New Blog!
argh. this is the second time i am typing this tribute to my new blog!! EVIL IE DIED ON ME HALFWAY THROUGH...den it lagged! evil. evil. evil..... oh no! don't tell me it's an ill omen... heh. who cares =P i'm on the 6th level of hell anyways. So, let's start all over, commeration v.2...starto.
Today is a happy day! The birth of cerealtrixster (serial trickster! ^^;) the blog on the 29th of December, at 2.00pm. Let us observe 10 minutes of silence and not touching the keyboard...
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Ok fine. i am typing...haiz... evil cerealtrixster.blogspot.com, such a stickler for details! i admit! i admit! i was chatting... >.<
FAMOUS STUFF on the 29th of December
Events
1170 - St Thomas Becket, is slain in his own cathedral on orders from Henry II of England.
1813 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York
1845 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
1851 - The first American-based YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts
1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
1876 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre: The United States soldiers massacred over 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the radio.
1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China
1913 - The first serial motion picture, The Unwelcome Throne is released by Seligs Polyscope Company.
1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1934 - The first college basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York City is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York University
1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1937 - The Irish Free State was replaced by a new state called Ireland when a new constitution was adopted.
1940 - Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe firebombs London, killing almost 3000 civilians
1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1972 - An Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar crashed on approach to Miami, International Airport killing 101
1975 - A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
1989 - Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1992 - Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, resigned.
1993 - Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed.
1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36 year a civil war.
1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
Births
1800 - Charles Goodyear, inventor of the vulcanization of rubber (d. 1860)
1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1897)
1840 - Anton Dohrn, zoologist (d. 1909)
1876 - Pablo Casals, cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, United States Army officer, United States Air Force pioneer (d. 1936)
1881 - Jess Willard, boxing champion (d. 1968)
1890 - Käthe Dorsch, actress (d. 1957)
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, theologian (d. 1993)
1914 - Billy Tipton, jazz musician (d. 1989)
1917 - Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete d. (1985)
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1936 - Ray Nitschke, American football star (d. 1998)
1937 - Barbara Steele, actress
1938 - Jon Voight, actor
1942 - Rick Danko, musician ("The Band") (d. 1999)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, singer
1947 - Ted Danson, actor
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, dancer
1966 - Brian Keith "Dexter" Holland (b. 1966) singer, guitarist of the offspring
1967 - Andy Wachowski, director (The Matrix)
1970 - Kevin Weisman, actor
1970 - Frankie Dettori, jockey
1972 - Jason Kreis, American soccer star
1972 - Jude Law, actor
1974 - Richie Sexson, Major League Baseball All-Star
Deaths
1170 - St. Thomas a Becket, English bishop, assassinated (b. 1115)
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
1894 - Christina Rossetti, poet
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
1937 - Don Marquis, author (b. 1878)
1967 - Paul Whiteman, jazz musician, conductor (b. 1890)
1980 - Tim Hardin, musician (b. 1941)
1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1999 - Jerzy Waldorff, Polish film and music critic
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
Holidays and observances
The fifth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
wahha! i typed all this! oh well. no i dint. it's from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29_December. fine fine. *humph*
Note: hopefully, this blog will not be as lame as my last blog... =)
Today is a happy day! The birth of cerealtrixster (serial trickster! ^^;) the blog on the 29th of December, at 2.00pm. Let us observe 10 minutes of silence and not touching the keyboard...
10
.
.
.
9
.
.
.
8
.
.
.7
.
.
6
.
.
.
Ok fine. i am typing...haiz... evil cerealtrixster.blogspot.com, such a stickler for details! i admit! i admit! i was chatting... >.<
FAMOUS STUFF on the 29th of December
Events
1170 - St Thomas Becket, is slain in his own cathedral on orders from Henry II of England.
1813 - War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York
1845 - Texas is admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
1851 - The first American-based YMCA opens, in Boston, Massachusetts
1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched.
1876 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
1890 - Wounded Knee Massacre: The United States soldiers massacred over 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1891 - Thomas Edison patents the radio.
1911 - Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the Republic of China
1913 - The first serial motion picture, The Unwelcome Throne is released by Seligs Polyscope Company.
1921 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1934 - The first college basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York City is played, between the University of Notre Dame and New York University
1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1937 - The Irish Free State was replaced by a new state called Ireland when a new constitution was adopted.
1940 - Battle of Britain: Luftwaffe firebombs London, killing almost 3000 civilians
1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1972 - An Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar crashed on approach to Miami, International Airport killing 101
1975 - A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
1989 - Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1989 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1992 - Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, resigned.
1993 - Construction of the Tian Tan Buddha, the world's tallest outdoor bronze statue of the seated Buddha, was completed.
1996 - Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36 year a civil war.
1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million in the 1970s.
Births
1800 - Charles Goodyear, inventor of the vulcanization of rubber (d. 1860)
1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1897)
1840 - Anton Dohrn, zoologist (d. 1909)
1876 - Pablo Casals, cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
1879 - Billy Mitchell, United States Army officer, United States Air Force pioneer (d. 1936)
1881 - Jess Willard, boxing champion (d. 1968)
1890 - Käthe Dorsch, actress (d. 1957)
1908 - Helmut Gollwitzer, theologian (d. 1993)
1914 - Billy Tipton, jazz musician (d. 1989)
1917 - Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
1927 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete d. (1985)
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1936 - Ray Nitschke, American football star (d. 1998)
1937 - Barbara Steele, actress
1938 - Jon Voight, actor
1942 - Rick Danko, musician ("The Band") (d. 1999)
1946 - Marianne Faithfull, singer
1947 - Ted Danson, actor
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland, dancer
1966 - Brian Keith "Dexter" Holland (b. 1966) singer, guitarist of the offspring
1967 - Andy Wachowski, director (The Matrix)
1970 - Kevin Weisman, actor
1970 - Frankie Dettori, jockey
1972 - Jason Kreis, American soccer star
1972 - Jude Law, actor
1974 - Richie Sexson, Major League Baseball All-Star
Deaths
1170 - St. Thomas a Becket, English bishop, assassinated (b. 1115)
1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet
1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
1894 - Christina Rossetti, poet
1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
1937 - Don Marquis, author (b. 1878)
1967 - Paul Whiteman, jazz musician, conductor (b. 1890)
1980 - Tim Hardin, musician (b. 1941)
1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1999 - Jerzy Waldorff, Polish film and music critic
2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
Holidays and observances
The fifth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
wahha! i typed all this! oh well. no i dint. it's from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29_December. fine fine. *humph*
Note: hopefully, this blog will not be as lame as my last blog... =)
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