the day i was born 2

Well i am born. ....
Thing about events such as birth, death, marriage e.t.c , is that , we get a little remeniscent at the occasions . we tend to wonder what lead to these events. the things that happened before this event.
about the last time this event took place. like in case of an anniversary, wives always tend to compare and contrast the current anniversary celebrations with the previous one's. and ask," am i being loved as much as before? does he care about me? is this what i married him for?

and you don't even have to be married to know al these.just sit and look around you. i always hear my mother complaining about how last time she had got a saree and jewelery and this time dad tries to patch up with a small take home dinner.

the point that i am trying to make again is about remembering what happened. to understand why it happened? how it happened. we men keep saying that women fight for no reasin.
the truth is we don't really know the reason.
they may be fighting ovber a silly issue. but the real cause is hidden somewhere deep. we overlooked it and they picked it right up.
It helps immensly to write a diary. to jot down all events, even the most insignifant things.

I started off too late for it and so now i am facing a lot of difficulty to bring up details and topics especially in a chronological order.

well when i wrote my last entry about my birth. i wondered about the things they say about the cosmic influences regarding one's birth. like the birthstar, astrological details like which zone my star was, and what my life would be like because of the stars position.

I am not a big fan of astrology but my father had a rendezvous with an astrologer friend after i was born and he is positive about the fact that things that happened in my life and what i will tell you all about as well were already predicted by this astrologer. whether it is true or not, i really don't want to know.

we hear about people bragging rather famously about what happened on their birthday, who was born, who died.
some of my friends have their birthdays on really famous days, like new year, christmas, india's independence day, gandhi jayanthi.

sadly i feel they've just wasted a good day to take a break.

so i wanted to know about the events that took place on 8th january, searched it on wikepedia. and found a huge collection.
the rest of this blog will be just that.
i am too afraid to draw conclusions from the list. as the readers i leave that job to u folks.

Events

• 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.
• 1198 - Innocent III becomes Pope.
• 1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
• 1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
• 1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
• 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
• 1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
• 1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
• 1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
• 1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
• 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
• 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
• 1863 - Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield, England.
• 1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
• 1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
• 1889 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
• 1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
• 1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the Hudson River.
• 1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
• 1912 - The African National Congress was founded.
• 1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
• 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
• 1920 - The Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr. Karel Farský.
• 1922 - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
• 1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
• 1935 - Arthur C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
• 1953 - René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 1958 - Fourteen-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
• 1959 - Conquest of Cuba by Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of Santiago de Cuba.
• 1959 - Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
• 1962 - Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.
• 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
• 1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
• 1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
• 1977 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
• 1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).
• 1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
• 1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 8.30 to close at 2,002.25 -- The Dow's first close above 2,000.
• 1989 - Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in Great Britain.
• 1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
• 1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He will stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
• 1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
• 2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
• 2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Births

• 1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
• 1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
• 1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
• 1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
• 1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
• 1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
• 1735 - John Carroll, first American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)
• 1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States (d. 1834)
• 1786 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844)
• 1788 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
• 1792 - Lowell Mason, American composer (d. 1872)
• 1805 - John Bigler, Governor of California (d. 1871)
• 1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
• 1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)
• 1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
• 1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (d. 1862)
• 1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
• 1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)
• 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
• 1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
• 1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
• 1843 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
• 1852 - James Milton Carroll, was a Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (d. 1931)
• 1860 - Emma Booth, the fourth child of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1903)
• 1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)
• 1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
• 1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)
• 1873 - Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician (d. 1953)
• 1881 - Henrik Shipstead, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 1960)
• 1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1963)
• 1883 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
• 1885 - John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
• 1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch-born civil rights activist and pacifist (d. 1967)
• 1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish actor (d. 1960)
• 1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1957)
• 1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)
• 1896 - Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium (d. 1971)
• 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
• 1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)
• 1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
• 1904 - Karl Brandt, Nazi war ciminal (d. 1948)
• 1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
• 1905 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (d. 1988)
• 1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
• 1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
• 1909 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
• 1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
• 1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)
• 1915 - Walker Cooper, baseball player (d. 1991)
• 1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
• 1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
• 1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist
• 1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
• 1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
• 1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
• 1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
• 1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
• 1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator
• 1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
• 1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
• 1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
• 1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
• 1934 - Gene Freese, baseball player
• 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
• 1937 - John Hume, Irish politician
• 1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
• 1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
• 1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
• 1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
• 1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan
• 1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
• 1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
• 1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
• 1947 - David Bowie, English musician
• 1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1951 - Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
• 1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
• 1953 - Bruce Sutter, baseball player
• 1954 - Robert Dumas, Yellow Mustang Club Member
• 1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician (Loverboy)
• 1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler
• 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)
• 1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
• 1967 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
• 1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
• 1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
• 1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel)
• 1970 - Dave Eggers, American writer and publisher
• 1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player
• 1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
• 1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
• 1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league player
• 1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
• 1975 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
• 1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)
• 1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
• 1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
• 1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
• 1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
• 1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian soccer player
• 1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
• 1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
• 1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
• 1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
• 1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
• 1983 - Chris Mordetsky, American professional wrestler
• 1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
• 1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
• 1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer

Deaths

• 482 - Saint Severinus
• 1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
• 1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
• 1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
• 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
• 1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
• 1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
• 1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
• 1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
• 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564)
• 1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
• 1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
• 1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
• 1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
• 1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
• 1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
• 1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
• 1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
• 1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
• 1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
• 1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
• 1896 - William Raine Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
• 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
• 1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
• 1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
• 1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
• 1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
• 1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley
• 1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
• 1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
• 1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
• 1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
• 1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
• 1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
• 1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
• 1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
• 1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
• 1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
• 1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
• 1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
• 1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
• 1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
• 1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
• 1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
• 1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
• 1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
• 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
• 1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
• 1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
• 1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
• 1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
• 1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
• 2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
• 2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
• 2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
• 2004 - Aaron Weaver, American soldier (b. 1971)
• 2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
• 2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
• 2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
• 2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
• 2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
• 2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
• 2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
• 2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances

• Commonwealth Day is celebrated in the Northern Mariana Islands.
• The feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor in the Roman Catholic Church.
• January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

so ?
what conclusions did u draw?
do comment about it.