Things that Happened on my Birthday: Yesterday!
Lots of things that relate to Scotland and Science. Go Figure.

• 708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope.
• 1300 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.
• 1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
• 1409 - The Council of Pisa opens.
• 1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland (led by Lord Baltimore).
• 1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
• 1655 - Protestants take control of Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.
• 1802 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and United Kingdom.
• 1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1821 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
• 1857 - Phonautograph patented.
• 1865 - The "Claywater Meteorite" explodes just before reaching ground level in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg are recovered.
• 1865 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union in a bloody battle.
• 1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C..
• 1901 - At the five-day "Week of Nice" race in Nice, France, Mercedes wins its first racing victory.
• 1908 - Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte,Brazil.
• 1911 - In New York City the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
• 1918 - The Belarusian People's Republic was established.
• 1924 - Greece proclaims itself a republic.
• 1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• 1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pope Pius XII.
• 1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
• 1947 - An explosion in a coalmine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
• 1949 - The extensive deportation campaign was conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Soviet authorities deported more than 92,000 people from Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
• 1955 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
• 1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
• 1958 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes it debut flight.
• 1960 - In London, United Kingdom, Jacqueline Boyer wins the fifth Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Tom Pillibi".
• 1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
• 1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
• 1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army against East Pakistani civilians.
• 1972 - In Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Vicky Leandros wins the seventeenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Après toi" (After you).
• 1975 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
• 1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
• 1988 - Candle demonstration in Bratislava.
• 1990 - In the Bronx, New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87 people.
• 1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
• 1995 - Ward Cunningham opens the first wiki, the WikiWikiWeb.
• 1996 - An 81-day-long standoff between the antigovernment group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
• 1996 - The Labour Party is founded in Turkey.
• 1996 - The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
• 2004 - Air Holland files for bankruptcy in response to unproven allegations of marijuana abuse by their pilots.
• 2006 - A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, one of the largest crime scenes the city has ever had.
• 2006 - Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin was among several protesters arrested.