samples. Lands on Earth September 24.
* September 21 - Palestinian armored forces reinforce Palestinian guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.
* September 21 - Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, Sultan of Kedah becomes the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
* September 26 - Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
* September 27 - Richard Nixon begins a tour in Europe and visits Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland.
* September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser dies - vice president Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt.
* September 29 - US Congress gives president Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
* September 29 - In Berlin, Baader-Meinhof Gang members rob three banks, loot totaling over DM200.000.
October
* October 2 - The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with adminastradors and fans) to a game with Utah State University
* October 3 - In Lebanon, government of the prime minister Rashid Karami resigns.
* October 4 - In Bolivia, army commander general Rogelio Miranda and group of officers rebel and demand resignation of the president Alfredo Ovando Candía – president fires him.
* October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose inside her hotel room in Los Angeles, California
* October 5 - Nixon's European tour ends.
* October 5 - The Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnap James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government announces it won't accept the demand - first stirrings of Quebec's October Crisis.
* October 6 - Bolivian president Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns – general Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
* October 6 - French president Georges Pompidou visits Soviet Union.
* October 7 - General Juan José Torres becomes the new president of Bolivia.
* October 7 - Anwar Sadat accepted as Egyptian president.
* October 8 - US foreign office announces that it renews its arms sales to Pakistan.
* October 8 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
* October 8 - Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
* October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
* October 9 - Divorce law in Italy.
* October 10 - Fiji becomes independent.
* October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
* October 11 - 11 French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
* October 12 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
* October 13 - Canada and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations.
* October 13 - Saeb Salam's government forms in Lebanon.
* October 14 - Chinese nuclear test in Lop Nor.
* October 15 - In Egypt, referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
* October 15 - 35 construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below.
* October 16 - Canadian government declares state of emergency and outlaws Quebec Liberation Front.
* October 17 - Pierre Laporte is found killed in south of Montreal.
* October 17 - Cholera epidemic in Istanbul.
* October 17 - Anwar Sadat becomes officially president of Egypt.
* October 20 - Soviet Union launches Zond 8 lunar probe.
* October 20 - Algerian ex-minister Krim Belkacem is found strangled in his hotel room in Frankfurt.
* October 20 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
* October 21 - US Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. Soviets release the American officers, including two generals, November 10.
* October 22 - Chilean army commander Rene Schneider is shot in Santiago – government declares state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
* October 24 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
* October 26 - US and Soviet space researchers meet in Moscow.
* October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury, debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
* October 28 - In Jordan, government of Ahmed Toukan resigns – next prime minister is Wasfi Al-Tal.
* October 28 - Cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia – Hungary closes its border with Czechoslovakia.
* October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
* October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
November
* November 1 - Fire destroys Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, France – 144 dead.
* November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam. Genie "the Wild Child" discovered in her house at the age of 13 after being in complete isolation for 10 years with no language skills.
* November 4 - Social authorities in California, USA, take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth
* November 5 - Vietnam War: United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however).
* November 8 - Egypt, Sudan and Libya announce their intentions to form a federation.
* November 9 - Charles de Gaulle dies – he is buried November 13.
* November 9 - Soviet Union launches Luna 17.
* November 9 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of Massachusetts asking to allow the state the ability to enforce its law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
* November 10 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
* November 12 - Soviet author Andrei Amalrik sentenced for three years for anti-Soviet writings.
* November 12 - The Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of Transportation) is given the task of removing a rotting beached Grey whale, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident.
* November 13 - Military coup in Syria – Hafez al-Assad takes the power.
* November 13 - 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).
* November 14 - fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, claims the lives of the entire Marshall University football team.
* November 16 - Canadian Child Advocate John Dunn is born in Toronto at Doctors Hospital
* November 17 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
* November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
* November 18 - US President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).
* November 18 - United Nations Security Council demands that no government should recognize Rhodesia.
* November 19 - EEC prime minister meeting in Munich.
* November 21 - Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
* November 21 - in Ethiopia, Eritrea Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.
* November 21 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
* November 22 - Guinean president Sekou Toure accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near capital Conakry. Guinean army repels the landing attempts in November 23-24. November 25-29 UN delegation arrives to investigate the situation. In December 4 UN announces that Portuguese navy and army units are responsible.
* November 25 - In Japan, world-famous author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over Inchigaya HQ of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and take general Kanetoshi Mashita hostage. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits seppuku.
* November 26 - East Pakistan leader sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.
* November 26 - Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.
* November 27 - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Paul VI during pope's visit in Manila.
December
* December 1 - Italian House of Representatives accepts the divorce law.
* December 1 - Ethiopia recognizes People's Republic of China.
* December 1 - Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastian.
* December 1 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez becomes president of Mexico.
* December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
* December 3 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
* December 3 - Burgos Trial - In Burgos, Spain, begins a trial against 16 Basques accused of terrorism.
* December 4 - Spanish government declares a three-month martial law in Basque county of Guipuzco due to strikes and demonstrations.
