In the year 1902, New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses (Jan 1), the Berlin U-Bahn** is opened** (Feb 15), a Circuit Court prevents Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology (Mar 10), the first movie theater in the United States opens in Los Angeles (Apr 2), Cuba gains independence from the United States (May 20), Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom (Aug 9) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1920, the Treaty of Versailles ends WWI (Jan 10), Turkey gives up the Ottoman Empire (Jan 28), Prohibition begins in the U.S. (Jan 16), the Tartu Peace Treaty recognizes Estonian independence (Feb 2), Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich (Feb 24), the 7th Summer Olympics open in Antwerp, Belgium (Apr 20), Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome (May 16), the first KLM fight takes place (May 17), Pancho Villa surrenders in Mexico (Jul 28), the 19th Amendment of the U. Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_1632” align=“alignleft” width=“330”]Radio City Music Hall (Courtesy of Stròlic Furlàn)[/caption] In the year 1932, Hattie Caraway becomes the first female U.S. Senator (Jan 12), ca 6 million people are unemployed in Germany (Jan 15), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is published (Feb 1), Tarzan the Ape Man opens starring Johnny Weissmuller (Mar 25), following the end of Prohibition, the first Alko stores open in Finland (Apr 5), Nazis become the largest party in the Reichstag election (Jul 31), Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar (Aug 1), the first Autobahn is opened in Germany (Aug 6), the Soviet Famine begins, millions starving to death (Sep 22), the first science fiction radio show, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, debuts on radio (Nov 7), Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City (Dec 27) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_476” align=“alignright” width=“283”]MLK Jr and RFK in 1968[/caption] In the year 1968, Viet Cong soldiers attack the U.S. Embassy in Saigon (Jan 31), Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee (Apr 4), The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway (Apr 29), Robert F. Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles (Jun 5) and dies day after, Warsaw Pact troops and tanks invade Czechoslovakia (Aug 20), the 19th Olympic Games begin in Mexico City (Oct 12) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1936, Japanese Baseball League is founded (Feb 5), the first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his appearance in U.S. newspapers (Feb 18), construction of the Hoover Dam is completed (Mar 1), Italia annexes Ethiopia (May 7), Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage (May 27), the first fully controllable helicopter makes its maiden flight (Jun 26), the Olympic Games open in Berlin (Aug 1), Stalin’s Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union (Oct), the weekly Life begins its publication (Nov 23), all German boys ages 10 to 18 are to join the Hitler Youth paramilitary organization (Dec 1), Edward III abdicates (Dec 10), stress is first recognized as a medical condition - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1951, the comic strip Dennis the Menace appears in the U.S. newspapers for the first time (Mar 12), The King and I premiers on Broadway (Mar 29), the George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri becomes the first U.S. national monument to honor an African American (Jul 14), the first Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the plant in South Africa (Aug 31), the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty is signed, allowing American troops to be stationed in Japan (Sep 8), I Love Lucy debuts on CBS (Oct 15), the Marshall Plan expires (Dec 31), several sci-fi films premier, the Korean War goes on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

[caption id=“attachment_2232” align=“alignright” width=“309”]The Thompson submachine gun in a violin case[/caption] In the year 1919, the League of Nations is founded (Jan 25), Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement (Mar 23), after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish War of Independence begins (May 19), the Treaty of Versailles officially ends WW 1 (Jun 28), the American Communist Party is established (Aug 31), KLM is founded (Oct 7), Estonia nationalizes 97% of agrarian lands, mostly belonging to Baltic Germans (Oct 10), Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party, the future Nazi Party (Oct 16), John T. Continue reading

In the year 1918, the Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France (Jan 4), the Finnish Civil War, lasting till May, begins (Jan 27), the first ever drone is test flown (Mar 6), Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia (Mar 12), the German fighter pilot Red Baron dies in combat (Apr 21), Spanish Flu becomes pandemic, killing millions in the ensuing months (June), Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line (Sep 29), with the failed test flight of another drone - the Kettering Bug - the use of drones in WW1 is abandoned (Oct 2), Czechoslovakia declares its independence from Austria-Hungary (Oct 28), the Red Army invades Estonia (Nov 28), the Second World War rages on - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1987, AZT is approved for use in the U.S. in the treatment of HIV/AIDS (Mar 20), The Bold & The Beautiful debuts on CBS (Mar 23), plans for Euro Disney are sealed (Mar 24), The Simpsons cartoon first appears on television (Apr 19), Mathias Rust lands his plane on Red Square in Moscow (May 28), Ronald Reagan holds his Tear down this wall speech in Berlin (Jun 12), according to UN, the world population has reached 5 billion people (Jul 11), Michael Jackson’s Bad is released (Aug 31) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1930, the Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance (Jan 13), the 3M company markets Scotch Tape (Jan 31), Pluto is discovered (Feb 18), Salt March led by Mahatma Gandhi starts the Civil Disobedience Movement in India (Mar 12), the snack cake Twinkies are invented (Apr 6), neoprene is invented by DuPont (Apr 17), Looney Tunes, the first cartoon series, is released (Apr 19), the first FIFA World Cup starts (Jul 13), Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia (Nov 2), the chocolate chip cookie is invented - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1977, Apple Computer is incorporated (Jan 3), Jimmy Carter becomes the 39th U.S President (Jan 20), Fleetwood Mac’s _Rumours _is released (Feb 4), the rings of Uranus are discovered (Mar 10), optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic (Apr 22), Star Wars opens in cinemas (May 25), there is a blackout in New York City with resultant looting (Jul 13-14), Elvis Presley dies (Aug 16), Pelé plays his last pro football game (Oct 1) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

1967 re-release poster In the year 1939, the Hewlett-Packard Company is founded (Jan 1), Hitler´s speech before the Reichstag forebodes the holocaust (Jan 30), Batman makes his first appearance in a comic book (May 2), the last public guillotining in France takes place (Jun 17), Siam changes its name to Thailand (Jun 24), the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed by the Nazis (Jul 6), Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe (Sep 1), Soviet forces attack Finland, starting the Winter War (Nov 30), Gone with the Wind premieres in an Atlanta theater (Dec 15) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1994, NAFTA is established (Jan 1), China gets its first connection to the internet (Mar 1), the Rwandan genocide begins (Apr 7), Nelson Mandela wins the first fully multiracial presidential elections in South Africa (Apr 27), the Channel Tunnel between England and France opens (May 6), the O. J. Simpson case begins (Jun 12), the Russian army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe’s Soviet occupation (Aug 31), MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people (Sep 28), the first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens in San Francisco (Nov 4) - and all these fine people were born: 1994-0102 Valentina Giacinti* football player - Trescore Balneario, Italy 1994-0103 Katri Lylynperä* cross-country skier - Vammala, Finland 1994-0103 Simon Pettersson* athlete (discus)/OS - Sweden 1994-0104 Viktor Axelsen* badminton player/OB - Odense, Denmark 1994-0105 Zemgus Girgensons* hockey player - Riga, Latvia 1994-0110 1994-0112 Emre Can* football player/with Turkish ancestry - Frankfurt, Germany 1994-0114 Connor Brown* hockey player - Etobicoke, ON Canada 1994-0114 Muktar Edris* long-distance runner/WC - Ethiopia 1994-0115 Eric Dier* football player - Cheltenham, England 1994-0116 Mikko Lehtonen* hockey player/OG - Turku, Finland 1994-0120 Hampus