2015 Event A 6.7-magnitude aftershock sets off new avalanches on Mt. Everest and frightens victims of yesterday's devastating earthquake in Nepal; Google executive Dan Fredinburg was one of at least 17 climbers on Mt. Everest who died in yesterday's disaster 2015 Event A 7.9-magnitude earthquake hits Nepal, causing over 2,400 deaths, fatal avalanches on Mt. Everest, and destruction of historic sites such as the Dharahara tower 2014 Event U.S. air strikes, in combination with Kurdish forces, pushed back an assault by Islamic State militants upon Yazidi minorities trapped on Mt. Sinjar in Iraq; the action allowed thousands to escape 2014 Event Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy, announces that it has found 200,000 of the 800,000 missing bitcoins belonging to customers; the missing bitcoins were overlooked because they had been stored in an older format in a 'wallet' presumed to be empty 2014 Event A Mt. Gox security breach that enabled hackers to defraud customers of over 700,000 in Bitcoins causes the Bitcoin exchange to file for bankruptcy 2011 Event New Zealand's highest mountain, the south ridge of Aoraki/Mount Cook, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Mt. Everest 1993 Event Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt. 1992 Event Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt. 1976 Death Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyriologist, dies at 94 1976 Event Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt., New York 1974 Death Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart, actress (Dolle Lola), dies at 82 1969 Birthday Leslie Spalding, Billings MT, golfer, Montana Women's Amat-90, 91 1964 Birthday Rebecca Michelle Ferratti, Helena MT, playmate, Jun, 1986 1962 Birthday Christy Forester, Lookout Mt, Georgia, country singer, Forester Sister-Men 1960 Birthday Kim Forester, Lookout Mt, Georgia, country singer, Forester Sister-Men 1955 Birthday Kathy Forester, Lookout Mt, Georgia, country singer, Forester Sister-Men 1947 Birthday Marilyn Hassett, LA Ca, actress, Bell Jar, Other Side of Mt 1937 Birthday Bobby Scott, born in Mt. Pleasant, New York, jazz singer, producer, songwriter, instrumentalist, toured with Louis Prima, No. 13 Billboard hit 'Chain Gang' 1956 1915 Birthday Thomas Merton, born in France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist, 7 Storey Mt 1899 Birthday Howard Freeman, Helena MT, actor, Double Dynamite 1882 Birthday Franz MT de Liage Bohl, German/Dutch assyrologist/translator 1866 Birthday Chief Thundercloud, Scott T Williams, MT, actor, Lone Ranger 1864 Event Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia 1864 Death Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt 1864 Event Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha 1864 Event Battle of Cloyd's Mt, and Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery's Bluff, Ft. Darling) 1862 Event Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt., however General Charles S. Winder is killed 1839 Birthday Modest Mussorgsky, composer, Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt 1630 Death Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies
