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The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
Person (*2003) ♂ 2003-12-18 Lucrezia Beccari: Italian figure skater figure skater: Italy: Lucrezia: 2003-12-18 Ilona Mononen: Finnish middle distance runner
Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 26 November 26 : Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini ( Catholicism ); Constitution Day in India ( 1949 ) Main Building of the University of Notre Dame
887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy.He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia. [1]1481 – Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of Burgundy, Bishop of Utrecht, attacks an armed mob of people from nearby Utrecht who were trying to avenge the massacre of the inhabitants of Westbroek.
2003 – The Cedar Fire, the third-largest wildfire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km 2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego. 2004 – Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 in North America, which sold 12 million units for the PS2, becoming the console's best ...
The driver and 26 children die in one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. [13] 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit. [14]
1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. 1921 – Warren G. Harding , 29th President of the United States , signs the Willis–Campbell Act into law, prohibiting doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.
1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. [5]1718 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina.