I Found Out Some Terrible News Today 33 replies

Among many other things:

1994 - First Japanese gay pride march.

On my birthday this, year a roof cloppsed on a ice rink in Germany and there was a mining explosion in U.S. 2006 is not a good year for me :(

This is indeed a disturbing turn of events.

November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining. Events

• 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
• 1120 - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
• 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
• 1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
• 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scottish.
• 1667 - A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
• 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
• 1758 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
• 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• 1795 - Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and exiled to Russia.
• 1839 - Disastrous cyclone slams India with terrible winds and a 40 foot storm surge, literally wiping out the port city of Coringa, never to be entirely rebuilt again. Powerful winds level everything in sight, the storm wave sweeps inland tens of miles, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster, making this one of history's greatest catastrophes.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
• 1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
• 1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• 1905 - The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway
• 1913 - Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1926 - The worst, deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
• 1936 - In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
• 1940 - Woody Woodpecker first appears, in the film "Knock Knock".
• 1943 - Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
• 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, UK, killing 160 shoppers.
• 1947 - Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• 1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• 1950 - The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm.
• 1950 - The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces.
• 1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
• 1953 - The England football team suffer their first home defeat against continental opposition, losing to Hungary.
• 1958 - French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• 1960 - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated .
• 1963 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1970 - In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
• 1973 - Greek President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
• 1975 - Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
• 1980 - No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard regains the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a bout against Roberto Duran.
• 1984 - 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 1984 - A KCR train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling, Hong Kong.
• 1986 - Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1987 - Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
• 1992 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, *1993.
• 1994 - Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
• 1996 - An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
• 1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
• 2000 - 2000 Baku earthquake took place.
• 2002 - Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov.
• 2004 - Korean Research team announce that they have used cord blood stem cells to regrow a parapeligic's spinal cord. Patient walks for the first time in 19 years.

Births

• 1501 - Yi Hwang, Confucian scholar (d. 1570)
• 1562 - Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright (d. 1635)
• 1577 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (d. 1629)
• 1609 - Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I of England (d. 1669)
• 1638 - Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
• 1703 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
• 1712 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of 'Signed French' (d. 1789)
• 1714 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
• 1778 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
• 1814 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
• 1817 - John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911)
• 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, British-born industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• 1841 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
• 1843 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
• 1844 - Karl Benz, German engineer (d. 1929)
• 1845 - José Maria Eça de Queiróz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
• 1846 - Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
• 1858 - Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
• 1862 - Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
• 1869 - Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
• 1870 - Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
• 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
• 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
• 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939)
• 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. 1968)
• 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian physicist (d. 1943)
• 1890 - Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
• 1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991)
• 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
• 1895 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
• 1896 - Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989)
• 1900 - Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
• 1902 - Eddie Shore, National Hockey League defenseman (d. 1985)
• 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
• 1904 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
• 1904 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
• 1913 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
• 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator
• 1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor
• 1920 - Noel Neill, American actress
• 1922 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005)
• 1924 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
• 1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1926 - Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
• 1933 - Kathryn Grant, American actress
• 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
• 1940 - Joe Gibbs, American football coach
• 1941 - Percy Sledge, American musician
• 1942 - Bob Lind, American folk singer and songwriter
• 1944 - Ben Stein, American actor
• 1947 - John Larroquette, American actor
• 1948 - Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician
• 1951 - Bucky Dent, American baseball player
• 1951 - Bill Morrissey, American musician
• 1952 - Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer
• 1953 - Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron
• 1953 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
• 1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
• 1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
• 1960 - Amy Grant, American singer
• 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)
• 1962 - Gilbert Delorme, National Hockey League defenseman
• 1963 - Bernie Kosar, American football player
• 1965 - Cris Carter, American football player
• 1965 - Dougray Scott, Scottish television and film actor
• 1966 - Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
• 1968 - Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
• 1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and talk show host
• 1968 - Erick Sermon, American rap music artist
• 1968 - Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
• 1971 - Christina Applegate, American actress
• 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1976 - Donovan McNabb, American football player
• 1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician
• 1979 - Thea Gilmore, British songwriter
• 1980 - Josh Lomberger, American professional wrestling backstage interviewer
• 1981 - Xabi Alonso, Spanish international footballer
• 1981 - Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush.
• 1981 - Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
• 1986 - Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system (d. 1996)

Deaths

• 311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr
• 1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland (killed)
• 1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (drowned) (b. 1104)
• 1185 - Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
• 1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
• 1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)
• 1456 - Jacques Cœur, French merchant
• 1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
• 1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
• 1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
• 1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
• 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (b. 1643)
• 1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
• 1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
• 1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
• 1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
• 1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
• 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
• 1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
• 1885 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
• 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
• 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
• 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
• 1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
• 1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
• 1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
• 1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
• 1972 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
• 1973 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
• 1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1985 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
• 1997 - Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
• 1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
• 1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
• 2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
• 2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
• 2005 - Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)

[edit] Holidays and observances

• R.C. Saints - Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Moses?
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943)
• Suriname - Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975)
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

I was born the same date Erwin Rommel died...Ironic...isnt it

On a lighter note, actress Tia Carrere shares my birthday. We meet up each year and share a cake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_26th

Events

• 2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
• 1971 - Apollo Program: Apollo 15 Mission - Launch of Apollo 15.
• 1953 - Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.

[/quote][quote=Births] 1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress 1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress 1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor 1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones) 1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999) 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1950)

Very very little good things have ever happened on my birthday, other than me-- of course.

• 1860 - South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States.
• 1942 - Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.
• 1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
• 2005 - 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City's Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services.
• 1973 - The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
• 1995 - An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.
• Sacagawea died (1812).

But if it helps, Lucy Pinder was born on the day, as well as a King John III of Sweden, which (apperantly) is a land of my ancestors, connection?

Cuba Gooding Jr. also shares my birthday. Damn. :(

• 2333 BC - Legendary establishment of the Kingdom of Korea (in the name of Joseon).
• 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
• 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering.
• 1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
• 1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor
• 1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
• 1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
• 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
• 1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
• 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
• 1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War
• 1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne
• 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
• 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain.
• 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).
• 1942 - First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
• 1951 - New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's "The Shot Heard 'Round the World".
• 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
• 1953 - Petrobras is founded by the Brazilian government.
• 1955 - Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS.
• 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
• 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
• 1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasts off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a nine-hour flight.
• 1981 - The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.
• 1981 - The Communist Party of Namibia is founded at a conference in Angola.
• 1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flys its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)
• 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist, and East German citizens become part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
• 1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 1000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
• 1995 - O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder.