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2012 Event - The nearly finished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State Building as the tallest building in New York City

2011 Event - The funeral for the final heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto von Habsburg, occurs in Vienna, attended by monarchs and members of the political elite

1997 Death - Bruce Woodcock, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, dies at 76

1997 Event - Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building and kills 1

1997 Event - "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres

1995 Death - Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter, BBC Empire Orchestra, dies at 92

1993 Death - Daniel Jones, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968

1990 Event - New York City's Empire State Building catches fire - no fatalities

1990 Death - Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state building in 1930, dies

1989 Death - Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63

1988 Death - Angela Aames, actress (Lost Empire, Basic Training), dies

1983 Event - President Reagan calls the U.S.S.R. an "Evil Empire"

1982 Event - President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech

1981 Event - Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m

1980 Event - "Empire Strikes Back" premieres

1977 Event - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself

1974 Birthday - Christian Bale, Wales, actor, Empire of the Sun, Little Women

1966 Event - Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)

1965 Event - Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire

1959 Event - Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England

1958 Event - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"

1949 Death - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies

1949 Birthday - Christine Belford, Amityville, New York, actress, Banacek, Empire, 90210

1948 Birthday - Ron Vawter, Latham, New York, actor, Philadelphia, Empire City, Twister

1945 Event - Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building

1945 Event - U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die

1945 Event - British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day

1940 Event - Estonia is annexed into Soviet empire

1937 Birthday - Billy Dee Williams, born in Harlem New York City, actor, Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back

1936 Event - Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines

1934 Event - Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines

1933 Birthday - Charles Williams, born in Oxford, England, cricketer, batsman, Labor peer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Baron Williams of Elvel

1931 Event - Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (New York City)

1931 Event - Empire State Building opens in New York City

1930 Birthday - Patrick Pery, born in Ireland, born Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Irish peer, public servant

1927 Death - Brooks Adams, U.S. philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78

1926 Birthday - Ray McAnally, born in Ireland, actor, My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian

1924 Event - British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley

1923 Event - Turkey declares independence (successor state to Ottoman Empire)

1922 Event - Ottoman Empire abolished

1921 Event - U.S., France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty

1921 Birthday - Richard Egan, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna

1921 Event - Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire

1921 Birthday - Bruce Woodcock, born in England, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, European heavyweight champion 1946 - 1949, events attracted sellout crowds

1920 Event - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru

1920 Birthday - William Butterfield, born in England, born William John Hughes Butterfield, Lord Butterfield, life peer as Baron Butterfield of Stechford, Order of the British Empire, medical researcher, clinician, administrator

1918 Event - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves

1918 Event - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire

1918 Birthday - David Opatoshu, New York City, actor, Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada

1917 Birthday - John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League

1917 Event - Order of British Empire inaugurated

1915 Birthday - Roland Barthes, French literary critic, L'Empire des Signer

1915 Birthday - Julian Ridsdale, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

1914 Birthday - Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize

1912 Birthday - Daniel Jones, born in Pembroke, Wales, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968

1912 Birthday - Kenny Baker, radio singer and actor, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back

1911 Event - Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland

1909 Birthday - Anne Seymour, born in England, actress, Gemini Affair, Empire, Tim Conway Show

1909 Birthday - Harry B. Helmsley, born in New York City, billionaire builder, Empire State Building

1908 Event - Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

1906 Event - "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world

1904 Birthday - Clifford D[onald] Simak, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Empire, Way Station

1902 Event - Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain

1897 Event - Peter Pan opens in New York at Empire Theater

1891 Event - "Empire State Express" train goes from New York City to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M

1883 Event - Slavery banned throughout British Empire

1881 Birthday - Leo Carrillo, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, American Empire, Cisco Kid

1871 Event - German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions

1871 Event - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck

1867 Event - Austro-Hungarian Empire forms

1861 Birthday - Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire, 1918-22

1852 Event - 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor

1850 Event - Empire Engine Company No 1 organized

1834 Event - Slavery abolished through out the British Empire

1829 Event - Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople

1822 Event - Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire

1821 Event - Mexican Empire declares its independence

1807 Event - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire

1790 Death - Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48

1776 Event - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published

1737 Birthday - Edward Gibbon, England, historian, Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

1725 Birthday - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India

1725 Birthday - Robert Clive, founder, British empire in India

1719 Event - Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire

1719 Event - Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire

1705 Death - Leopold I von Hapsburg, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64

1648 Event - Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire

1584 Event - Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and Holy Roman empire

1515 Event - Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire

1453 Event - Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire

1330 Event - Constantinople (Istanbul) becomes new capital by Roman Emperor Constantine for Eastern Roman Empire

1291 Death - Rudolf I, King of Germany and Holy Roman Empire, dies

876 Death - Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies

809 Death - Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44

636 Event - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire

476 Event - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted

472 Birthday - Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker

450 Death - Theodosius II de Jongere, emperor Austrian Empire, dies

418 Event - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire

410 Event - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire

379 Event - Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire

375 Death - Valentinianus I, co-emperor of E Roman Empire (336-75), dies at 54

330 Event - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire

311 Event - Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire

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