Well, as title says...
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=leadstory

Find your birthdate (mo. and day)...

Oct. 22:
In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

Confederate General John Bell Hood pulls his battered army into Guntersville, Alabama, but finds the Tennessee River difficult to cross. Plotting another attack against the Yankees, he continues traveling westward with his defeated army. (1864)

On this day in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, which he declines

The first parachute jump of note is made by Andrý-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris (1797)

August 3rd:

On August 3, 1958, the U.S. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.

From the Spanish port of Palos, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets sail in command of three ships--the Santa Marýa, the Pinta, and the Niýa--on a journey to find a western sea route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.

Coolest ones :lol:

March 20th

NERVE GAS ATTACK ON TOKYO SUBWAY
At the height of the morning rush hour in Tokyo, Japan, five two-man terrorist teams from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, riding on separate subway trains, converge at the Kasumigaseki station and secretly release lethal sarin gas into the air. The terrorists then took a sarin antidote and escaped while the commuters, blinded and gasping for air, rushed to the exits


Nasty!

1413 Henry V ascends upon father's death
King Henry IV, the first English monarch of the Lancastrian dynasty, dies after years of illness, and his eldest son, Henry, ascends to the English throne.


British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma
On this day, the 14th Army, under British Gen. William J. Slim, captures the Burmese city of Mandalay from the Japanese, bringing the Allies one step closer to liberating all of Burma.

without looking @ that thing i know that in 1969 neil armstrong walked on the moon ;) if that whole thing wasn't fake, of course :rolleyes: haha


here are some more that i got off of that website

1881 Sitting Bull surrenders
1951 King of Jordan assassinated
1976 Viking 1 lands on Mars

yeeep!

1827 Confederate General John Calvin Brown born
1942 Roosevelt commits to biggest arms buildup in U.S. history
1983 Reagan Gives Gas Tax Hike the Go-ahead
1994 - Nancy Kerrigan was attacked

without looking I know they scaled Mount Everest for the first time :) *checks*

MEN REACH EVEREST SUMMIT:
May 29, 1953


At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth. The two, part of a British expedition, made their final assault on the summit after spending a fitful night at 27,900 feet. News of their achievement broke around the world on June 2, the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, and Britons hailed it as a good omen for their country's future.

:D

January 26

1500 Pinzn discovers Brazil
1838 Tennessee passes nation's first prohibition law
1905 World's largest diamond found
1939 Franco captures Barcelona
1950 Republic of India Formed

did some looking in automotive and found this...

1979 Yeeeeeee-Haw!

The Dukes of Hazzard, a prime-time television action/comedy show, aired for the first time on this day. The show starred John Schneider and Tom Wopat as the mischievous Duke cousins, two "good old boys," who tangled with the crooked law enforcement officers of Hazzard County every week. However, the real star of the show was their car, "The General Lee," a 1969 Dodge Charger with a bright orange paint job and a Confederate flag on its roof. The car was a suitable choice: Dodge Chargers won 22 of the 54 major NASCAR races in 1969. The Dukes of Hazzard ran for seven seasons.

My parents own a 1969 dodge charger same color but not a R/T model :D

Here we go...

On April 19, 1861, the first blood of the American Civil War is shed when a secessionist mob in Baltimore attacks Massachusetts troops bound for Washington, D.C. Four soldiers and 12 rioters were killed.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, dies in what is now Greece, where he had traveled to support the Greek struggle for independence from Turkey. Even today, he is considered a Greek national hero.

RCA-NBC launches its first regular TV broadcasts. The programs, broadcast from the Empire State Building, were an experiment and aired only five hours a week. Very few TV sets existed at the time to receive the programs.

April 19th isn't very interesting...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15 (Wikipedia)

Events:
1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
1759 - The British Museum opens.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.
1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).
1951 - Ilse Koch, The "^^^^^ of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1967 - Super Bowl I is played -- The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
1974 - Happy Days premiers on ABC.
1976 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison.
1990 - AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2001 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online.
Births
Births
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian lyricist (d. 1872)
1850 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
1863 - Wilhelm Marx, German politician, chancellor of the Weimar Republic
1869 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (d. 1907)
1870 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
1875 - Tom Burke, American runner
1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Soviet poet and essayist (d. 1938)
1892 - Rex Ingram, director, writer (d. 1950)
1893 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician (d. 1951)
1899 - Goodman Ace, actor, comedian, writer (d. 1982)
1908 - Edward Teller (d. 2003)
1909 - Gene Krupa, drummer (d. 1973)
1913 - Lloyd Bridges, actor (d. 1998)
1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1918 - Robert Byrd, American politician
1923 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician
1926 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress
1929 - Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader (d. 1968)
1937 - Margaret O'Brien, actress
1941 - Captain Beefheart, singer
1942 - Charo, singer, actress
1948 - Ronnie VanZant, lead vocal for Lynyrd Skynyrd (d. 1977)
1957 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
1957 - Julian Sands, actor
1965 - Adam Jones, musician of Tool
1981 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese football star
1984 - Megan Quann, U.S. swimmer
1987 - Ryan Provost - Webmaster: Ryan's World 20000 (That's me!)
Deaths
0041 - Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Emperor
1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848)
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, politician (b. 1870)
1955 - Yves Tanguy, Surrealist painter (b. 1900)
1964 - Jack Teagarden, musician (b. 1905)
1983 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (b. 1902)
1987 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (b. 1904)
1993 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Harry Nilsson, musician (b. 1941)
1998 - Junior Wells, musician
2003 - Gladys Kamakakuokalani Ainoa Brandt, Hawaiian educator; fought for native Hawaiian rights
Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - Second day of the Carmentalia in honor of Carmen
United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Day

^ who here would be born on the years before 1900? LOL or even a bit after 0_o