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1793 – Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.



1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.


how ironic is that??

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its meant to be!!

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June 27

1893- crash of the new york stock exchange

1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.

1967 – The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.

1985 – U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway

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February 14th

February 14th in History
1903: US Dept of Commerce and Labor is established
1924: Thomas Watson opens IBM
1929: The St Valentines Day Massacre, in Chicago, between rival gansters
1950: USSR and China sign peace treaty.
1963: First successful kidney transplant

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Whoa! A buttload of stuff happened on my to be wedding date!!!

Here are things that stuck out-

1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.

1913 – The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.

Some cool birthdays:
1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author

1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer and actor

1952 – Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer

1964 – Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor

1982 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer

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Whoa, there's alot, so I picked out some interesting ones:

1430 – Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ('The Liberator').
1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1863 – The Siege of Port Hudson takes place.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, 'The Karnival Kid', is released.
1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, committs suicide while in Allied custody.
1958 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1960 – Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language was released.

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Posted by gina409

1793 – Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.



1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.


how ironic is that??

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We're Disney Honeymooners, and this happened on our date:

1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, 'The Karnival Kid', is released.

TOO funny!

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451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' defeats Attila the Hun.
1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Pasa appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire, served until 21 March 1653.
1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during The French Revolution.
1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey was made under sail.
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother.
1919 – 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”.
1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1959 – A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1960 – Independence of Mali and Senegal.
1963 – The so-called 'red telephone' is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparked international outcry of the regime.
1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1991 – The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
2007 – A football match between England and The Netherlands at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship sets a new UEFA record for the longest penalty shoot-out in the governing body's history. The shootout ends 13-12 to the Netherlands after Anton Ferdinand misses the decisive kick.

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Okay, this is long so if you fall asleep, I'll understang.

1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as 'The Model Parliament'.
1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
1868 – Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1905 – Election of Norwegian King Haakon VII.
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1919 – Haiti becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1940 – In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1964 – Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would 'save humanity from the ultimate disaster'.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1983 – A Colombian Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
1984 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
1992 – Two Venezuelan F-16s take part in the November Venezuelan Coup Attempt on the side of the loyalists.
1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2005 – President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term.
2006 – The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.
2008 – XL Airways Germany A320 Flight 888T. An Air New Zealand owned Airbus A320 crashed of the french coast, 7 people died due to the crash