Lindholm* hockey player - Helsingborg, Sweden 1994-0121 Marny Kennedy* actress - Melbourne, VIC Australia 1994-0121 Toni Kuusela* athlete (javelin) - Vimpeli, Finland 1994-0121 Nico Salo* floorball player - Tampere, Finland 1994-0 1994-0123 Mattias Nilsson* hockey player - Visby, Sweden 1994-0125 1994-0126 Steph Catley* football player - Melbourne, Australia 1994-0127 Anouck Jaubert* sport climber - Saint-Étienne, France 1994-0131 1994-0201 Julia Garner* actress - New York, NY USA 1994-0201 Teemu Suninen* rally driver - Tuusula, Finland 1994-0202 *Brock McGinn* hockey player - Fergus, ON Canada 1994-0203 Malaika Mihambo* athlete (long jump)/OG/w Tanzanian father - Heidelberg, Germany 1994-0203 Aimee Lou Wood* actress - Stockport, Greater Manchester, England 1994-0204 Alexia Putellas* football player - Mollet del Vallès, Spain 1994-0206 Charlie Heaton* musician/actor - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 1994-0207 Nina Christen* sport shooter/OB - Stans, Switzerland 1994-0207 Nathan Walker* Australian hockey player/SC - Cardiff, Wales 1994-0208 Nikki Yanofsky* singer - Montreal, QC Canada 1994-0210 Kelvin Hoefler* skateboarder/OS - Sao Paulo, Brazil 1994-0210 Makenzie Vega* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 1994-0211 Dylan Arnold* actor - Seattle, WA USA 1994-0212 Alex Galchenyuk* hockey player - Milwaukee, WI USA 1994-0212 Arman Hall* sprinter/OGr - Miami, FL USA 1994-0213 Memphis Depay* football player - Moordrecht, Netherlands 1994-0214 Becky Hill* singer - Bewdley, Worcestershire, England 1994-0214 Thanapob Leeratanakachorn* model/ actor/singer - Bangkok, Thailand 1994-0216 Annika Beck* tennis player - Gießen, Germany 1994-0219 Fausto Desalu* athlete (sprinter/OGr) - Casalmaggiore, Italy 1994-0220 Brigid Kosgei* long-distance runner/marathon world record - Kenya 1994-0223 Dakota Fanning* actress - Conyers, GA USA 1994-0225 Mackenzie Arnold* football goalie - Gold Coast, QLD Australia 1994-0225 Eugenie Bouchard* tennis player - Montreal, QC Canada 1994-0225 Ifeoma Onumonu* American-Nigerian football player - Rancho Cucamonga, CA USA 1994-0226 Kalle Koljonen* badminton player - Helsinki, Finland 1994-0226 Jacob Trouba* hockey player - Rochester, MI USA 1994-0301 Justin Bieber* singer - London, ON Canada 1994-0301 Camille Razat* model/ actress - Toulouse, France 1994-0302 1994-0303 Amir Khosravani* Paralympic athlete (long jump)/OG - Bandar Ganaveh, Iran 1994-0305 Daria Gavrilova* Russian-Australian tennis player - Moscow, Russia 1994-0306 Mads Burnell* mixed martial artist - Husum, Denmark 1994-0307 Chase Kalisz* swimmer/OG - Bel Air, MD USA 1994-0307 Jordan Pickford* football goalie - Washington, England 1994-0308 1994-0310 Nikita Parris* football player/EC - Liverpool, Merseyside, England 1994-0311 Andrew Robertson* football player - Glasgow, Scotland 1994-0312 Katie Archibald* Scottish-British racing cyclist/OG - Chertsey, England 1994-0312 Noemi Zbären* athlete (hurdles) - Langnau, Emmenthal, Switzerland 1994-0313 1994-0314 Jasmine Abrams* Guyanese athlete (sprinter) - New York, NY USA 1994-0314 Ansel Elgort* actor - New York, NY USA 1994-0315 1994-0316 Sierra McClain* actress /singer - Decatur, GA USA 1994-0317 Christin Hussong* athlete (javelin) - Zweibrücken, Germany 1994-0318 Megan Tapper* (b Simmonds) hurdler/OB - Kingston, Jamaica 1994-0321 Erik Back* athlete/sprinter - Helsinki, Finland 1994-0325 An Baul* 안바울 judoka/OB - Anyang, South Korea 1994-0326 Paige VanZant* mixed martial artist - Dundee, OR USA 1994-0327 Wesley Vázquez* middle-distance runner - Bayamón, Puerto Rico 1994-0328 1994-0329 Jack Bandeira* actor - Middlesbrough, England 1994-0329 Tom Wilson* hockey player/SC - Toronto, ON Canada 1994-0401 Ella Eyre* singer/ songwriter - London, England 1994-0403 Feng Bin* athlete (discus/WG) - Penglai District, China 1994-0406 Simona Brown* actress/ of Jamaican heritage - London, England 1994-0406 Ilya Lyubushkin* hockey player - Moscow, Russia 1994-0407 1994-0409 Clara Henry* actress/ blogger/television presenter - Landsvetter, Sweden 1994-0411 Duncan Laurence* (b de Moor) singer - Spijkenisse, Netherlands 1994-0412 Saoirse Ronan* actress/ Irish parents - New York City, NY USA 1994-0413 Elvis Merzļikins* hockey goalie - Riga, Latvia 1994-0414 1994-0415 Elena Linari* football player - Fiesole, Italy 1994-0415 Shaunae Miller-Uibo* (b Miller) sprinter - Nassau, Bahamas 1994-0418 Olli Kokko* swimmer - Finland 1994-0420 1994-0422 Chandler Stephenson* hockey player/SC - SK Canada 1994-0424 Henri Liipola* athlete (hammer) - Koski Tl, Finland 1994-0425 Omar McLeod* athlete (hurdles/OG) - Clarendon, Jamaica 1994-0426 Zoe Smith* weightlifter - England 1994-0428 Alexandra Burghardt* athlete (sprinter & bobsleigh/OS) - - Mühldorf am Inn, Germany 1994-0428 Joonas Korpisalo* hockey goalie - Pori, Finland 1994-0428 Mina Tanaka* 田中 美南 Japanese football player/w Thai mother - Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand 1994-0428 Haftamnesh Tesfay* athlete (runner) - Ethiopia 1994-0501 Jaccob Slavin* hockey player - Erie, CO USA 1994-0501 Krisztián Tóth* judoka/OB - Darmstadt, Germany 1994-0502 Alexander Choupenitch* fencer/OB - Brno, Czechia 1994-0502 Gerard Descarrega* Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG - La Selva del Camp, Tarragona, Spain 1994-0502 Sara Forsberg* singer/television personality - Finland 1994-0505 “Celeste” Epiphany Waite* singer/songwriter - Culver City, CA USA 1994-0507 Josh Anderson* hockey player - Burlington, ON Canada 1994-0508 Ajeé Wilson* middle-distance runner - Neptune, NJ USA 1994-0510 1994-0511 Menno Vloon* athlete (pole vault) - Zaandam, Netherlands 1994-0516 Mikhail Grigorenko* hockey player - Khabarovsk, Russia 1994-0518 Chris Driedger* hockey goalie - Winnipeg, MB Canada 1994-0520 Alex Høgh Andersen* actor (Vikings) - Skælskør, Denmark 1994-0523 Esa Lindell* hockey player - Helsinki, Finland 1994-0524 Emma McKeon* swimmer/OB - Wollongong, NSW Australia 1994-0525 Matt Murray* hockey goalie - Thunder Bay, ON Canada 1994-0525 Aly Raisman* gymnast/OG - Needham, MA USA 1994-0526 Lindsey Horan* football player - Golden, CO USA 1994-0528 John Stones* football player - Barnsley, England 1994-0529 Lorelei Linklater* American actress - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 1994-0529 Saku Mäenalanen* hockey player/OG - Tornio, Finland 1994-0530 Scott Laughton* hockey player - Oakville, ON Canada 1994-0531 Heorhiy Bushchan* football goalie - Odessa, Ukraine 1994-0531 Senja Mäkitörmä* athlete (shot put) - Varpaisjärvi, Finland 1994-0601 1994-0603 Bethany England* football player - Barnsley, England 1994-0603 Ville Pokka* hockey player/OG - Tornio, Finland 1994-0603 Anne Winters* actress - Dallas, TX USA 1994-0604 Roosa Laakkonen* volleyball player - Finland 1994-0605 Petra Olli* freestyle wrestler/WG - Lappajärvi, Finland 1994-0606 Markus Nutivaara* hockey player - Oulu, Finland 1994-0610 1994-0611 Jessica Fox* Australian canoeist/OG - Marseille, France 1994-0615 Lee Kiefer* fencer/OG - Cleveland, OH USA 1994-0615 Yussuf Poulsen* football player/w a Tanzanian father - Copenhagen, Denmark 1994-0616 1994-0617 Mimosa Jallow* swimmer/w Gambian father - Jyväskylä, Finland 1994-0618 Takeoff* (b Kirshnik Khari Ball) rapper - Lawrenceville, GA USA (2022/28) 1994-0619 Mallory Franklin* canoeist/OS - Windsor, Berkshire, England 1994-0619 Ala Zoghlami* Italian runner (steeplechase)/twin of Osama - Tunis 1994-0619 Osama Zoghlami* Italian runner (steeplechase) - Tunis 1994-0620 Drake Caggiula* hockey player - Pickering, ON Canada 1994-0620 Collin Delia* hockey goalie - Rancho Cucamonga, CA USA 1994-0620 Sarah Köhler* swimmer/OB - Hanau, Germany 1994-0622 1994-0624 Erin Moriarty* actress - New York City, NY USA 1994-0625 1994-0626 Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard* judoka/OB - Canada 1994-0629 Camila Mendes* actress/singer - Charlottesville, VA USA 1994-0630 1994-0701 Edvin Endre* actor/son of Lena Endre - Stockholm, Sweden 1994-0705 Shohei Ohtani* 大谷 翔平 baseball player - Ōshū, Iwate, Japan 1994-0707 Hali Flickinger* swimmer/OB - York, PA USA 1994-0707 Ned Porteous* actor (Emmerdale) - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England 1994-0708 Buse Arikazan* athlete (pole vault) - Ankara, Turkey 1994-0708 Andrew Copp* hockey player - Ann Arbor, MI USA 1994-0709 Akiane Kramarik* painter (Prince of Peace)/poet - Mount Morris, IL USA - Akiane. 