On This Day.....

1946 - American actor Tommy Lee Jones was born.
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1978 - Icelandic footballer Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen was born.
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2000 - The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, were declared open.
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1960 - British car racer Damon Hill was born.
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1982 - I, edge_of_the_wire, was born.

1988 - The 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, were officially opened. A total of 8 nations including neighbours North Korea boycotted the Games.
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1991 - Guns N' Roses releases its 3rd and 4th albums Use Your Illusion 1 & 2.
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1970 - Jimi Hendrix dies.

1976 - Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima, winner of the 1994 and 2002 F.I.F.A. World Cups and the 1996 Olympic football bronze medal with Brazil, was born.
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1950 - American actor William James 'Bill' Murray was born.
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1981 - Belize was granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
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1998 - The 1998 Commonwealth Games were officially closed. Australia returns home with the highest number of medals - 200 (82 gold, 61 silver, 57 bronze).
 
edge_of_the_wire said:
1956 - American actress Linda Hamilton was born.


1962 - The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.
1976 - German footballer Michael Ballack was born.
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Yes, but in 1986 The episode of "Dallas" that had Bobby Ewing returning from the dead was aired.
 
1947 - American singer and actor Marvin Lee Aday a.k.a. Meat Loaf was born.
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1976 - Francesco Totti, winner of the 2006 F.I.F.A. World Cup with Italy, was born.
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1976 - Ukrainian footballer Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko was born.
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1963 - The Rolling Stones opened its first English tour in London at the New Victoria Theatre (now renamed the Apollo Victoria).
 
1962 - Franklin Edmundo "Frank" Rijkaard, member of Holland's 1988 U.E.F.A. European Championship-winning team, was born.
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1966 - Botswana declares itself independent from the United Kingdom.
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1982 - The 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia, were declared open.
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1974 - Keith Duffy of Boyzone was born.
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1978 - Tuvalu declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
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1981 - Júlio César Clement Baptista, winner of the 2004 and 2007 Copa América and the 2005 F.I.F.A. Confederations Cup with Brazil, was born.
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2000 - The 2000 Olympic Games were officially closed. The United States topped the medal tally with a total of 91 medals (36 gold, 24 silver, 31 bronze).
 
1951 - Former vocalist of The Police Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, was born.
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1958 - Guinea declares its independence from France.
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1967 - Namibian runner Frankie Fredericks, winner of 4 Olympic silver medals in the 100m and 200m events, was born.
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1988 - The 1988 Olympic Games were officially closed. The former Soviet Union returned home with a total of 132 medals (55 gold, 31 silver, 46 bronze).
 
1949 - The German Democratic Republic was founded.
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1953 - Bon Jovi drummer Hector Samuel Juan 'Tico' Torres was born.
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1976 - Argentine footballer Santiago Hernán Solari was born.
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1940 - The late former Beatle John Winston Lennon was born.
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1962 - Uganda declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
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1972 - Australian footballer of Croatian-Ukrainian descent Mark Anthony Viduka was born.
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1982 - The 1982 Commonwealth Games were declared closed. England, which hauled the most medals (108 - 38 gold, 38 silver, 32 bronze), finished second behind host nation Australia, which led the medal tally after winning a total of 107 medals (39 gold, 39 silver, 29 bronze).
 
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