Behold! 'The Kahn' Cometh!

Today marks the 26th year of the presence of 'The Kahn'. It is an illustrious occasion and here's a brief history of events that have foretold his greatness!

Events

• 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
• 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
• 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as the Pacific Ocean.
• 1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
• 1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
• 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
• 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
• 1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying the Grand Duke of Russia.
• 1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
• 1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
• 1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
• 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
• 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops.
• 1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
• 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• 1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
• 1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
• 1976 - The rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.
• 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
• 1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.
• 1983 - Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
• 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
• 1997 - Ultima Online, the first successful MMORPG, developed by Origin Systems, launches.
• 2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
• 2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
• 2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.
• 2006 - The Louisiana Superdome reopens after 13 months of reconstruction necessitated by Hurricane Katrina.
• 2007 - Halo 3 is released on the Xbox 360 console

Births

• 1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
• 1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
• 1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
• 1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
• 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
• 1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
• 1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
• 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804)
• 1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
• 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
• 1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
• 1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
• 1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
• 1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
• 1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
• 1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
• 1825 - William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
• 1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
• 1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
• 1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
• 1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
• 1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
• 1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
• 1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
• 1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
• 1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
• 1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
• 1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
• 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
• 1917 - Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
• 1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
• 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
• 1925 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
• 1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress
• 1926 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
• 1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
• 1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
• 1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
• 1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
• 1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
• 1934 - Jean Sorel, French actor
• 1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996)
• 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1939 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor
• 1943 - Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
• 1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
• 1944 - Doris Matsui, American politician
• 1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress
• 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model
• 1949 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
• 1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor
• 1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)
• 1952 - Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
• 1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director
• 1953 - Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
• 1954 - Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
• 1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
• 1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
• 1955 - Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
• 1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor
• 1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
• 1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
• 1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model
• 1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress
• 1964 - Anita Barone, American actress
• 1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyū)
• 1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
• 1964 - Gary Ayles, British racing driver
• 1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
• 1967 - Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper
• 1968 - John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
• 1968 - Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
• 1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
• 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
• 1969 - Hal Sparks, American actor
• 1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
• 1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
• 1971 - John Lynch, American football player
• 1973 - Bridgette Wilson, American actress
• 1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
• 1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec)
• 1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
• 1975 - Daniel Hyde, British actor
• 1976 - Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
• 1977 - Clea DuVall, American actress
• 1977 - Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
• 1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
• 1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model
• 1978 - Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1980 - T.I., American rapper
• 1981 - Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
• 1981 - Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
• 1981 - Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter/musician
• 1981 - Kahn, Destroyer of Worlds and Co-Conspirator of Salem.
• 1982 - Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
• 1984 - Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
• 1985 - Calvin Johnson, American football player
• 1991 - Emmy Clarke, American actress

Pretty impressive list isn't it? Hope you're having a good one Kahn. Long life and good health to you my friend.

-Salem
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