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image Born Person description occupation position held country of citizenship given name 2007-01-29 AJ Dybantsa: American basketball player (born 2007)
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". [8] [7] Famous Birthdays originally focused on more traditional celebrities (such as actors, athletes, musicians, etc.), but has since expanded to also feature internet personalities. [2]
1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal charter. [1]1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.; 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
International relations. 2025 Philippine espionage case, Territorial disputes in the South China Sea. President Bongbong Marcos issues a statement that he is deeply disturbed by possible surveillance of the country's air and naval bases as well as movement of vessels supplying Philippine garrisons in the South China Sea following a series of arrest of suspected Chinese spies in the Philippines.
986 – Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire. [2] 1331 – Fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a siege. [3] 1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë. [4] 1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia. [5]
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 ...
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.
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.