Events in history
- First meeting of House of Commons, Jan 20 1265. Simon de Montfort summons burgesses to Parliament, Jan 20 1265. - Uranus/Hamal
- Jan 31st 1606, Guy Fawkes, convicted for his part in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James the First, was executed. - Pluto/Mesarthim
- April 12th 1606, England adopted as its flag the original version of the Union Jack. - Pluto/Sheratan
- Feb 10th 1763, France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War. - Jupiter/Hamal
- April 22 1509, Henry the Eighth ascended the throne of England following the death of his father, Henry the Seventh. - Mars/Botein
- German forces overran Denmark and invaded Norway Apr 8 1940 Saturn/Mesarthim. - Uranus/Botein
- The German Reichstag votes to increase votes to increase the standing army by 515000. - Saturn/Sheratan
- Perry opens up Japan, July 7th 1853. - Jupiter/Sheratan
- Mar 25th 1911, 146 immigrant workers were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York. - Mars/Mesarthim
- April 23 1940, about 200 people died in a dance hall fire in Natchez, Mississippi. - Uranus/BoteinVatican Council proclaims papal infallibility, July 18th 1870 - Pluto/Botein
- Britain annexes Kimberly diamond fields, Oct 27th 1871 - Pluto/Botein
- Feb 22nd 1865, Tennessee adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery. - SNode
People
- Woody Allen - Uranus/Mesarthim
- Muhammad Ali, boxer - Mars/Sheratan
- Adolf Hitler. - Sun in 7th ruling MC/Mesarthim
War and violence
- Mar 28th 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia. - Pluto/Sheratan
- Chinese Revolution begins, Oct 10th 1911 - NNode/Mesarthim, Saturn/Botein
- Alexandria bombarded by the British, July 11th 1882 - Neptune/Botein
- Mar 7th 1911, the United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. - Saturn/Sheratan
- Mar 7 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. - Uranus/Sheratan
- Jan 23 1937, 17 people went on trial in Moscow during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge." - Pluto/Hamal
- Apr 27 1937 The Basque town of Guernica is bombed by Germans. - Pluto/Hamal
- Mar 18th 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain. - Mars, Uranus/Botein
- April 17th 1941, Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany in World War Two. - Jupiter/Botein
- May 17th 1940, the Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War Two. - Saturn/Hamal
- Britain and France declare war on Germany, Sept 3rd 1939 - South Node/Mesarthim
- Feb 19th 1942, about 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin. - Mars/Botein
- April 19th 1943, during World War Two, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces. - Uranus/Sheratan
- May 19th 1958, the United States and Canada formally established the North American Air Defense Command. - SNode/Hamal
- Mar 8th 1965, the United States landed about 3500 Marines in South Vietnam. - Jupiter/Botein
- Jan 30th 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." - SNode/Mesarthim
- Aug 7, 1998. Bomb explosions that blew up the American embassies Nairobi, Kenya, Dar es Salaam. - Saturn/Mesarthim
- Jan 17th 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, 36, was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first US execution in a decade. - Jupiter /Botein
- April 9th 1988 Pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim hijackers who had seized a Kuwait Airwats jetliner on April fifth killed one of their hostages as the plane sat on the ground in Larnaca, Cyprus. - Jupiter/Hamal