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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ).
The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]
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
This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. [37] 2012 – A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar. [38]
1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born American pianist and composer (d. 1989) 1903 – Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (d. 1970) 1904 – Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-English physicist and academic (d. 1979) 1904 – A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (d. 1977) 1906 – S. D. Burman, Indian composer and singer (d. 1975)