Events in history
People
- Woody Allen, Actor, Writer, Comedian. - Sun/Antares
- Bob Geldof Singer, the driving force behind Live Aid - Moon/Antares
- Uri Geller Telekinetic, Tested and interviewed from 1971, Geller became a media sensation in December 1974. Mercury /Antares, Sun/Acumen
- Princess Grace of Monaco. - Saturn/Acumen
Toxins
- Jan 24th 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunged through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada. Neptune/Grafias
- April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the number-four reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately. - Saturn/Antares (Antares is associated with nuclear war)
- April 10th 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union joined in Rome with 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. - Neptune occulting/Jabbah
- 23 Mar 1983, President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles -- a proposal that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, as well as "Star Wars." - Neptune and SNode/Acumen, Uranus/Antares
- First American hydrogen bomb dropped over Bikini atoll, May 20th - NNode/Antares
Events
- April 17th 1975, Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's five-year war. - NNode/Dschubba
- May 19th 1643, delegates from four New England colonies met in Boston to form a confederation. - Neptune/Acrab
- Comintern launched by Lenin to promote world revolution Mar 3 1919 - NNode/Antares
- May 15th, 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. - Jupiter/Acumen
- April 22 1509, Henry the Eighth ascended the throne of England following the death of his father, Henry the Seventh. - Pluto/Lesath, Jupiter/Shaula
- Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, Dec 16 1653. - Neptune/Acumen
- Feb 18th 1516, Mary Tudor, the Queen of England popularly known as "Bloody Mary," was born in Greenwich Palace. - Saturn/Shaula
- Mar 20th 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. - Uranus/Antares
- Gay liberation chart June 28th 1969 00:10 EDT New York - Mars /Acrab
- Mar 6th 1983, in a case that drew much notoriety, a woman in New Bedford, Massachusetts, reported being gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern called Big Dan's; four men were later convicted of the attack. - Uranus/Antares
- Mar 22nd 1882, Congress outlawed polygamy. - NNode/Acrab
- May 16th 1997 President Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious Tuskegee experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis. - Pluto/Jabbah
- Jan 27th 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. - SNode /Dschubba
- April 3 1996, Theodore Kaczynski was arrested, accused of being the Unabomber. (He later pleaded guilty to 13 federal charges against him.) - Pluto/Acrab
- Jan 1st 1998 An off-duty Israeli soldier with a history of mental problems opened fire on a crowded vegetable market in Hebron, wounding five people and touching off a stone-throwing demonstration by angry Palestinians. Kofi Annan assumed the title of United Nations secretary-general. - Pluto/Jabbah
- Jan 30th 1988 Israeli troops fired on hundreds of demonstrators in the West Bank while protests also rocked the Gaza Strip, shattering three weeks of relative quiet in the occupied territories. - Saturn and Uranus/Acumen
- April 18th 1983, 62 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber. - Neptune/Acumen, Uranus and Jupiter/Antares
- Jan 17th 1993 The United States, accusing Iraq of a series of military provocations, unleashed Tomahawk missiles against a military complex eight miles from downtown Baghdad. President-elect Clinton, arriving in Washington for his inauguration, backed the action. - Uranus/Dschubba
- 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." - Neptune occulting /Jabbah
- May 13th 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group "MOVE" ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters; eleven people died in the resulting fire. - Uranus/Grafias
- Feb 26th 1993 A bomb built by a group of Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than one-thousand others. - NNode/Lesath
- April 5th 1986, an American soldier and U Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident which prompted the US air raid on Libya more than a week later. - Saturn/Antares
- April 17th 1986, the bodies of American librarian Peter Kilburn and two Britons were found near Beirut; the three hostages had been slain in apparent retaliation for the US raid on Libya. - Saturn/Antares
- July 4th 1997 NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars, inaugurating a new era in the search for life on the Red Planet. - Pluto /Acrab (Mars rules Scorpio)
- May 17th 1814, Norway's constitution was signed, providing for a limited monarchy. - Uranus/Acrab (Scorpio rules Norway)
- May 1st 1948, the People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed. - Jupiter/Acumen (Scorpio is associated with Korea)
- April 30th 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States. - Previous solar eclipse Nov 28th 1788/Antares (Scorpio rules Washington)
- Jan 1st 1997 Israel handed over its military headquarters in Hebron to the Palestinians, ending 30 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank city. - Uranus /Acrab (Scorpio is said to be associated with the Arabic Middle East)