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In the year 1953, Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia (Jan 14), Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th U.S. President (Jan 20), Joseph Stalin dies after 31 years of ruling the Soviet Union (Mar 5), Dag Hammarskjöld is elected U.N. Secretary-General (Apr 7), Edmund Hillary conquers Mount Everest at 8848 m/29029 ft (May 29), Elisabeth II is crowned at Westminster Abbey (Jun 2), The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at Flint, Michigan (Jun 30), the EEC assembles for the first time (Jul 5), The Korean War ends (Jul 27), the discovery of REM sleep is first published (Sep 4), the first issue of Playboy Magazine comes out (Dec) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1935, Italy’s Benito Mussolini and France’s Pierre Laval agree upon mutual non-interference of colonial claims (Jan 7), Amelia Earhart becomes the first to fly solo from Hawaii to California (Jan 11), the first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia (Jan 24), the use of radar is demonstrated for the first time (Feb 26), Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public (May 15), Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio (Jun 10), the world’s first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City (Jul 16), the Nuremberg Laws remove citizenship from Jews (Sep 15), Lebensborn program in support of Nazi eugenics is founded by Heinrich Himmler in Germany (Dec 12) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1931, Thomas Edison submits his very last patent application (Jan 6), the Empire State Building is completed (May 1), the Huang He floods killed between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster), the George Washington Bridge is dedicated (opening to traffic Oct 25) - and all these fine people were born: 1931-0101 Furio Colombo* journalist/politician - Châtillon, Kingdom of Italy (2025/94) 1931-0102 1931-0105 Robert Duvall* actor - San Diego, CA USA **** 1931-0106 Dickie Moore* hockey player (NHL 100)/businessman - Montreal, QC Canada (2015/84) 1931-0111 Mary Rodgers* composer/author/ screenwriter - New York City, NY USA (2014/83) 1931-0117 James Earl Jones* actor - Arkabutla, MS USA (2024/93) 1931-0119 Carl Brashear* U. Continue reading

In the year 1965, Canada gets a new flag - the Maple Leaf Flag (Feb 15), Malcolm X is assassinated (Feb 21), Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama is followed by similar treatment of civil rights demonstrators (Mar 7), first American ground combat troops arrive in Vietnam (Mar 8), cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space (Mar 18), first photos of Mars are taken (Jul 15), the first stadium concert takes place as The Beatles perform at Shea Stadium in New York City (Aug 15), Fidel Castro announces that anyone who wants to can emigrate to the United States (Sep 28), Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC (Nov 8) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1967, Charlie Chaplin’s last film is launched (Jan 5), the first Boeing 737 takes it maiden flight (Apr 9), 400 million viewers around the world watch Our World, the first live satellite television production, featuring Beatles' All You Need Is Love (Jun 25), world’s first ATM is installed in England (Jun 27), Fleetwood Mac makes their live debut (Aug 13), Sweden switches to right-hand traffic (Sep 3), Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia (Oct 9), around 70,000 people protest against the Vietnam War in Washington D. Continue reading

In the year 1972, East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh (Jan 11), a Japanese WW2 soldier is discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years in the jungle (Jan 24), Nixon’s visit in China begins (Feb 21), The Godfather premiers in New York City (Mar 15), Okinawa is returned to Japan (May 15), Watergate scandal commences (Jun 17), 11 Israeli athletes are murdered at the Munich Olympics (Sep 5), M*A*S*H begins its run on CBS (Sep 17), Emmerdale premiers on ITV (Oct 16), Apollo 17 crew takes on their way to the Moon The Blue Marble photograph (Dec 7) and conclude on their return the program of lunar exploration (Dec 19), worship of Norse gods is officially approved in Iceland - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading

In the year 1975, Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC (Jan 6), Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Apr 4), the South African government announces that it will provide all black children with free and compulsory education (May 6), Jaws is released in theaters (Jun 20), Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines (Oct 1), _Saturday Night Live _is aired for the first time (Oct 11), Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is released (Oct 31), Juan Carlos becomes the King of Spain (Nov 22), Rubik’s Cube is patented, several former Portuguese colonies gain independence from Portugal - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading