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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".
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438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus [1]; 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. [2]706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
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.
1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea. [7]1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1530 – Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico. 1556 – Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, [ 5 ] Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ ...
1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. 1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll . 1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International ...
1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.; 1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen.