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2013 Event - A near-earth asteroid, called 99942 Apophis, passes close to Earth; astronomers in Europe estimate 99942 Apophis is larger than previously thought

2012 Event - In Dublin, an estimated crowd of 10,000 protesters demonstrated against austerity and called for a general strike to shut down the country

2012 Event - A solar plane, called The Solar Impulse, lands in Morocco after completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun

2012 Event - A children's story by James Joyce is published for the first time in Dublin; the story, 'The Cats of Copenhagen' is called an 'outrage'

2011 Event - Rioting takes place in English cities including Manchester, liverpool, Salford, Birmingham and Nottingham; police from Scotland are called in to help

2011 Event - Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2010 Event - International shark experts are called to investigate attacks on tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh that included one fatality

2010 Event - Swiebodzin, Poland announces the world's biggest statue of Jesus, called Christ the King, is completed

2010 Event - After a weeklong battle with 43 people killed, Somalia's al-Shabaab rebel group called for reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu

2010 Event - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveils a new invention, a tablet PC called the iPad, at a press conference in San Francisco

1993 Event - Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3

1992 Death - Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge), dies at 62

1986 Event - Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC

1984 Event - Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called New York City, "Hymietown"

1983 Death - John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92

1979 Birthday - Claire Danes, New York City, actress, Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo and Juliet

1978 Birthday - Devon Gummersall, born in Colorado, actor, 'Relativity', Brian in 'My So Called Life'

1974 Birthday - Devon Odessa, actor, Sharon-My So Called Life, Girl of Limberlost

1973 Birthday - Wilson Cruz, actor, My So Called Life, Ally McBeal

1973 Event - John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence

1972 Birthday - Jared Leto, born in Bossier City, Louisiana, actor, Jordan-My So Called Life

1972 Event - Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs

1971 Birthday - Selena, born Selena Quintanilla-Perez, born in Lake Jackson, Texas, Mexican American singer, called 'The Queen of Tejano music', released first album at age 12

1961 Birthday - Kip Winger, born in Denver, Colorado, Charles Frederick Kip Winger, musician, songwriter, bass guitarist, hard rock, heavy metal, classical, experimental genres, lead singer, Alan Parsons Project, played with Alice Cooper, had band called, Winger, released new CD, 2008

1960 Event - White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run home run is disallowed as ump called time

1958 Event - What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17

1958 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League

1955 Birthday - Kevin Welch, California, country songwriter/actor, Thing Called Love

1954 Birthday - Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, musician, rocker, songwriter, record producer, formed the dB's, founded Car Records indie record label, founded recording studio called Modern Recording where he recorded and mixed Whiskeytown

1949 Death - G. I. Gurdjieff, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way, dies at age 83, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1946 Event - Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats

1945 Birthday - Maria Aitken, actress, Fish Called Wanda

1945 Event - Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off

1944 Birthday - Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64

1943 Birthday - Michael Palin, England, comedian, Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda

1942 Birthday - Eduard Visser, Dutch writer, Fyffes are now called Chiquita

1940 Event - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime

1939 Event - Yankees beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning

1938 Event - DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"

1935 Birthday - John Murray, cricketer, England 1961 - 1967, 1st wk called Murray to play Tests

1934 Event - Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)

1933 Event - Congress is called into special session by FDR, and began its "100 days"

1931 Event - Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season

1930 Birthday - Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park

1929 Birthday - Beverly Sills, born in New York, opera singer, popularized opera, called "America's Queen of Opera" by Time magazine

1926 Birthday - Cranley Onslow, born in England, politician, Conservative Member of Parliament for Woking, called for lower middle class taxes, life peer as Baron Onslow of Working in Surrey County

1922 Event - Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (New York City) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called

1922 Event - Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar

1921 Birthday - Dobrica Cosic, born in Velika Drenova, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Serbia, writer, political, national theorist, first president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992 - 1993, called 'Father of the Nation'

1918 Event - John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover

1918 Birthday - Dwayne Andreas, born in Worthington, Minnesota, called the 'Soybean King', CEO of Archer Daniels Midland - ADM, largest producer of farm commodities in the U.S. for over 30 years

1917 Birthday - Ossie Davis, born in Cogdell, Georgia, actor and playwright, Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam

1915 Event - Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace

1912 Birthday - Lady Bird Johnson, born in Texas, First Lady of the United States, called "Lady Bird", beautified Washington, D.C.

1912 Birthday - Barry Sullivan, New York City, actor, Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man

1907 Event - J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called

1879 Event - Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone

1874 Event - Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)

1866 Birthday - G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Alexandropol, Armenia, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way

1845 Event - Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis

1810 Event - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event

1799 Event - Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews

1653 Event - New Amsterdam becomes a city, later called New York City

1629 Event - King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later

1265 Event - 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester

1138 Event - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard

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