What hapened on your birthday???

[SiegeMaster]

I'm to lazy to look it up right now

[The Lady Shael]

In 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on my birthday.

[SiegeMaster]

Tears

[Ungatt Trunn II]

1284 â€" The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1575 â€" Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 â€" The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1776 â€" American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1779 â€" American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1820 â€" The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 â€" Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1857 â€" Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1861 â€" Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1865 â€" Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1873 â€" Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 â€" Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris.
1875 â€" The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
1878 â€" Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
1885 â€" The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1904 â€" Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1905 â€" Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
1910 â€" Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1915 â€" NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1918 â€" Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 â€" TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924 â€" The 1400-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
1924 â€" The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
1931 â€" The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 â€" Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1939 â€" In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
1940 â€" Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in LuleÃ¥, Sweden.
1942 â€" World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
1943 â€" World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1944 â€" The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1945 â€" World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
1945 â€" World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
1951 â€" Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 â€" A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 â€" Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.
1969 â€" Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1972 â€" Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
1974 â€" Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
1980 â€" The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1985 â€" Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1985 â€" A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1991 â€" An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 â€" In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
1991 â€" United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
1997 â€" The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2002 â€" Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
2004 â€" Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world's largest brewer.
2005 â€" Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 â€" Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2009 â€" The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.



Man what a boring day

[The Lady Shael]

You mean exciting! You were born on that day!

If that's not exciting, I don't know what is.

[Ungatt Trunn II]

Maybe, but they don't seem to have records of that early in history.

[Gen. Volkov]

553 - 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1382 - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
1430 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
1494 - On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
1640 - English Short Parliament unites
1646 - King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
1665 - Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
1726 - Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris
1762 - Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty
1764 - Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls
1780 - 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
1789 - French States-General for It first since 1614 together
1797 - Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
1809 - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
1809 - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1814 - British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
1816 - American Bible Society organized (NY)
1821 - Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
1835 - King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway
1842 - City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
1847 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1854 - English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast
1855 - NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
1861 - Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city
1862 - French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
1862 - Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS
1863 - Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 - Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 - Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 - Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA
1865 - 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
1874 - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1881 - Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
1886 - The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.
1891 - Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
1893 - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
1900 - "The Billboard" began weekly publication
1904 - Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Phila A's (3-0)
1905 - Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
1908 - 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2
1908 - Great White Fleet arrives in SF
1912 - 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1915 - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1917 - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
1920 - German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1920 - Polish troops occupy Kiev
1920 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1921 - 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired
1921 - Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
1922 - Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)
1924 - Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
1925 - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1925 - Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
1925 - Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
1925 - Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa.
1926 - Geldrop soccer team forms
1926 - Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1927 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 1st Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1930 - 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
1930 - Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours
1932 - Japan & China sign a peace treaty
1934 - 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04
1935 - Jessie Owens of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8½"
1936 - Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
1938 - Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning
1939 - Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
1940 - Norwegian govt in exile forms in London
1941 - 2 Fokker's employees flee nazi occupied Netherlands to England
1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1941 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1941 - Chanel No. 5 was released.
1942 - British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
1942 - US begins rationing sugar during WW II
1943 - Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1944 - Gandhi freed from prison
1944 - Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
1945 - Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
1945 - Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945 - Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
1945 - Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
1945 - World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
1947 - Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
1947 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1948 - 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
1948 - Belgian govt of Spaak resigns
1949 - Council of Europe forms
1949 - KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Statue of Council of Europe drawn
1949 - Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame
1950 - Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
1951 - "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 perfs
1951 - 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6
1952 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1952 - Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base
1954 - Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
1955 - "darn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
1955 - Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1955 - West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
1956 - 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4
1956 - Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
1956 - Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif
1956 - World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
1957 - Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria
1957 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1958 - KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1961 - Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1962 - 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4
1962 - LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0
1962 - West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
1964 - Separatists riot in Quebec
1965 - 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1966 - Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
1966 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
1966 - Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1969 - 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1969 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1971 - "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
1971 - Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
1972 - Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1973 - 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4
1974 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1975 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1975 - A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, & scored 33 runs)
1976 - Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II
1976 - Train collision at Schiedam Neth, kills 24
1978 - Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
1979 - 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4
1979 - Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
1979 - Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1980 - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building
1980 - Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece.
1981 - 16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge
1983 - Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4
1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational
1986 - Hall of Fame & Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
1987 - Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1987 - Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1988 - Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US archbishop
1989 - Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
1990 - 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02
1990 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren
1990 - Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
1991 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.
1992 - Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
1994 - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
1994 - Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
1994 - North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
1995 - Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
1996 - "Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 perfs
1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship
1996 - Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe
1997 - "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
1997 - Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
2000 - Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term.
2006 - The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).
2007 - Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.

[Holby]

February 24 is generally a very dull date.

[Briar]

1325 â€" Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 â€" France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1598 â€" Boris Godunov becomes Tsar of Russia.
1608 â€" Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 â€" Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
1782 â€" The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 â€" Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1797 â€" The modern Italian flag is first used.
1835 â€" HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1894 â€" W.K. lance receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904 â€" The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1919 â€" Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1920 â€" The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1922 â€" Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1927 â€" The first transatlantic telephone service is established â€" from New York City to London.
1931 â€" Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1935 â€" Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Francoâ€"Italian Agreement.
1942 â€" World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 â€" World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948 â€" Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1950 â€" A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
1952 â€" President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
1954 â€" Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1959 â€" The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1960 â€" The Polaris missile is test launched.
1968 â€" Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1972 â€" Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
1973 â€" Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 â€" Third Indochina War â€" Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980 â€" President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1984 â€" Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 â€" Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1990 â€" The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
1991 â€" Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoutes in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1993 â€" The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1999 â€" The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.


Interesting fact: I'm related to Alfonso IV

[Pippin]

when i was 10 i was let out of the dungeon and was allowed into the loft!

[Ungatt Trunn II]

1948 â€" Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.

Figures, it was someone from Kentucky...

Edit: Woah that happened in Franklin that's only about a 15 minute drive from here...

[Juska]

Boston Tea Party

[SiegeMaster]

Briefly I can find more but just for now



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What happened today in history?
Blamepro's Almanac
for
March 26




"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon." - Groucho Marx

In the headlines today:
 
2004   William Jan Berry, of the surf music duo Jan & Dean, dies at age 62 in Los Angeles.
 
2000     American Beauty picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture.
 
2000   The Russian people elect Vladimir Putin as their president.
 
1999   Dr. Jack Kevorkian is found guilty of second degree murder for euthanizing a patient suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
 
1997   The bodies of 39 Heaven's Gate cult members are discovered in California.
 
1996   Edmund Muskie, former US senator, secretary of state, and VP hopeful, dies in Washington DC, at age 81.
 
1971   East Pakistan becomes the independent nation of Bangladesh.
 
1961   Russia recovers the capsule from Sputnik 10, along with its dogmonaut inhabitant. Woof, woof, comrades!
 
1953   Dr. Jonas Salk announces a vaccine for polio.
 
1923   Actress Sarah Bernhardt dies.
 
1918   Claude Debussy, French composer, dies.
 
1892   Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden, New Jersey.
 
1827   Composer Ludwig von Beethoven dies in Vienna.
 
1821   Canada's Northwest Company and Hudson's Bay Company merge.
 
1804   Louisiana becomes a US territory.
 
1649   John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts colony, dies.
 
                               

Born today:
1968  James Iha - rock guitarist (Smashing Pumpkins)

1962  John Stockton - basketball player

1960  Marcus Allen - football player, 1981 Heisman Trophy winner

1960  Jennifer Grey - actress

1957  Leeza Gibbons - TV host

1950  Ronnie McDowell - country singer

1950  Teddy Pendergrass - singer

1949  Fran Sheehan - rock bassist (Boston)

1950  Martin Short - actor, comedian

1949  Vicki Lawrence - singer, actress

1948  Richard Tandy - bassist (Electric Light Orchestra)

1948  Steven Tyler - rock singer (Aerosmith)

1944  Diana Ross - singer

1943  Bob Woodward - journalist, author

1942  Erica Jong - author

1940  Braulio Baeza - jockey

1940  James Caan - actor

1934  Alan Arkin - actor

1932  lance Nolan - football player, NFL coach

1931  Leonard Nimoy - actor, director (Star Trek)

1930  Sandra Day O'Connor - US Supreme Court Justice

1923  Bob Elliott - comedian (Bob and Ray)

1916  Sterling Hayden - actor

1914  William Westmoreland - US Army General

1911  Tennessee Williams - playwright

1875  Robert Frost - poet

1859  A. E.

[Neobaron]

World War II

[Gen. Volkov]

Neo wins.