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Born Person description occupation position held country of citizenship given name 2008-02-28 Maximo Carrizo: American soccer player association football player: United States: Máximo Augusto: 2007-02-28 Fin Cartwright: English footballer association football player: 2007-02-28 Toa Sasaki: Japanese skateboarder (born 2007) 2007-02-28 Momchil ...
State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map. This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.
1961 – Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within (pictured). 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1735 – The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.) [4] 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War : Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana ).
2002 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906) 2003 – Edwin Carr, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1926) 2004 – Robert Merle, French author (b. 1909) 2005 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (b. 1913) 2006 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History; Internet Movie Database: This Day in Movie History
General Edward Fitzgerald Beale - Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada (1850s), Surveyor General of California and Nevada (1860s), U.S. Ambassador to Austria-Hungary (1870s), founder of Tejon Ranch; Vince Fong - politician in California State Assembly [57] Harvey Hall - mayor of Bakersfield (2001–2016) [58] [59]
Current events; Random article; ... This is a list of the individual California year pages. ... Historical outline of California; List of years in the United States;