Your Birthday: The History of

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Events:

668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
1830 - 1st person to be run-over by a railroad train.
1913 - 1st U.S. milch goat show held, Rochester, New York
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Births:

1828 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1913 – Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d. 1994)
1938 – Gaylord Perry, baseball player (lolz)
1989 - Combine 017, Game Taverneer.

Deaths:

1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1830 – William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1885 – Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train) (b. 1861)
1989 – Olga Erteszek, American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (b. 1916)
2008 – Richard Wright, keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd (b. 1943)