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Historical Events

Results 101 - 140 of 140

Aug 31st - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
Sep 1st - Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
Sep 13th - At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.
Sep 18th - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
Sep 19th - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
Sep 22nd - A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
Sep 22nd - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.
Sep 22nd - Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
Sep 29th - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
Sep 30th - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.
Oct 2nd - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
Oct 9th - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
Oct 17th - The United States population reaches 300 million.
Oct 22nd - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
Oct 24th - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
Oct 28th - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.
Nov 5th - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
Nov 10th - Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
Nov 11th - The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
Nov 12th - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
Nov 17th - Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
Nov 21st - Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
Nov 24th - Israeli rapist Benny Sela escapes from police custody while being transferred to a court hearing.
Nov 27th - The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
Nov 27th - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator.
Dec 4th - An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo.
Dec 5th - Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
Dec 6th - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
Dec 7th - A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties.
Dec 9th - Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabitational center.
Dec 10th - One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.
Dec 11th - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Dec 12th - Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.
Dec 13th - The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.
Dec 15th - First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
Dec 20th - A judge rules against the death penalty in the case of Naveed Haq, a man convicted in the shooting death and injuries at the Jewish Federation in Seattle.
Dec 21st - Puzzle Play aired to network Ten, replacing In the Box
Dec 26th - The 2006 Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan.
Dec 30th - Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.
Dec 30th - Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging.

Famous Birthdays

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Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 200 of 612

Mar 3rd - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
Mar 4th - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
Mar 4th - Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
Mar 4th - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
Mar 4th - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
Mar 5th - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
Mar 6th - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
Mar 6th - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
Mar 6th - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
Mar 6th - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
Mar 7th - Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
Mar 7th - Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
Mar 7th - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
Mar 8th - Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
Mar 9th - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
Mar 9th - Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
Mar 10th - Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
Mar 11th - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
Mar 11th - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
Mar 12th - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
Mar 13th - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
Mar 13th - Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
Mar 13th - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
Mar 13th - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
Mar 14th - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1929)
Mar 14th - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929)
Mar 15th - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
Mar 15th - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
Mar 16th - David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
Mar 17th - Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
Mar 17th - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
Mar 17th - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
Mar 17th - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
Mar 18th - Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
Mar 18th - Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
Mar 18th - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)
Mar 22nd - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
Mar 22nd - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
Mar 23rd - David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
Mar 23rd - Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
Mar 23rd - Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
Mar 24th - Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
Mar 25th - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
Mar 25th - Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
Mar 25th - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
Mar 26th - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
Mar 26th - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
Mar 26th - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
Mar 27th - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
Mar 27th - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
Mar 27th - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
Mar 27th - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
Mar 27th - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
Mar 28th - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
Mar 28th - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
Mar 28th - Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
Mar 28th - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
Mar 29th - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)
Mar 30th - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)
Mar 31st - Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
Mar 31st - Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
Apr 1st - In Tam, Cambodian politician (b. 1916)
Apr 2nd - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
Apr 5th - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
Apr 6th - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
Apr 6th - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
Apr 8th - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
Apr 9th - Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
Apr 9th - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
Apr 11th - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
Apr 11th - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
Apr 12th - Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada language film actor/singer (India)(b. 1929)
Apr 12th - Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
Apr 13th - Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
Apr 14th - Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
Apr 16th - Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
Apr 19th - Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
Apr 19th - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
Apr 20th - Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
Apr 21st - T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
Apr 21st - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931)
Apr 22nd - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
Apr 23rd - Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot (b. 1912)
Apr 24th - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
Apr 24th - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
Apr 24th - Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
Apr 25th - Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
Apr 27th - Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)
Apr 29th - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
Apr 30th - Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject
Apr 30th - Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist
May 1st - Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969)
May 1st - Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
May 1st - Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (b. 1962)
May 2nd - Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
May 3rd - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
May 3rd - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
May 3rd - Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
May 5th - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
May 6th - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)