World events on your Birthday

beachdweller

So we have famous people you share your birthday with, how about famous events on your birthday?

February 18, 1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) and Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
February 18, 1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
February 18, 1979 Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
February 18, 1979 Snow falls in Sahara Desert
February 18, 1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii
February 18, 1977 George Harrison releases "True Love"
February 18, 1972 John and Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
February 18, 1930 U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
February 18, 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published

writersu

Here is the only event I know of on my actual birthday............


I was born on Good Friday and my mother had to finish watching the movie about the crucifiction she was watching.....

which btw was back in the day when you had to catch the tv show on like 2,5,7,9,11,32, or 44. 26 was mostly Spanish, so if she missed this show, she'd be out of luck..........

which explains my sad feeling I get every GoodFriday...........


but then I hear that I was a colic for over a year when I was first born and if I had a dollar for every time she said that she wanted to throw me out the window as a baby, I would be SO RICH!!!!!!!!!!


now, why the hell have I battled self esteem my whole life..........?

beats me.............

norm

* 1520 - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
* 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.
* 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
* 1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
* 1861 - American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia.
* 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
* 1869 - Wyoming grants women the right to vote.
* 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
* 1901 - The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
* 1902 - Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
* 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
* 1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
* 1932 - Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
* 1935 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. This award was given to the best college football player east the Mississippi River.
* 1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
* 1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
* 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
* 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today is also International Human Rights Day.
* 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
* 1968 - Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
* 1978 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
* 1981 - During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, Spain signes the Protocol of Accession to NATO.
* 1983 - Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
* 1989 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that peacefully changed the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.
* 1996 - Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
* 2006 - One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.

comebackwoman

- 1919 - Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
- 1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
- 2004 - A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.

Ledbetterman10

Dave Abbruzzese played his first show with Pearl Jam on my birthday. (August 23, 1991)

StateOfLoveBoatCptn.

September 8th, 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

blackredyellow

I actually had a lot of US history happen on my birthday....


1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem.
1862 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
1862 - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion resulted in the single largest civilian disaster during the war
1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 - National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.

PearlJamaholic

where do you find this stuff?

Black Diamond

PearlJamaholic wrote:

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Wiki

Black Diamond

German Re-unification Day

PearlJamaholic

Black Diamond wrote:

Wiki

my birthday sucks......

Drop The Leash 10

August 14

1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).
1947 - Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth.
1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 - United Kingdom troops deploy in Northern Ireland.
1972 - An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 - The constitution of 1973 comes into effect in Pakistan
1976 - The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
1980 - Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1992 - Drop The Leash 10 was born in Methuen, Massachusetts.
1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
2003 - Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
2007 - The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.

kenny olav

on my birthday in 1647 - Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.

another example of why Hartford sucks.

edpearson

EVENTS:
1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary
1783 - W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria
1861 - The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University
1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy
1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
1921 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo
1952 - The United States government establishes the National Security Agency
1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian people, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American)
1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web
1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli
2008 - It's Election Day here in the USA (and a sweet b-day present would be for Obama to cream the old guy).


BIRTHS:
1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
1916 - Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster
1918 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1919 - Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman, Heineken beer (d. 2002)
1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1950 - Markie Post, American actress
1951 - Cosey Fanni Tutti, English performance artist (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey)
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
1961 - Kathy Griffin, American comedian
1961 - Ralph Macchio, American actor
1965 - Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X)
1967 - Eric Karros, American baseball player
1968 - Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player
1969 - Sean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper
1969 - Matthew McConnaughey, American actor
1974 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1982 - Devin Hester, Chicago Bears fearsome kick/punt returner


DEATHS:
1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
1980 - Robert Nesta Marley, Jamaican reggae musician
1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitar player MC5 (b. 1949)
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)

KosmicJelli

My Birthday not very fortunate day for me ever but will be this Saturday for sure for the first time in my life!!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_9

hmmm.... Charles Manson murders.... ick even occured at the moment i was entering this planet!!!!

small town beck

November 24th!!

1642
Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, later renamed Tasmania.

1859
Darwin's Origin of Species was published.

1871
The National Rifle Association was incorporated.

1963
Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's accused assassin, in the garage of Dallas police headquarters.

1971
D. B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines flight with $200,000.


a couple of years later...

small town beck is born to a delighted family

Vacant

Nothing incredibly terrific happened on my birthday.
Here are a few..

64 - Great fire of Rome
1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded.
1969 - After a party, Senator Ted Kennedy drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1972 - Staines air disaster - 118 are killed as plane crashes 2 minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1984 - McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.

A few years ago I was out of town and couldn't sleep at around 3 in the morning on my birthday. I turned on the news and there was a live report from my hometown- a woman had just been murdered in the Burger King there.

So lots of murder and fire...I guess that's what happens when you share a birthday with Vin Diesel, huh? :rolleyes:

South of Seattle

Nothing too cool:

1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies
1861 - American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1927 - In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union's leader.

pjfan31

The only one off the top of my head, is a few years ago, there was a train crash in Sydney where 9 people died. I heard the news as I was opening my presents. It was sad thinking here I am having fun, and people are dying. A sad day.

31/01 for the record.

catefrances

nelson mandela was released from prison on my birthday.

sylvia plath killed herself on my birthday 2 years before i was born. oh and get this, her father died on my fathers birthday 2 years after, my da was born.

peter benchley died.(and no he wasnt eaten by a shark )

vedderfan10

World Trade Centre....blah....

And Ringo Starr joined the Beatles, Star Trek premiered, and the Monkees premiered.

igotid88

Moon Landing.

Allie

Drop The Leash 10 wrote:

August 14



whoa, that's my dad's b-day too.
there's too many for mine to list

This year, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia!

I always remember the first world trade center attack was on 2/26 b/c it's the day after my b-day.

I know at least 5 people who's birthday is on 9/11 and I always think how weird/difficult that must be now.

xavier mcdaniel

I got the Lewinsky scandal with President Clinton. apparently that was the day Clinton denied having his relations with her. I also have the day michigan joined the union as the 26th state in 1837.

Allie

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

I got the Lewinsky scandal with President Clinton. apparently that was the day Clinton denied having his relations with her. quote]
oh man, but that's legendary! "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with that woman!" :eek:

mdigenakis

http://www.datesinhistory.com/cgi-bin/big.php?v1=jun26

damn thats alot.

stu gee

The Russians launched a dog into space which later died due to lack of Oxegen. Remember the date (as if you could forget) - 3rd November.

finnannie

April 29th

1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1813 Rubber is patented
1945 - World War II - Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day.
1953 - The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1968 - The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway.
1986 - Roger Clemens then of the Boston Red Sox sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.
1991 - 1991 Bangladesh cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 - Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2005 - New Zealand's first civil union takes place.

birthdays;
Michelle Pfeiffer
Daniel Day-Lewis
Andre Agassi
Jerry Seinfeld
Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1926-89

kh65

Usually only bad shit happens on my birthday. But I do get to share a birthday with Shirley Temple, Lee Majors (the 6 million dollar man), and Shakespear.

Strangest Tribe

August 6th. Let's see



1945. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan...


.....that's great... I get one of the largest mass killings ever... Woo Hoo... have another round:)

roar

1983: On the day I was born, the Mariners lost at the Angels 10-5. Leadoff hitter Tony Bernarzard hit a grand slam and drove in all five runs. A guy named Terry Clark started but only lasted two batters because he was ejected for fighting Rod Carew.

1985: On my second birthday, the Mariners rolled to an 11-4 win over the hated (by me) Angels at the Kingdome. Back when pitchers threw complete games, Mark Langston fired a 10-hitter. It was 10-1 through four and pretty easy win.

1991: On my eighth birthday, Edgar Martinez batted leadoff and played third base. Griffey and Buhner each hit two-run home runs in the fifth off Oakland's Dave Stewart. Mariners win it 5-2 and improved to 60-53.

1995: On my 12th birthday, Mickey Mantle died.

1996: On my 13th birthday, Randy Johnson struck out eight in four innings for a save against the Royals.

2003: On my 20th birthday, Ichiro drove in three runs against the Blue Jays.

2004: I don't want to talk about this game.

(thanks, L-train! )