* December 5 - Asian and Australian tour of Paul VI ends.
* December 7 - Giovanni Enrico Bucher, Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand release of 70 political prisoners.
* December 7 - UN general assembly supports the isolation of South Africa due to its apartheid policies.
* December 7 - During his visit to the Polish capital, German chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument for the victims in the ghetto of Warsaw.
* December 12 - Landslide in western Colombia – over 200 dead.
* December 13 - Government of Poland announces increases in the price of food. Riots and looting erupt until a bloody confrontation between the rioters against army and the police in December 15. Martial law December 17-22. December 23 the government will freeze the food prices for two years.
* December 15 - The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to earth
* December 16 - Ethiopian government declares state of emergency in the county of Eritrea due to activities of Eritrea Liberation Front.
* December 20 - General secretary of the communist part of Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka, resigns – Edward Gierek takes his place.
* December 20 - Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.
* December 22 - Libyan revolutionary council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
* December 22 - Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* December 23 - Bolivian government releases Regis Debray.
* December 25 - ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
* December 27 - Indian president declares new elections.
* December 28 - Burgos Trial – three Basques are sentenced to death (three twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years and one released. December 30 Franco commutes the death sentences to 30 years in prison.
* December 28 - Suspects of killing Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
* December 30 - In Viscaya Basque county 15.000 goes to strike to protest Burgos trial death sentences.
* December 31 - The trial about money of The Beatles starts.
Unknown date
* The first Regional Technical Colleges open in Ireland.
* Disappearance of Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress.
* Discovery in England of the Sweet Track, the World's oldest engineered roadway.
Births
January-February
* January 1 - Kimberly Page, American model and valet
* January 6 - Julie Chen, American television host
* January 6 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player and model
* January 13 - Keith Coogan, American actor
* January 13 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
* January 15 - Shane McMahon, American Wrestler
* January 17 - Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player
* January 17 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian animator
* January 20 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
* January 22 - Alex Ross, American comic artist
* January 29 - Heather Graham, American actress
* January 29 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
* January 31 - Minnie Driver, English actress
* February 24 - Jeff Garcia, American football player
* February 26 - Linda Brava, Finnish classical and popular music violinist
March
* March 8 - Jason Elam, American football player
* March 9 - Stuart Neild, English Author
* March 18 - Queen Latifah, American rapper, record producer, and actress
* March 22 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
* March 24 - Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
* March 24 - Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
* March 27 - Mariah Carey, American singer
* March 27 - Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d. 2001)
* March 28 - Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer, and producer
April-May
* April 4 - Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
* April 12 - Nick Hexum, American singer and guitarist
* April 13 - Rick Schroeder, American actor
* April 18 - Greg Eklund, American drummer (Everclear)
* April 21 - Nicole Sullivan, American actress, comedienne, and writer
* April 22 - Regine Velasquez, Filipina singer, actress, model, record producer, and entrepreneur
* April 25 - Jason Lee, American skateboarder and actor
* April 27 - Kylie Travis, English-born actress and model
* April 29 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player
* April 29 - Uma Thurman, American actress
* May 12 - Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
* May 15 - Rod Smith, American football player
* May 16 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
* May 18 - Tina Fey, American writer, comedienne, and actress
* May 22 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
* May 24 - Jeff Zgonina, American football player
* May 25 - Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian
* May 26 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
* May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
June
* June 2 - B. Louis Freese, Mexican/Cuban rapper from Cypress Hill (B. Real)
* June 6 - Anthony Norris, American professional wrestler
* June 8 - Kelli Williams, American actress
* June 13 - Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
* June 16 - Phil Mickelson, American golfer
* June 19 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
* June 20 - Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
* June 20 - Moulay Rachid, Prince of Morocco
* June 25 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
* June 26 - Patrick Norton, American writer and television host
* June 26 - Chris O'Donnell, American actor
* June 27 - Jim Edmonds, baseball player
* June 27 - Vitamin C, American singer
* June 30 - Brian Bloom, American actor
July
* July 2 - Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
* July 3 - Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
* July 3 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
* July 5 - Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
* July 7 - Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
* July 8 - Beck, American singer
* July 11 - Saj Karim, British politician
* July 23 - Charisma Carpenter, American actress
* July 23 - Thea Dorn, German writer
August
* August 2 - Tony Amonte, American hockey player
* August 4 - Pete Abrams, American webcomic artist, author of Sluggy Freelance
* August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian film director, writer, producer, and actor
* August 13 - Alan Shearer, English footballer
* August 14 - Leah Purcell, Australian actress
* August 17 - Jim Courier, American tennis player
* August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
* August 20 - John Carmack, American computer game programmer
* August 20 - Fred Durst, American singer
* August 21 - Erik Dekker, Dutch professional cyclist
* August 23 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
* August 23 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
* August 25 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
* August 27 - Jim Thome, baseball player
* August 29 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
* August 31 - Deborah Gibson, American singer
September
* September 4 - Daisy Dee, Dutch singer and actress
* September 5 - Liam Lynch, American musician, comedian, puppetteer, creator of the Sifl and Olly Show.
* September 8 - Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
* September 9 - Macy Gray, American singer
* September 10 - Phaswane Mpe, South African writer (d. 2004)
* September 10 - Jeff Marx, Broadway composer
* September 14 - Craig Montoya, American musician (Everclear)
* September 18 - Darren Gough, English cricketer
* September 19 - Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer
* September 21 - Bridget Moynahan, American actress
* September 22 - Mike Matheny, baseball player
* September 23 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
* September 28 - Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
* September 29 - Emily Lloyd, English actress
October-November
* October 2 - Kelly Ripa, American actress and talk-show hostess
* October 8 - Matt Damon, American actor
* October 9 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
* October 9 - Rebecca Cummings, American porn star
* October 10 - Bai Ling, Chinese actress
* October 15 - Eric Benét, American singer
* October 17 - Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
* October 18 - Jose Padilla, American gang member and suspected terrorist
* October 18 - Kristy Martin, American english teacher
* November 3 - Dawn Marie Psaltis , former ECW and WWE performer
* November 7 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
* November 9 - Susan Tedeschi, American musician and singer
* November 12 - Tonya Harding, American figure skater
* November 12 - Harvey Stephens, British, child-actor
* November 18 - Peta Wilson, Australian actress
* November 23 - Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
* November 26 - Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
* November 26 - Alex Taylor, Latin porn star
* November 30 - Natalie Williams, American basketball player
December
* December 2 - Sarah Silverman, American comedian
* December 15 - Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
* December 16 - Nancy Valen, American actress
* December 17 - Joshua Seth, American voice actor and hypnotist
* December 18 - DMX, American rapper
* December 18 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
* December 18 - Cowboy Troy, American singer and rapper
* December 20 - Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
* December 20 - Massimo Ellul, Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
* December 29 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television presenter
* December 29 - Kevin Weisman, American actor
Unknown date
* Naomi Klein, Canadian journalist and activist
* Dean Del Mastro, Canadian Member of Parliment
* Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor.
Deaths
January
* January 4 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
* January 5 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
* January 10 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925)
* January 18 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
* January 25 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
* January 27 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
* January 29 - Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (b. 1895)
* January 29 - Thelma Morgan, American socialite (b. 1904)
* January 31 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
February-April
* February 2 - Bertrand Russell, English logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
* February 5 - Rudy York, baseball player (b. 1913)
* February 14 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880)
* February 16 - Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1879)
* February 17 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
* February 17 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
* February 20 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
* February 25 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (b. 1903)
* March 11 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American author (b. 1889)
* March 11 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
* March 16 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
* March 23 - Del Lord, Canadian film director (b. 1894)
* March 30 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
* April 5 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant American geneticist (b. 1891)
* April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
* April 30 - Inger Stevens, Swedish-born actress (b. 1934)
May-July
* May 1 - Ralph Hartley, American inventor (b. 1888)
* May 1 - Yi, Eun, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897)
* May 9 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
* May 9 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (b. 1907)
* May 14 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1885)
* May 12 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
* May 21 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian scientist and writer (b. 1885)
* May 31 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
* June 7 - E. M. Forster, English writer (b. 1879)
* June 8 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
* June 16 - Brian Piccolo, American football star (b. 1943)
* June 21 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
* June 27 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
* July 10 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
* July 19 - Egon Eiermann, German architect (b. 1904)
* July 21 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
* July 22 - Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (b. 1892)
* July 24 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
* July 29 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
* July 29 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
August-October
* August 1 - Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
* August 1 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1883)
* August 18 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish Actress (b. 1943)
* August 19 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
* September 1 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
* September 2 - Marie Pierre Koenig, French general and politician (b. 1898)
* September 3 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
* September 5 - Jesse Pennington, English footballer (b. 1883)
* September 5 - Jochen Rindt, Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
* September 11 - Ernst May, German architect (b. 1886)
* September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942)
* September 25 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
* September 28 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first President of Egypt (b. 1928)
* September 28 - John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
* September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1895)
* October 4 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
* October 17 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (b. 1921)
* October 21 - John T. Scopes, American Scopes Monkey Trial defendant (b. 1900)
* October 24 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (b. 1916)
November-December
* November 7 - Eddie Peabody, American musician (b. 1902)
* November 9 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
* November 14 - Louis Rich, American Entrepreneur (b. 1896)
* December 12 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
Unknown date
* Paul Celan, Romanian-born German-language poet (body found on May 1) (b. 1920)
* Sada Abe, Japanese actress (unconfirmed)
Nobel prizes
* Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
* Chemistry - Luis Federico Leloir
* Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
* Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
* Peace - Norman E. Borlaug
* Economics - Paul Samuelson
Fields Medalists
* Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Petrovich Novikov, John Griggs Thompson
And of course, dead fucking center, was little ole me. I was even born just about the middle of the day.
