what happend today:
- 1496: Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain
- 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
- 1902: A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
- 1902: Tochangri, Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1945: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
- 1964: The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company.
- 1977: Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
- 1982: Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
- 1997: Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on the WB network.
- 2000: The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
death:
- 1998: Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
born:
- 1940: Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
- 1957: Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
- 1958: Sharon Stone, American actress
- 1963: Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
- 1973: Eva Herzigova, Czech model
- 1983: and dont forget some sucker got born today.
happy birthday hansi 
